I have an interesting book I picked up one day at a thrift
store. It’s called “Wars of National
Liberation”, by Daniel Moran. Here is
just one tidbit from the Introduction:
Wars of National Liberation are disproportionately
associated with irregular warfare, guerilla insurgency, and terrorism, … Such
methods testify … to military weakness.
In other words, until the revolutionaries are successful in
gaining control over a population and an area, they are terrorists. Once they succeed, they are a country. North Korea is one example of this, Israel is
another. Viet Nam is a little different;
they had their own country, but the white folks kept making decisions for them,
and they had to kick out several versions of imperialists before they got their
own country back. As Americans, we were
the imperialists, and the fallout of those historical mistakes are part of
what’s haunting us today. We are the
Great Satan to much of the Mideast, and part of the reason why that is has to
do with oil. Part of it has to do with
weaponry.
So these ISIS guys are terrorists right now, and they
certainly have the world’s attention.
Like everyone else, I have been following the news reports, wondering
where they are going to hit next, and what is going to happen when they do.
But it seems to me that there are questions that should be
asked, and I’m not seeing them on the internet.
Maybe they are out there, but I haven’t seen them, or their answers. Maybe you have, which is why I’m putting
these questions out and asking for answers if anyone has them. Questions like these:
How many people were killed in Paris, including the members
of the strike teams that did most of the killing? Whatever the final number turns out to be,
we do know one thing – that most of them were innocent bystanders who had
nothing to do with causing the grievances which were used as an excuse to kill
them.
How many people have already been killed in response to the
Paris atrocities, and how many more will be killed by the French in direct
response to the attacks? How many more
will die before somebody figures enough is enough? And how many of them will be able to be found
to be innocent bystanders who had nothing to do with causing the grievances
which were used as an excuse to kill them?
It appears the ISIS idiots killed some Russians, too, in the
name of God. How many will the Russians
kill to make up for their own folks? How
many of those will be innocent?
What do you think the families of those unfortunate victims
in Paris, or Moscow, or Egypt, or Raqqa will think of the perpetrators of the
violence against them? How long do you
think it will take for the damage to be repaired, the memories to die, and the
resentment to be forgotten? How many
generations will it take for the stories to fade away?
How long has this been going on? Who profits, no matter who wins or who loses?
How many rounds of ammunition were expended by all sides in
Paris? What private company will make
money when those expended rounds are replaced?
What about the rockets and bombs dropped on Raqqa by the French Air
Force? Who made them, and will make
their replacements? Whose guns were used
in France, by both sides? Were they
American, French, Israeli, Russian or Chinese weapons? Who sold them? Who bought them, and what did they use to pay
for them?
I see ISIS uses lots of Toyota pickups, but Toyota has no
idea how they got their hands on whole fleets of identical white trucks with
machine guns mounted in the beds.
What if you looked at all the international cashflow
generated by people killing each other for all their various reasons, and
followed all the trails laid down by the flow of materials and labor and money
to see where they lead, would it surprise you to find, at the root of it all,
some gross ugly toad of a monster bureaucracy whose sole function is to profit
from death and destruction?
I believe this monster exists. It encompasses all governments all over the
world, and operates outside their controls.
It uses lobbyists, bribes, murder, torture and force to get what it
wants, and what it wants is for people to keep on dying, the more the
merrier. Expend that ammunition. Ukraine, Syria, Egypt, Darfur, Bangladesh,
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, there are truly no end to the locations where the
toad operates. If you dig deep you will
find corporations with no fixed addresses, offshore holdings, and anonymous
boards of directors. You will also find
well-known names of public corporations operating all over the world: Boeing, General Dynamics, Halliburton,
Raytheon, and all their Russian, Chinese and European equivalents. You’ll find the CIA, and the KGB, Mossad, and
the Red Army.
I suspect if you look around the world and see which places
are relatively unscathed by the killings, that’s where the members of the
bureaucracy live, mostly in gated, secured communities with private security
teams. There are lots of those in Russia
and America, but it’s a universal phenomenon.
The more blood they have on their hands the more security-conscious they
become.
What are we, the rest of us, the vast majority of the
inhabitants of this planet, the ones who are doing the majority of the dying
and the paying, going to do about that toad?
At what point do we finally say, “That’s it, we’re done! No More!”?
When are we going to do something about it?
One thing for certain:
When we do, we will start out in the minority of people who are ready to
sacrifice their lives if necessary to get this monstrous toad off our backs
once and for all. We’ll probably have to
become terrorists out of necessity, until the rest of the people come around to
our way of thinking on this. I’d like
you to think about that. :-{)}
