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http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_22929.shtml
Election 2006 & World War III
By Robert Parry
Sep 6, 2006, 16:51
As Americans go to the polls in two months, they should have one
thought fixed in their minds: they will be voting on whether to commit
the nation to fighting World War III against large segments of the
world=E2=80=99s one billion Muslims. Beyond the cost in blood and treasure,
this war will mean the end of the United States as a democratic
Republic.
Those are the stakes that were made clear by George W. Bush in an
alarmist speech to an association of U.S. military officers on Sept. 5.
He declared that the United States must battle not only likely or even
possible threats from terrorists, but the most fantastical dreams of
Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda about a mystical global =E2=80=9Ccaliphate.=E2=
=80=9D
Adopting some of the most extreme rhetoric favored by his
neoconservative advisers, Bush also broadened the =E2=80=9Cwar on terror=E2=
=80=9D
beyond al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists and the Sunni-dominated Iraqi
insurgency to include the Shiite-run Hezbollah movement in Lebanon and
the Shiite government of Iran.
=E2=80=9CAs we continue to fight al-Qaeda and these Sunni extremists inspir=
ed
by their radical ideology, we also face the threat posed by Shia
extremists, who are learning from al-Qaeda, increasing their
assertiveness and stepping up their threats,=E2=80=9D Bush said.
=E2=80=9CThis Shia strain of Islamic radicalism is just as dangerous, and
just as hostile to America, and just as determined to establish its
brand of hegemony across the broader Middle East,=E2=80=9D Bush continued.
=E2=80=9CAnd the Shia extremists have achieved something that al-Qaeda has =
so
far failed to do: In 1979, they took control of a major power, the
nation of Iran, subjugating its proud people to a regime of tyranny,
and using that nation=E2=80=99s resources to fund the spread of terror and
pursue their radical agenda.=E2=80=9D
Bush also cited his determination to defeat Hezbollah, a Shiite
movement in Lebanon that is now a prominent part of the elected
Lebanese government and broadly popular because its militia battled the
Israeli army when it invaded Lebanon in July.
Bush referred to Hezbollah=E2=80=99s leader as =E2=80=9Cthe terrorist Nasra=
llah,=E2=80=9D
suggesting the United States has joined Israel in its determination to
kill Sheikh Sayyad Hassan Nasrallah who was rated the most respected
leader in the Middle East by an August 2006 poll in Egypt, which is
considered one of Washington=E2=80=99s staunchest regional allies.
Ranked second in that Egyptian poll was Iran=E2=80=99s president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, another target of the Bush administration. By contrast,
Egypt=E2=80=99s pro-American president Hosni Mubarak wasn=E2=80=99t even in=
the top
10, coming in 11th. Polls across the Middle East also have shown almost
universal disapproval of the Bush administration and its policies.
So, Bush has set the United States on course to battle not only the
stateless terrorists of al-Qaeda and the stubborn insurgents in Iraq
but Islamic political leaders who have widespread support among the
Muslim masses. How the United States would win such a war or even
assemble the vast numbers of soldiers needed is hard to comprehend.
'World War III'
Bush=E2=80=99s virtual declaration of war on the Islamic world ranks as
possibly the most ambitious military plan in American history =E2=80=93 and
without doubt the most reckless. This so-called =E2=80=9Clong war,=E2=80=9D=
which
Bush=E2=80=99s followers hail as =E2=80=9CWorld War III,=E2=80=9D would mea=
n fighting
large portions of a religious movement that has the allegiance of about
one-sixth of the planet=E2=80=99s population.
Muslims are concentrated in nations from northern Africa to East Asia,
but also include large numbers in Europe and North America.
Nevertheless, in his address to the military officers, Bush talked
bravely about how confident he is that the United States will win this
war. =E2=80=9CAmerica will not bow down to tyrants,=E2=80=9D he declared to
applause.
Bush=E2=80=99s experience over the past five years, however, suggests that
his strategy would require a full-scale transformation of the United
States into a warrior nation, committed to a virtual endless struggle
against any and all Islamic extremists who harbor thoughts of power, no
matter how fanciful those imaginings might be.
A key point in Bush=E2=80=99s argument is that al-Qaeda has expressed a dre=
am
of creating a =E2=80=9Ccaliphate=E2=80=9D reaching from Spain to Indonesia.=
Bush
described the steps to this empire as starting with =E2=80=9Cnumerous,
decentralized operating bases across the world, from which they can
plan new attacks, and advance their vision of a unified, totalitarian
Islamic state that can confront and eventually destroy the free
world.=E2=80=9D
But the reality is that prior to Bush=E2=80=99s presidency, al-Qaeda was a
marginal movement in the Islamic world, driven out of countries across
northern Africa, hounded by secular governments in the Middle East, and
expelled even from the Sudan.
In summer 2001, as Bush brushed aside CIA warnings about bin Laden=E2=80=99s
plans to strike inside the United States, al-Qaeda leaders were holed
up in caves in Afghanistan, literally chased to the ends of the earth.
Then, after the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington =E2=80=93 and the
U=2ES. counterattack in Afghanistan =E2=80=93 bin Laden fled to the mountai=
ns
of Tora Bora where he apologized to his followers for leading them to
what looked like defeat both militarily and politically, since the vast
majority of Muslims had joined the rest of the world in condemning the
9/11 attacks.
At that crucial moment, the Saudi terrorist leader set off on horseback
along with a small band of supporters and was surprised to find that
Bush hadn=E2=80=99t ordered in U.S. troops to cut off al-Qaeda=E2=80=99s es=
cape
routes. Bush already was shifting his focus to Iraq, which was governed
by a secular dictator who had persecuted Islamic extremists like bin
Laden. [See, for instance, Ron Suskind=E2=80=99s account in The One Percent
Doctrine.]
Military Blunder
The failure to trap or kill bin Laden at Tora Bora might rank as one of
modern history=E2=80=99s worst military blunders. But in his Sept. 5 speech,
Bush instead cited other historical failures =E2=80=93 what he called missed
opportunities to eliminate Lenin and Hitler when they were living in
obscurity and writing about their improbable dreams of power.
=E2=80=9CIn the early 1900s, an exiled lawyer in Europe published a pamphlet
called =E2=80=98What Is To Be Done?=E2=80=99 =E2=80=93 in which he laid out=
his plans to
launch a communist revolution in Russia,=E2=80=9D Bush said. =E2=80=9CThe w=
orld did
not heed Lenin=E2=80=99s words, and paid a terrible price. =E2=80=A6
=E2=80=9CIn the 1920s, a failed Austrian painter published a book in which =
he
explained his intention to build an Aryan super-state in Germany and
take revenge on Europe and eradicate the Jews. The world ignored
Hitler=E2=80=99s words, and paid a terrible price.=E2=80=9D
But the problem with Bush=E2=80=99s history lesson is that wiping out some
future Lenin or Hitler would require killing or imprisoning anyone who
wrote about political change in a way that rulers considered
objectionable or threatening at that time. While =E2=80=9Cpredictive
assassination=E2=80=9D might eliminate a Lenin or a Hitler, it also might
kill a Mandela or a Jefferson.
What Bush appears to be advocating is the end of free speech and free
thought, or at least the regulation and punishment of speech and
thought that he disdains. Bush is extending his concept of
=E2=80=9Cpreemptive war=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 launching attacks against countr=
ies that might
present a future threat to the United States =E2=80=93 to =E2=80=9Cpreempti=
ve
thought control,=E2=80=9D eliminating political opponents who might pose so=
me
future threat.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the U.S.
government from criminalizing speech. But Bush is indicating that he
and his political followers believe that, amid the =E2=80=9Cwar on terror,=
=E2=80=9D
it is justifiable to do just that.
Al-Qaeda Plot
In another chilling passage in his speech, Bush laid out a scenario for
labeling criticism of him in the U.S. news media as part of
al-Qaeda=E2=80=99s terrorist strategy. Bush claimed that bin Laden wrote to
Taliban leader Mullah Omar about launching =E2=80=9Ca media campaign =E2=80=
=A6 to
create a wedge between the American people and their government.=E2=80=9D
Bush said this media campaign would send the American people messages,
including =E2=80=9Cthat their government [will] bring them more losses, in
finances and casualties.=E2=80=9D Bush continued that bin Laden=E2=80=99s m=
edia
plan =E2=80=9Caims at creating pressure from the American people on the
American government to stop their campaign against Afghanistan.=E2=80=9D
Bush cited this supposed al-Qaeda manipulation of the U.S. media as one
of the reasons that =E2=80=9Cbin Laden and his allies are absolutely
convinced they can succeed in forcing America to retreat and causing
our economic collapse. They believe our nation is weak and decadent,
and lacking in patience and resolve. And they=E2=80=99re wrong.=E2=80=9D
As Bush defines domestic criticism of his war=E2=80=99s costs =E2=80=9Cin f=
inances
and casualties=E2=80=9D as part of a terrorist scheme, it=E2=80=99s not har=
d to
imagine how Bush=E2=80=99s devoted followers will react. Any expression of
concern that Bush is charting a course toward mad destruction will be
attacked as somehow acting in concert with terrorists.
Though Bush has said that his goal in waging his vague and seemingly
endless =E2=80=9Cwar on terror=E2=80=9D is to defend freedom, the reality b=
ehind
Bush=E2=80=99s grim vision is the emergence of an American totalitarianism
where objectionable thought will be repressed and dissent will be
equated with treason.
The President has now made clear that he wants the Nov. 7 congressional
elections to be a referendum on whether Americans will follow him into
this dark future.
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