Moscow invades Mexico, citing Yucatan’s terrorism threat

[Clara T]

Moscow invades Mexico, citing Yucatan’s terrorism threat
By Dennis Rahkonen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Mar 10, 2006, 00:31

Consider the following scenario: It’s 1966 -- the height of the Cold War -- and the Soviet Union sends the Red Army 7,000 miles across the globe to gratuitously invade Mexico, entirely without provocation or credible cause. The illegal, immoral aggression is predicated on a preposterous lie about the Mexicans supposedly being an imminent, awful threat to Mother Russia.

Moscow overthrows the Mexican government, uses controlled elections to install a puppet regime, and then proceeds to appropriate the hapless country’s oil wealth. In the course of the initial attack and the Mexican patriots’ resistance during the ensuing, hated occupation, tens of thousands of people are killed. All over the planet, huge protest demonstrations take place. A common placard at those angry gatherings is one that reads, “Leonid Brezhnev: The World’s Number One Terrorist.” In the neighboring United States, everyone is outraged.

American conservatives, especially, are justifiably livid. They condemn the Soviet travesty, correctly comparing what’s occurred to Hitler’s fascist expansionism. Now, flash forward from an imaginary outrage too crazy to ever have possibly happened.

We’re in 2006, and it’s the United States under George Bush that’s occupying Iraq, after a shock-and-awe aggression that blew to pieces not just vastly outgunned Iraqi defenders, but elderly men, terrified women, and small children as well.

More than 100,000 of them died.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_587.shtml

[raccoon]

1. Good article. Thanks for the link. nt

[Vidar]

2. Apt analogy. Thanks for posting.