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"From: Wally Lorne?" |
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08 Sep 2004 05:43:45 AM |
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World War III **NEWS** Update 8/9/4........................ |
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http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=3519
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A Shabby and Sinister Case for War
by Paul Craig Roberts
Anyone following the Larry Franklin Pentagon spy story is keenly aware
of the solidarity binding neoconservatives, AIPAC, Israel's right-wing
Likud Party, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the war drums neocons are
beating against Iran.
By this time, only the willfully ignorant could be unaware that top
neocon policymakers in the George W. Bush administration wrote a
policy paper for right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
in 1996 that called for "removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq
an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right." The Sept.
11 terror attacks gave the neocons the opportunity to put their
removal strategy in motion.
Among the willfully ignorant is neoconservative godfather Norman
Podhoretz. He has just published a 30,000-word delusional screed in
the September issue of Commentary, "World War IV: How It Started, What
It Means, and Why We Have to Win." (In the neocon lexicon, World War
III was the Cold War.)
Podhoretz begins by alleging that "the malignant force of radical
Islamism" has as its objective "to conquer our land" and to destroy
"everything good for which America stands."
If Muslims intend to conquer America, then they are every bit as
delusional as Podhoretz, who intends for America to conquer the Middle
East.
But, of course, Muslims have no such objective. The objective of
Muslim terrorists is to drive America out of Muslim homelands, not to
conquer ours. Podhoretz's intention to conquer the Middle East,
however, is real. He has declared it before, as has Douglas Feith,
currently undersecretary of Defense in the Bush administration, who
wrote in his "Strategy for Israel" in 1997 that the U.S. and Israel
should conquer Iraq, Syria, and Iran and that Israel should reoccupy
"the areas under Palestinian Authority control."
Podhoretz wants you to believe that "the road we have taken since 9/11
is the only safe course for us to follow." Safe? This bloody and
inhuman road leads on to American invasions of Iran, Syria, Lebanon
and, if Podhoretz has his way, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Demurely,
Podhoretz has kept Pakistan off his list, perhaps because Pakistan,
like Israel, has nuclear weapons.
Podhoretz is worried that mounting U.S. casualties in Iraq and growing
public doubt about the wisdom of the failed Iraq invasion will derail
the scheme to conquer the Muslim Middle East and to deracinate Islam.
Podhoretz gives his assurances that "the obstacles to a benevolent
transformation of the Middle East whether military, political, or
religious are not insuperable." He writes that "there can be no
question that we possess the power and the means." The only question
is whether we have "the stomach to do what will be required."
To make sure that we have the stomach, Podhoretz blames the 9/11
terrorist attack on American cowardice. He argues that four U.S.
presidents (Carter, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton) spent 24 years
convincing Muslims that America is a wimp.
Podhoretz lays out his history of White House wimpery. First, Carter
wimped out on Iran. Then Reagan let Islamic terrorists blow us out of
Lebanon. Bush I followed in Reagan's wimp footsteps and refused to
finish the job in Iraq. Clinton continued the wimp tradition for two
more terms.
Podhoretz states Clinton would not even meet with his own CIA
director, neocon James Woolsey, because Clinton was too much of a wimp
to want to hear from Woolsey that Muslims had declared WWIV on the
U.S.
Podhoretz concludes that the "sheer audacity" of 9/11 "was
unquestionably a product of his [bin Laden's] contempt for American
power." American wimpery caused 9/11, because "bin Laden wrote off the
Americans as cowards."
We will suffer more devastating attacks, Podhoretz says, unless we
find the stomach to fight WWIV.
Podhoretz overlooks the fact that al-Qaeda is a nongovernmental
organization, not a state with a standing army. Podhoretz doesn't
examine the morality of devastating five or six Muslim countries in
retribution for the actions of a few terrorists. He evades the issue
of whether attacking hundreds of millions of Muslims in an effort to
chase down a small number of terrorists is likely to increase the
ranks of terrorists.
Podhoretz writes that any American restraint is foolish because it
signals weakness. America was saved from weakness by President George
W. Bush (Bush II), who like Harry Truman unexpectedly turned up with a
vision. Bush II's vision is you guessed it the same as that of the
Likud Party and the neocons who mold Bush's mind and write Bush's
speeches.
The "vision" is to knock off Iraq, Iran and Syria, the countries that
could get in the way of Israel expelling the Palestinians to Jordan
and grabbing Lebanon as well. This is what World War IV is all about.
Unlike Undersecretary Feith, David Wurmser (VP Cheney's staff) and
Richard Perle (Defense Review Board), Podhoretz doesn't describe the
overthrow of countries that might be obstacles to Israeli ambition as
"an important Israeli strategic objective." Podhoretz dresses up his
policy of naked aggression as America's duty to bring truth, light,
democracy and American virtue to the Middle East.
Trouble is, there are distinguished thinkers who cannot be smeared as
anti-Semites for disagreeing with Podhoretz, such as Prof. Samuel
Huntington and Brent Scowcroft, who was National Security Adviser to
Bush I.
Podhoretz deals with Scowcroft by accusing him of giving aid and
comfort to anti-Semites by mentioning "the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict," asserting that only anti-Semites think that Israel's
treatment of Palestinians has anything to do with 9/11. Podhoretz
assures us that bin Laden himself couldn't care less about the
Palestinians and attacked America simply because wimpy U.S. presidents
convinced him that we are cowards.
Really, I am not making this up.
Next Podhoretz goes after "realists." Realists are almost as bad as
anti-Semites But, then, so is anyone who doesn't buy the neocon's
ideology of imposing America's virtue on the world especially the
Muslim part by force of arms.
Did you know that the American left wing is also anti-Semitic?
Podhoretz is outraged that Susan Sontag actually said that 9/11 was an
attack "undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and
actions." Podhoretz tries to tar Mickey Kaus for agreeing with Pat
Buchanan that mistreatment of the Palestinians is part of the problem.
He is aghast that Michael Kinsley agrees with Buchanan that it is an
affront to the Constitution to fight undeclared wars.
The weakness of Podhoretz's case for turning the Middle East into an
American-Israeli colony causes him to resort to the anti-Semite smear.
However, the publication last year of The Politics of Anti-Semitism, a
powerful collection of essays, many written by Jews, has taken the
sting from the charge by showing that it is a tactic used to prevent
debate. Many "anti-Semites" are Israel's friends who are concerned
that Israel's colonization of Palestine will unify Muslims in war
against Israel.
Perhaps sensing that "anti-Semite" is a worn-out ploy, Podhoretz
invents another name "blame-America-firsters" for anyone who
questions Bush's policy of "bringing democracy to the Middle East."
We should be scared more by Podhoretz than by terrorists. In
Podhoretz's "vision," America is totally good. Muslims are totally
evil, because they use terrorism to resist the high-minded intentions
of America's virtuous aggression.
Podhoretz's vision has no room for diplomacy, compromise, and
agreements. These are the tools of wimps and will cause "a relapse
into appeasement and diplomatic evasion." There is only room for war.
To pursue the insane agenda of conquering and occupying the Middle
East not only requires the stomach for inhumane acts, but also demands
millions of Americans taking up arms. Here come the draft and a
generation of casualties.
Podhoretz does not understand the difference between defeating
standing armies and successfully occupying hostile populations that
conduct fourth generation warfare against us.
Instead, he sees an America armed with a "new patriotic mood," which
is "a sign of greater intellectual sanity and moral health." Only
skeptics can prevent our triumph in the Middle East by undermining our
confidence like they did in Vietnam. Thus, winning WWIV requires
silencing those who disagree with Podhoretz's case for war.
Podhoretz required 30,000 words, but he has made it crystal clear that
the case for American aggression in the Middle East is shabby and
sinister.
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| User: "Jean Guernon" |
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| Title: Re: World War III **NEWS** Update 8/9/4........................ |
08 Sep 2004 09:53:40 AM |
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From: Wally Lorne? a ιcrit:
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http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=3519
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A Shabby and Sinister Case for War
by Paul Craig Roberts
Anyone following the Larry Franklin Pentagon spy story is keenly aware
of the solidarity binding neoconservatives, AIPAC, Israel's right-wing
Likud Party, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the war drums neocons are
beating against Iran.
It is not called will willfully ignorant, it is called willfully brilliant.
By this time, only the willfully ignorant could be unaware that top
neocon policymakers in the George W. Bush administration wrote a
policy paper for right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
in 1996 that called for "removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq
an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right."
No such document exist of course.
J.
[snip the rest of the total anti-semite lies]
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