Plans to Publish "The Switch"

Several months ago I had sent to me a short story that was intended to communicate an interpretation of the events that led to the invasion of Iraq. The work constitutes what would be considered by most a short story, which possesses a setting consisting of a classroom in America, where relatively young children are be instructed by a teacher, and the class often enters into series of questions and answers which bare sometimes a direct - but other times a more subtle implicit - relationship to the interests that were served by America’s decision to invade the sovereign country of Iraq. Under the pretenses that were introduced by the Administration during the build up to the war, which - if you still recall - originally consisted of taking action against what qualified as an immediate threat; the potential attack upon America via nuclear weapons, or other ominous devices - we were not offered a felicitous rendering of intelligence reports and analysis which we now know to be selectively included in the public accounts proffered during the staged deliberations engaged in by the inner-circles of the Executive Branch - i.e., Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Bush.

I suppose in all likelihood progeny will narrate this historical episode as a series of events orchestrated by the Administration in order to promote the interests of neoconservatives and neoliberals, who are synonymous with multinational interests. The story is excellently written and makes some rather profound insights into the historical events that led up to this disaster. I am posting it because as we continue to spiral down a hole that undoubtedly holds human sufferings beyond what anybody foresaw for the Iraqi people prior to the invasion and even the recent news that has come from this war torn country experiencing, “sectarian violence,” but not yet a “civil war.”

Please check back tomorrow for the first entry of, “The Switch.” I am fairly certain that most will enjoy this story, due to its insight as well as levity as it attempts to explain a senseless instance of imperial adventurism that was fostered from the stagnation of ideas that results from a faction of ideologues who isolate themselves from broader dialogue, which might have generated at least some reflexivity on the part of those who thought they were beyond reproach; or, put more simply, so smart that they needed not even entertain ideas that failed to conform with what they were so certain about.

Russell Cole

Editor of the Midwest Alliance of Populist America

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