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Don’t be scared
Why would anyone support the American president at this point? The answer is simple: Cowardice.
Republicans are sissies. They talk tough and drive trucks, but in truth are very afraid that a scary Arabic Islamo-Fascist™ is going to come to hurt them – for no reason except perhaps jealousy – and because they are so frightened, they need a massive police state to fight their battles (all the while pretending it could never be used against them).
It’s a good thing for these Republicans’ congressmen that the passengers on Flight 93 – the fourth plane on 9/11, and the only plane whose passengers had heard that others had been crashed rather than flown to Cuba – weren’t Republicans. They probably would have hid like children in the back of the plane waiting for the cops to come instead of trying to take it back, leading to a suicidal dive intothe U.S. Capital building rather than a field in Pennsylvania.
Every “terror threat” in this country since 9/11 (that’s 2001, dummy) has been a joke. A joke that, as the great James Bovard points out, results in a ratings boost for the president every time.
(This entry on the topic was written before, and so omits, the latest hoaxes in Miami, New York and the U.K. See also, Keith Olberman, “The Nexus of Politics and Terror”)
Even Foreign Affairs – champions of every bogus threat and the subsequent wars against them since 1921 – has published an article questioning whether there are even any terrorists out there at all:
“On the first page of its founding manifesto, the massively funded Department of Homeland Security intones, ‘Today’s terrorists can strike at any place, at any time, and with virtually any weapon.’
“But if it is so easy to pull off an attack and if terrorists are so demonically competent, why have they not done it? Why have they not been sniping at people in shopping centers, collapsing tunnels, poisoning the food supply, cutting electrical lines, derailing trains, blowing up oil pipelines, causing massive traffic jams, or exploiting the countless other vulnerabilities that, according to security experts, could so easily be exploited? …
“Although it remains heretical to say so, the evidence so far suggests that fears of the omnipotent terrorist … may have been overblown, the threat presented within the United States by al Qaeda greatly exaggerated. The massive and expensive homeland security apparatus erected since 9/11 may be persecuting some, spying on many, inconveniencing most, and taxing all to defend the United States against an enemy that scarcely exists.“
Maybe Mohammed Atta was the very best Osama had.
In any case, the purpose of 9/11 was to bait the U.S. into the jihadist sandtrap – so that our government would bankrupt us fighting no-win wars on foreign soil until we leave the region entirely. With the murder of so many innocents in the 9/11 attacks, bin Laden lost much of his image as a defender rather than aggressor. It would be a tactical mistake for him to hit the U.S. again now. The plan already worked. By invading and occupying Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush/Cheney administration has split the difference for the jihadist factions who fought over whether to fight the “near” or “far” enemy and settled the question of whether or not the U.S. was the aggressor. Now the far enemy is near – and vows that it isn’t going anywhere. The al Qaeda “inspired” attacks on our allies are intended to isolate us from them, and that’s working too.
That doesn’t mean that future attacks in the U.S. are impossible, just unlikely as long as “we” are doing bin Laden’s work for him.
Meanwhile the King’s subjects quake at every Orange Alert as we all lose the liberty that made America worth fighting for in the first place.
If you want to be safe and free, buy a gun and tell your congressman to stop meddling in the Middle East.
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Agreed; withdraw our soldiers NOW to secure our sovereign borders, instead. And impeach Bush NOW, for his lethal lies and unConstitutional crimes, as well!
Comment 1: Withdraw our soldiers NOW - yes - good idea.
I’d leave about 5% behind (or contractors) to complete construction projects which are 50% or more completed. To abandon a project (say a hospital) that is 85% done would be like spitting in the face of the Iraqi’s - but their only purpose would be to DEFEND those working toward the timely completion of the project.
2) I’m more libertarian vis - a vis immigration, but even if I wanted troops on the border (which I don’t) I would use INS (not US Servicemen) for the very simple reason that the consolidation of policing entities (Police/Military/INS/FBI) is very dangerous to a free republic.
SEC
“Comment 1: Withdraw our soldiers NOW - yes - good idea.
I’d leave about 5% behind (or contractors) to complete construction projects which are 50% or more completed. To abandon a project (say a hospital) that is 85% done would be like spitting in the face of the Iraqi’s - but their only purpose would be to DEFEND those working toward the timely completion of the project.”
the only projects currently being completed are giant military bases. rather than paying armed men to ‘build’ things, haha, wouldn’t it make more sense, morally and legally, to pay iraqis reparations for all the damage caused to their country by an illegal, unprovoked invasion? if someone busted into your house, shot your dog, stole your tv and decided to tear down your bedroom to build an extension would you rather they got the hell out and paid you back for the damage or would you be prepared to wait for them to finish their work?
the stated purpose of all us troops in iraq is to ‘defend’ something or other, that hasn’t worked out so well for the hundreds of thousands of iraqis dead, unjustly imprisoned, tortured and terrorised by your tax dollars. you don’t seem to understand that there is no goodwill left for america in iraq. game’s over.
A great article with great links, Scott. Regarding bogus terror alerts to boost numbers for Bush in popularity contests, Keith Olbermann did a pretty good job of documenting these here.
Actually I was referring to keeping a small military contingent to guard the completion of projects being done by the giant contracting firms. Those not commenced or only partially done should be abandonded. I’m sure there are some hospitals/schools/etc that are largely completed (80% or 90%) - all I’m saying is leave a few guys so a hospital 90% done can be 100% done. We ABSOLUTELY should have hired the Iraqi’s to do these jobs. It puts money in the local economy. It gives young men something to do rather than wander the street. They would no doubt work cheaper. Also, psychologically, it is healthy to take part in the rebuilding of your country.
The reality is this was not done. It is my understanding that these firms were all PREPAID in full by the USG (read taxpayer) - many in no bid contracts. Antonia Juhaz has written extensively on this. Do you think they are going to give the money back for work paid but not completed? NO. Do you think the government would sue them to recover this money? Hell no. This would only bring to the forfront what a disaster the Iraq debacle was. Also, if the government did ask for some money returned they could always claim that the government is in breach by not providing security for the work to be completed.
If you don’t like the idea of US troops how about contractors (read mercenaries) staying for say 4 - 6 months while (say) a road project or a bridge 90% done can be completed (or even UN forces)- or would you just walk away from a bridge job that is 90% done with assorted construction materials lying around. - SEC
I say complete and total withdrawl of all American and UK government forces immediately - that’s government contractors too. Immediately.
The Boston Tea Party calls for a complete and unconditional withdrawal of US troops from, and a cessation of US military operations against or within, Iraq. I wholeheartedly endorse the Boston Tea Party’s position.
However, I think a phased withdrawal would be best. The 138,000 U.S. troops in Iraq could be withdrawn at the rate of 20,000 per day until they are all gone. I’m thinking maybe the contractors should stay in Iraq forever and be paid $150 a month, as long as the money
doesn’t come from the U.S. government.
yeah, when the repubbbs always complained that the dems wanted a nanny state, i always said it was a lot better than a police state.
Good Morning, Scott -
Should the glorious day ever come that our nation changes its ways and becomes noninterventionist, that will be the very same day that ALL LEADERS in this nation will be put on trial for their crimes against the citizenry (police state, worthless money, killing our children in far off lands, etc.) AND the remainder of humanity (foreign policy, interventionism, death, destruction, invasions, wars, etc.)
“Trade with all, entanglements with none” was the best advice this nation was ever given. That we have ignored such advice is why we, as a nation, stand today with our character having changed into that which we claim to eschew. Such is the ultimate outcome of empire. Our empire will end, just as other empires ended, as well.
It is a sad day when the enemies produced by the foreign policy of amerika tell more truth than our own leaders. It is sad from two perpsectives:
1. sad that enemies are PRODUCED by said policy;
2. sad that our leaders do not tell us the truth of our situation, created by them.
This is what we have come to be - a provocoteur govt populated by liars with agendas that do not benefit America, only amerika.
Kirk A. Hayes
Y’all - I am for any contractor being paid and invited by private Iraqis to stay to finish projects, but I like Tom’s idea too, leave them all there - as in, ditch them. Hell why not the troops too?
Skippy, thanks for coming by. Remember that nanny states are also backed up by deadly force, since Waco, almost always by SWAT team. Remember also that Bill Clinton killed a million Iraqis. Far more (Okay not that far) than W. Bush has.
Kirk - Too bad Harry’s dead. He’d'a made a great candidate for president in ‘08.
Nobody is going to leave unless its at the point of a gun or a knife to the throat.
To think that the BIGGEST damn embassy on the planet is actually being built in the most dangerous city we know. At a tune of just over half a billion dollars and to house anywhere from 5-8,000 bodies. Its insane! Does anyone even blow the lid off of this absurdity? Where are the endless reports etc.. that would show it to be the white elephant that it is? The major media must be too gutless. And how about those bases 36 square miles in size!?
They, the American Imperium, will never leave unless the death toll, and that means Americans, reaches unprecedented levels. This may well be the master plan, to put enough people at deaths door and then unleash the unthinkable. Stupid stateside Americans will wail and holler like deranged tree monkeys on crack… looking for blood and revenge but never once thinking how it all got to that point.
Skippy: Great line.
Scott: your comment about nanny states is well taken, but I’d like to think that you see a difference between police and nanny states, esp. for the people who may have BRIEFLY needed to use the nanny state to get through a critical period in their lives. Since Libertopia is not with us at the moment, I can assure you it meant the world to them (speaking as someone who would be dead if he stayed in America for medical care vs. taking advantage of dual citizenship to get an operation in a country with socialized medicine… and I come from a well-to-do background, BTW). I know intrusion is intrusion, but I find these attempts to conflate the two missing the point; I’d like to know what you think the response of the kids would have been if they were being sexually abused by the Branch Davidians and the standoff had ended peacefully.
And since when is kililng/letting people starve part of a nanny’s duties, anyway? I can’t help but think that those who disparage them have not ever found themselves in dire straits.
-Paul
“The Fellowship of those who bear the Mark of Pain. Who are the members of this fellowship? Those who have learned by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond. Praise God! One and all they know the horrors of suffering to which man can be exposed, and one and all they know the longing to be free from pain. He who has been delivered from pain must not think he is now free again, and at liberty to take life up just as it was before, entirely forgetful of the past. He is now a “man whose eyes are open” with regard to pain and anguish, and he must help to overcome those two enemies (so far as human power can control them) and to bring to others the deliverance which he has himself enjoyed. The man who, with a doctor’s help, has been pulled through a severe illness, must aid in providing a helper such as he had himself, for those who otherwise could not have one. He who has been saved by an operation from death or torturing pain, must do his part to make it possible for the kindly anaesthetic and the helpful knife to begin their work, where death and torturing pain still rule unhindered. The mother who owes to medical aid that the child still belongs to her, and not to the cold earth, must help, so that the poor mother who has never seen a doctor may be spared what she has been spared. Where a man’s death agony might have been terrible, but could fortunately be made tolerable by a doctor’s skill, those who stood around his deathbed must help, that others, too, may enjoy that same consolation when they lose their dear ones.
Such is the Fellowship of those who bear the Mark of Pain. ”
-Dr.Albert Schweitzer
>in a country with socialized medicine
We love gubberment medicine. Socialism rulez!
>And since when is kililng/letting people starve part of a nanny’s duties, anyway?
Yeah, nanny state government masters love each and every one of us and would never, ever do anything to harm us!
Thats right… the terror attacks are all bogus.
London liquid bombs? Bogus.
Miami homeless guys in the warehouse? Bogus.
Canadians who got fertilizer delivered by Mounties? Bogus.
NY Tunnel plot? Brooklyn Bridge torch plot? All bogus.
For the last 5 years every terror plot turns out to be bullcrap… but only a crazy conspiracy theorist would question the gospel of 9/11.
Paul: One word: IRS.
Matt: I never said everone who questions 9/11 are kooks, just that every stupid conspiracy theory you people come up with instead have been crazy - that is, they are not supported by the facts.
Missile pods, flt 93 landed safely, flt 77 didn’t hit the pentagon - a missile or skywarrior or something else did, airphones don’t work on planes, bld 7 was barely damaged at all, etc., etc.
All bullshit. And only a crazy conspiracy theorist would belive a bit of it.
Oh, yeah, and DrFix, withdrawal is going to be a long time coming.
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