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Waging A Phony War on Terror. “Terrorists R US” Defines U.S. Foreign Policy
Waging it isn’t new. Enemies are needed. When none exist they’re invented. Reagan denounced the “evil scourge of terrorism.” Specifically state-sponsored international terrorism. The “plague of the modern age,” he said. His Secretary of State George Schultz called it “modern barbarism. (A) form of political violence. (A) threat to Western civilization. (A) menace to Western moral values.” GW Bush declared war on terrorism. To “rid the world of evildoers. (N)ot let evil stand.” Orwell said political rhetoric defends the indefensible. So-called wars on terrorism are wars of terrorism. State-sponsored. Against designated individuals, groups or nations. The late Howard Zinn asked “(h)ow can you make war on terrorism if war is terrorism.” Governments are the greatest terrorist threats. US Code defines terrorism as activities involving: (A) “violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;” (B) are intended to – (i) “intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States….” The US Army Operational Concept for Terrorism (TRADOC Pamphlet No. 525-37, 1984) calls it “the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature…through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear.” Political terrorism is worst of all. State-sponsored. Including premeditated wars of aggression. Direct and proxy. Compromised civil liberties. Gross human rights abuses. Committing violent or other extrajudicial acts to advance a political agenda. Claiming national security concerns. Promoting democracy. America’s most dangerous export. Calling aggressive wars self-defense. Good v. evil. America arrogates to itself the right to be the world’s sheriff, judge and hangman. Its sole decider. Publicly supporting right over wrong. Spurning fundamental rule of law principles. Its rules alone apply. Justifying the unjustifiable. In his book titled “America’s War on Terrorism,” Michel Chossudovsky calls it a complete fabrication. “(B)ased on the illusion that one man, Osama bin Laden, outwitted” America’s entire intelligence establishment. Waging war on terrorism is a pretext for permanent New World Order wars of conquest. Carving up whole continents for profit and dominance. Serving monied interests. At the expense of popular ones. Using America’s resources for unchallenged US hegemony. No matter the human cost. Fictitious enemies are created. Wars on terrorism follow. At home and abroad. Especially post-9/11. What Project for a New American Century (PNAC) neocons called a “catastrophic and catalyzing event…like a new Pearl Harbor” was needed to advance US hegemonic aims. Changing rules of engagement. From rule of law observance to anything goes. America declared war on Islam. Muslims are targets of choice. Terrorism is what they do. Not us. Nazis claimed they were protecting populations from terrorists directed from abroad. Imperial Japan targeted “Chinese bandits.” Claiming an agenda to create an “earthly paradise.” Reagan ignored the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) June 1986 condemnation of ”unlawful (US) use of force.” As well as Security Council resolutions calling on nations to observe international law. Vetoed by Washington. General Assembly ones affirming the same principles ignored. Congress significantly increased funding for US-backed Central American death squads. Engaged in “the unlawful use of force.” At the time, State Department legal advisor Abraham Sofaer explained why America is entitled to disregard World Court rulings. Saying when most states oppose Washington’s agenda, we “reserve to ourselves the power to determine” how we’ll act. Policies pursued fall “within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States, as determined (solely) by the United States.” Washington’s war on terror creates what it claims to oppose. At home and abroad. On an unprecedented scale. Supported by rogue Western partners. Israel. Other extremist states. Allied against freedom. Making the world safe for monied interests. At the expense of millions of lost lives. Unspeakable human misery. Unlimited wealth, power and privilege. Genocide is a small price to pay. America’s human rights record is far and away the world’s worst. Truman administration diplomat George Kennan was Wshington’s leading Cold War architect. He advised on “dispen(sing) with all sentimentality and daydreaming…” Urged focusing solely on “national objectives…(D)ispensing with the aspiration to ‘be liked’ or to be regarded as the repository of high-minded international altruism.” “We should (stop talking about) unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization.” “The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts.” “The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans (ideas and practices), the better.” Ravaging one nation after another followed. Multiple direct and proxy wars. Homeland ones against freedom. Militarized madness and then some. Heading things perhaps for armageddon. America, other Western states and Israel are more battlegrounds than homelands. Anyone can be arrested, charged, prosecuted and imprisoned. On spurious terrorism charges. Others or none at all. Held indefinitely. Designated state enemies have no rights. Police states operate this way. Democracy is pure fantasy. Existing in name only. Raw power rules. Challengers risk persecution, imprisonment or death. Thousands of political prisoners languish in America’s gulag. The world’s largest by far. Israel operates the same way. So do other Western nations. After retiring from public life, George Kennan softened […] Read the rest below at the source link
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