Reflections
by Comrade Fidel
NATO’s
FASCIST WAR
You didn’t have to be
clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection
Articles I published on the CubaDebate website
between February 21 and March 3: “The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “The Cynical Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War.”
Not even the fascist leaders
of
Almost 75 years to the day
have passed since then, but nothing that has happened over the last 75
centuries, or even 75 millenniums of human life on our planet can compare.
Sometimes it seems that those
of us who serenely voice our opinions on these issues are exaggerating. I dare
say that we have actually been naive to assume that we all should be aware of
the deception or colossal ignorance that humanity has been dragged into.
In 1936 there was an intense
clash between two systems and ideologies of more or less equal military power.
The arms back then seemed more
like toys compared with today’s weapons. Humanity’s survival was not threatened
despite the destructive power and the locally lethal force deployed. Entire
cities and even nations could have been virtually destroyed. But never was the
human race, in its totality, at risk of being exterminated several times over
for the stupid and suicidal power developed by modern science and technology.
With these current realities
in mind, it is embarrassing to read the continuous news reports on the use of
powerful laser-guided rockets with 100% accuracy, fighter-bombers that go twice
the speed of light, potent explosives that blow apart uranium-hardened metals
that have an everlasting effect on the inhabitants and their descendants.
In a world where the alliance
between the United States and the developed capitalist powers of Europe
increasingly take hold of the people’s resources and fruits of their labor, any
honest citizen, whatever their standpoint to the government, would be opposed
to a foreign military intervention in their country.
But most absurd about the
current situation is the fact that before the brutal war broke out in Northern
Africa, in another region of the world, nearly 10 000 kilometers away, a
nuclear accident had occurred in one of the most populated areas of the world
following a tsunami caused by a 9.0 earthquake, which has already cost a
hard-working nation like Japan nearly 30 000 lives. Such accident would have
not occurred 75 years before.
In
However, what was terribly
tragic in
I will only recall some of the
main stories published by the news agencies:
ANSA.-
Fukushima 1 nuclear plant is releasing “extremely high and potentially lethal
radiations,” said Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the
EFE.- The nuclear threat
stemming from the serious situation at a Japanese plant, following the
earthquake, has triggered security revisions in atomic plants around the world
and has made some countries paralyze their plans.
EFE.-
The deterioration of one reactor after another at
AFP.- Japan´s Emperor
Akihito expressed concern about the unpredictable character of the nuclear
crisis hitting
There are reports talking
about even more concerning issues.
Some refer to the presence of
toxic radioactive iodine in
This series of circumstances
poses a dramatic situation on our world.
I can express freely
my views on the war in
I do not share political or religious views with the leader
of that country. I am a Marxist-Leninist and a
follower of Marti, as I have already said.
I see
Never,
a large or small country, in this case with only
5 million inhabitants, was the victim of such a
brutal attack by the air
force of a militaristic organization with
thousands of fighter-bombers, more than 100 submarines, nuclear
aircraft carriers, and sufficient arsenal
to destroy the planet many times over. Our species had
never encountered this situation and there had been
nothing similar 75 years ago, when the Nazi bombers attacked
targets in
Now, however, the criminal and discredited NATO will
write a "beautiful" little story about its
"humanitarian" bombing.
If Gaddafi honors the traditions of
his people and decides to fight to the
last breath, as he has promised, together
with the Libyans who are facing the worst bombing
a country has ever suffered, NATO and its criminal projects will
sink into the mire of shame.
The people respect and believe in
men who fulfill their duty.
More than 50 years ago, when the United
States killed more than a hundred Cubans with the explosion
of merchant ship
"La Coubre" our people proclaimed "Patria o
Muerte." (Homeland or Death).
They have fulfilled this, and have always
been determined to keep their word.
"Anyone who tries to seize
I beg you to excuse the frankness with which I address
the issue.
Fidel Castro Ruz