More accurately bad karma catches up with the U.S. and Britain. The U.S. is learning what the British should have learned a long time ago: that there is always negative payback back for being the bad guys. The U.S. is learning that lesson from the invasion of Iraq and the prolongation of the Afghan War. I’ve read that the Russians are now helping us fight the Afghan fighters.
“BRUSSELS - NATO has opened an alternate supply route to Afghanistan via Russia and central Asia — a critical development that gives it the ability to bypass the previous ambush-prone main routes through Pakistan, the alliance said Friday."
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/breakingnews/nato-opens-northern-supply-route-to-afghanistan-via-russia-central-asia-96130374.html
Remember when we helped the Afghan fighters fight the Russians?
Back to BP. Once upon a time BP was Anglo-Persian Oil Company. When the Iranians wanted to nationalize their oil industry, Britain said no way and got the U.S. to help overthrow the democratically elected government in Iran. I will let you read all about it from Wikipedia:
“In 1951, after the assassination of prime minister Ali Razmara, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, a high ranking official and prince of Qajar Dynasty, was elected prime minister by a parliamentary vote which was then ratified by the Shah. As prime minister, Mossadegh became enormously popular in Iran after he nationalized Iran's petroleum industry and oil reserves. In response, The British government, headed by Winston Churchill, embargoed Iranian oil and successfully enlisted the United States to join in a plot to depose the democratically elected government of Mossadegh, and in 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized Operation Ajax. The operation was successful, and Mossadegh was arrested on 19 August 1953. The coup was the first time the US had openly overthrown an elected, civil government...”
“[Mossadegh] is most famous as the architect of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control since 1913 through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) (later British Petroleum or BP). The Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. was controlled by the British government. Mosaddegh was removed from power in a coup on 19 August 1953, organised and carried out by the United States CIA at the request of the British MI6 which chose Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Mosaddegh. The CIA called the coup Operation Ajax after its CIA cryptonym, and as the 28 Mordad 1332 coup in Iran, after its date on the Iranian calendar. Mosaddegh was imprisoned for three years, then put under house arrest until his death.”
(Maybe now people can understand why Iran wants the bomb. To protect itself from nations like Britain and the U.S. Iran didn’t have the bomb in 1953, and looked what happened to it. Iraq didn’t have the bomb and looked what happened to it.)
America and Britain were willing to be villains for BP and black gold. And the god of karma thought it’s time for a little payback since those two countries just can’t learn how to do the right thing. And isn’t oil the real reason we invaded Iraq? That and the Jews who stole the Palestinian homeland (in which the two big players were again Britain and the U.S.). But Americans don't get that some people value their homeland and don’t want it (or its resources) stolen by invaders.
Two wars and dirty beaches—that’s a lot of bad karma. And if the last president, oil-loving, morally deficient George Bush, hadn't been so willing to behave like the British and American politicians who overthrew the duly elected Iranian president in 1953, America wouldn't now be ruled by a half-alien, Kenyan president, perhaps America's final dose of pay-back karma, because after Obama there won't be much of America left.
