(and
the first nuclear attack since 1945, on Iran–Pakistan)
Zahir
Ebrahim
April
17, 2008.
Updated
April 22, 2008.
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Project HumanbeingsfirstTM.
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The
abominable shared fates that unite Iran (“Bush and Iran,
again”,
WSJ
April 15, 2008),
and Pakistan, from President Bush calling Pakistan
“Terror
Central” in
2007,
to this week,
April
13, 2008,
'clairvoyantly' asserting that
“If another
September 11 style attack is being planned, it probably is being
plotted in Pakistan, and not Afghanistan”. And as already
noted in its
March
29, 2008
heads-up warning to America by
Project
HumanbeingsfirstTM
(“Nuclear attack on Iran appears imminent!”), when such a
“planned” attack transpires, it
“will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison” (Bush,
Feb.
13, 2008).
That
heads-up warning also suggested creating a new peoples institutional
barrier against the wanton pursuit of
“imperial
mobilization” that is otherwise almost trivially enabled by
any
“new Pearl Harbor” (“
How
to derail 'imperial mobilization'”).
Simultaneously, a rational preemptive self-defense strategy to
further deter such Machiavellianly orchestrated
“'defensive'
US military action” (Brzezinski,
Feb.
1, 2007)
was also spelled out for the Pakistani ruling elite by Project
Humanbeingsfirst in its
December
21, 2007
wakeup call (“Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the 'Grand
Chessboard'!”).
Neither
heads-up warnings are very un-obvious, and both set-ups have been
long time in the making, from even before “Inside Iran's Secret
War for Iraq”,
Time
August 15, 2005,
which followed on the heels of the famous
“all
options are on the table”,
to Bush speech,
Jan
10, 2007,
to “Iran's secret plan”, Guardian,
May
22 2007,
to Petraeus' finally holding up the 'smoking gun' on
April
09, 2008.
And yet, remarkably, no visible rational self-defense is transpiring.
With
the American President's now exact statements on Pakistan, which seem
to be the culmination of systematically
built-up statements on both Iran and
Pakistan from American military commanders and intelligence chiefs
over the past years, it should be obvious to even the biggest dunces
in Pakistan that another (nuclear) terrorist event anywhere in the
world, will directly be blamed upon Pakistan (and Iran). With NATO
and American troops already amassed at its borders in significant
numbers to take the plunge into Pakistan en flying-route to Tehran at
a moments notice from the White House, there will be absolutely no
time after crossing the tipping point in America which “will
make Sept. 11 pale by comparison”.
And
yet, it is necessary to emphasize again, no
effective self-defense by any victim is transpiring, as beleaguered
Iran is left standing alone by the world to become the next meal of
“primacy” of the
'
Hectoring
Hegemons'.
It
is evident that the Pakistani leadership is entirely co-opted into
systematically
suiciding that nation
by its prancing about at the
“unbirthday
party” with the
“Mad Hatter” for the
past eight years. Today it appears entirely natural that the United
States should just walk right in to 'save' the Pakistanis from the
'radical islamists'. This was quite
unimaginable just a few years ago, but every grotesque bomb blast,
every few dozen peoples killed in it, every act of extreme violence,
political violence, demonstrations, and uncertainty
created by 'loose nukes' mantras, culminating in the grotesque
assassination of
Benazir
Bhutto,
now makes it the most natural next step for the
“truly
global superpower”. A deliberate orchestration of
“revolutionary times”
in Pakistan to make
“what is inconceivable
in normal times possible in revolutionary times”.
'Why'
is rather obvious once again. But for those who do not bother to
study the
“primacy” craftsmanship of the
'hectoring hegemons', it is about the repartitioning of Pakistan to
primarily create an independent and geostrategically
significant 'Baluchistan' nation –
much like Kosovo's orchestrated
independence from Serbia – while finally de-nuking Pakistan!
This is only the phase-1 of the repartition plan through violently
induced
“birth pangs of a new Middle East”,
whereby,
“whatever we do we have to be certain that we're
pushing forward to the new Middle East not going back to the old
one.” (Rice,
July
21, 2006)
And
today, the superpower is increasingly making higher levels of
intrusive demands as a prelude to complete take over, as in Iraq,
from allowing its citizen-staff to enter Pakistan at anytime on
merely the American driver's license as identification (dispensing
with visa and passport), to the point of now having a military
liaison into Pakistan's Nuclear Command
Authority from the American Embassy in Islamabad (See “US goes
for the jugular in Pakistan”, The Times of India,
April
15, 2008).
The invasion of both Iran and Pakistan are to be lock-step, as
presciently outlined in the
December
21, 2007
Wakeup call to the Pakistani ruling elite, which followed on the
heels of an earlier very detailed Open Letter to a Pakistani General
by Project Humanbeingsfirst (see “Re-Imagining Pakistan's
Defenses”,
November
30, 2007).
But nothing.
No
newsmedia in Pakistan picked any of these warnings to print, nor did
any of the famed columnists who fill the pages of Pakistani
newspapers dared to comment on it publicly in their own columns.
The
United States public too has been so dexterously primed with the
multi-faceted mantras crafted of the
“sudden threat or
challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being”,
that the latest public survey by Gallup Poll released on
March
31, 2008,
shows
“Iran topped the list, with 25 percent
naming it when asked which country is the greatest U.S. enemy,”.
And this
“enemy” is going to spring
Martial
law
in America, sooner rather than later. Needless to say, none of the
American newsmedia, including both NYT and LAT, have bothered to
print any of Project Humanbeingsfirst's analyses. It is crucially
important to state this now because soon, after the tipping point is
crossed, or perhaps after the nuclear Rubicon is crossed, both
nations' newsmedia will come screaming
“eureka”,
ex post facto! Or perhaps it will be the historians!
In
order to continually remind the deftly primed American and Western
public that all this is indeed pre-meditated Orwellian orchestration
of
“imperial mobilization” and not just mere
happenstance in reaction to chaotically unfolding global events due
to
GWOT
against some super-resourceful 'Islamist pirates'
hiding
in the Hindu Kush mountains
in Pakistan's border regions from whence, the absurdity of the
immanent threat to the armed to the teeth superpower is today, April
17, 2008, noted as “
Elevated”,
it is educational to revisit Zbigniew Brzezinski and thank him for
explaining the imperial insights and superpower aspirations so
unabashedly in 'the Grand Chessboard'. If only the people in America
would read their own '
Mein
Kampfs'
and try to appreciate the
“full spectrum”
institutional frameworks of the mighty state under which it is being
deployed:
“It
is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be
autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially
its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist
democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power
is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of
a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic
well-being. The economic self-denial (that is defense spending), and
the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers)
required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts.
Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”
“Public
opinion polls suggest that only a small minority (13 percent) of
Americans favor the proposition that 'as the sole remaining
superpower, the US should continue to be the preeminent world leader
in solving international problems'. ... Moreover, as America becomes
an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult
to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the
circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external
threat. .... More generally, cultural change in America may also be
uncongenial to the sustained exercise abroad of genuinely imperial
power. That exercise requires a high degree of doctrinal motivation,
intellectual commitment, and patriotic gratification. ... Mass
communications have been playing a particularly important role in
that regard, generating a strong revulsion against any selective use
of force that entails even low levels of casualties.”
And
thus all can see just how effectively
“Mass
communications have been playing a particularly important role in
that regard”; and based on the sociological insights
into power and the
“populist” impediments to its
supreme flaunting, just how effectively mass communications have been
utilized to co-opt the
“democratic instincts” of
the American public (see “
Iran,
the Associated Press, and Covert-War of 'Imperial Mobilization'”).
And as this LA Times oped “Target: Bin Laden” of
April
13, 2008,
shows, the mainstream American news organizations continue to provide
ample space for perpetuating the mythology of Bin Laden as the
quintessential boogieman enabler of
“imperial
mobilization” – from 911 to WMD, and now to Pakistan
and Iran – while the FBI itself does not put that name on
its
own most wanted list
in that connection, noting:
“The
reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama
Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page
is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.
Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11.”
(Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for
the FBI, speaking to the Muckraker Report on
June
5, 2006.)
The
courageous Muckraker, as no more than just an ordinary member of the
American civil society, then shows the minimum indignation that is
expected from any decent conscionable human being irrespective of
their indoctrination level and their belief in the “United
we Stand” with the State at the 'unbirthday party':
“Through
the talking heads in the mainstream media, the Bush Administration
told the American people that Usama Bin Laden was Public Enemy Number
One and responsible for the deaths of nearly 3000 people on September
11, 2001. Yet nearly five years later, the FBI says that it has no
hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
“Remember,
on June 5, 2006, FBI spokesman, Chief of Investigative Publicity Rex
Tomb said, “The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Usama Bin
Laden to 9/11.” This should be headline news worldwide. The
challenge to the reader is to find out why it is not. Why has the
U.S. media blindly read the government-provided 9/11 scripts, rather
than investigate without passion, prejudice, or bias, the events of
September 11, 2001? Why has the U.S. media blacklisted any guest
that might speak of a government sponsored 9/11 cover-up, rather than
seeking out those people who have something to say about 9/11 that is
contrary to the government’s account?”
To
add to the narrative, the New York Times, rather surprisingly, ran a
front-page exposé on
Sunday,
April 20, 2008,
headlined: “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand”.
It has to be read in full in order to appreciate its import –
after the fact of course, the invasion of Iraq now being fait
accompli. And that is precisely the
“important
role” of not just the
“mass communications”,
but also
“the doctrinal motivations, intellectual
commitment” in pursuing the mantra of 'Bin Laden' and 'Al
Qaeeda', for on the heels of a
“catastrophic and catalyzing
event – like a new pearl harbor” (
PNAC,
page 51), it provides the much needed
“patriotic
gratification” to enable
“imperial mobilization”
in a
“populist democracy”, as is now evident.
One
cannot ignore the fact that the New York Times itself played its own
role dutifully at the time pushing the mantra of WMDs in Iraq, which
followed upon the heels of the mantra of 'Bin Laden' doing 9/11, and
continues to do so even today pushing the new mantra of 'loose nukes'
that 'Bin Laden' and 'Al Qaeeda' will hijack, and the mantra of
'Iranian WMDs', in order to help synthesize public opinion for the
new wars on Iran, Pakistan, and Syria. Ex post facto, even George
Bush will write a book detailing his masterful role in constructing
the New World Order.
It
will be asserted by newsmedia, by the Pentagon, the White House, and
by the scholars and technicians of 'empire', that the only obvious
candidate who had the capability to pull
off such an outrageous controlled demolition on America, is 'Bin
Laden' and 'Al Qaeeda'! When that transpires, I hope that these
bastions of 'ubermensch' intellect will at
least have the sense to get the FBI to first update their
most
wanted poster of Usama Bin Laden!
Its snapshot, taken on April 22, 2008, is archived for the
disingenuous “eureka” moment of posterity similar to the
one displayed by the afore-stated
Sunday
NYT,
and by the 2005
Iraq
Study group,
at:
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/fbi-most-wanted-terrorist-usama-bin-laden-april-22-2008.pdf.
It
has today become necessary to state blatant obviousness explicitly:
All those pushing the mantras of the Pentagon and the White House,
regardless of its 'well argued' rationales at the time, are active
and complicit participants in synthesizing “doctrinal
motivations” which span
the gamut of manufactured consent, to manufactured dissent.
This
criminal priming of the “populist democracy” now
naturally enables “the first, only, and last truly global
superpower” to be fully “autocratic abroad”
in its unlimited “capacity for military intimidation”.
Please note how Brzezinski concludes the aspirations of the truly
global superpower:
“Geostrategic
success in that cause would represent a fitting legacy of America's
role as the first, only, and last truly global superpower.”
And
it is precisely in that overarching “Geostrategic ...
cause”, that Iran and Pakistan are imminently staged on the
nuclear chopping block, while some American city is made expendable
to create the new “catalyzing event” for “imperial
mobilization” that “will make Sept. 11 pale by
comparison”.
All
conveniently enabled by the continued Orwellian use of the fiction of
'Bin Laden' and its various surrogates including 'Al Qaeeda'. If
these stick-wielding cave-dwelling antediluvians possess such awesome
powers as to bring down a superpower to its knees, forcing it to
spend 3.1 trillion dollars next year a majority of it on defense, and
its peoples to lose all their democratic freedoms and civil
liberties, then they are surely more powerful than the USSR! Or at
least, a wonderful 'Ali Baba' bedtime story. I used to invent such
tales while putting my kids to bed when they were younger, and in my
stories, the 'Ali Baba' was a Herculean Mr.
Good-deeds and Mother Teresa rolled into
one – flying off to far away places on his magic carpet with
his band of 40 (along with his wife and children who were, only
co-incidentally, named after my own), and with his awesome powers of
Superman, solving all the problems of the world. But I think the
'empire's' rendition of 'Ali Baba' is more effective for “imperial
mobilization”.
It
would do well for the few remaining sane and conscionable peoples in
America, its handful of un co-opted media persons, politicians,
thinkers, peace activists and others who care about their nation and
seek to effectively overturn the hydra of “full spectrum
dominance”, to stay focussed on the DNA of the 'tree': the
“supreme international crime”
that is the alpha and omega of the matter.
It
is the prima facie all encompassing harbinger of “all the
evil that follows”, as defined at Nuremberg, and so
must remain the necessary and sufficient first focus for stopping
“imperial mobilization” by unequivocally charging
it as “the supreme international crime differing only
from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the
accumulated evil of the whole”.
Further analysis of its vagaries in various battlefields of conquest
is superfluous when the highest order bit is to stop it before the
nuclear Rubicon is crossed. If the conscionable peoples in the world
and their national leaderships cannot even unite in the definition of
what is crime, and what is the “supreme”
crime, and cannot channel their collective energies to a single point
of focus on deterring the “supreme
international crime”,
matters are already fait accompli.
The
author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary
geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied
EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley
(patents here),
and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden
2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web
at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org.
He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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