"Trading Places--The Plight of the Bush Cabal in Foreign --affairs commentary." by Mark C. Kennedy, 1 September 2003. Concerning leadership and history, it was Karl Marx who observed that those who ignore history are bound to repeat it. This once again rings true of the administration of George W. Bush and his entourage, namely, the global cabal of the transnational oil network and its related industries. America today is in about the same lose-lose situation, internationally, politically, economically and tragically, as was the Soviet Union in 1979. When Jimmy Carter, and his foreign advisors, inveigled the Soviet Union to send troops en masse into Afghanistan to put down the mujahadeen rebels in support of its communist leadership. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev said the war would last only a few months. He was wrong. The major consequence of Breznev's error, in the wake of his lose-lose situation, was to bankrupt his empire, and by the same token to end the cold war. And now, in the administration of Bush and his cabal, the United States has bought the same bill of goods that the Carter administration sold to the Soviet Union, namely its moral, spiritual, intellectual, economic and political bankruptcy. The United States today as traded places with the Soviet Union of 1979. Today, the Taliban has regrouped militarily to battle U.S. troops. Guerillas from radical Islamic groups are moving back into the same hills further to erode what is left of the Euro-American economic resources. The thousands of Soviet forces that invaded Afghanistan on 25 December 1979 et seq. did not all return home, and those who did found no jobs awaiting them. What then of America? What does trading places mean to you as mothers, fathers, sons and daughters? What is your own personal agenda in this global crisis and the US Government's role in it? Think about it, but not too long. to communicate with Mr. Kennedy. September Newsletter Go To Current Newsletter