Walter Van De Maele
The permanent threat of a nuclear overkill by one of the two "superpowers" had guaranteed the pursuit of military overproduction. The implosion of the U.S.S.R. which had been predicted in american academic economic circles, but had been hidden from the public until it actually began with the perestroïka, mooted the Cold War impetus.
The dismantling of the totalitarian rule with the breaking up of states, of alliances, with the reappearance of generation old smothered religious feelings, and of savage capitalism, lessened the eventuality of a global third World War.
Disarmament meant the sale of vast quantities of outdated equipment on the secondary market, to politically unstable regimes, located in strategically geo-political communication passes, straits, peninsulas and so on. Meanwhile research and development for Star War type ventures lacked the necessary real-time, real-situation trial grounds.
Terrorization techniques, belonging to the most primitive forms of submission, have appeared throughout history when a dominant culture felt itself threatenend by marginal proselytizing cultures, especially in times of natural or human induced destabilizations. The sword and holy scriptures have been present, subdued where welfare and comfort reigned, but flared up where corruption and misery prevailed.
The geniuses of the US Army War College, moving from "Infinite Justice" to "Enduring Freedom" at the whim of an interpretation, mentally manipulating the tame media consumers, couched in front of their breaking-news TV-sets, anaesthesized by their tobacco and alcohol habits, may not even be aware of the greatest of their successes in post-modern times. Now that the relentless bombardment of the images of airplanes striking the WTC-towers has assured them that nobody will ever look again at a plane without wondering if it will not explode, now that a biological and chemical warfare organized hype, inspires politically and morally impotent freaks, the "War on Terrorism" serves, and only serves the continuation of US World Dominion. The American Dream come true: CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS