W8 D2- War On Many Fronts

Space is like a pond where every event taking place makes its own ripple. Where it may begin or end is not what you and me can track but we sometimes get to see its effects in part. From where we are positioned. As a terrestrial being.
Who would have thought those Mujahiddeens whom the USA armed and equipped with all the sophisticated arsenals the CIA could deliver covertly (and trained them also, didn’t they?) would be used against them? Their help was for a specific purpose.: to defeat the Soviet hegemony. ( The USA feared USSR much more than a dispassionate look of the ground reality that was warranted.) The Reagan years were a tightrope walk between that age-old fear of Communism and of the Revolutionary Council of Ayatollahs who had taken control of Iran. Little did the President or his men understand what was in the air: these mullahs were only harbingers of something worse and they would be all the more dangerous by the arms and money supplied by Capitol Hill. Capitalism which keeps the very social fabric of America naturally will drive the powers-that-be to concentrate all their firepower to combat Communism or any regime that that stands in the way of their profits (The bloodbaths in Latin America in the 70s and 80s for example).

America against Russia: but this simple equation is enmeshed into so many chains of events that are already developing into discernible shapes. In fighting on one front both factions are feeding many equations to clarify their positions. There is no statesman, however brilliant or sagacious he may be, adequate enough to foresee these in its entirety or circumvent them.

benny