STUCK IN ENDLESS WARS, BOTTOMLESS PITS, AND SYSTEMIC TRAPS: CHARLES DE GAULLE, WE NEED YOU

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The latest terror attempt, this time by a Nigerian young man, reveals (for our purposes) the following about the thinking and strategy of the Israel-Anchored foreign policy Idiots:

1. The Israel-Anchored Ones are asking of us to take on the task of understanding the psychological complexities of how a young man from another country, one out of the billions of Homo sapiens the globe over - - well, the billion-plus Muslim Homo sapiens - - fell in to the temptation of terror. (See, for instance, Guy Chazan “Web Offers More Clues on Suspect,” The Wall Street Journal, December 30, at A4.) What is this all about? Is it yet another attempt to divert our attention away from what works and what doesn’t? Would it be meant to buy the Israel-Anchored Ones yet more time to consolidate their elusive gains in the construction of the Highway (read: systemic trap, bottomless pit) to the oil fields of Central Asia and the Caspian?

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2. The Israel-Anchored Ones are asking of us to adopt the task of assisting yet another failed government - - that of Yemen. Yemen’s President for a good while now has been angling for exactly that: Hooking us (and the Saudis) to take his side (financially and militarily) to quash local rebellions - -that of the Houthis and that of the secessionist south. The performance of his armed forces, mostly commanded by his relatives, including his son, has been pathetic. So many times – for years -- he had promised to finish the Houthis and so many times he had gotten nowhere against them. To him, al-Qaeda has always been a side show - - even worse se well-embedded are they in his security establishment, some believe. (How else explain when al-Qaeda seasoned operatives are able to bust out of prison?) In the end, the young Nigerian fellow and his connection to al-Qaeda in Yemen were just what the doctor had ordered for Mr. Ali Abdallah Saleh. He finally has us hooked. (See, for instance, “U.S. Looks to Intensify Yemen Campaign,” The Wall Street Journal, December 30, at A4.)

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3. The Israel-Anchored Ones are asking that we ignore the fact that the dispatch of the young Nigerian man (we’re going to have to be kind to him because of his father) was al-Qaeda’s retaliation for our involvement alongside the Yemeni Government in bombing (I think twice) al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen. You might say: well, we needed to do an Israel-like thing to retaliate for the Nidal Hasan “operation.” My kind-of-answer: Be my guest. Retaliate to your heart’s content. Never mind that that’s exactly what the Islamists want. Along the way, you will murder children (unavoidable) and other innocent people (unavoidable, too.) As a result, you will drive the middle classes further into the arms of Islamic ideology - -the one that says in part that all harm comes from us and our Dumb War Machine, and that Muslims would get along just fine but for our aggressive military presence amidst them and our Israel-inspired policy to disintegrate Arab and Muslim countries. Besides, it should be relatively easy, shouldn’t it, for those who are resisting the Dumb War Machine to send misinformation to the Dumb War Machine and cause yet more deaths among civilians. Not to mention that it’s still unclear whether Nidal Hasan was an al-Qaeda operative. It doesn’t seem that he was, what with all the talk about self-radicalization. And, don’t you forget, the great and proven phenomenon of “going postal.” But that’s beside the point. There’s smart retaliation and dumb retaliation. Guess which one the Israel-Anchored Idiots always chose?

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SAVE LIFE, MONEY, AND REPUTATION: WORK THINGS OUT FAST AND PULL OUT NOW NOT LATER

I can go on for a good while. But let me be constructive, for a change:

Weakening the terror culture requires first-and-foremost a political approach - - not a therapy approach and not a criminal justice approach. There’s a dire and pressing need to defuse/lift the deep tension that the Dumb War Machine’s military campaigns in the Muslim World have created and are creating. We have to start pulling out, and do it now—because we will have to do it later, anyway. Let’s cut our losses, now: talk to Iran; hasten John Kerry’s visit; if not Senator Kerry, send in anyone who the Iranians would trust. Maybe George Mitchell at the head of a delegation - - since you’ve screwed him on Palestine when you had told him it was a matter of “national security.” Maybe you can atone for that. (You, behind his back, seemed to have struck a quid pro quo with the Israel Lobby, this time the Washington Institute for Near East Policy - - it’s really one-and the same as AIPAC, the one meant for Democrats the other for Republicans. The deal seemed to be one where the Administration would lay off Israel, and the Institute/AIPAC would diminish as much as possible the assault by the wider Right Wing on Mr. Obama, at least until such time when health reform passes through Congress. Both had an incentive to reach the deal and it went beyond Palestine and health reform. But I’m not gonna get into what the incentive was.) As to Mr. Mitchell, he may have to assess: Fool me once and shame on you, fool me twice . . .

I understand that you, the Israel-Anchored Idiots, are waiting for Iran’s Islamic Republic to crumble under the pressure of the opposition, which you’re likely helping along. (Your statements and those of the British tell the entire story.) In addition, I understand that you” think” that the spread of Islamism (and even the tension between the Christian World and the Muslim World) has nothing to do with the military campaigns by the Dumb War Machine in Islamic countries, including the elimination of Arab Iraq and the crushing of the Arab Sunnis, you in Iraq and you-through-Israel-and-Fateh in Palestine, and the creation of millions of refugees - - and everything to do with Iran’s Islamic regime’s very existence. Talk about pathological self-reference!

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But have you really thought out what will happen if the Islamic regime founders? (See one prior post in this blog a part of which addresses that.) Can your Israel-Anchored Brain handle it? Can we afford it? (I understand: You don’t care; you have pension plans. I know; I’m being rhetorical since, for one, I’m forever aware that I’m talking to Israel-anchored self-referential idiots.) Look at Plantation Iraq as an illustration of what the campaigns of your Dumb War Machine have done. Thanks to you, once-Arab Iraq has now evolved into at least three “countries.”

(In no way do I mean to defame the troops. The troops follow orders and the orders come from the Israel-Anchored Idiots either with conviction or for fear that they would be blamed and pay a political price for “losing” Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan. Or simply –and most convincingly--because of the deal they likely struck with the Israel Lobby to have that Lobby, so well integrated within the wider American Right-Wing, neutralize that Right-Wing for the Obama duration, or at least until health reform passes through Congress. See above.)

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I guess you think you can handle Plantation Iraq by keeping troops there. How many would you need? 5,000? If continued instability: 50,000? How many would you need for Plantation Iran, the one to follow the civil war in that country which you - -consciously or unconsciously, meaning Idiot-like - - are angling for? Would 100,000 do? How many will you need for Plantation Afghanistan? Would 50,000 troops do? 75,000?

Beware of what you wish for. You’ll go for sanctions, but the Iranians shouldn’t be expected to confine themselves to your parameters for confrontation. You might force them to play more-than-chicken with you. They’re not going to accept strangulation. Why should they? They have Plan B-- engineered self-disintegration. (See prior post: “Success Against Iran.”) Until calling on Plan B, they should be adept at re-defining the confrontation in a way that places you on the defensive, not they.

ILLUSTRATIVE THOUGHTTS ON HOW IRAN CAN TURN THE TABLES ON THE ISRAEL-ANCHORED IDIOTS

Here are illustrative queries/thoughts: What makes you “think” that the security apparatus you’re building in Plantation Iraq can take over from you so that you will need less than 50,000 troops there? (By the way, a Turkish newspaper is reporting that U.S. troops will begin to depart Iraq via Turkey starting today.) Even without Iran, Iraqi nationalism should re-assert itself sooner or later. (If anything: Iran is doing you the favor of delaying that.) What makes you “think” that the new Iraqi nationalism would be fond of Israel-Anchored You? Only the (very small) profit-making elite are fond of Israel-Anchored You. The rest believe you’re there to siphon off Iraq’s wealth and boost Israel’s dominance and yours.

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You might say: Just give us a little more time to eliminate the Islamic Government of Iran. I remind your little Israel-Anchored Idiot Brain that I don’t think you can afford that. That’s due in part not only to the scenario that Iran might disintegrate during-and-after a civil war. (You really have to read a prior post on that, “Success Against Iran.”) It’s due, too, to the fact that the Islamic Government can keep you preoccupied for the longest time until it opts - -if it has to - - for the scenario of civil war and self-disintegration. (The nuclear program may very well be Islamic Iran’s attempt to avoid engineered disintegration as a last resort, since it knows you’re going to come at it sooner-or-later. Have your Israel-Anchored “experts” give this some “thought.” Give them a few billion dollars for that.) For one, Iran-being-strangled should sooner-or-later come to the realization that it will need to allow Shia-catalyzed Arab nationalism to ignite - -the Sadrist card. It delays that to its detriment. But it is anyway. Lucky you!

And how much money would a civil-war-torn Iran cost? For instance, I calculated (not scientifically—but then I had been first to calculate how much an American soldier or an American-hired mercenary costs - -way before anyone else - - and I was able to get the idea across) that the 400,000 troops and police our Dumb War Machine wants to create in Afghanistan (See Rajiv Chandrasekaran, “Civilian, military planners have different views on new approach to Afghanistan,” The Washington Post (online), Sat. December 26, 2009) should cost us $4 billion a year in salaries/employment costs and corruption payoffs. (Remember: It’s not only salaries and corruption costs; it’s medical-care-for-life for personnel and family, and hospitals and co-ops for military people—it’s a Huge Welfare Program, similar to our Pentagon’s.) Add to that all the other costs - - since, as I found out in Iraq (I was too young to really appreciate that for Vietnam)—you cannot do anything cheaply. All of this while our rivals (systemic) do things cheaply and enjoy seeing us and our Dumb War machine fall into traps and prove unable to correct the course. The bastards.

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IS THERE A CHARLES DE GAULLE OUT THERE?

I’m aware that your Little Brain adores economic expansion and job-creation. But this is not economic expansion and the jobs you’re creating now, by sapping the budget, will hurt the same people later. Better bring them back home to work on infrastructure projects here not in Afghanistan. This is government expenditure that by now has gone way beyond what the GDP can handle. (Hence, I guess, why some smart people still are betting on inflation coming with a vengeance, the Fed assurance about its ability to control that phenomenon falling on deaf ears.) I don’t expect you to appreciate that. But I do hope the Pentagon does - - that is, not the ones with a stake in wars, but the retired generals, colonels and the others with pension plans. (If I can risk it and issue this newsletter while my pension plan is a joke, then you, with a stellar pension plan, should be able to muster some balls to do the right thing.) I’m hoping that these would get off their consulting-to-the-military-industrial-complex-ass, put in the intellectual energy to understand the wider repercussions to the economy and America’s standing of these endless wars A.K.A. Bottomless Pit - - and go public about their convictions. Read about the courageous General Charles de Gaulle ordering the French out of Algeria. (Yesterday, I asked for one biography of the French general.) This timid administration (as any Democratic administration on defense issues) needs the retired men and women of the armed forces to come out and lay out a program for pulling out of the prohibitively costly systemic trap -- the endless wars. Someone’s got to start the actual and full retreat - - not the compromised half-ass one.