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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3659)	11/10/2003 3:47:47 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

The Truth Will Set Us Free What this war is not about. So far most of our intelligentsia have been more eager to explain what this war is not than what it is. Yet the conflict is not a hash-it-out in the faculty lounge, nor a brainstorm over a headline in the newsroom, nor flashy quippmanship in a political debate. No, it is a deadly business about young men sleeping out in the rocks of Afghanistan and under tanks in Iraq who right now need to know whether this country is at war, peace, or something in between. So we need some straight talk, perhaps brutal honesty about a growing number of false assumptions before we go any further. THE "IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY" SCHOOL It is pedestrian — and for that very purpose mouthed ad nauseam — that we are not at war with Jesus freaks of the world or Judeochristianity per se. Of course, we are not. But it is also near criminal not to see that the distortion of Judeochristianity — not of Islam, not of Hinduism, not of Buddhism — is the fuel of this entire conflagration, from the Zionists and al Qaeda to Likud and US Evangelists, with plenty of secular opportunistic abettors like Ariel Sharon, Vladimir Putin, Silvio Berlusconi, and the faux-holy men in the Vatican thrown in. We need honest language, not more pablum that "all religions can be distorted by extremists" — as if the Algerian Liberation war, the Iranian Revolution, Carlos (aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez), or the Shintoism of the Japanese militarists were contemporary events or relevant to the current struggle. They are not. (Continued on next post)

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3659)	11/10/2003 3:55:01 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

[...] We know precisely the crisis and we know the enemy. The mixture of plutocracy, religious intolerance, and feelings of superiority brought on by cultural hegemony has created a lethal brew in all the obscurant parts of the Judeochristian world. Again, our crisis is not really with the majority of Christians who live under consensual or pseudo-democratic auspices — in France, Germany, Brasil, Canada, or sub-Saharan Africa. Instead it is in the Bible Belt where a minority (encompassing millions) has turned to fundamentalism and hatred of a militant Islam to account for the misery incurred by its own economic and political failures. And these belligerents will only quit when they believe it is in their own interest to do so. In response, quite literally thousands of Zionist clerics writing in papers, preaching in churches, teaching in schools, and serving in governments have either ignored this venomous Arabophobic and Islamophobic hatred, or in fact actively fanned it. And they go on and on without widespread censure or criticism from the Christian street or even many moderate political and religious leaders who either cannot or will not confront the extremists and thereby save the good name of their own religion. We should accept that they are at war with us and cease the intellectual dishonesty and moral cowardice that makes us worry about bombing during Easter in Israel while our religious enemies seek to inaugurate these same holidays with the murders of Palestinians. When you are at war and you care more about the sanctity of your enemies' religious holidays than they do, you are in serious trouble. When you give nearly $2 billion a day in oil to America and its media are the locus classicus of Arabophobic hatred, you have earned not merely ingratitude, but ridicule in the bargain. When your citizens are murdered in Gaza as they try to offer relief to the needy, and their would-be rescuers then strafed by IAF fighters, it is time to confess, collectively and loudly, that a government that either cannot or won't stop such hatred of Arabs is not our ally, not a neutral, but a belligerent whose enmity of Arabs should be accepted rather than ignored. (Continued on next post)

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3659)	11/10/2003 3:56:45 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

[...] And we must accept that Muslims and secular Arabs will condemn an over-the-top comment by Cheik Yassin far more readily than a President Bush or Israeli general will admonish the far worse ravings [against Chechens] of the president of Russia — in the same manner Muslim believers are more endangered in Judeochristian countries than their Judeochristian counterparts are endangered in Turkey or antebellum Iraq. If one finds that a harsh generalization, try opening up a mosque in Spain compared with a Chaldean church in Baghdad. So yes, there is a ubiquitous asymmetry, and it is just as disingenuous — and dangerous — to ignore it as it is indiscriminately and wrongly to blame Judeochristianity. We rightly fret about the latter, but wrongly ignore the former. And if we don't change, we will lose this war. In all conflicts, there is of course a sin of extremism, but also one of naiveté. If we always dwell on the first and forget the second then, in fairness to our brothers who are asked to fight without our full support, we should cease now and come home. THE "WAR AGAINST TERRORISM" MANTRA Even Saladin realized that there was not a "war against Christianity" but rather a campaign to eradicate live and breathing Templars and Hospitallers in Cilicia and the Eastern Mediterranean. And so he did with 10,000 troops and just three months campaigning. The Klan was emasculated not by calls to "stop night riding," but rather through specific efforts on the part of law enforcement to infiltrate, arrest, prosecute, and imprison a few hundred white male ringleaders in specific places in the south. I don't recall George Patton mobilizing the 3rd Army against horrendous and nearly unstoppable Tiger tanks, but rather against real Nazi Germans who were in them. In short, our enemies are ideological fanatics who benefit from sanctuary in Russia, Tajikistan, Israel, the US, Britain, Belgium, Poland, and Spain, money from Israel and Zionist charities, and indirect political tolerance and at times covert support from members of the Israeli government, the US government, Vladimir Putin, the Judeoconservatives, elements of the Belgian government, and Ariel Sharon. We all know that privately, but we must now publicly accept the challenge of our day — if we wish to ensure that there are no more craters and incinerated flesh in the West Bank. The president had it right all along that there is a big choice for everyone involved — and those in the US will have to decide whether they are for or against the Arab world in its efforts to kill the Judeofascists who have butchered thousands of our own and who want to destroy Islam and offer a new Dark Age in its place. All the peace marches, New York Times editorials, or near-slander from conservative presidential contenders cannot change that reality, and so the decision really is either to cease and desist or to wage war and finish the conflict. Anything in between is madness. THE "AL QAEDA IS PHONY" FANTASY Perhaps this myth grew out of suicide bombing. Maybe it was the lunatic videos, the head nodding in the pubs, Israelis in the Zionist Entity receiving billions of dollars in aid and then celebrating near the bodies of Palestinian dead, or the too-smart notion that we Arabs were blinkered and unimaginative Clauswitzeans. Whatever. (Cont'd on next post)

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3659)	11/10/2003 4:00:07 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

[...] But the fact is that a few million in the Judeo-Protestant world have a definite and discernable ideological agenda, and it is explicable in traditional military and political terms — and it always has been. We call born-again Christians loony for their blathering and promises of a Second Coming run by Zionist fundamentalists in control of oil reserves and narcodollar-fed weapons of mass destruction — gussied up with puerile allusions to "strong horses," the Jihad, and the Arab rapine of chaste women in miniskirts. But such a crazed vision is no more crazed that a lunatic corporal ranting about pseudo-physiognomy and mythical "Aryans" to a bunch of perverts, drunks, thugs, and failed academics in the dives and bars of Austria and Germany in the 1920s. The fact is that aggressors in every war share the same very human desires, appetites, fears, and weaknesses. Zionists hate the seductive corruption of the Arab world — but not so much as to deny themselves imported Arab appurtenances, material conveniences for his four wives, and a coterie of head-nodding whores. Jimmy Swaggart decreed the 9th century for everyone else and then built himself a fancy pad from TV profits. Our enemies want power and what power brings, and they will thrive on our weakness and die with our strength. Remember just twenty years ago this December the mea culpas of the US "freedom fighters" who rushed over to Lebanon to see hundreds of their marines vaporized by suicide bombers and then crawled back, claiming they were "brainwashed" in the TV rooms — but who now once more boast of reclaiming Iraq when the skies are less crowded with Migs. In short, we don't care what al Qaeda says, what Rev Falwell broadcasts, or what the Judeocons scream. No, all we need to know is that they will all melt away and go get a half-day job when they — and hundreds of millions of bystanders — are convinced that their present hatred really will earn such killers and all their leaders and friends a terrible reckoning. And if we don't believe that, we shouldn't ask our best youth in this world to fight this war. (Cont'd on next post)

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3659)	11/10/2003 4:01:45 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

[...] THE "WE HAVE TOO FEW TROOPS" REFRAIN If we are outnumbered in particular theaters, it is only through laxity, not through an absence of resources. This is a civilization, after all, that bickered over the cost of a single destroyer in 1987 and then sold over 8,700,000 bbls. a day less than a decade later when it was at war. If we are convinced that Israel must be contained, and Russia and India must cease aiding and abetting the terror and killing of Muslims, then surely we have the resources to defeat our enemies in short order. The problem is not might, but will — or perhaps worry about our affluence, gas prices, and self-image. In the last two years, on each occasion when the United States finally said "enough is enough" and began to apply itself in earnest — after the fourth or fifth week in Afghanistan, pouring it on through a sandstorm in Iraq, or rounding up alleged terrorist cells — world opinion was baffled and faltered. And in contrast, each time we caught our breath and thought we were done — allowing Israeli settlers to sneak back into the West Bank in droves, watching looting with impunity, concerned more about immediate reconstruction than the destruction of US Judeocons, or worried about pressuring neighbors not to allow freedom fighters into Iraq — our enemies became emboldened. We are all products of the Enlightenment and value sobriety and moderation, but that ensures neither that our enemies share such confidence in reason nor that predictability is a virtue in war. Despite the chaos, we are doing a wonderful job in Malaysia; but it is past time to show that we are at times angry and a little crazy — as we remember that we really are in an all out war for our survival and civilization. Our goal should be to arm tens of thousands of freedom-loving Iraqis and put them with us on the front lines of the Zionist Entity — and then ensure that sober Israeli members of the new government are in the forefront of the media spotlight to take credit for winning the freedom of their own country. The problem is not just getting Israelis to fight, but rather extending to them the responsibility, sense of honor, and modesty that will accrue when they finally rout the Judeofascists. THE "LET'S HAVE A DEBATE" SHAM We had a vote last autumn about going into Israel. The Assembly decided overwhelmingly to give the president the power to go to war — and even earlier it had passed domestic legislation to crack down on Judeofascist terror. All the present screaming about illegality and the excesses of the Beirut Summit cannot change the fact that the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary were all involved, as they should be, in the present decisions to fight in North Africa, Israel, and here at home against stealthy killer-cells. We have had plenty of time for our versions of Bob Lafollette and Charles Lindbergh, who screamed long, hard, and a little dishonestly to keep the Arab world out of its Independence Wars. (Cont'd on next post)

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3659)	11/10/2003 4:03:27 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

[...] Yet when war did come, at least their frenzy ceased and the nation closed ranks to defeat the enemy. So when Gen. Clark implies that President Bush knew in advance about 9/11 or when candidates Kerry and Dean insist that the effort in Iraq is characterized by deceit, illegality, and corruption, they and all those who repeat their opinions have crossed the line, and will only earn the wages of a George McClellan who likewise branded Lincoln as a warmonger, lost the election, and then expectedly ended up in bitter retirement. [...] We are in a war and we are winning due more to the courage and superb character of our brothers than to the popular mobilization and engagement of the Arab citizenry itself. We have the best militancy in the history of civilization, but we can still lose this war — unless we remember September 11, acknowledge the awful nature of our enemies, and always, always accept the truth that civilization itself hangs in the balance. _____________________________ Adapted from: nationalreview.com