Bombing Banks

So the institutions known as Banks have been around more or less since currency. Way back in the day temples and wealthy citizens and treasuries held the accumulated wealth of economic activity. Essentially the Bank of England was the first international such institution and was founded in 1694 to service His Majesties government in its projects both domestic and foreign. Since that time right up until present Banks have been the means by which the wealthy get wealthier and one of the primary means of measuring a peoples prosperity. In a purely materialistic capitalist state, banks are the holy of holies, the place from which the magic power of money emanates. In Iraq, insurgents have blown up two prominent banks lately. “They are targeting financial institutions to try to harm the economic situation because they want to keep international companies from investing here,” said Dr. Jabir al-Jabiri, a newly elected member of Parliament commented. It makes sense to me that in the occupied territories of the world that are being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern market matrix would attempt to destroy the Banks that are the primary vehicle for economic dominance and social control of one class over another. What makes me chuckle is that more people don't naturally vent their financial frustrations at the most visible and obvious target. Perhaps its because we all to a certain extent have to believe in these people and the paper/plastic that they issue us. A great modern mathematician named Benoît Mandelbrot said this about it "So limited is our knowledge that we resort, not to science, but to shamans. We place control of the world's largest economy in the hands of a few elderly men, the central bankers.". Maybe the people in Iraq that are attacking Banks are radical Muslim extremists alienated from a public they have been blowing up for years now, or maybe this is a vehement response to our Dollar Imperialism that has ravaged their once mighty economy for the past two decades, first in sanctions then in occupation. I guess we'd have to ask the guys who blew themselves up to be sure, which isn't likely to happen. Its odd to me that chartering banks is one of the ways in which we Americans dominate our subjects. I also find it strange that we think we can buy off these profoundly jaded and suspicious people with some monetary handouts and by imposing our economic theories upon them without the slightest consultation. No big surprise then that they take our endless charity as manipulative traps meant to enslave them all to the almighty market. Ergo no shocker that they then turn these buildings into rubble and carry on with their resistance. You gotta figure that after being bombed for so long, first by the US Air Force, then suicide missions, that these Iraqis are rather accustomed to the ultraviolence.