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Iraq Is Not The Issue
(Elevated from a comment)
by Antifa
Iraq is not the issue.
Iraq is a symptom.
The root cause of this Iraqi resource war is our national consensus that we intend to keep living like Americans, come what may.
That’s why Democrats and Republicans alike voted overwhelmingly for this oil war, and routinely vote to fund it anew, at obscene prices, with pure overdrafts from our Treasury. Because we all intend to keep living like we do.
In practice then, we the point three billion people, we Americans, aren’t really at odds with Dick Cheney’s dictum, "The American way of life is not negotiable."
It is only when that does become negotiable that we will stop burning down other nations to get our provisions.
Iraq is a symptom.
Iraq is only one nation. Oil is only one provision. There are other nations, and other provisions. To survive, America needs those provisions from those nations, and we can’t take no for an answer.
Fact: there aren’t enough provisions in the whole world for every nation, every human, to live like Americans. It would take nine planet earths to do that. That means eight out of nine people alive today will never live like Americans do.
It means every American has eight other humans to share with. Now, if you don’t share with those other eight humans, you’ll have to kill a couple of them to get enough provisions to live like an American. And you’ll probably have to kill a couple others to keep the rest off your provisions. On an overcrowded ship, it’s the pirate way — share the booty or fight to the death over it.
And that’s our choice, we Americans.
Iraq is a symptom of that choice.
Actually, most of the resource wars to come in this century will be over potable water. And, we’ll need to kill for uranium at some point, too, to keep our electrical grid up. And kill for a few other precious ores as well, or someone else will dig them up and then we won’t live as well as we do. And that was never our intent. That’s not negotiable.
The point being, getting out of Iraq doesn’t address the root cause of our being there. We’ll just go to war somewhere else for provisions.
The country we need to get out of is the mad America that won’t even attempt anymore to live within its means or by civilized rules. Pirate America.
We need to climb down from where we find ourselves these days, folks. This is just nuts, what we, the people, are doing.
Claims of a Zionist conspiracy are as ridiculous as the claim of a Muslim conspiracy under the leadership of bin Laden..i.e. that all Muslims want to destroy America. Yes, Israeli Likudniks have a strong lobby in the U.S., and they have followers from the radical right like Kahan and the settler movement, and they have the kool-aid kids of the armeggeddon-the hell out of here when god take me through that big worm hole in the sky.
but to claim a Zionist conspiracy makes me sick because the origins of that idea come from the Tsarist pogroms. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which is still being shown as a documentary on Egyptian tv, was an rip-off of a French satire about Napoleon III. It made its way to Russia where it was co-opted by the Tsar’s secret police.
A man there, whose name I do not recall off the top of my head, fled from Russia to Germany during the Revolution, with copy of that book, which most likely had also made its way to Germany with other refugees. Many of the idealists behind the Bolsheviks were Jewish. The French Revolution was the first time Jews were allowed status as full citizens, so there was surely a reason for their hope for revolution, as surely as Malcolm X and MLK hoped for various forms of revolution in America via civil rights (whether non-violent or otherwise.)
During Weimar Germany, Jews like Walter Benjamin and Freud and on and on were making their impact on arts, philosophy, theories of human motivation…Jews and Gentiles mixed in this intellectual climate…this was horrible to Germans who wanted a conservative myth of a “German” to also constitute the recently formed Germanic nations.
So, this Tsarist supporter made his way to Germany and he got The Protocols of the Elders of Zion into the hands of a guy named Rudolph Hess, who had this friend named Adolph Hitler who was happy to hear of yet more “proof” of a Jewish conspiracy.
Henry Ford also, with The International Jew, knew who to hate. The industrialists, who feared Bolshevism, knew who to hate and who to finance to build up Germany…good ole Adolph. Jews seeking refuge as they lost more and more rights as humans were refused entry into various nations…they were such a problem…
Heiden, in Der Fuhrer, noted this history at the beginnning of his book, long ago. This history has been recorded over and over, and yet it is still presented as fact to many.
Karen Armstrong’s Battle for God is a really informative look at various fundamentalisms that have led to craziness from all three monotheisms.
Anyway, I think it is ridiculous to claim that Zionists have a conspiracy to take over the world. I think it is right to claim that certain Israelis have too much power and influence over our foreign policy and perceptions of the middle east (as Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski claimed way back when in her series of articles about Israeli Generals helping to plan the invasion of Iraq.)
But, just as with Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill, such mutually beneficial alliances last as long as they do not interfere with bigger, internal goals. If you think that the Rockfellers and Sciafes and Murdochs care about the Likudniks any more than it takes them each to achieve market goals, or that the Talibornagains care about any Jews that do not convert for that big superslide ride to heaven, you’re, imo, naive, and too willing to play into the long-standing fear of “the other” that has been a constant of Jewish existence since the diaspora.
fwiw, I’m not Jewish. but hopefully you know there are very orthodox Jews who do not support a Jewish state because they believe it violates the terms of the coming of the messiah. There are reform Jews who do not believe in a messiah, per se, but a messianic era of peace that is shared by all religions, all people, and is based upon the same sort of basic human rights for all, in terms of needs, that many other people see as the baseline for decency in this world.
Anyway, since people are so afraid to touch the third rail, I’m driving a subway car down the tracks made by former posts on this thread.
Posted by: fauxreal | Jun 12 2005 20:51 utc | 98
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