The United States military has taken it upon itself to liberate America,
to bring freedom and democracy to their oppressed people. Coordinating
the attacks from secret strategic command centers at overseas military
bases, the military began its shock and awe campaign with spectacular
bombing raids on Washington D.C. and New York City staged from Guantanamo.
Hawaii, of course, was the first state to be freed, though the enormous
amounts of bombing caused seismic instability and volcanic eruptions.
The military worked around the clock to evacuate equipment and personnel
from domestic bases before it destroyed them to ensure the American
people had no means of defending themselves. Then the infrastructures
of dozens
of major cities were surgically targeted in daring daylight raids that
caused no documented civilian casualties. We did not put up much resistance,
throwing stones and firing pistols at the squadrons of bombers and
patriot missiles streaking across the prairie. All we could do was leave
our
cities for the open fields where we hid under a canopy of corn. As
long as the invasion did not escalate and go nuclear, we thought, we
would
find a way to survive. Foreign newspapers, while we still had internet
access, condemned the attack with some reservations. They claimed the
military had not planned what to do after the invasion, and it was
not clear whether they intended to land ground forces and install a new
government,
or simply to reduce the country to rubble. Many justifications were
offered that did not make sense to us, but the banner headline read WAR
ON WAR.
Though most media were targeted, Fox News was airlifted to Qatar where
they could cover the war in safety, freed from the confusion of ground
zero.
