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CounterPunch
February
10, 2003
Scenarios for
the Future
China and US Regime Change
by RON JACOBS
Here's a little scenario that might help you understand
why war is not any kind of answer to whatever problems Saddam
represents.
Imagine, if you can, that it's 2004.
Dubya has not been elected. He comes on TV with Cheney, Ridge,
Ashcroft, and Rumsfeld standing behind him to announce that he
has chosen to ignore the results of the election for reasons
of national security. To this end, he has declared a temporary
state of martial law. Citizens are encouraged to report unseemly
behavior to the Homeland Security office. Of course, protests
and riots break out aorund the country. Some military units join
the protestors when called out to quell the demonstrations. Thousands
of US citizens and residents are rounded up and placed in "temporary
detention centers", including several Democratis leaders
and even some Republicans.
Eventually, people have to go back to
work and things return to "normal." Dubya's government
continues to consolidate its power, suspending congress until
new elections can be held that will be favorable to his regime.
The military purges those who don't agree with the new government
and begins plans to invade Mexico over an old dispute over land
and oil. The rest of the world calls for calm and a return to
democracy in the US. Dubya tells them all that the game is over.
A year after the coup, the US invades Mexico and "reclaims"
parts of it. The US abrogates all arms control treaties it has
ever signed and begins making every kind of WMD known and unknown
to humanity. Bush and his regime continue to consolidate their
power internally, using torture, murder, imprisonment, exile
and threats of the same to do so.
Meanwhile, the EU and China's anger over
the Bush regime continues to grow. Using the precedent set by
the US/UK over Iraq, China begins to make noises about regime
change in Washington. Cheney says that China has no place making
these noises. China begins to form a coalition to force the US
to leave Mexico and stop threatening the world with its WMD.
The US, meanwhile, opens its oilfields and other resources to
European corporations, hoping to provide these countries with
monetary reasons not to attack the US. The UN decides to send
in inspection teams to search out and destroy these WMD. The
US plays a game of hide and seek with inspectors for years. China
steps up talk of regime change and disarming the US. War is nigh.
Now, the question is: Do you support
China's desire to invade the US and replace the Bush regime with
a regime friendlier to China and the rest of the UN?
Ron Jacobs
lives in Burlington, VT. He can be reached at: rjacobs@zoo.uvm.edu
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