HISTORY
OF THE END OF THE WORLD
- as we know it –
- 2 –
Love
is a 4-letter word, but so is hate. Jian, tcm, SiTU
The
secretary of Defense of the Kingdom of the Netherlands layed
backwards in his comfortable armchair and smiled at the glass he held
in his hands. The political backing of his policy to participate in
global peacemissions was thin, but determined. Some of the members of
parliament would not even mind if atombombs were used. The global
threat against democracy and freedom must be stopped. He thougt,
while sipping his whiskey, about the leftwing politicians, who had
started as pacifists. They knew nothing of worldpolitics. Once he had
flown in a Apache-helicopter across the deserts of Afghanistan. They
even had let him use the machinegun. A sensation he would never
forget.
He
reached for the newspaper, which lay on is his desk. Even this former
leftwing paper had changed dramatically. They had realised that the
fighting now and in the nearby future, would open up markets, the
Dutch had never reached. There would be deaths of course, but he
would visit every funeral, to get the necessity of these missions
across.
“M!”,
the prime minister of the Netherlands opened his eyes and saw his
political advisor standing in front of him. On the floor laid the
report he had been reading and which had slipped out of his hands.
Before he could pick up the papers, his advisor had done so and laid
the report needly on his desk. M. had not said a word.
“You
have read the report, I see.” M. looked ad the piles of paperwork,
which surrounded him. “Which one do you mean.”, he stuttered a
bit, but the conservation with his assistant warmed him up. His brain
slowly accelerated and would reach its huge potential in a minute or
two. “You don't mean, that memorandum about a “Dutch Pearl
Harbor.”” “I know,”, his advisor said, while putting a chair
in front of him to set down. “It's a daring concept, but according
to the strategists it's the best idea to garantee your third term in
office.” “It is much to drastic. Things like that always come
into the open, in the end.” “Prime-minister, analysis shows, that
even when clear connections between government and terror-attacks are
brought into the open, the public does not seem to mind. All they
want is safety, but first this safety has to be threatened.” M.
shook his head. “What would that mean. A jet crashing into the
Royal Palace?” Despite this joke, his political advisor reacted
completely serious. “No,nothing like that. They are suggesting an
outbreak of birdflu.”
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