More often than not, the trouble always emanates from the exercise of so-called democratic rights of electing leaders, and intriguingly, as often happens, when invariably the contender whom the majority of the people had actually voted for, loses, but instead the poles show the incumbent (American ally) as having won, albeit done under the close scrutiny of foreign observers – observers who also happen to come from countries allied to the USA. What a coincidence! Long live democracy!

That is when, unlike in the United States where the Americans would readily accept the final results, and go on with their lives, despite the awareness of some fiddling having taken place at the voting poles, whereas the people of other countries would start to come out to demonstrate the unacceptability of the outcome, and demand for a reversal toward the truth, the real trouble begins and lives are lost. And that is also when the State Department loses no time in sending its mercenaries, such as Jendayi Frazer in the case of Africa, and more prominent officials in other places, depending on the value and importance of their relationship, and in the process of remedying the situation, try to cover up some tracks that might come back to haunt them.

The more one observes the American system of governing, and especially their foreign policy, the more intriguing and fascinating. One wonders at the kind of deep brainwork and far sighted thinking that went into it. It is so finely knit, and so self centered, and yet camouflaged with all the goodies one can desire, that the word by which to describe it has yet to be invented. If it were not for its damaging, unscrupulous and ruthlessly cruel ways, one could applaud it for its ingenuity. No wonder the world has been suckered all those years! And it is not only the rest of the world, but as well the majority of the American people who get suckered, where the saying aptly goes that “a sucker is born every second”

For instance, practically the whole world, including the Americans, is aware of where Eritrea stands with regards to demarcation of the borders. Eritreans, be it on the government level, or individual people level, have clearly expressed their feelings and views, and have been consistent at it, unlike the flip flopping mercurial character of the weyane which seems to take no shape, but is all over the place, and continually changing depending on which way the wind blows.

Here again is the deal with regards to the dialogue before demarcation that the weyane are demanding, and that their western handlers are disingenuously backing. Had the weyane leader chosen to dialogue instead of rushing to invade Eritrea almost ten years ago, it would have been unconscionable for Eritrea to refuse to talk, and they would have been held responsible for all the scores of thousand who died. But it was the Eritrean President at that time, before the war started, who was practically begging for a dialogue, and any thing to help save precious Eritrean lives; a plea which was completely ignored and given a deaf ear to by the American mediators, who today, a little too late, are making a big noise about dialogue, and making such a big deal about Eritrea refusing to talk, when they had lifted, not even a finger, in 1998-2000 to stop the war through dialogue. If they were truly people of peace, they should have welcomed President Isaias’ call for a dialogue, which proves what Eritreans have believed and known all along, that they were all wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing, with all talk and no good action.

Badme was really never the flashpoint, but a pretext! The real flashpoints in the minds of the weyane and their co-conspirators were Assab and Massawa, and the intelligent world community, including the Americans, very well know that too!

After you lose 20,000 and are left with many more disabled of your best, and after having helplessly watched scores of thousands of your kinsfolk being humiliated, imprisoned and unceremoniously deported while their hard earned money and property is confiscated, not to mention the internally displaced, to mention just a few, all because of a senseless war that could have been easily avoided through dialogue, and which should never have happened in the first place, it is not easy, after all this unnecessary malicious and ruthless acts, to be asked to sit down and talk with your enemies and resume a normal relationship, especially when there is an unfinished business still hanging in the air, like, among other things, the illegal occupation by the enemy of some never disputed Eritrean sovereign territory, in addition to Badme, the occupation of which has resulted in rendering the rightful previous Eritrean residents to become homeless and displaced.

With all this and more hanging in the air, to have state department envoys the likes of Jendayi Frazer feeling sorry for the squatters in Badme, and to have the unrelenting and incessant calls for a dialogue and a resumption of good relations on the part of Eritrea, is, to say the least, rather disingenuous and malicious. There is an Amharic saying which translated goes as follows: “While the striker may forget, the wounded does not”

Another problem and difficulty that Eritrea continually encounters, and finds as an obstacle to come to any type of terms with regards to the weyane, is their inconsistencies and lack of truth telling. It is very difficult to deal with anyone, let alone an enemy, under such circumstances.

Currently we have come to learn that two BBC employees namely Martin Plaut and Patrick Gilkes have been hired as weyane spokespersons, and just recently, even after Senator Jim Inhofe admitted to having Ethiopian soldiers fight side by side with American soldiers in Somalia, these two hired guns are telling us that the USA had warned the Ethiopians against going to Somalia. Even the weyane leader, in an interview with Al-Jazeera, never mentioned having been adviced by the Americans against going to Somalia, but was only adamant about the decision of invading Somalia to be his, and his alone, while at the same time admitting to having had some indirect help from the Americans. Well, which is it?

Here is an excerpt from a speech Senator Inhofe gave before the Senate in defence of the weyane and against resolution H.R. 2003:

A few weeks ago, we were sending our troops down to Mogadishu and the Ethiopians were fighting right there by our side. That was not an easy thing for them to do. That endangered them because there are many opposition groups who would then go into Ethiopia, and they paid dearly for supporting us. But they did so. They have remained committed to promoting regional stability and eliminating any staging area for al-Qaida or other terrorist organizations. In 2006, they sent roughly 100,000 troops with us into Somalia, into Mogadishu. We were successful in defeating the Islamic coalition. They did that for us.

Unless Senator Inhofe is completely incompetent and not fit for the position he holds as a US Senator of the state of Oklahoma, and is not aware whether his country attacks other countries or not, clearly, what he said before the senate, not only contradicts what the two BBC reporters turned weyane hit men and others are saying, but instead indicates that the Americans were actually the leaders and initiators into the Somali attack using in the process Ethiopian soldiers as shields.

And now we have to deal with the recent VOA in Tygrigna situation, but whatever is behind it, we know one thing is for sure, which is that Eritrea, with truth as her only weapon, will always prevail in the end over those who are trying to harm her and her people.