"The Quiet American"

There are a lot of conspiracy theories polluting the Internet. I, myself, am not a "conspiracy theorist", nor do I give a lot of credence to various implications of high crimes and misdemeanors. Yet there are many inconsistencies surrounding events of the New Millennium, terrorism, war and political actions taken all around the world.

The USA was founded on most liberal and progressive philosophy of it's time. It's inception had inspired the whole human race to pursue freedom, liberty and happiness of each individual of the human community. The words "equality" and "opportunity" were born.

The American democracy exemplified a social model of coming out of an outmoded, cruel, bloodsucking, feudalistic system. It even inspired The French Revolution.

Determined by it's Constitution the USA had never attempted to colonize foreign land or people. Rather it had adopted a policy of "commonwealth" with the acceptance of the subjects of the foreign land.

That certainly hadn't stopped the USA from attempting a World Dominance. Unfortunately, government is made up of individuals and self serving people. It is human nature that compromises the perfect social system, no matter how hard our forefathers worked to write a Constitution with checks and balances, and amendments to assure liberty for individuals within society and withstand time, the social system will be compromised.

Even if you don't believe in conspiracy theories, the abundance of them points to the lack of trust in our government. That is an alarming sign, and the reasons are scattered throughout history.

Recently I watched a shocking movie: "The Quiet American". I don't know how much fact and how much fiction is portrayed in this movie. It is about Vietnam and the chaos premerging our ill fated war. Vietnam was a French Colony. With the help of the USSR and The People's Republic of China, North Vietnam was founded in 1950, and after losing the battle of Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 the French had recognized North Vietnam. After that it was all downhill for the French. North Vietnamese forces constantly attacking the South, anti-french forces emerging in the South lead by reactionary generals hungry for power. It was obvious that the weak French could not hold on to power for much longer. In the midst of this turmoil, the Quiet American emerged. A civilian Import-Export businessman (CIA Agent) provided the bad generals with plastic explosives (under a fertilizer name) to blow up innocent bystanders on the streets of Saigon and blame it on the communists from North Vietnam.

After applying this street terror against their own people and the weakening of the french rule, the US helped emerge Ngo Dinh Diem as president of South Vietnam. The French drew out of Vietnam tempting the North to go for the whole pie. There was a power vacuum. The North Vietnamese backed by PRC and USSR would have swept the South in a heartbeat. The Quiet American (i.e. CIA) with it's government hungry for world domination had helped weaken the French's power (no sympathy for the french) provided arms and money facilitating the ill fated Vietnam War.

Now we all know the outcome of that war.

Suddenly I remembered the history lesson from high school. Every war had pretext and reason. They are very different from one another. (i.e. WMD, Al-Qaida Connection against Oil and Mid-East domination)

Governments have a curious way to conduct business. You should check out this document, released by the DOD to president Kennedy in the 60's. Operation Northwoods Obviously, Kennedy never considered it. We know this by now.

The introductory text entry point for this document is at Pentagon Proposed Pretexts for Cuba Invasion in 1962 () and is reproduced here:
"In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of proposals on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS. This document, titled "Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba" was provided by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component of Northwoods. Written in response to a request from the Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale, the Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These proposals -- part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose -- included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake "Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington," including "sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated)," faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a "Remember the Maine" incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage. Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods "may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government."

I am not a conspiracy theorist, yet, when Karl Rove is in hot water for a week, getting worse by day, Bush is standing alone at the G8 Summit, without his favorite topic "terrorism" at forefront, having to agree to the majority to help the African people, and do something about global warming, his popularity at historic low, the terrorist attack on London makes me wonder...
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