WHEN THE ISRAEL-ANCHORED IDIOTS GO PRIMORDIAL

In Memory: Mona A-K

“Why should I, at the age of sixty-seven, begin a career as a dictator?”

General Charles de Gaulle: in responding to concerns about his views on civil liberties. As quoted in Charles Williams, The Last Great Frenchman: a Life of General de Gaulle. John Wiley & sons, 1993, at 373.)

Draft

This is about a recent interview with a French academician published in the Lebanese weekly KifahArabi.com (Ayman Abdel Malak--Cairo, “The Shia Are the Future.” KifahArabi.com, January 8, 2010. I’ll keep a printed copy of the interview. I don’t do links in this newsletter.)

THE IRAQI SHIA AT THE PENTAGON

The French academician told the interviewer about an incident when once he had been visiting with Mr. Paul Wolfowitz at the Pentagon. There, the French academician saw a crowd of Iraqi Shia waiting to meet with the Pentagon’s “theoretician/strategist” - - the academician’s description for Mr. Wolfowitz. Mr. Wolfowitz explained to the academician that the Shia in the Middle East were the future. Why? Because, he said, they’re willing to work with the United States. Why? Because, he said, they’re very much like the Jews. How so? Because, according to Mr. Wolfowitz, as relayed by the French academician: the Shia, similarly to the Jews, felt discriminated against by the Sunni majority. Throughout history, relayed the academician about what Mr. Wolfowitz had told him, the Shia weren’t given any opportunity to govern.

Reading this, I felt like someone had put a gun to my head and robbed me. I felt that my country’s Huge, Humongous, and So-Expensive-Yet-So-Dumb-War-Machine had as war theoretician/strategist someone who felt so primordial, in that he was so inspired by an obsessive sectarian experience. Most depressingly, he felt that way while designing plans for the Huge and Expensive Dumb War Machine to, in the end and in no small way, bankrupt us.

I’LL GO PRIMORDIAL, TOO

I need not complicate things here, as in trying to advance analysis that integrates regional studies, balance-of-power theory, and American politics (especially the race by politicians to love the so-called expansion, to dismiss taxation as the evil-of-all-evils and instead print money which enriches rivals - -think oil prices going to Russia and Iran and money going into the coffers of China- - and to spend sinfully and corruptly on “war” – armies, contractors, mercenaries and silly so-called civil society-democracy mules.) Instead, I want to go primordial (and simplistic) about Arabs and Muslims, as allegedly (but likely true) had Mr. Wolfowitz, as witnessed by the French academician.

Staying primordial (and simplistic), I’m reminded of this Arab proverb, “I and my brother [should join together] against our cousin, and I and my cousin [should join together] against the stranger.” To illustrate, here’s a quotation about cousins-in-Islam from the days of the Crusades:

“How dare you slumber in the shade of complacent safety […] leading lives as frivolous as garden flowers, while your brothers in Syria have no dwelling place save the saddles of camels and the bellies of vultures? Blood has been spilled! Beautiful young girls have been shamed, and must now hide their sweet faces in their hands! Shall the valorous Arabs resign themselves to insult, and the valiant Persians accept dishonour?”

Judge Abu Saad al-Harawi. Baghdad. August 1099.

(As quoted in Amin Maalouf, The Crusaders through Arab Eyes; New York: Schocken Books, 1985, at xiii. Emphasis added. This book, by the way, is one of my favorite history books.)

So, you see, Arabs and Persians can be cousins when facing strangers. Primordially, this cousin-hood should blossom as the stranger - - the Israel-Anchored Dumb War Machine- - remains so visible in the Muslim World. (I think the cousin-hood has blossomed already. big time, at the level of the Arab Street, and has become quite solid - -always underground - - after the Israel-Anchored Dumb War Machine had dismembered Arab Iraq, led by these disgusting Jewish-and-Shia-Hating Sunnis - -the same ones who had given the Arab nation secularism which the Christian Troops of Crusader and the Harmful Idiots then crushed—and then unleashed its Israeli complement on the Shias in Lebanon—oops: no more crowding at the Pentagon—then on the Sunnis in Gaza.) It doesn’t matter what the Israel-Anchored Dumb War Machine is doing in Muslim lands: Building a highway to Central Asian and Caspian oil, or searching for “victory” against al-Qaeda, or helping out India become a Great Power to assist against China, or spoiling it for China on plans by the latter to work with Iran and Pakistan to extend pipelines this-way-and-not-that-way, or most absurdly having fallen into a systemic power vacuum trap and lacking the creativity and courage to find a way out.

It’s as if the one trillion dollars the primordial-and-wishful-thinking Israel-Anchored illusions had cost us couldn’t have bought us these pipelines, the Caspian, and all of Central Asia - - and each-and-every Palestinian refugee, with money and a visa to Canada. (I apologize to the Palestinian Arabs and to the Canadians for supplanting my judgment for theirs. I’m just making a point.) But we had to do things to secure Israel’s realm for Mr. Wolfowitz who, along with the Shia, so sadly had never been allowed to govern. We had to do things whatever the price. And we had to put to use the Dumb War Machine for something, anything, regardless of political repercussions and in spite of the fact that we could’ve done things so much more cheaply (and effectively!) without it. Worse of all, we had to turn our country, a la Israel, into a ghetto vis-à-vis the wider world, the Muslim in particular.

SOME SO PRIMORDIAL REPERCUSSIONS: HOW A JEWISH MAN, WHO LOVED THE SHIA, CONQUERED THE SUNNIS

Still primordial: You see, the Arab Sunnis Mr. Wolfowitz (seemingly) has such a (Jewish) grudge against—well, now that we had dismembered Arab Iraq (in part) for his Jewish Primordial Pleasure - - so that he would visit there as conqueror, which he did, followed later by Crusader and often by Bald Samson- - it’s unlikely they’d trust us for generations.

(Mr. Wolfowitz has liked and currently likes the Indonesians as his token Sunnis; the Maronites once showed promise until they were crushed; the Druse; the Kurds; then the Arab Shia; the Indonesians. All should beware, however, of a spill-over from the church-burning Malaysians to Mr. Wolfowitz’s Indonesians. It’d be yet another Israel-Inspired Disappointment before we all sink - - including the Indonesians - - in the mud of the illusions associated with the Love-for-Israel Dogma. Not to mention that no one wants to admit that closeness to the Israel-Anchored Idiots is the kiss of political death to any Muslim or Arab. Watch what happened to all those who during Crusader’s Greater Middle East/New Middle East/Union for the Mediterranean/Anything to Crush Pan-Arab-Pan-Sunni Solidarity campaign got on the bandwagon of Arab Self-Hate, for a buck, and sold off their identity to the Israel-Anchored Idiots. They’ve now become useless to the United States - - unless, of course, they’re used for a cute iftar dinner with the Secretary of State or the President or such like symbolic nonsense - -the rarefied trophies they are, the pathetic Israel-Anchored Counterweight to the Arab Street and to al-Qaeda.) Or they’re plucked out of a deli from somewhere-in-America, given a turban, and made to rule a ‘country.”

(Sorry to digress, but Lebanon does teach one a lot. The “Arabs” and “Muslims” of the Israel-Anchored Idiots are so similar to the Muslims the Maronite establishment, when once it had presided over political Lebanon, would pick for this-or-that post. I don’t want to recite names. But many of those who that establishment would pick either had no credibility within the Muslim Street, or lost that credibility soon after accepting the appointment by the Maronite establishment. In essence: they were anyone who could provide the establishment with the veneer of legitimacy among the Muslims, but proved useless when the Muslim Street rebelled.)

And this mistrust by the Iraqi Arab Sunnis could (I would say will) fan out from Baghdad and Iraq - - eventually and likely to Indonesia - - so long as the Dumb War Machine and its civilian mule still are trudging along stubbornly-and-delusion-filled in the Muslim World, wanting to be liked. (It’d be hilarious if it weren’t tragic.) This, while we all wait for the Iranian opposition to topple the Islamic government as if that government, with the resources it controls, should (for one) prove unable to sow friction in the opposition and divide it. Or as if the Chinese and Russian strategists are as stupid as the Israel-Anchored Idiots and would not find a way, in hedging their bet, to pass money on to any force that would stand up to the Dumb War Machine. (I have no evidence; I’m using international relations’ common sense.)

You see, primordially still: though individuals forget - - the very word for person in Arabic, “insan,” derives from the verb “to forget” - - groups do nurse a memory. The Arab Sunnis of Iraq should not be expected to forget who dismembered their country and made them eat Diaspora-and-Israeli shit. (Hello: it wasn’t Iran.) If their Persian “cousin” plays his cards skillfully, we should expect that so many amongst them would be spending their summer vacation in the mountains of Persia. They should be followed there by so many other Sunnis - - maybe even Mr. Wolfowitz’s Indonesians.