Epilogue: 10th Anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's
Assassination
Pakistan on the chopping block in 2018?
The long running 'strategy of tension' coming to fruition in Pakistan
“it is folly to be America's enemy, it can be fatal to be its friend.” --- Henry Kissinger
Published Friday, December 29, 2017
Report Last Updated Saturday, March 3, 2018
08:00 pm
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Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Abstract
Under president Trump's administration, the United States of America
appears to be taking all the antagonistic steps against both Iran and
Pakistan to make the Wakeup call of 2007 even more pertinent as the
world enters 2018. Unfortunately, neither nation can still make an
effective self-defense (despite all their bravado that is more
reminiscent of Sadaam Hussein before the first Tomahawk cruise
missiles hit the ancient land of Mesopotamia). The establishment
leaders, intellectuals, politicians and opinion-makers in both
nations, alongside the rest of the world, still continue to “United
We Stand” with the base fiction of “War on Terror”
of the United States. Neither has the courage to publicly recognize
and call this fiction for what it is, albeit, most wise people in
both nations well understand the calculus of hegemony and primacy
which underwrites it. Well, as in love, timeliness in war can make
the difference between win and lose. Perhaps it is already too late
to throw the tea overboard for Pakistan! The nation has been
completely destroyed from within over the past two decades of
alternately raining American made military dictatorship and American
made mercenary democracy upon it, before the first American missiles
and American boots will ever land on its sacred soil to “save”
it from the “terrorists”.
Sage Advice
“I
consulted my lawyer and asked him to vet it [column for the week]. He
is young, wrinkled with pragmatic wisdom. His advice: Scrap it! You
have no rights at present. You can be picked up by the dreaded men of
the ‘agencies’, you can be harassed, even tortured, and
surely jailed. To so do, they can take you into custody from anywhere
– your house, your club, a friend’s house, your park –
handcuff you, tie you up, put you into solitary confinement, starve
you – in other words, ‘enlightened moderation’. We,
your lawyers, will have to fight like King Leonidas against the
Persians at the Pass of Thermopylae attempting to stave off
‘enlightened moderation’. It is far better to sit at
home, stay away from your PC, and enjoy the company of friends in
this fair weather.”
Pakistani columnist Ardeshir
Cowasjee (late), Dawn, December 09, 2007.
(One would naturally listen to
such sage advice, except that to be silent is to be an Accomplice!)
Dedication
To American and Pakistani
“Innocent of Knowledge”
Table of Contents
Preamble
Open Letter to The Honorable
Chief Justice of Pakistan
Zahir Ebrahim
January 25, 2018 | Updated January 31, 2018
Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr. Justice Mian Saqib Nisar
Assalamu' alekum.
I wish to draw your judicial eye towards the open conspiracy of
dunces – 'hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil' –
captured by the image of the 'three wise monkeys' displaying
the behavior trait of co-opted human beings displaying 'wisdom'
in their own narrow self-interest.
Pakistan's respected officialdom is ignoring a most profound issue as
if it did not exist. This issue is the first principle, the first
cause, from which all evil follows. The dysfunction of this evil, the
effects, cannot ever be interdicted and stamped out while the first
cause is safeguarded, jealously protected, and publicly ignored by
the entire civil-military officialdom pretending to be 'innocent
of knowledge'.
This report that I draw your considerable attention towards, a
compilation of published essays from mostly a decade ago, by a most
ordinary human being, a most ordinary citizen of Pakistan living in
the United States as its most ordinary permanent resident for the
past four decades, explains what it is that Pakistan's respected
officialdom, in its expedient wisdom, pretends does not exist.
That, in a nutshell, Pakistan is a 'vassal state' of the United
States; its rulers have turned it into a 'slave state', and a 'rental
state'! The looting of state treasury, its debt burden, neo-liberal
privatization, 'enlightened moderation', erosion of values, are part
of Fourth-gen and Fifth-gen warfare that Pakistan is being subjected
to using Pakistan's own 'fifth columnists' and 'useful idiots'.
In other words, Mr. Chief Justice, as the report observes in Chapter
17:
'Only when the ubiquitous existence of perspective-pollution is
recognized as epistemological, and its effects even marginally
overcome, does it become obvious what is really going on in Pakistan
behind the many public puppetshows.
Almost miraculously, with the fog lifted, it becomes straightforward
to see through the election illusion foisted upon the nation. The
public mind, liberated from the shackles of crippled epistemology and
self-serving partisanship, perceptively sees, by the weight of
empirical evidence, that faux-democracy is merely the continuation of
colonial rule, only disguised!'
That ugly fact, Mr. Chief Justice, is written all across the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan. Even in your own domain of dispensing justice,
two points stare at every Pakistani:
1) The entire penal code, the law books, the precedence, are exactly
the continuation of law made by colonial powers to govern the
'untermenschen' (the lesser peoples). Evidently, Pakistanis cannot
better what the 'white man's rule' bequeathed to the colonized
peoples, us (sic!).
2) Even the symbolism in the court room reeks of colonial Raj. Look
at your own headgear for instance, or how you are addressed in court,
as I am told: “My Lord”. Since when did the judge become
“lord”? The judge is a public servant, paid from public
coffers, to resolve disputes and dispense justice among the people by
obliterating the distinction between ruler and ruled, or so I am also
told, by wonderful theory in books after books, and by the symbol of
the blindfolded lady justice holding the scales of justice in her
hands which adorns virtually all court rooms in the world. I am of
course old fashioned, and at times Pollyannaishly believe these
platitudes to actually be enacted, despite all empirical measurements
of power and the reality of its pathocracy.
The modernity du jour in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Mr. Chief
Justice, instead sees judges hanging an elected prime minister as
American sponsored Pakistani military dictator's imperative, ––
the 'judicial homicide' using judges as the 'hitman', and nary an
apology has been uttered publicly by any judge even ex post facto;
judges administering oath to whosoever possess the bigger guns and
comes to power –– legal cover to military dictatorship
using judges as source of legitimacy, and once again no public
apologies, no display of self-cognizant shame; and as the 'white man'
held sacred, the law is only for the weak, the 'ubermenschen' (those
above the local laws that they made for 'civilizing' the 'lesser
people') are not bound by it; all shamelessly shout continuation of
colonial rule behind the thin facade of 'democracy', as if it is some
sacred religion. Symbolism, codices, the acts of the judges, rulers,
and the people, all reek of colonial rule, only disguised, and
patriotically wrapped in the Pakistani flag.
Please pardon the offense of pointing out the obvious. It isn't that
you are unaware of it. You face it every single day, especially when
you look in the mirror to get dress in the morning and put on your
colonial headgear! Why do you so boldly and proudly wear the vestiges
of colonial rule, and directly upon your head (!) from which you are
about to daily dispense justice to the 'brown people'? That, in
itself, symbolizes 'gulam', 'slave', 'house-nigger', who deems it
great honor and privilege to use the leftover crumbs that fell off
the massa's table.
When those endowed with the responsibility of power are so attached
to mere symbols of colonial rule, how can Pakistan's elites ever give
up the toast that comes buttered on both sides from the 'massa' for
being obedient to its imperatives, to its narratives, to its values,
to its prescriptions, to its judgments, and to its diktats, to the
point of who lives and who dies, who is sold and who is freed, who is
innocent and who is guilty, is decided in the latter day headquarters
of the 'massa' du jour?
If I were the Chief Justice of Pakistan and a decent human being who
treasured liberty from colonial rule, both modern and post-modern,
the minimum I would do is to at least throw the symbols of colonial
rule overboard. Throwing the tea overboard will naturally
follow.
Symbolic acts of courage are the necessary prelude to the exercise of
real courage when moral and intellectual cowardice has made strong
inroads into the public psyche. We obey any master, anyone in power,
and any authority figure. And we continually dig deep within our
heritage to find justifications for it; at all levels!
Permit me to be even bolder in stating the obvious and now address
your public position, the most important stance that you have taken
in the public eye, at least to my mind, a glimpse of which you have
now witnessed in how I have begun this letter. Allah the Merciful,
most generously bestowed upon me the power to speak, to hear, and to
see, and were I to not use these precious gifts, pretend to be
“Summun, Bukmun, Umyun” (Deaf, Dumb, Blind), I
will be called to account for it by a far Greater Judge, the Most
Just Judge, and what will I plead –– that I was afraid of
those made like me, from the smelly 'nutfa', and whose destination is
to be the same like mine, dry 'dust'?
What is the point of holding elections and keeping this post-colonial
slavery system in play? I read in The News Today, January
25, 2018, your statement to this effect that elections will be
held on time.
I mean, under that same status of 'rental state', 'slave state',
'vassal state', as the Hon. Chief Justice of Pakistan, you wish to
hold elections so that a new crop of 'serfs', 'mercenaries' and
'useful idiots' can faithfully serve the 'massa' to continue
Pakistan's status on the Grand Chessboard as a pliable pawn as
before?
Not to forget the golden opportunity to profit and prosper beyond the
common man's imagination?
What fundamentals do you perceive will change by electing new rulers
of the state?
So long as Pakistan is a 'slave state', by design only 'inept
people', 'useful idiots', and 'hungry mercenaries' can ever become
her rulers; only the 'house nigger' can serve the 'massa' well.
It is my hope that upon reviewing this report, you will be reminded
of the grotesque reality which the respected officialdom of Pakistan,
in its self-serving wisdom, pretends does not exist.
To call a spade a spade, is the minimum criterion of justice,
which is why I am writing this open letter to you, the Chief Justice
of Pakistan.
If the highest court in the land fails to call a spade a spade,
all pretenses at fair justice might as well be turned off. Then,
Justice is as justice does; the king's justice!
What you do next is for you to decide as the Chief Justice. I have
nothing further to add. This report is what it is. I stand by it as
my coherent deconstruction of reality. If you should invite me to the
Supreme Court to answer for it before all the genuinely 'innocent of
knowledge' high officialdom, I will make haste in doing so believing
it to be my duty. I would do the same if the United States Supreme
Court or the World Court would hear me so that they too could learn
to pronounce “spade”.
There is only One Power that we ultimately all answer to, and we
recognize no other. That is our Creator. To Him we came from, and
to Him we shall return. Six feet under, the maggots can't tell
the difference who was VVIP of Pakistan, VVIP of the United States,
and who an ordinary plebeian. But as is our common belief as
Muslims, the stances we take here as human beings against ruthless
power – pompous 'white collar' officials who aid and abet
tyrants, thieves, looters, plunderers, murderers, those who kill in
large numbers under the sound of trumpet and heralded as great
leaders, mercenaries and cowards who sit in positions of power and
sell-out to the highest bidder in fear of protecting their
self-interests – will decide who won and who lost. None who
preside over the destiny of nations and its peoples may forget that.
Those who do not share in that categorical imperative are the
'ubermensch'. They are the enemy of all mankind. They are not
'innocent of knowledge'. And Pakistan, while steeped in religious
fervor, openly hides many such 'ubermensch'!
Yours Sincerely,
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Chapter 1
Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?
A
revised 'strategy of tension' in Pakistan
With deepest condolences to the grieving nation
(and a renewed wakeup call before they come to 'save' Pakistan)
Zahir Ebrahim
December 28, 2007.
I woke up on Friday morning to the shock and horror that the rest of
Pakistan was already experiencing for the past several hours. With
tears in my eyes and a sinking heart, I fired off this condolence
message to Ms. Fatima Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto's estranged niece:
“I am just shocked beyond belief with tears streaming down
my face as I compose this condolence letter to you and your family.
I never really liked Ms. Benazir Bhutto-Zardari as a politician -
she remained a political enigma to me as the
personally-trained-by-her-father distinguished daughter of a
genuinely patriotic and assassinated former Prime Minister. I could
never fathom her purported graft of the nation, nor her unsupport of
her assassinated brother - your late father. But she did not deserve
this fate (and neither did your father and grandfather).
I am very sorry and please accept my genuine condolences.
I fear that the country has been set-up as per the plan that I
preemptively outlined in Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the
'Grand Chessboard' to send in the 'storm troopers' to 'save' us. I am
also grieving for what is to befall Pakistan - and cannot easily
distinguish one tear from another.”
That extemporaneous outpouring of grief is now supplanted by a more
rational deconstruction of the 'grotesque reality' that is
implementing a revised 'strategy of tension' in Pakistan for a
particular domestic as well as global overarching agenda in the New
World Order.
Chapter 2
Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? In
her own words!
With deepest condolences to the grieving nation
Zahir Ebrahim
February 04, 2008.
(updated February 05, 2008)
Addendum Sept. 21, 2009: Former Chief of Army Staff's belated
disclosure
Almost every English daily in Pakistan has carried some coverage of
Benazir Bhutto's posthumously published book in the UK. The Daily
Times on February 05, 2008, in its editorial, wrote: 'A London
newspaper has published excerpts from Ms Benazir Bhutto’s
posthumous book “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West”
in which she has revealed that Al Qaeda agents and some people from
the Musharraf establishment were involved in the plot to kill her'.
In Dawn's column of February 04, 2008, titled “Benazir’s
‘last testament’ gives hint about plot to kill her”,
Benazir was also quoted, stating: “When I returned, I did
not know whether I would live or die. I knew that the same elements
of Pakistani society that had colluded to destroy my father, Zulfikar
Ali Bhutto, and end democracy in Pakistan in 1977 were now arrayed
against me for the same purpose exactly 30 years later.”
It is instructive to quote Brig. Tirmazi, the Director of ISI at the
time of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, from his 1995 memoirs 'Profiles of
Intelligence', where the erstwhile spymaster asserts the
following:
The US Plays its Role.
According to some candid intelligence estimates, the US was fully
involved in exploiting the situation by guiding and aiding the
opposition political parties and ultimately getting him removed and
hanged. (page 33)
It is generally believed that the US wanted ZAB to be removed from
the political scene of Pakistan mainly on two counts. First, for the
nuclear policy that he framed and tried to relentlessly pursue and
secondly, for apprehensions that ZAB's was influencing the minds and
policies of a number of Islamic and Third World countries. He posed a
serious challenge to the US interests in the region. 'He had to be
eliminated'.
On August 9, 1976, American Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger
had a talk with ZAB, in Lahore, to dissuade him from acquiring
Nuclear Reprocessing Plant from France for which the deal had already
been finalized after Pakistan had agreed to all the safeguard
requirements laid down by both France and the International Atomic
Energy Agency. In their talks, Dr. Kissinger found ZAB inflexible and
determined to go ahead with the acquisition of the Reprocessing Plant
and make Pakistan a nuclear power. Incensed, he warned ZAB, "We
will make a horrible example of you," adding menacingly, "When
the railroad is coming, you get out of the way." But ZAB stood
his ground. The US virtually mowed down ZAB. The political and
economic crisis situation that started to develop during 1976-77 was
fully exploited by the power broker USA. This is how they did it:-
- The Americans had successfully cultivated a number of well-placed
bureaucrats, PPP stalwarts and ministers who wittingly or
inadvertently served as the US agents of influence. American
diplomats and CIA operators not only got most of the 'inside'
information from these 'gentlemen' but also utilized their good
offices to 'convey' whatever they wanted to feed or plant.
- During 1976-77 ZAB, probably working on the structured advice of
these agents, continued to slip deeper and deeper into the political
quagmire. They somehow convinced him that PPP must win and hold two
third majority in the elections. When the agitation was moving from
bad to worse, some of these men wanted weapons and chalked out plans
to defeat MNA movement by force. ZAB also seriously started to
consider this option.
- Some officers from USMAAG had also meaningful ingresses in the
General Headquarters and not only gathered the thinking in the
Services Headquarters but would also drop a 'suggestion' here and
there.
- Some of the US diplomats had established direct contacts with a
number of PNA leaders whom they continued to aid, support and give
day-to-day line of action.
- As soon as the PNA movement gathered momentum, a large number of
foreigners, particularly Americans descended on Pakistan in the garb
of freelance journalists, reporters, observers, and photographers to
cover the events. These men and women loaded with cameras, tape
recorders and money seemed to have done their home-work well and were
also being fed locally by invisible sources. They all seemed to know
the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of every one who was any
one in politics. It would be interesting to note that, (thanks to our
days of slavery, we still have not overcome the 'white skin' phobia)
most of our politicians were not only always available to these
manipulators but would actually feel elated on getting a call from
them and would pour out whatever they had in their minds. Every day,
we in the ISI received a flood of telegrams that these journalists
would send home and it was surprising to know who all they were
speaking to and what information and political analysis they
received.
- All that was being sent out by these so-called foreign journalists,
who were actually CIA operators, was being beamed back on Pakistan as
psychological warfare and propaganda aimed at building up a scenario
of ZAB's fall.
- A number of diplomats were not only actively involved but also
directed the operations against ZAB. Jan M. Gibney, Political
Officer, US Consulate General, Lahore, duly assisted by a couple of
Pakistanis, was extremely active and would frequently visit a number
of politicians. It was Gibney who had telephoned and conveyed to
Howard B. Schaffer, Chief of Political Affairs, US Embassy,
Islamabad, that notorious sentence, "The party is over.
Merchandise has gone." ZAB had retorted by saying, "Party
is not yet over. Elephant has long ears......"
- We had reports from Karachi that exchange rate of US Dollar in the
open market had considerably dropped. The market was flooded with US
Dollar currency notes and too many people were trying to exchange US
Dollars for Pak Rupees. Who unloaded all those US currency notes in
the market, is a question not difficult to answer.
- PL-480 funds had also been released by the US. Over-night some JI
workers were seen with pockets full of money and spending lavishly.
...
... The US not only aided but also directed most of the PNA
activities. On July 4, 1977, PNA negotiators Mufti Mahmood, Nawabzada
Nasrullah Khan and Professor Gafoor had agreed on a joint formula
with the PPP but suddenly Air Marshal (retired) Asghar Khan, Pir of
Pigaro, Begum Nasim Wali Khan, Maulana Noorani and some other of
their ilk declared that they did not endorse the agreement reached
between the parties. On whose behalf these leaders sabotaged the
reconciliation proceedings, is any body's guess.
Martial Law. On the night of July 4/5, 1977 General Zia-ul-Haq
declared Martial Law. ...
The US Issues Black Warrant. When ZAB's trial for his alleged
involvement in the murder of Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan was being
heard in the Supreme Court, Islamabad, ... a telegraphic message from
Washington [was received]. When decoded, it contained directions for
the local US offices to ensure that ZAB was hanged. It also laid down
instructions for arranging retirement and shifting of some of the
general officers. (pages 33-38 )
The top spymaster of Pakistan further elaborated on the innate nature
of the puppetmasters:
Under the pretext of securing her own strategic interests, the United
States of America tries to manipulate and dabble in the affairs of
other nations. ...
Essentially, the US policy configurations vis-a-vis Pakistan have
been that of a “master” and not of a “friend”.
Oscillating between persuasion and coercion, the US tends to employ
all available means to keep Pakistan under watch, pressure and
diplomatic subjugation. At times, it has used the 'carrot and stick'
of aid, and at others, lashed out threats of economic strangulation
or declaring Pakistan a terrorist state.
Pakistan's geostrategic position, nuclear capability, agricultural
and technological potential, as well as the Islamic ideological base
are matters of vital concern to US policy makers. The US will not
and cannot allow Pakistan to govern her own affairs. While
Pakistan was still in its infancy, the American hawks pounced upon
and hijacked our national interests by building up an exaggerated
threat of the former Soviet Union's expansionist designs against
Pakistan and their so called 'mad' drive to the warm waters. ...
In addition to the administrative, economic and political means, the
US has always employed her secret terrorist arm, the CIA, in foreign
lands. The CIA is known for adopting various covert and overt means
to undermine the integrity of other countries for achieving their own
objectives and furthering their 'nefarious' designs. It is equipped
with colossal material resources and its men are canny and ruthless
in executing their assignments. Their methods in madness include:
a) Espionage and penetration in all areas of interest like defence,
foreign affairs, science/technology, developmental programmes,
economy, education, and politics. b) Propaganda, disinformation
campaigns, subversion, terrorism, psy warfare, assassinations,
blackmail, bribes, coercion and intimidation. ...
j) Install CIA agents as presidents, prime ministers, ministers,
generals and senior advisors, etc. (pages 20 – 22)
And the most telling observation by Brig Tirmazi – which may
perhaps also shed immediate investigative light on who killed Benazir
Bhutto until it is eventually rerun as self-evident on the history
channels in 20-50 years – is this straightforward question that
he had the chutzpah to ask, ex post facto:
... It would be fair to ask what we [the ISI] did to counter the US
machinations? Well we did not, and could not do any thing beyond
reporting to the highest authority in the country. There are reasons
for our inaction:
One, neither the ISI nor the IB is designed or equipped to counter
the machinations of a Super Power.
Two, an important factor is our own
price. A lot has been said and written by some of our American
friends about the price of a Pakistani. Dr. Andrew V. Corry, US
Counsel General at Lahore, once said, “Price of a Pakistani
oscillates between a free trip to the US and a bottle of whisky.”
He may not be too far wrong. We did observe some highly placed
Pakistanis selling their conscience, prestige, dignity and
self-respect for a small price. (page 45)
And to carry the chutzpah to its logical conclusion, the
former leader of the ISI asks the exact same question – ever so
blithely (after having willingly served the old 'masters') –
that most plebeians in this 'wretched' nation are still asking twelve
years later:
“The nation has the right
to know and ask the leaders how far has the situation changed and
have we developed enough muscles and guts to get rid of the old
masters and their agents? That is the question.”
(page 23)
So, the erstwhile daughter of the East, Benazir Bhutto, was indeed
quite clairvoyant in asserting that the same killers will be after
her – except that she (perhaps deliberately) misidentified the
culprits, in both cases – for this spy confessional-memoir was
written during her own time as Prime Minister, and could not have
escaped her notice or the approval of the upper echelons of ISI and
her own government before publication.
And her un-clever misidentification, not surprisingly, clearly only
benefits the real culprits themselves – crafted as she was by
the Council on Foreign Relations. Witness this exchange on August 15,
2007, in New York, where she was introduced by CFR's President,
Richard Haass, with a very revealing welcoming statement: “It
is, for me, a personal pleasure to welcome back to the Council on
Foreign Relations an old friend of mine and someone who is familiar
to many of you in this room and knows well this organization, the
former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.”
It is here that Benazir Bhutto had asserted that she will tow the
American line: “I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan
which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will
cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism”
– thinking that that's what they wanted to hear. In her
eagerness to come to power – or perhaps deliberately setup over
the past three years to entice her to return to Pakistan – not
realizing that it was to create a 'strategy of tension' in Pakistan
as a pawn-move on the 'Grand Chessboard'.
It is unsurprising that the Pakistani newspapers continue to
un-forensically repeat the same mantras as did the victim, Benazir
Bhutto, and as is publicly the wont among the Pakistani ruling
establishment. Perhaps deceit, forgetfulness, and co-optation today
are deemed the better part of valor. Unless one has the
unflinching courage to practice the late Charles de Gaulle's solution
of “tous azimuths” ( 'vigilant in all
directions – “360 degrees”' ), that
includes of friends and foes alike, this nation is at the end of its
tethers.
Addendum
Blackwater involved in Bhutto and Hariri hits: former Pakistani army chief
Tehran Times Political Desk
Monday, September 14, 2009
TEHRAN - Pakistan’s former chief of army staff, General Mirza
Aslam Beg (ret.), has said the U.S. private security company
Blackwater was directly involved in the assassinations of former
Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and former Lebanese prime
minister Rafik Hariri.
Blackwater later changed its name and is now known as Xe.
General Beg recently told the Saudi Arabian daily Al Watan that
former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf had given Blackwater the
green light to carry out terrorist operations in the cities of
Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, and Quetta.
General Beg, who was chief of army staff during Benazir Bhutto’s
first administration, said U.S. officials always kept the presence of
Blackwater in Pakistan secret because they were afraid of possible
attacks on the U.S. Embassy and its consulates in Pakistan.
During an interview with a Pakistani TV network last Sunday, Beg
claimed that the United States killed Benazir Bhutto.
Beg stated that the former Pakistani prime minister was killed in an
international conspiracy because she had decided to back out of the
deal through which she had returned to the country after nine years
in exile.
Beg also said he believes that the former director general of
Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence was not an accomplice in
the conspiracy against Benazir Bhutto, although she did not trust
him.
The retired Pakistani general also stated that Benazir Bhutto was a
sharp politician but was not as prudent as her father.
On September 2, the U.S. ambassador to Islamabad, Anne W. Patterson,
intervened with one of the largest newspaper groups in Pakistan, The
News International, to force it to block a decade-old weekly column
by Dr. Shireen Mazari scheduled for publication on September 3 in
which Mazari, the former director of the Islamabad Institute of
Strategic Studies, broke the story of Blackwater/Xe’s presence
in Pakistan.
The management of The News International dismissed one of the
country’s most prominent academics and journalists due to U.S.
pressure. She joined the more independent daily The Nation last week
as an editor.
On September 9, in her first column in The Nation, Dr. Mazari wrote:
“Now, even if one were to ignore the massive purchases of land
by the U.S., the questionable manner in which the expansion of the
U.S. Embassy is taking place and the threatening covert activities of
the U.S. and its ‘partner in crime’ Blackwater; the
unregistered comings and goings of U.S. personnel on chartered
flights; we would still find it difficult to see the whole aid
disbursement issue as anything other than a sign of U.S. gradual
occupation. It is no wonder we have the term Af-Pak: Afghanistan they
control through direct occupation loosely premised on a UN
resolution; Pakistan they are occupying as a result of willingly
ceded sovereignty by the past and present leadership.”
According to Al Watan, Washington even used Blackwater forces to
protect its consulate in the city of Peshawar.
In addition, U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh has accused former U.S
vice president Dick Cheney of being involved in the Hariri
assassination.
He said Cheney was in charge of a secret team that was tasked with
assassinating prominent political figures.
After the assassination of Rafik Hariri in 2005, the U.S. and a
number of other countries pointed the finger at Syria, although
conclusive evidence has never been presented proving Syrian
involvement in the murder.
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Chapter 3
Perpetuating the fiction of
Who Killed Benazir Bhutto
Zahir Ebrahim
February 09, 2008.
(Updated February 14, 2008)
The 'Hectoring Hegemons' insist on bringing to fruition the
'outlandishly plausible' pretext of how America will invade both Iran
and Pakistan in 'self-defense'.
In a report in Pakistan's largest English language daily, Dawn, on
February 07, 2008, the following precious gem was noted: 'Defence
officials told Congress on Wednesday that Al Qaeda is operating from
havens in “under-governed regions” of Pakistan, which
they said pose direct threats to Europe, the United States and the
Pakistan government itself.'
The report presciently continued, almost as if in sympathetic
baby-step realization of the outlandish 'self-defense' scenario
already laid out in this scribe's wakeup call “Wakeup to the
grotesque reality of the 'Grand Chessboard'”: 'Adm.
Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, predicted in
written testimony that the next attack on the United States probably
would be launched by terrorists in that region.'
Since the penning of this wakeup call to the Pakistani peoples,
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated only a week later to further the
'strategy of tension' in Pakistan, while simultaneously lending more
substance to the boogieman of 'al-qaeeda' which was immediately
blamed by the Pakistan Government and its English language press the
very next day (Dawn, Daily Times, Najam Sethi, December 29, 2007).
The Scotland Yard, which was asked to investigate the assassination,
before they had even fully embarked on their forensic journey had
already expressed their belief “Scotland Yard believes
Al-Qaeda assassinated Benazir Bhutto” (Times Online,
January 13, 2008).
And on February 08, 2008, the NY Times reported that the Scotland
Yard has conclusively offered the JFK vintage 'lone gunman' theory,
pinning the blame on the ubiquitous cavemen of 'al-qaeeda', sitting
with their laptops and Klashnikovs in the Hindu Kush monitoring,
controlling and threatening the world's foremost armed to the teeth
superpower and its allies.
In support of the Scotland Yard's conclusions, Pakistan immediately
arrested “Two very important terrorists” as noted
by the Dawn. The Daily Times too echoed: ' “It is a major
breakthrough. These two men were involved in the assassination and
they are from a militant group which is relatively new,” the
official said. “Their tentacles are from the tribal region and
Baitullah Mehsud” '.
The United States immediately, and enthusiastically, endorsed the
findings: “In terms of the investigation itself by
Scotland Yard, we view this as a credible investigation by
independent outside experts ... we don’t have any reason why we
would question the validity of their assessment”, as
reported by the Nation.
The International Herald Tribune however, perhaps more interested in
journalism than in supporting “imperial mobilization”,
candidly observed: “The [Scotland Yard] findings support
the Pakistani government's explanation of Bhutto's assassination in
December, an account that had been greeted with disbelief by Bhutto's
supporters, other Pakistanis and medical experts.”
The following was added by IHT for additional forensic clarity into
the matter (echoing the sentiments of the NY Times): “It
is unclear how the Scotland Yard investigators reached such
conclusive findings absent autopsy results or other potentially
important evidence that was washed away by cleanup crews in the
immediate aftermath of the blast,”.
Interestingly, most mainstream English newspapers the world over
carried similar observations spanning the gamut of endorsement to
mild skepticism. But none that I scanned, ventured as far as to
forensically equate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto with
'Synthetic Terror' in order to fabricate pretexts for further
“imperial mobilization” on the 'Grand Chessboard'! The
grotesquely trumpeting elephant dancing on the newlywed's bed once
again famously ignored.
Manufacturing 'consent' is in full swing worldwide, but mainly
targeted at the sole superpower's “populist democracy”
which is strongly “inimical to imperial mobilization ...
except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived
direct external threat ... [and sustained] challenge to the public's
sense of domestic well-being”, as Zbigniew Brzezinski
shrewdly puts it.
So, the ruling elite of the world, once again, appear to be realigned
in perpetuating the scare of the imminent destruction of Western
civilization at the hands of the 'Islamofascists' –
calculatingly constructed by Bernard Lewis in CFR's influential
'Foreign Affairs' in 1990 on the eve of the emergence of the
victorious sole superpower on the 'Grand Chessboard', as the
“irrational ... roots of Muslim rage ... [which] is no
less than a clash of civilizations” – just as it
was in 2003 with the mantra of 'WMD's' in the hands of 'rogue
actors'.
Between some 'red' and 'orange' alert, Daniel Pipes ratcheted that up
to “Not a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash between
the Civilized World and Barbarians” to make up for the
increasing lackadaisical attitude among the skeptical populist
democracies as “so many people in the West still don't
believe that they are at war [with] .. radical Islam”!
Only this time, the boogieman's nom de guerre is “Baitullah
Mehsud”, and it resides in a cave in the Hindu Kush with
OBL instead of in a desert palace in Mesopotamia. And it is likely to
steal a “loose nuke” or two from Pakistan which the
Iranians will dutifully use to destroy the sanity of the West with,
leading to their (Iran's) instant decimation in “'defensive'
US military action” and the much longed for 'de-nuking' of
Pakistan by NATO and UN forces already staged at its borders.
The next stop, all too obviously, is the increasing crescendo of
imminent threats to Western civilization, followed by a real
'terrorist' act as narrated by Zbigniew Brzezinski a year ago before
the US. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (February 01, 2007, quoted
in the wakeup call), and as ominously prognosticated by Adm. Mullen
before the US. Congress a year later (February 06, 2008, noted
above). And rather unsurprisingly, the world's foremost investigative
bodies will entirely reach the conclusion-space already outlined in
the wakeup call no differently from the Scotland Yard today.
A new 'coalition of the willing' – destination Tehran and
Islamabad next!
And almost as if on cue to the above prognostications penned on
February 09, 2008, Fox News reported on Wednesday, February 13, 2008,
in its story headlined “Bush Pushes for House Action on
Eavesdropping Rules After Senate Passage” the following
statement by President George W. Bush: “terrorists are
planning new attacks on our country ... that will make Sept. 11 pale
by comparison.”
Yes indeed it will, because this time, the new “new pearl
harbor” is expected to be a nuclear terrorist act. One for
which, the United States Government has been diligently preparing for
with simulated drills and workshops like the “Day After”.
These drills can – like all other surprise 9/11 and 7/7 days of
infamy that had exactly similar drills which miraculously became live
– once again become live 'terrorist' events and lead to massive
“imperial mobilization” against all remaining nations in
the 'arc of crisis' already identified on the 'Grand Chessboard'.
It ain't rocket science, unless one is shilling for empire. Between
'manufacturing consent' to harness popular public opinion and
'manufacturing dissent' to distract the protests with red herrings,
all agencies, global newsmedia, and various and sundry vassals of
'empire' are assiduously crafting the “high degree of
doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment” necessary
for “imperial mobilization” of Western
“populist democracies” which are no longer
“infected by imperialist emotions ...a quest for national
glory, 'the white man's burden', 'la mission civilisatrice', ...”.
(Brzezinski)
It is perhaps also why, no English language daily in Pakistan, or the
New York Times, has bothered to publish this humble scribe's
'brilliant' forewarnings – it seems that they don't like real
forensic clairvoyance, or uncomfortable deconstruction of reality
when 'Alice' is wide awake! Only hard ex post facto 'forensic' data,
as gleaned by the Scotland Yard, and as endorsed by the official
organs and vassals of the sole superpower, before they determine “all
the news that's fit to print” to the incessant beat of the
'Mad Hatter's' imperial war song!
What's it gonna take for the Pakistan's ruling establishment, and its
press (never mind the world or its press) to wakeup to the grotesque
reality of simple arithmetic of '2 + 2 = 4' on the 'Grand Chessboard'
and to stop rehearsing the asinine mantra of 'war on terror' against
the fabricated 'al qaeeda'? An ex post facto narrative in ten-twenty
years? A multi-million dollar book deal after the nation's 'descent
into oblivion' is complete? Or the 'morning after'? Post fait
accompli of yet another 'new pearl harbor', there is no 'red
pill' – only victims! And further exaggerated wet dreams of
“full spectrum dominance” of 'baboons' in suits and ties
passing off as hominids!
Stand-up today as the genuine hominid and unmask the impostors, or
live in the ruins of humanity tomorrow as pet-zombies of the
'baboons' – for only the early-dead would have mercifully
remained human! The world, the majority hominids inhabiting it, and
its co-opted rulers in developing nations would do well to heed the
clairvoyance of Bernard Lewis in 'Crisis of Islam': “If
the fundamentalists are correct in their calculations and succeed in
their war, then a dark future awaits the world, especially the part
of it that embraces Islam” and take defensive-note of
the ominously prescient “Global Zone of Percolating
Violence” identified by Zbigniew Brzezinski in the
'Grand Chessboard'.
For, it isn't' only the children of the 'lesser god' in the South who
are in danger of losing their tabula rasa, but the privileged
Northern civilizations are likely to descend into police-states and
martial law with another 911 transpiring in any Western nation. All
the laws are already on the books to create 'legal dictatorships' in
the West to protect the nice Judeo-Christian peoples from the evil
'Islamofascists'!
What a model of civilizational-progress in the modernity du jour
whereby the entire species is in a steep transformative 'descent into
oblivion' due to a handful of parasites 'who wage wars by way of
deception' cleverly making patsies even of their own victims. That is
the pathetic tragedy of Benazir Bhutto (see “Who Killed Benazir
Bhutto? In her own words!”).
The vast majority, 99.9%, have been silenced into apathetically
“looking from the side”, while their respective co-opted
local ruling elite control all sources of power to become the major
cheerleaders and circus clowns of the 'hectoring hegemons' –
uncannily forgetting that six feet under, the hungry maggots can't
tell the difference!
Chapter 4
Profound Clairvoyance or
Blatant Obviousness?
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
February 19, 2008.
On February 19, 2008, Pakistan's largest English language daily Dawn
and the world press identically reported in a story boldly headlined
“Indian official warns over Pakistan nukes”, that:
“The nature of the dangers which nuclear weapons pose has
dramatically intensified with the growing risk that such weapons may
be acquired by terrorists... The mounting concern over the likelihood
that in a situation of chaos, Pakistan’s nuclear assets may
fall into the hands of jihadi elements ... underscores how real this
danger has become ... India has to be deeply concerned about the
danger it faces”.
As usual, neither Pakistan's Foreign office, nor Pakistan's newsmedia
appear to be adequately equipped to effectively deal with this
propaganda mantra of 'loose nukes'. The rising crescendo of this
mantra which will be dutifully harvested to eventually see NATO and
UN troops taking over our 'nuke' safety to come 'save' us and the
world, was fully dismantled in this rebuttal-report by Project
Humanbeingsfirst: “Response to Zia Mian's 'How Not to Handle
Nuclear Security'”.
This report on 'nuclear security' was forwarded to the Foreign Office
through a retired military contact person, but that august Office
does not seem to have benefited from it. Even almost two months
later, right in the middle of Pakistan's most important election,
indeed on election day itself, the matter surfaces again. The prime
reason for this was also preemptively deconstructed in this stark
warning to the nation by Project Humanbeingsfirst: “Wakeup to
the grotesque reality of the 'Grand Chessboard'”.
All this analytical deconstruction of reality is of course under the
premise that lonely 'Alice' is wide awake while the mainstream has
been complicity sold the 'Mad Hatter's' reality at the 'unbirthday
party' enthusiastically singing the 'imperial' war song without
noticing its absurdity.
To understand just how absurd, the fact that the trumpeting elephants
in the bedroom are also loudly singing the 'imperial song' and yet
remain unnoticed – as examined in the following two
dismantling-reports of Benazir Bhutto's assassination by Project
Humanbeingsfirst: “Perpetuating the fiction of Who Killed
Benazir Bhutto” and “Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? In her
own words!” – with all mainstream news sources choosing
to ignore the subject matter entirely, is telling in and of itself of
either co-option or complicity.
The perpetuation of this absurdity can further be witnessed in the
opinion piece in the same edition of Dawn ('US poll fears') by the
Rand Corporation's 'antiterrorism expert', Farhana Ali, that entirely
omitted any aspect of this hidden-only-in-plain-sight reality. While
voices of 'empire' deftly spinning “imperial mobilization”
as its 'war on terror' continually get prominence in the victims' own
newspapers and are loudly echoed by its own politicians and ruling
elite who now claim to be more 'white' than the 'white man' willingly
carrying more of its 'burden', contrarian voices of reasoned-sanity
able to penetrate through the mass-deception and 'technique of
infamy' are conveniently shut out.
Thus it is not surprising that Zardari itches to join his late
iconoclastic wife in cleaning out “the very petri dish of
international terrorism”: 'The Pakistan People’s
Party (PPP), if it comes into power, must persuade the people that
the fight against militants is “our war”, not just
America’s war, party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on
Saturday.' (Daily Times, February 17, 2008, 'Taliban fight is our
war: Zardari')
Well, the proof of the pudding (prognostications) is in its eating
(coming true). The following was 'clairvoyantly' predicted by Project
Humanbeingsfirst in its bold wakeup call to the Pakistani nation two
months ago. While almost all pundits of Pakistani politics
everywhere, including Pakistan's own newsmedia and its
intelligentsia, were crying hoarse of 'rigging' at the polls until
today – the day after elections – Project
Humanbeingsfirst seems to have been the only analytically
deconstructing voice to have suggested to the contrary as far back as
December 21, 2007 in its wakeup call:
“ ... This mantra of elections is replete with red herrings
craftily synthesized to maintain Pakistan as a servile client-state
in order to carry on with the same bold 'imperial designs' on the
'Grand Chessboard'. It is merely the rebottling of the same old wine
in a different bottle. It will surely be legitimately conducted, with
no apparent riggings, and duly approved by all the impartial
international observers to give the artful elections an official
international legitimacy.
It is quite immaterial who wins in these elections. The laws and
the judiciary of the nation have already been reconstituted under the
umbrella of 'emergency' to enable the nation to carry on unfettered
in its primary objective of fighting the 'War on Terror' as an
obedient patsy client-state – and hence to carry on in its own
devilishly crafted suicide! ...”
And we see exactly the same come true today, February 19, 2008.
Witness Dawn's reports: US hopes polls lead to ‘civilian
democracy’, and 'Heavyweights knocked out'; The
Nation's reports: Pakistani people have spoken- US, and
Foreign observers satisfied over free and fair elections; The
Daily Times report: Foreign observers satisfied. Hopefully,
nothing further that the rational and awakened mind prognosticates,
will ever come true.
Thus perhaps it is better to continue wishing upon the well and not
examine Kosovo's independence yesterday at the hands of NATO that was
immediately accepted, never mind aided and abetted, by the United
States and the EU after NATO and UN forces had been invited in on a
'peace mission' with a UN resolution in 1999. There is certainly no
reason to fear Baluchistan – sharing similar grievances and
step-sisterly treatment – meeting a similar 'independence'
along similar pretexts that will initially invite NATO in to come
'save us' from the 'Taliban' and the 'loose nukes' about to fall into
their inglorious hands! The next step – repartition, as
examined in the wakeup call. At that time, the repartitioning of
Pakistan will make as much sense, and will garner as much world
sympathy and support, as Serbia's partition today.
This is the great slight-of-hand devilish power of the New World
Order – make things so bad for the peoples through
state-sponsored terrorism and the 'war on terror' which
legitimizes any inhumanity and any level of destruction including
nuclear attacks on non-nuclear nations, that the terrorized peoples
will rush to the State (or the world's Policeman) seeking mainly only
their security, willingly giving up anything and everything in return
including their inalienable Rights as Human Beings First! Far
fetched? That is how the Americans and their brethren in the EU and
the UK have lost their “essential liberties”. For
the Global South, while the modus operandi remain the same, the
baby-steps are mere 'pawn' moves on the 'Grand Chessboard'. Study the
geostrategic game of the 'hectoring hegemons' with the imperialist's
mind and its doctrines, and the baby-steps become obvious. Keep
solely focussing on each baby-step as it unfolds by sheer
'happenstance', and the accurate predictions of the next baby-steps
appear clairvoyant!
The newly elected team (and their next legatees) will surely ensure
that Pakistan's pathetic 'descent into oblivion' transpires, as by
their own admission, they accept that the fabricated 'fight
against militants is “our war”, not just America’s
war'.
None other than America's favorite son's prophetic words appear to be
of most relevance in describing this phenomenon of the 'Negro' that
has been transpiring in this nation since its 'wretched' inception:
“The white establishment is skilled in flattering and
cultivating emerging leaders. It presses its own image on them and
finally, from imitation of manners, dress, and style of living, a
deeper strain of corruption develops. This kind of Negro leader
acquires the white man's contempt for the ordinary Negro. He is often
more at home with the middle-class white than he is among his own
people. His language changes, his location changes, his income
changes, and ultimately he changes from the representative of the
Negro to the white man into the white man's representative to the
Negro. The tragedy is that too often he does not recognize what
has happened to him.” (Martin Luther King).
The seeds for this 'Negro' phenomenon were deftly cultivated in our
fertile obsequious soil by Lord Macaulay when he imaginatively
synthesized the 'Indian babu' or 'brown sahib' who would “form
a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we
govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English
in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.”
This phenomenon, of dominant civilizations constructing 'native
informants' in order to colonize its victims with their own kind,
like “hegemony”, is hardly new however. It is in
fact “as old as mankind”.
And its blanket recognition in every generation in every age seems to
have become a first necessity of self-defense for its victims –
at least among those who still have any dignity and self-respect
left. This is all the more essential today in the age of
neo-colonialism where the 'baboons' du jour seek “full
spectrum dominance” using the best techniques and methods
of Machiavelli, game theory, and devilish machinations, including
multi-faceted 'technique of infamy' of inventing multiple lies and
covert-ops to keep the peoples occupied debating which of them might
be true while fait accompli proceeds in the backdrop of
vacuous debates and red herrings. In an age where “Deception
is the mind of the State”, effective self-defense by a
people can only begin by anticipating and unraveling that deception.
That's just how it is!
Addendum February 23, 2008:
As if to deliberately lend further substance to the deconstructed
reality outlined here, the following two news reports appeared in
today's Dawn: “Musharraf has a role in new set-up: US”
and “Pressure on Asif, Nawaz to work with president”. The
titles are revealing in and of themselves and need no further
elaboration per se except to carefully note that it is a public
relations campaign to justify to the Pakistani public what is already
the foregone, very calculatingly played out machinations to affect
the movement of a patsy 'pawn' on the 'Grand Chessboard'. And the
following oped in the Nation yesterday (February 22, 2008), “After
the election”, is among the first to appear from the editorial
writers of a major English language daily in Pakistan that finally
seems to have found the courage to start 'clairvoyantly' seeing the
structural reality of these elections that shouts 'status quo':
“... The President is actually ideally placed for a
repetition of 1988, only earlier. He should dissolve the National
Assembly as soon as he feels that the electorate is now likely to
give him the Parliament he wants, which is one with the power of
validating his actions under the PCO and Emergency, and which will
let him pick as PM a rank outsider, who will disappear as graciously
as Shaukat Aziz. The President has the dissolution power, so he will
find enough opportunity. The first reason he will have is that of
the War on Terror. Joining the self-serving American and European
choruses of “not enough” will be the President of
Pakistan, who will use this as a ground of dissolution.” Thank
you Nation for showing some journalistic integrity by way of
attempting to see past the manifest 'katputli tamashas' on the 'Grand
Chessboard'. When will others follow suit in seeing the elephants
collectively trumpeting in the newlywed's bed?
Addendum2 March 29, 2008:
More clairvoyance? The following headlines in today's and yesterday's
Dawn scream out the grotesque reality on the 'Grand Chessboard' that
is to culminate in a premeditated nuclear war on Iran with Pakistan
being dragged into it just as compellingly as both Afghanistan and
Iraq. The writing's on the wall, with the new incoming administration
in Pakistan once again, like the previous administrations over the
past 9 years, either willingly as idiotic patsies, or complicitly as
sharing in the aims of the 'hectoring hegemons', are diligently
working on their portion of the plan to “birth-pang” the
entire “Global Zone of Percolating Violence”. Unless
there are any 'ma ka lals' remaining in Pakistan, this 'wretched'
country – my only nationality and geophysical identity –
in a very short time will descend into a situation of exacerbated
Muslim on Muslim violence as is even unfolding once again in Iraq
today under orchestration, for which the President of United States
expressed his satisfaction in these words: “Mission
Accomplished”. Similar words have been written for Pakistan.
May the treasonous, wherever they may reside, never find peace; every
time they look in the mirror, may they only see images like these
happening to their own kin. What else can a powerless plebeian
efficaciously do – but to show the hegemons how life might be
for them under the Biblical Golden Rule 'do unto others as you have
others do unto you'?
Addendum3 September 10, 2008:
Observing the events of the day being rehearsed with all the pomp and
majestic show – complete with horse-drawn buggy and kisses on
the cheeks and all – before the applauding world with Mr.
Zardari taking the highest oath of office in Pakistan, reminded me of
the opening wedding scene from Mario Puzo's movie the Godfather,
attended by the motley of morality-challenged, all dressed in their
finest Sunday outfits. The only thing that appeared to be missing
during the festivities in the non-movie version was the camera
zooming into private meetings in beautifully shuttered oak and
mahogany paneled darkened rooms behind closed doors on how the
“territory” was to be divided up, who would get what
loot, and who would be assigned to make which offer that couldn't be
refused! Even the fictional Michael Coreleone could not go so “legit”
as the real life enactment! Once made “legit” and
cleansed into a “virgin”, is it slanderous to recall the
past? None of the afore-stated staid recollections from newspaper
reports even begin to scratch the real surface of the actual
experiences of many Pakistanis under Asif Ali Zardari during the two
short hereditary reigns of his beloved wife. His popular nom de
guerre of “Mr. ten percent” among the general public
hardly did him justice. And neither could Al Capone ever be charged
for anything other than tax evasion! Even that opportunity no longer
exists – so long as the godfather dutifully continues America's
“war on terror”! See: “Happy-Happy Zardari: A
monologue on Hope and Voluntary Servitude”
Chapter 5
The attack of 'Al-Qaeeda' and
Pakistani 'loose nukes'
A peek into the creation and execution of mantras as pretexts for War of 'Imperial Mobilization' – and the basis for its legal containment.
Zahir Ebrahim
April 12, 2008.
It is beyond any reasonable comprehension how blatantly obvious the
grotesquely unfolding reality in Pakistan is (“Profound
Clairvoyance or Blatant Obviousness?”), and yet the Pakistani
rulers and the majority of Pakistani ruling elite and its newsmedia
still manifestly react as if they are all sitting at the 'unbirthday'
tea-party with the 'Mad Hatter' boisterously chanting the imperial
'war on terror' song as they deliberately suicide the nation into
oblivion. There isn't much time.
This ominous report “2 die in Pakistan nuclear plant
accident” (AP April 08, 2008) will shortly be blamed by the
West upon the ubiquitous 'al qaeeda' as having attempted, and perhaps
even succeeded in, getting their hands on the Pakistani 'loose
nukes'. Unlike the Benazir Bhutto assassination that the Government
of Pakistan had immediately blamed upon the 'al qaeeda' (“Who
Killed Benazir Bhutto? In her own words!”) with copious help
from the Pakistani newsmedia (“Letters to Editors”), this
time around, both will surely deny it (irrespective of the facts of
the matter which will remain top-secret and continually lied about,
subjecting the peoples and the environment in its vicinity to
possible radioactive harm; even widespread harm).
If (rather when) this diabolical 'Al-Qaeeda' spin ever materializes
in the Western press, be forewarned that the crossing of the nuclear
Rubicon which already appears imminent (“Nuclear Attack on Iran
appears imminent!”) despite what President George Bush might
state publicly, is very close at hand!
For, of course, the immense premeditated build-up for invasion and
subsequent “'defensive' US military action” (Brzezinski),
must all be made to look un-premeditated. This will of course get
little assistance from the ever fertile Straussian minds of the
editorial writers who get no free hand in the American press and the
newsmedia (sic!), all of which follow the New York Times construction
of “all the news that's fit to print”.
And just as abhorrently, this would surely indicate that the new
'911', which according to President Bush, “will make
Sept. 11 pale by comparison” (NYT Feb. 14, 2008) and
that “it would be the work of militants hiding inside
Pakistan” (The News April 12, 2008), is also imminent.
But multiple diabolical catalyst provocations such as the loss of the
5th fleet in the Persian Gulf, justifying full spectrum “'defensive'
US military action against Iran” and Pakistan as
forewarned by Project Humanbeingsfirst in its wakeup call of December
21, 2007 (“Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the 'Grand
Chessboard'”) aren't precluded in this calculus of the Fourth
Reich for “imperial mobilization”.
And unfortunately, today, there is no Justice Robert H. Jackson to
re-assert the definition of “aggressor” to the
apathetically spectating world:
'An “aggressor,” Jackson proposed to the [Nuremberg]
tribunal, is a state that is the first to commit such actions as
“invasion of its armed forces, with or without a declaration of
war, of the territory of another State. ...
If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are
crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does
them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct
against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against
us.” '
Indeed, it is further pertinent to refresh one's imperial memory that
the United States Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg Tribunals had gone on
to establish that the overt-acts of aggression, and not the tortuous
justifications behind these acts, is what hung the Nazis:
“The intellectual bankruptcy and moral perversion of the
Nazi regime might have been no concern of international law had it
not been utilized to goosestep the Herrenvolk across international
frontiers. It is not their thoughts, it is their overt acts which we
charge to be crimes.”
And that these overt-acts of aggression, as argued by Justice
Jackson, contained within them the accumulation of “all the
evil that follows”. That, the first primal aggression was:
“the supreme international crime differing only from other
war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of
the whole”.
Thusly, all of the murderous turmoil unleashed in Pakistan since the
macho 'commando' President General Musharraf committed the
client-state to America's “goosestep[ping] the Herrenvolk
across international frontiers”, and the concomitant
apportioning of commensurate “supreme” blame for the
horrendous toll upon its 'wretched' society, as elsewhere, including
Afghanistan and Iraq, Lebanon, and soon in Iran, accordingly, accrues
to the account of the sole superpower.
It manifestly constructed its own synthetic 'operation canned goods'
as its “new pearl harbor” for the premeditated “supreme
international crime” of “imperial mobilization”.
And it will so construct another more devastating “new pearl
harbor” once again as the grotesque re-charging of the worn-out
“catalyst” for continuing on with its premeditated
nuclear plan to “Birth pang” the “Project for a New
Middle East”.
This time around, it's destination Tehran via Islamabad. And quite
un-cleverly disguised as “'defensive US military action”.
But at the 'unbirthday' party, everything absurd becomes reality!
The Pakistani 'loose nukes' hijacked by the cave-dwelling,
stick-wielding, suicide-bombing, 'Al-Qaeeda' mantra is among the
multiple facile absurdities being deftly primed (and black-ops
synthesized) as already outlined in the afore-stated wakeup call. It
is one thing for the press and politicians in the pockets of the
'Hectoring Hegemons' (PNAC) to be rehearsing this silly as part of
their “intellectual commitment” to seeding
“doctrinal motivation” for the 'retaliatory'
“patriotic gratification” (Brzezinski). It is
quite another for the victims themselves to be bizarrely echoing it.
This is yet to be observed in primal nature: lambs arguing for their
own slaughter.
Those who naively think that these complicated matters can't be
pre-meditated or pre-planned precisely because of the insanity of it,
or the incomprehensibility of it in being pulled off in any kind of
military precision that's needed, delude themselves for their prized
mental acuity, for the hectoring hegemons' is exponentially greater.
This 'ubermensch' breed clearly perceives that “what is
inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times”.
It is only in the pain of “Birth-Pangs”, as for
any new birth in nature, that the 'New World Order' can be born. The
Third Reich wanted it – and failed. The Fourth Reich wants it
just as bad, and are indeed playing their game well.
The “Mission Accomplished” sign actually meant what it
stated. While most in the mainstream, as well as in the so called
'dissent-stream', derided it in the aftermath of Iraq, little do
these gentle-minds perceive the diabolical agenda that was
accomplished quite successfully indeed – to set the
“Birth-pangs” and labor pains in motion by raping
the fertile womb.
That was surely successfully accomplished! One might even wager that
it was William Kristol who likely came up with that sign – he
seems to be just the type to relish in such devilish play on words
(judging from his previous forays into Presidential speech-writing).
It can be quite educational to back-read all the Presidential
speeches since 2000 and study up on their craftsmen. The Goebbelian
craftsmanship creates a Kafkaesque hypnotism over the American masses
and its newsmedia.
It is precisely that 'ubermenschen' power that eludes normal peoples
who simply can't perceive the depth of evil incarnate which once
again besieges mankind. This is why, Leo Strauss, the legatee of the
Austrio-Hungarian empire that had seeded Hitler, also only seeded the
new 'ubermenschen' into the privileged Nietzscheian class of being
'beyond good and evil' after assurance of their higher intelligence
and superiority. As per Plato's philosophy of the philosopher-king
wisely shepherding the flock, Straussians merely drop the 'wisely'
part. They, in effect, replace it with 'predatorily'. Thus the
self-ascribed appellation 'Hectoring Hegemons'.
Such tortuous minds only make tortuous plans that just the sheer
boldness of which boggles some moral mind.
It certainly boggles Noam Chomsky's mind – supposedly, the
“arguably most important intellectual alive” in
all of Western Hemisphere according to the New York Times –
that to this day he cannot believe the evidence of his own eyes that
the '911' was controlled demolition, and hence by corollary, must
have been self-inflicted. He continues to accept the Pentagon's
narrative that a guy in the Hindu Kush mountains with cell-phones and
box-cutters took down the entire trillion dollar defense system of
the world's sole superpower. A fabricated war that is no more
abstruse than the Star Wars Hollywood movie episode “Revenge of
the Sith”, eludes him as he continually expands on the 'Al
qaeeda' and 'OBL' merely seeking revenge for all the horrible crimes
of the 'empire'. And he does so after writing almost a million words
in a zillion books over half a century about the ex post facto
secretive crimes of 'empire', the various magical incantations of its
power, and the unraveling of its deception games. It was in the
greatest honor of my esteemed professor that I wrote “Responsibility
of Intellectuals – Redux” on the 40th anniversary last
year of the original's seminal publication. I wonder that if Noam
Chomsky had been a non-Jewish German Professor of linguistics living
in the Third Reich, would he also have accepted the Reich's
explanation of its self-inflicted Operation Canned Goods and the
Reichstag fire?
Indeed, if the U.S. Chief Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals Prosecutor
Justice Robert Jackson were alive today, and he hadn't merely been
handing out a 'victor's justice' to the despicable harbingers of the
Third Reich when he stated the blatant obviousness of their
premeditated intent to commit “supreme international crime”
of aggression:
“The plans of Adolf Hitler for aggression were just as
secret as Mein Kampf, of which over six million copies were published
in Germany”,
he would blanketly also re-assert to the equally despicable
harbingers of the Fourth Reich the equally blatant obviousness of
their premeditated intent to re-commit the same “supreme
international crime” of aggression:
The plans of the aggressor for aggression were just as secret as
the 'PNAC' and the 'NPR' on the 'Grand Chessboard' that were freely
available for download on the Internet, and in major bookstores.
The only difference between the two, as far as anyone can
un-emotionally ascertain, and which is amply documented by this
scribe, is that the Nazis didn't get the opportunity to re-write
history as the present day 'ubermenschen' are busily engaged in
doing, with willing connivance of their intellectuals, newspaper
editorial writers, various and sundry lower order newsmedia 'circus
clowns', even expert 'native informants'.
Furthermore, most obviously, this time around, the vast majority of
the Jews and the handful of mastermind Judeofascists among them, are
the Reich's best friends, aiders, supporters, sympathizers, and even
its overarching master strategists, instead of the object of its
wrath! The handful of courageous and inspiring exceptions, gadflies,
and men and women of uncommon chutzpah, duly noted.
And finally, the Third Reich never enjoyed the “full spectrum
dominance” and un-opposed uni-polar supremacy that enables the
present Reich to exert its “Primacy and Geostrategic
Imperatives” unfettered and unchallenged as “one
centre of authority, one centre of force, one centre of
decision-making, ... one master, one sovereign.”
(Putin)
With this blatant reality in their faces, the Pakistani rulers can no
more claim the 'I didn't know' defense, that, 'oops, we
were fooled that this fabricated “war on terror” was
real, and we only accidentally wrecked havoc upon our nation –
we really only had good intentions as we bombed all those whom we
thought were nasty “terrorists” ', any more than
the Nazis could for their crimes upon their own disfavored citizenry.
Eichmann in Jerusalem, in his trial, even lent new meaning to the “I
was only following orders” mantra, which subsequently
became enshrined worldwide as not an excuse to commit crimes against
humanity. Most of the former, as well as the newly elected senior
Pakistani government leaders and their respective political party
senior leadership, not to forget the uniform, will equally hang
someday for all the innocent red blood of their own peoples that they
have already shed by supporting the American fiction of 'war on
terror'.
But they can certainly stop now before more blood apportions to
their soul!
Surely in the 'land of the pure' – all believe in a 'soul'?
Even Hitler did (“Gott Mit Uns”). And President George
Bush surely does too – for by his own admission:
“God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and
then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am
determined to solve the problem in the Middle East”!
SO WAKE THE HELL UP AND ACT before his god tells him to
'nookular' strike Pakistan and Iran to solve our problems too. His
god loves “'defensive' US military action”.
And as per the Muslim's God – one may yet have a reprieve of
one's soul if one paid 'blood money' and fair compensation for
inflicting cataclysmic pain and suffering, to the victims' families.
It is most assuredly a win-win situation before the inevitable 'oops,
too late!' In fact, not urgently acting in accordance with the
grotesque reality that is unfortunately only visible on the 'Grand
Chessboard' when 'Alice' is wide awake, is a sure lose-lose
proposition.
THE SOLUTION-SPACE: The only mechanism outside of the United
States of America to arrest its “supreme international
crime” of “imperial mobilization” in
its tracks*, is either: the SCO immediately transforms into a
NATO-like 'attack on one, attack on all' military alliance
that includes Iran and Pakistan – which is of course not in the
control of the Pakistanis – to construct a détente on
the 'Grand Chessboard'; or, the Pakistani rulers urgently implement
the strategy outlined in the afore-stated wakeup call. The latter is
eminently under the control of the Pakistani ruling elite – to
take back this 'wretched' nation from the blood-soaked hands of the
'hectoring hegemons'. And to do it with such astute political
ascendance that it inevitably ends up forcing the much needed
stalemate on the 'Grand Chessboard'. A task for which Creation itself
bestowed the instincts of collective self-defense.
It is the only effective antidote to Zbigniew Brzezinski's
'ubermensch' truism: “Hegemony is as old as mankind.” But
the mastermind has certainly also understood that predatory instincts
for “primacy” are far older, and so is its full spectrum
deterrence, as once again amply reminded by nature itself in this
immensely popular 8-minute internet video “Battle at Kruger”.
Let history be witness, if there is anyone left to write it
(accurately), that none of this was un-obvious at the time.
* For 'checkmate' by a peoples within the United States, see “How
to derail 'imperial mobilization'”
Chapter 6
'Bin Laden': Key enabler of
“imperial mobilization” and nuclear attack on
Iran-Pakistan
(and the first nuclear attack since 1945, on Iran–Pakistan)
Zahir Ebrahim
April 17, 2008.
Updated April 22, 2008.
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 Humanbeingsfirst (“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)
See for instance, the Bernard Lewis Plan for the New Middle East, or
the similar Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters' map for the New Middle
East, in order to understand what “pushing forward” looks
like in the minds of the 'hectoring hegemons'. The key point to note
is not the precise new boundary lines, or its merits, but that
there should be any new boundary lines forcibly drawn by anyone other
than willingly by the peoples who live in these regions!
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.
Indeed, Project Humanbeingsfirst 'clairvoyantly' predicts that the
scientific study finally published in a peer-reviewed Civil
Engineering online Journal only this past week, on how the three WTC
towers (WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7) collapsed so suddenly at almost free
fall speed as if it were controlled demolition, titled “Fourteen
Points of Agreement with official Government Reports on the World
Trade Center Destruction”, ever gains mainstream traction
before the tipping point, it will be attempted to be blamed upon 'Bin
Laden'.
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:
http://tinyurl.com/5swdoq.
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 is pointless debating and dissecting the ever changing 'leaves of
the tree' in the battlefields of conquests (as in this battlefield
analysis 'Iran should be “Set Up for an Attack”') when
the matters are plainly manifest in its DNA, and in the illegality,
by international law, of “goosestep[ping] the Herrenvolk
across international frontiers” (see “The attack of
'Al-Qaeeda' and Pakistani 'loose nukes'” and “Nuremberg:
The grotesquely dancing trumpeting elephant in the newlywed's bed!”).
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.
Chapter 7
Wakeup to the grotesque
reality of the 'Grand Chessboard'!
Zahir Ebrahim
December 21, 2007.
Addendums: February 08, 2008 ; April 10, 2008 ; April 27, 2008 ; June
12, 2008
We, the Pakistani peoples, self obsessed with our religion, our
stomach, our petty loot and plunder of each other, or the graft of
the national exchequer – and that pretty much captures most of
170 million of us busily engaged in our slumber – are being
Machiavellianly set up for 'imperial' slaughter as we chase this and
that cleverly planted political red herring.
As we celebrate the auspicious Eid today and practice our own
'obligatory' slaughter with glee in complete obliviousness to the
grotesque reality on the 'Grand Chessboard', a storm gathers upon our
shores to do the same to us!
In my considered humble judgment, the Pakistani peoples face the very
real danger of 'shock and awe' of Depleted Uranium raining
down upon 'its wretched of the earth' either under the facile
pretext of 'saving' us from 'loose nukes' about to fall
into the hands of 'islamofascists' that the 'hectoring
hegemons' [1] are cultivating themselves; or under the pretext of
'saving' us from the very real tyranny of our own 'Sadaam
Hussein' that they are also aiding and abetting, nay fully
goading and encouraging into fighting the equally fabricated “War
on Terror” as 'America's best friend'. As Henry Kissinger
is presumed to have noted in his own two-bit realpolitik contribution
for the betterment of humanity, “it is folly to be America's
enemy, it can be fatal to be its friend.”
Furthermore, this impending 'shock and awe' fate of 'America's
best friend', like her other 'best friends of the 1980s, will be an
intermediate baby-step to the eventual restructuring and
repartitioning of Pakistan's territories to better meet the
expediencies of the emerging new realities on the 'Grand
Chessboard'! [2]
The construction of the threat:
' ... a plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran
involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by
accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some
provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran,
culminating in a “defensive” US military action
against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and
deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan
and Pakistan' (Zbigniew Brzezinski's testimony before the US
Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Feb. 1, 2007 –
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/cacheof-us-sfrc-brzezinskitestimony070201.pdf ).
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/cacheof-us-sfrc-brzezinskitestimony070201.pdf ).
A plausible realization of this outlandish second 'new pearl
harbor' scenario 'culminating in a “defensive” US
military action against Iran' is a nuclear 'terrorist act'
during a simulated response-drill. [3] It would be blanketly asserted
by the Pentagon that it is one of the missing 'loose nukes'
and has been positively identified by its 'nuclear signatures' as
being Pakistani, and that it was delivered by '12 evil jihadis' who
inadvertently left behind in their apartment their Iranian passports,
some Quranic verses like 9:29, and copies of Ayatollah Khomeini's
Last Will in which he had called America 'the Great Satan'. An
ultimatum would be given to Pakistan to hand over all its nukes
immediately or suffer the 'saving' witnessed in Iraq! And just as on
911, our courageous commando(s) will hand over the 'family jewels' to
once again 'save' Pakistan! Once we are de-nuked, American and NATO
forces will be patrolling our streets and in the synthetic 'civil
war' that will follow with more Muslim on Muslim violence, we will be
re-partitioned in order to 'save' us further from our own barbaric
selves! Iran will be obliterated. The 'deepening quagmire' in
the region will last a 'lifetime'. (This scribe's best case
scenario for Pakistan in the event of a nuclear 'terrorist act'
within the United States of America)
I hope to heavens above that I am proved wrong – for there is
nothing I'd like better than to consign all the real terrorists in
the world spanning the gamut from 'pirates to emperors' [4] to
their proper levels in hell in any genuine war upon the real
terrorists even if it is to last a lifetime – but the price to
pay if I am right will be the monumental hell on earth for our own
'wretched' nation no differently than it is for Iraq, Afghanistan,
and elsewhere, unless national-level rational and realpolitik
self-defense is engaged now!
In these times when the world's greatest minds, its foremost
intellectuals, and its leading scholars and political-thinkers are
seeding the underpinnings of the vast multi-faceted empire that very
much needs this 'War on Terror' to accomplish its genocidal
wet dreams of 'full spectrum dominance' [5] of the planet, it
is foolish to close ones' eyes and ones' mind to their doctrinal
craftsmanship that is directly fueling the global power-plays and
which is entirely crafting our own humble destiny while we are
deliberately deflected into our own local petty gamesmanship!
These powerful doctrinal obfuscations that seed “imperial
mobilization” [6] disguised as the global “War on
Terror”, are not deconstructed in the 15-second sound bites
of our facile politicians and ruling elite, and nor in the 15-minute
canned scholarship that is our ubiquitous television news talk shows
today which have only succeeded in creating a bespectating nation of
zombies addicted to 'reality television' and entertainment. We have
all the choices for our underwear in various levels of enticement of
our soul – just like in the United States of America –
none for rational analysis that can save our skin.
Few people read in our nation, or read the right levels of the
'imperial' doctrines that is seeding the 'empire' - for such
scholarship is usually hard work to digest and takes much time and
dedication to comprehend in its proper Machiavellian perspective.
This is true even among our ruling elite who do have the time and the
resources to read but don't. And it is especially true for almost
99.9% of our patriotic rulers who appear to be either entirely
co-opted with their own Faustian pacts, or incredible mental-midgets
when it comes to being made continued patsies – for each of us
in this nation, perhaps 99.9% of the 170 million (conservatively
speaking), is precisely captured in the opening sentence above.
Thus the entire ruling elite today is singing the 'War on Terror'
song at the 'unbirthday party' in the wonderland of Alice's
imaginary consorts. While the ordinary Pakistani, bearing the full
brunt of this daily 'unbirthday party' celebrations –
the impossible cost of living amidst the '8% growth rate economy'
in which he (and she) can barely subsist – is quite uncannily
the only one to emotionally understand that the 'War on Terror'
is only America's ruling-elite's war for 'empire'. But his (and her)
attachment to the stomach and subsistence living grounds him (and
her) into silent subservience 'waiting for Allah' for
deliverance!
And it is precisely because of our ruling-elite's eager willingness
to engage in the absurdity of singing 'United We Stand' with
'empire' song that we make such an ideal patsy client-state.
Our bleak history is evidentiary and quite pathetic testimony of this
fact. A supposed independent nation, constructed in the name of a
culture-of-religion – the Muslims – by carving out the
sub-continent in our ancestors' own red blood, perhaps precisely to
enact this subservient proxy role of an easily-manipulatable 'pigeon'
state on the then emerging 'Grand Chessboard' of the post World War
II epoch!
These are my considered observations after carefully studying the
devilishly sophisticated doctrinal craftsmanship for empire and
observing its actual dealings “in straight power concepts”
on the 'Grand Chessboard'. As long as “hegemony”
remains “as old as mankind”, power will only
respect power, and only the fear of effective retaliation can temper
its “primacy” upon the weak! We must get over the
“sentimentality and day-dreaming ... [that even a sole
superpower] can afford today the luxury of altruism and
world-benefaction ... [and the] unreal objectives such as human
rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization”!
[7]
Therefore, as a humble student of geopolitics of the 'Grand
Chessboard', the following are the rational steps, in order, that the
Pakistani nation must urgently initiate in order to save the country
and its peoples from imminent destruction before the despotic
'hectoring hegemons' come to really 'save' Pakistan
just as they did Iraq. They are already deftly planting, spinning,
and loudly singing the prelude 'unbirthday party' song to
'shock and awe' with copious unwitting help from our own
'native informants' (see “Response to Zia Mian's 'How Not to
Handle Nuclear Security'”)!
These reasoned recommendations for self-defense are based entirely
upon intellectual and empirical realpolitik evidence gleaned directly
from the Imperial-Machiavellian-Straussian doctrinal theses being
enacted on the 'Grand Chessboard' as observed by 'Alice' when
she is not caught in the absurdity of the 'wonderland', for,
in “devising means to fight the [super]terrorist, it
would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them.”
[8]
To accept or reject this heads-up warning is entirely up to the
people of Pakistan. And to be proven wrong would naturally preserve
my own sanity! In all the more likelihood however, our being wiped
off from the face of the planet may indeed be better for the other
peoples on the planet to whom we have been sticking it to since our
inception – for most assuredly, as history is witness, the
Almighty Creator (as per the Islamic teaching) will surely replace an
unjust indolent peoples with a better peoples after having given one
the 'choice' and the unequivocal warning: '[He] does not change
the condition of a peoples unless they strive to change it themselves
first'!
- America's 'War on Terror' is a global fiction. While its victims are certainly very real, its motivation is fabricated. Iran and Pakistan will share the same fate (almost concurrently) unless Pakistan wisely disengages from this fiction immediately and overcomes the imperial 'divide and conquer' stratagems.If Pakistan does succeed in extricating itself in a timely manner and as outlined below, it can potentially end all of “imperial mobilization” on the 'Grand Chessboard' and usher in world peace through a forced early détente saving millions of 'life-units' through posterity, including the American public's lives!In order to extricate herself safely however, Pakistan must execute on all the subsequent steps or she will suffer an unparalleled decimation regardless.
- The present 'elections' in Pakistan are a manifest fraud under the orchestration of the 'hectoring hegemons' themselves, and must be abandoned in the greater national interest of the peoples of Pakistan themselves.This mantra of elections is replete with red herrings craftily synthesized to maintain Pakistan as a servile client-state in order to carry on with the same bold 'imperial designs' on the 'Grand Chessboard'. It is merely the rebottling of the same old wine in a different bottle. It will surely be legitimately conducted, with no apparent riggings, and duly approved by all the impartial international observers to give the artful elections an official international legitimacy.It is quite immaterial who wins in these elections. The laws and the judiciary of the nation have already been reconstituted under the umbrella of 'emergency' to enable the nation to carry on unfettered in its primary objective of fighting the 'War on Terror' as an obedient patsy client-state – and hence to carry on in its own devilishly crafted suicide!These elections will conveniently 'elect' a legislature whose leaders have also been deftly primed by the 'hectoring hegemons' themselves! And the highest executive office in the land is already retained in the hands of the same old 'wine' drinker.Thus all the 'ducks' are still lined up perfectly in a row, just as they were on the very eve of 911.
- The people of Pakistan must fully reconcile with the Military of Pakistan immediately – the reconciliation being of the type that was witnessed by the surprised world between the oppressors and the oppressed in South Africa.Not the type that is being pushed through the NRO to legitimize looters, plunderers, and rapists of the nation in order to staff the legislature with the made by 'CFR in the USA' and made by 'RIIA in the UK' Pakistani politicians with at best criminal credentials, and at worst, treasonous ones!The military of Pakistan, as an institution, is indeed also the only hope of Pakistan as we must survive on the 'Grand Chessboard' and only they hold the cards. What is about to befall the nation can also only be averted by them. The civilians and the Military must unite – immediately – for overarching national considerations that far transcend individual grievances, ego trips, and past transgressions.Thus the civilians must abandon all meaningless and mindless protests which are in any case devoid of any fundamental comprehension of the reality du jour on the 'Grand Chessboard' – none of them seek fundamental changes to our fate, nor do they appear to fathom what such changes are even supposed to be – and are merely only chasing red herrings that have been deftly crafted as perhaps per the Machiavellian 'technique of infamy'. [9] Please see their systematic deconstruction in “Disassembling the Pakistani red herrings”.These protests are needlessly continually giving the Western public the impression of 'instability' which only adds to the credibility of the various pretextual mantras to come 'deliver' us from ourselves! There is much more at stake than to usher in a thin veneer of faux 'democracy' which is all that these protests are unwittingly accomplishing as can be empirically witnessed by anyone with half a brain.
- Instead of the faux 'democracy', the Pakistani Military rulers on their part must now rise to the challenge of genuine patriotism and as genuine guardians of the nation and help carve a genuine Democracy, with the capital D and without the quotes, as briefly outlined in “Re-Imagining Pakistan's Defenses - Open Letter to a Pakistani General”, and as explored in “Saving Pakistan from Synthetic 'Terror Central'”.Briefly, that entails crafting a genuine Constitution under a bilateral 'social contract' between the people and the state, that is subsequently ratified by the people of Pakistan through a direct referendum vote. This can be accomplished within a few short months if there is the national and military will that understands the urgency of the matter and executes on it by gathering the right peoples to craft it!
- Under the new Constitutional mandate so approved, put the continued participation in the 'War on Terror' to public referendum. The national mandate so derived will have international legitimacy that is unparalleled, and will effectively be internationally un-challengeable. This will enable us to safely disengage from the 'War on Terror' and safely save ourselves. This is precisely why genuine Democracy is the worst nemesis of the 'hectoring hegemons', and dictatorships and absolutist 'unity of command' their best friend.This means that there will surely be much opposition to its realization by the 'hectoring hegemons' and their pathetic mercenary minions, 'circus clowns', and 'native informants' under various guises. How to counter that preemptively is also outlined in “Saving Pakistan”. The re-genesis of a nation is not an easy task and cannot be underestimated for the number of enemies and new challenges it will seed to obstruct its full realization. These must be anticipated and neutralized!
- Under the same Constitutional mandate now built into the system to create a more 'heavy weight pawn' on the Grand Chessboard that moves quite autonomously in its own best interests by its very design, initiate 'Full Spectrum Alliances' with the neighbors.A Sub-Continental Union (SU), seeding the nexus of a greater Asian Union (AU), furthering into a “full spectrum alliance” of the entire Global South, and mutual self-defense and trade treaties extending first and foremost to the immediate neighbors that have been already signaled out for 'shock and awe' visitation, makes all the minnows now impervious to all threats of 'sanctions', and all the subsequent saber-rattling threats of 'shock and awe' effectively toothless, as our retaliation on the 'Grand Chessboard' will no longer be towards what used to be our favorite traditional punching-bag nemesis India, but a full spectrum 'Samson Option' which would also have been fully ratified by a national public mandate in full spectrum self-defense!If Israel can have a 'Samson option', and the United States and Russia can each have theirs to assure mutual destruction to any adventurers and facile doctrines of 'preemption' applied to them, so can Pakistan! It is the only way! Either the entire world must be free of nuclear biological and other WMDs, or every peoples must have credible deterrence against them through realpolitik 'full spectrum alliances' when predators seek “primacy and its geostrategic imperatives” and “full spectrum dominance” on the 'Grand Chessboard'!
- Such a national public mandate under a publicly ratified Constitution gives international legitimacy to such a self-defense in no less measure than that enjoyed by Israel, the United States, and Russia, and such coming together in 'full spectrum deterrent' self-defense by the minnows leads to immediate détente on the Grand Chessboard. This can be witnessed in its graphic real-life imagery in this amazing 8 minute Youtube video “Battle at Kruger” that will surely inspire any human soul with even an ounce of self-respect still left them by their Faustian pacts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM).In the construction of such a détente with our astute political ascendance and realpolitik courage to 'throw the tea overboard' backed up by the credible threat of 'MAD'ness instead of the continued subservient 'may I have some more please sir', we have saved an entire humanity from annihilation without firing an actual shot, and without killing a single human being. Checkmate by the minnows, oh Brzezinski!
May the force of genuine self-determination and the blood of free-men
and free-women finally run through our clogged and petrified veins in
our revived instincts for survival to finally show the 'hectoring
hegemons' that minnows too can effectively play the realpolitik game
of 'full spectrum deterrence' for survival on the 'Grand Chessboard'!
This real threat to the derailing of “imperial
mobilization” through such independence of action by
some genuine 'Patrick Henrys' serendipitously coming to power in
Pakistan is precisely why nuclear armed Pakistan is slated for
destruction, as no Muslim nation can be allowed to posses the real
effective deterrence of real nuclear weapons! The crafty pretext to
wrestle this deterrence away is being devilishly orchestrated while
our astute Foreign Office and our brilliant leaders and diplomats
mindlessly issue ineffective denials that our 'nuclear assets are
secure' without comprehending in the least “the forces
that drive them”.
The grotesque tragedy for Pakistan is that even her voluntarily
giving up her nuclear arsenal in preemptive self-defense, like South
Africa, and presumably now also North Korea, still would not save
this 'wretched' nation today as her usefulness as a light-weight
patsy-pawn in her present geographical configuration has already been
outlived on the 'Grand Chessboard'. Which is why her re-partitioning,
after her nukes are de-nuked, is the forced end-game for this pawn!
So please wake the hell up now!
Thank you.
Addendum 1 Friday, February 08, 2008
The 'Hectoring Hegemons' insist on bringing to fruition the
'outlandishly plausible' pretext of how America will invade both Iran
and Pakistan in 'self-defense'. In a report in Pakistan's largest
English language daily, Dawn, on February 07, 2008, the following
precious gem was noted: 'Defence officials told Congress on
Wednesday that Al Qaeda is operating from havens in “under-governed
regions” of Pakistan, which they said pose direct threats to
Europe, the United States and the Pakistan government itself.' The
report presciently continued, almost as if in sympathetic baby-step
realization of the outlandish 'self-defense' scenario already laid
out in this scribe's wakeup call: 'Adm. Michael Mullen,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, predicted in written testimony
that the next attack on the United States probably would be launched
by terrorists in that region.' Since the writing of this
wakeup call, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated only a week later to
further the 'strategy of tension' in Pakistan, while simultaneously
lending more substance to the boogieman of 'al-qaeeda' who was
immediately blamed (the very next day) for the former Pakistani Prime
Minister's grotesque assassination. The Scotland Yard, who was asked
to investigate the assassination, before they had even fully embarked
on their forensic journey had already noted “Scotland Yard
believes Al-Qaeda assassinated Benazir Bhutto”. And today, the
NY Times reported that the Scotland Yard has offered the JFK vintage
'lone gunman' theory, pinning the blame on the ubiquitous cavemen of
'al-qaeeda' sitting with their laptops and Klashnikovs in the Hindu
Kush monitoring, controlling, and threatening the world's foremost
armed to the teeth superpower and its allies. In support of the
Scotland Yard's conclusions, Pakistan immediately arrested “Two
very important terrorists” as noted by the Dawn. The Daily
Times too echoed: ' “It is a major breakthrough. These two
men were involved in the assassination and they are from a militant
group which is relatively new,” the official said. “Their
tentacles are from the tribal region and Baitullah Mehsud” '.
The International Herald Tribune however, perhaps more interested in
journalism than in supporting “imperial mobilization”,
candidly observed: “The [Scotland Yard] findings support the
Pakistani government's explanation of Bhutto's assassination in
December, an account that had been greeted with disbelief by Bhutto's
supporters, other Pakistanis and medical experts.” The
following was added by IHT for additional forensic clarity into the
matter: “It is unclear how the Scotland Yard investigators
reached such conclusive findings absent autopsy results or other
potentially important evidence that was washed away by cleanup crews
in the immediate aftermath of the blast,” Next stop, a
'terrorist' act as narrated by Zbigniew Brzezinski a year ago
(February 01, 2007, quoted in the essay below) before the US. Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, and Adm. Mullen before the US. Congress
a year later (February 06, 2008, cited above). And rather
unsurprisingly, the world's foremost investigative bodies will
entirely reach the conclusion-space already outlined in this wakeup
call no differently from the Scotland Yard today. See Perpetuating
the fiction of Who Killed Benazir Bhutto.
Addendum 2 Thursday, April 10, 2008
It is beyond any reasonable comprehension how blatantly obvious the
grotesquely unfolding reality in Pakistan is, and yet the Pakistani
rulers and the majority of Pakistani ruling elite and its newsmedia
still manifestly react as if they are all sitting at the 'unbirthday'
tea-party with the 'Mad Hatter' boisterously singing the imperial
'war on terror' song as they deliberately suicide the nation into
oblivion. There isn't much time. This ominous report of April 08,
2008, “2 die in Pakistan nuclear plant accident”
will shortly be blamed upon the ubiquitous 'al qaeeda' as having
attempted, and perhaps even succeeded in, getting their hands on the
Pakistani 'loose nukes'. Unlike the Benazir Bhutto assassination that
the Government of Pakistan had immediately blamed upon the 'al
qaeeda', this time around, it will surely deny it. If this diabolical
spin ever materializes in the Western press, be forewarned that the
crossing of the nuclear Rubicon which already appears imminent, is
about to happen! And just as abhorrently, that the new '911', which
according to President George Bush, “will make Sept. 11 pale
by comparison”, is also imminent. But multiple diabolical
catalyst 'provocations' justifying full spectrum “'defensive'
US military action against Iran” aren't precluded in this
calculus. See The attack of 'Al-Qaeeda' and Pakistani 'loose nukes'.
Addendum 3 Sunday April 27, 2008
The Washington Post today carries the oped Try 'Pakistan first' which
boldly asserts: “Pakistan, with its two dozen nuclear
weapons, popular and official support for Kashmiri and Taliban
terrorism, and political instability, is ultimately a greater threat
to world peace than Afghanistan and Iraq combined. That is the
unavoidable reality that campaign promises should not obscure.”
See how Bin Laden will be hijacking these nukes shortly in
'Bin Laden': Key enabler of “imperial mobilization” (and
the first nuclear attack since 1945, on Iran–Pakistan).
Addendum 4 Thursday June 12, 2008
DAWN today reported the following re-confirmation of the dire threat
that Project Humanbeingsfirst has been harping about for over a year
ever since the Lal Masjid massacre, but to no avail: '[On]
Wednesday, a media report quoted Pakistan’s envoy to Washington
as saying that US leaders had warned Islamabad that if the United
States suffered an attack that was traced back to Pakistan Washington
would retaliate. “Those (statements) have been made,”
Ambassador Hussain Haqqani told editors and reporters at The
Washington Post. “We want to make sure that it doesn’t
come to that.” ' As the Pakistani press is abuzz with the
US military attack on Pakistan's forces that saw at least 11
Pakistani soldiers dead with only lip service protests emanating from
the co-opted Pakistani corridors of pelf and power, the new neo-con
Ambassador of Pakistan to Washington further reiterated the following
to officially re-cement and renew the fiction of 'Bin Laden' for what
is criminally about to befall both Pakistan and Iran as foretold in
this Wakeup Call – and in which, Pakistani Government and
Pakistani military are either equally deliberately complicit, or
entirely unable to comprehend the gravity of the matter as they both
still continue to toot 'Bin Laden' and the 'War on Terror'
fabrication: 'Pakistan would attack Osama bin Laden the moment
it had reliable intelligence on the Al Qaeda leader's whereabouts,
Ambassador Husain Haqqani said on Wednesday. Haqqani also
said he was confident Pakistan could help foil any Al Qaeda plans to
attack the United States, although he did not know of any right now.
“I think we can thwart any potential plans for an attack,”
Haqqani said in an interview with Reuters.' (DAWN) If the
Government of Pakistan is genuinely interested in thwarting “any
potential plans for an attack” – please read and
comprehend the import of this humble Wakeup Call! Or at least
watch the far more entertaining Star Wars movie “Revenge of the
Sith” – a bizarre convolution of art imitating life, and
life imitating art – to apprehend the grotesque reality on the
'Grand Chessboard' that is behind the murderous 'War on Terror' which
Pakistan's Ambassador, Husain Haqqani, in collusion with his neo-con
sponsors, is either deliberately or inadvertently pushing upon this
(soon to be) sixth-world nation! From Gen. Musharraf “In the
Line of Fire”, to the late Benazir's “very petri
dish of international terrorism”, to the godfather's 'The
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), if it comes into power, must
persuade the people that the fight against militants is “our
war”, not just America’s war,' – is one
continuous narration of patsies, mercenaries, traitors, or naïve
simpletons! Take your pick – in all cases, all unfit to govern
a self-respecting independent sovereign nation in a modernity that is
ruled entirely with master political science rather than personal
“khilafat”. But all perfectly fit as controlled managers
of puppetstates dancing to the strings of the puppetmasters! In this
humble puppetstate of ours, there are 200 million additional peoples
still (barely) living besides these “naive simpletons”
who are presumably born to lord upon the plebeian natives! Please
put it to the referendum as outlined in this Wakeup Call, and
urgently disengage from the fiction of “war on terror” by
vociferously declaring a demonstrable “Samson Option”
directly targeted at Israel and Western Europe! It is the only way to
still save the peoples of this region from the devastation of a
'“Defensive” US military action' – which
will be nuclear! See Press Release of June 12, 2008.
Footnotes
- The term 'Hectoring Hegemons' is used by the neo-cons themselves to describe their own monumentally criminal bullying of the world which is the ongoing crimes against humanity disguised as the 'War on Terror'. It occurs in the author's field of the PDF file of their famous document 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' published by the neo-con's 'Project for the New American Century', and among its listed contributors are Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, et. al. See the snapshot of this term at https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/hectoring-hegemons-pdf.jpg, and see its full dismantling in the essay “Dialog Among Civilizations – Whytalksfail? Part-1” at http://humanbeingsfirst.org. This PNAC document at one time was available from the PNAC's own website at http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf, and has also been archived worldwide, including by Project Humanbeingsfirst as part of its own 'Exhibit A' (http://PrisonersoftheCave.org) - awaiting a 'just judge' like Robert H. Jackson (https://web.archive.org/web/20071207214020/http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/nuremberg/close.html) to finally administer a 'victor's justice' someday!
- 'The Grand Chessboard – American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives' is the title of the 1997 book by Zbigniew Brzezinski – President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor. He is the realpolitik strategist who delighted in “giving to the USSR its Vietnam War” at the expense of some deftly cultivated “Stirred up Moslems” by exploiting the various Muslim societies' own genuine disaffections, and who are today being re-used turned 'inside-out' remarkably effectively - quite unlike an ordinary 'used-condom' which only shows the immense realpolitik power of well executed 'doctrinal warfare' never to be underestimated in favor of C4I, tanks and airplanes, but to be equally mastered and countered - and variously labeled as 'islamofascists', 'islamists', 'militant islam', 'islamism' et. al., in order to now fight the new 'lifetime' of 'World War IV' for 'full spectrum dominance'.Brzezinski is still among the contemporary key architects of the 'Grand Chessboard' and his stark warning of a second '911' type terrorist attack in America to be deliberately blamed on Iran (and perhaps also on Pakistan as where the already signatured 'loose nuke' came from; this new 'terrorist' attack will invariably be nuclear to scare the war-averse and reluctant American public into waging a nuclear war on Iran and Pakistan) cannot be taken lightly. His warning is an absolute wakeup call to both Pakistan and Iran to stop their 'pussy-footing' and get real in building 'full spectrum alliances' in mutual self-defense. Why Brzezinski would issue such a warning and let the cat out of the bag is beyond the scope of this letter. But there is much empirical evidence substantiating its validity.
- America is already rehearsing the response-drill to a 1-kiloton 'terrorist' nuclear attack exploded at 100 meters in a cosmopolitan American city - see https://web.archive.org/web/20080126171809/http://www.twq.com/07autumn/docs/07autumn_cmp.pdf , and https://web.archive.org/web/20080126171809/http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/21872/DayAfterWorkshopReport.pdf , for 'terrorist' nuclear attack-drills and the 'The Day After' preparations already under way. (Imagine, all through the Cold War when the world sat at the brink of a real 'Dr. Strangelove' style Armageddon, and through the 'Bay of Pigs' crises when the world actually came close to a nuclear exchange, there were also such drills to this level of precision, mobilization, and practice evacuation as there are today which implies that a real 'attack' is anticipated as yet another mobilizing 'new pearl harbor' pretext far more devastating than 911, to warrant nuclear strikes in retaliation). A mock drill with the outlined scenario was rehearsed at the Washington-Oregon border recently. To understand the deeper Machiavellian significance of terrorist 'attack-response' mock drills, please see “7/7 Mock Terror Drill” ( https://www.globalresearch.ca/7-7-mock-terror-drill-what-relationship-to-the-real-time-terror-attacks/821 ). It was surely a mere coincidence that just as the superpower was into at least 15 simultaneously simulated terrorist 'attack-response' drills being run by the CIA, the Pentagon, the NSA, et. al., and now amply documented, on the very day of 9/11/2001 and at the very same moment for the exact same scenarios, that cumulatively and serendipitously transpired into the actual real attack the very same moment. Please see the book 'Synthetic Terror' by Webster Tarpley 4th edition, and this online Ch-19 of “Crossing the Rubicon” by Michael Rupert at https://web.archive.org/web/20080126171809/http://www.newsociety.com/titleimages/rub_war.pdf. It was also surely mere happenstance that the UK was into a simulated terrorist 'attack-response' drill for the exact same scenario on 7/7/2005 as the actual real terrorist attack that serendipitously also transpired that very same moment.This is precisely why courageous activists throughout America are now vigilantly looking for such drills and trying to get them canceled by attempting to create a public furor around them lest a simulation is once again ethereally super co-opted by a bearded 'evil yoda master' sitting cross-legged in a cave in Afghanistan on a dialysis machine using merely his awesome 'power of the dark side' to precipitate a real attack!
- “Pirates to emperors” refers to the seminal distinction made between the lowest and highest tiers of terrorists by the Christian theologian St. Augustine in the 4th Century AD in his “City of God against the Pagans”. He had insightfully noted the following definition for all future generations to benefit from:“When the King asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: 'the same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.' ”
- “Full Spectrum Dominance” is the title of Chapter 3 of the US Department of Defense Strategy Document “Joint Vision 2020”. It was Published by US Government Printing Office, Washington DC, June 2000, and for a time was available publicly from the website http:www.dtic.mil/jv2020. It no longer appears to be available from that site, but its summaries can be found by searching the internet with that keyword. An extended quote from its chapter 3 can also be found in Chapter-1 of my 2003 book at PrisonersoftheCave.org
- “Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization” as astutely noted by Zbigniew Brzezinski in the 'Grand Chessboard'. It is also the unstated assumption behind Brzezinski's warning of the 'terrorist act' (to the Senate in February 2007 as a prelude to launching an attack on Iran) as it is his profound belief that the modern American 'populist democracy' is not naturally inclined to wage wars upon others unlike in previous empires whose subjects were imbued with the spirit of 'la mission civilisatrice' – 'the white man's burden' as Rudyard Kipling put it in his 1899 ode to American Imperialism in the Philippine Islands - except in self-defense. See the detailed deconstruction of just this one pithy sentence that gathers within its political wisdom, all of Machiavelli and Leo Strauss, in my 2003 book “Prisoners of the Cave”. It is also more succinctly explained for the benefit of Pakistan's ruling elite, in my exposition “Re-Imagining Pakistan's Defenses – Open Letter to a Pakistani General” at Humanbeingsfirst.org
- This was the sentiment expressed by George Kennan in 1948 that set the 'Truman Doctrine' and all subsequent practice of “straight power concepts” on the continually evolving 'Grand Chessboard'. See his Policy Planning Study Memo PPS 23, the full quote in context is reproduced below. It is still the standard imperial operating principle governing the 'empire' through its present 'Bush Doctrine' of 'primacy' and 'preemption'. Nothing changed for the United States in its Foreign Policy over the past 60 years except the various shades of “straight power concepts” to match the evolving realities on the 'Grand Chessboard' – a blatant fact that the Pakistani rulers seem to want to suicidally ignore:“We have about 50% of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its population …. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming, and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction …. We should cease to talk about vague and - for the Far East - unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
- Bernard Lewis in “Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror” - as he very eruditely set out to uncover the 'motivations' of the well formulated abstractions of 'al-qaeeda', 'OBL', et. al., in justification of the 'Clash of Civilizations' idea that he himself had seeded in CFR's 'Foreign Affairs' in 1990 as the irrational and unfathomable “roots of Muslim rage” that needed to be understood. To support his formulation, he had noted that “It should now be clear that we are facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilizations - that perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both”. And to further the cause of President George Bush's own subsequent impending holy 'War on Terror' upon the 'wretched' Muslims after 911, he so 'clairvoyantly' had already predicted in that book in his concluding sentence on page 164: “If the fundamentalists are correct in their calculations and succeed in their war, then a dark future awaits the world, especially the part of it that embraces Islam”.And of course, according to the blanket (unproved) assertions by the White House and the Pentagon, and subsequently repeated ad nauseum by Bernard Lewis and the likes of 'Committee on the Present Danger': “The 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon represented a carefully orchestrated effort of al Qaeda to force America's retreat from Muslim lands”, all of which came together quite splendidly to give much currency to the 'unbirthday party' of the neo-cons' “War on Terror”! So the “roots of Muslim rage”, according to Bernard Lewis, led to the “clash of civilizations” on 911. No mention of course of any premeditated “imperial mobilization” at the 'unbirthday party' table. From at least 1990 to 2001, eleven years in the making, and still on going today in 2007.Is there one equal to the likes of Messrs. Bernard Lewis, or equal to any of the organizations like CPD (their once visible and amazing membership list that read like a who's who was available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20080126171809/http://www.fightingterror.org//members/index.cfm but seems to have now disappeared), or AEI (from where Bush acknowledged borrowing twenty of its best minds to run his administration), anywhere in the Muslim world that can intellectually compete with this level of doctrinal craftsmanship and Machiavellian political thinking? See Chapter 9 of my 2003 book “Prisoners of the Cave” for further deconstruction of their doctrinal craft.What is the point of having nuclear weapons and being armed-to-the-teeth, if mere doctrinal warfare is sufficient to 'disarm' fools and patsies of their own rational self-defense and their own independence of action? Most reasonable people in any nation would rather have clean drinking water in their taps and quality K-16 education for their children along with a roof over their head instead, if this is to be the ultimate reality of their infernal military spendings first bought at the expense of their considerable collective misery, and then subsequently disarmed them of it with even more misery! When the annals of history are eventually populated with the tales of the twenty-first century, school children will wonder what had happened to the brains of these foolish nations that they committed such suicide by choice!
- 'The Technique of Infamy' is attributed to the famous American intellectual Ezra Pound who made his bet with Mussolini. It is the most sophisticated dialectics of mass deception that any diabolical mind can conceive and Ezra Pound explained it. In its simplest rendition: “invent two lies [mainly opposing ones], and keep the people busily engaged in which of them might be true”. In its more sophisticated variation, invent multiple lies that sound plausible, or even incredible, to keep people busily engaged either dispelling them or arguing which of them might be true, while the fait accompli proceeds in the background. Ex post facto, it matters not what was lie and what was truth as the “victor will not be asked afterward whether he told the truth or not” (Hitler)! As Daniel Ellsberg of the 'Pentagon Papers' fame told me when I went to see him to give him a copy of my 2003 book to review, that when he was at the Rand Corporation, they diligently and intimately studied the tactics of the Nazis, not to mention all the wars and war-doctrines all the way back to Sun Tzu's famous 'The Art of War', in order to learn the real practice of the art of warfare from them! Ellsberg autobiographical book 'Secrets' lays out exactly how falsehoods and deceptions were deliberately crafted to keep the American public engaged in the Vietnam War – in the same way as some future insider gadfly will surely disclose how the 'new pearl harbor' of 911 was the new 'gulf of Tonkin', and how such and such Machiavellian 'bull-shit' was continually crafted with the 'technique of infamy' to keep the American public once again engaged in the 'War on Terror' for a 'lifetime'! See this Ellsberg analysis: “A coup has occurred” (https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-coup-has-occurred/6897 ).This time, and after displaying its awesome might in Afghanistan and Iraq, it's target Pakistan and Iran! If this attack succeeds, all dominoes in the 'arc of crises' will subsequently fall from sheer force of intimidation of a real nuclear strike by the 'empire gone wild' with no more Rubicons remaining to be crossed! If this impending attack is successfully foiled as outlined here, the dominoes of “imperial mobilization” will fall instead, saving countless, perhaps thousands of American lives, and millions of those of the 'lesser' humanity. With a détente on the 'Grand Chessboard', there would surely be no further catastrophic 'terrorist' attack inside America that could be taken as another “new Pearl Harbor” – for there'd be no point to it! “Imperial mobilization” would already be halted into a stalemate with only minor perturbations here and there. But if the 'have-nots' remained stupidly gullible to newer 'techniques of infamy' that will surely be continually practiced upon them by the 'haves' and the powerful, more covert-ops and proxy wars!
Chapter 8
Re-Imagining Pakistan's
Defenses
Open Letter to a Pakistani General
Zahir Ebrahim
November 30, 2007.
Made public on December 14, 2007.
Made public on December 14, 2007.
November 30, 2007.
Dear General sahib,
It was nice to meet you*. Thank you for your kind visit to my home
and the opportunity to meet such a distinguished commanding officer
from the world's 5th largest standing military. And congratulations
on the change of guard - always an auspicious occasion! This detailed
letter is in four logically inter-related parts that build upon each
other culminating in re-imagining Pakistan's defenses. A companion
paper: Saving Pakistan from Synthetic 'Terror Central' outlines the
realpolitiks on how to astutely seed its implementation without
suiciding the nation.
I
You asked me to help you rebuild our antiquated military by infusing
into its upper echelons a new mindset, of fighting modern warfare
using the real-time information-age so we could fight and win modern
wars - or else we would be left behind in the modernity of
information-age just as we were left behind when Napoleon arrived in
Egypt and surprised the antiquated Muslims with the then modern
warfare systems borne of West's mighty industrial age!
I asked you who were our adversaries, and what was our overarching
political agenda in the World that we wanted to fight and defeat and
win - for the sole superpower whom you wanted to emulate has a clear
agenda for which it spends a trillion dollars every couple of years
in its vast 'military-industrial-academe' complex: they want to
conquer the planet and its outer and inner reaches with the
sledgehammer force of “full spectrum dominance” to
retain their waning global “preeminence”. Whom do
we want to conquer? Why do we need to fight wars, and whose wars? So
far, our military has only conquered our own peoples, and repeatedly
so, as the wretched history of our state bears ample witness. You
candidly mentioned to me that you could not really answer that
question beyond the usual fluff.
As long as the logic of war and peace sensibly derives its rationale
from political goals, this is the quintessential overarching
doctrinal question that underlies the logic of all military spendings
and military 'transformations'. And yet, you could only, and rather
sheepishly, suggest India, for which we must deprive our citizenry
clean drinking water in their taps and quality K-16 education for all
our children while we prepare for a mindless warfare devoid of any
reasoned substantive political logic or public-mandate, and
periodically seed our now infamous covert military-infiltration to
pathetically wage undeclared wars of aggression 'by way of
deception' without any concomitant political will and support of
the peoples who must now pay for it, and against all norms of open
'Declaration of War', which then quite unsurprisingly blows up in our
face into full scale military confrontations with our neighbor with
whom we share a common and continuous 5000 year bond of
shared-history, shared-culture, shared-gene pool, and from where
there is no real existential threat emanating to our nation except in
the unconstrained imagination of our untempered Brig-Gen brethren(?);
never mind that we must also clamp down on our unarmed civilians'
peaceful protests with the sledgehammer brutality of the worst
barbaric police-state, and mercilessly kill our own deliberately
cultivated patsies for their 'synthetic terror' and
inculcated-bravado with our most horrible weapon systems as the
entire world shockingly witnessed at the 'lal masjid' in the heart of
our very own Capital?
As history is witness and bears continual rehearsing due to our very
short-term memories, from the covert-operation Gibraltar
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gibraltar) that led to the
1965 war with India and thousands dead on both sides, to the
covert-operation Kargil
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War) that almost led to a damn
nuclear exchange with India putting millions of innocent people of
the sub-continent in the path of Armageddon, and the loss of half of
Pakistan in between, are entirely the shameful story of our own
military's aggression against our larger neighbor, as well as against
our own peoples 1100 miles to the East who were subjected to an
unparalleled inhumanity which has not yet seen any accountability nor
abject apology whatsoever from our military (or from our nation for
that matter - Eqbal Ahmad's 'Letter to a Pakistani Diplomat'
(http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10451) is always a good read to
periodically refresh our national memory on how little things have
really changed for us).
Without any public mandate to wage wars, let alone covert ones
against our own neighbor, why should the nation pay for the wet
dreams and self-perceived brilliance of the handful of military
tacticians? This is a monumental crime against humanity to not only
surreptitiously put one's own public at imminent risk of nuclear
conflagration without their consent, knowledge, and a national
doctrine that has the public-mandate, but also put at risk the public
of the entire region quite unbeknownst to them, and all for what?
Uncontrolled self-delusions of grandeur and school-boyish bravado
dreaming of their first conquest? But we haven't stopped there!
We have also continually fought the imperialists' covert and proxy
wars for 'peanuts' by supporting the 'CIA Intervention in
Afghanistan' for “giving to the USSR its Vietnam war”,
and as we are so doing yet once again by not only providing the sole
logistics lifeline to imperialist troops in the same wretched country
to brow-beat a proud and ancient peoples into submission after we
originally assisted in gratuitously destroying their entire
civilization and culture and cultivating what has germinated into the
useful 'harvest' of 'synthetic terror' today, but also supporting yet
another CIA covert-ops destabilization-intervention in Iran from our
territories.
And this time, in the new imperialists' euphemistically labeled war,
the “War on Terror”, we are now killing our own
citizenry with our full military might in such an unremarkable and
brutish manner that it is only guaranteed to create further ill-will
and resentment among the already disgruntled and disenfranchised
ordinary peoples, thus more resistance, more radicalism, more
innocent dead, more fertile ground for cultivating suicide bombers,
more complaints of “islamofacism” to scare the
Western public with, so that in the end, in the mother of all battles
between “good” and “evil” in which “either
you are with us or with the terrorists”, there will be a
continuous fresh supply of recruits to wage the requisite “endless
wars” against in order to prolong the conflagration for a
full “lifetime of wars” lasting a “generation”
- the “World War IV” - in the profound imperialist
hope that the resulting eventual maelstroms of radicalism seeded in
'jihad' will engulf the entire 'arc of crises' enabling its radical
retransformation once again to suit the new imperial interests of the
new “hectoring hegemons”.
If one wasn't living in Alice's dream world where the most absurd
becomes a life-like reality and the 'unbirthday party' a cause
celebre, one would bluntly suggest that this looks very much like a
devilishly premeditated synthesis of terror - 'synthetic terror' - in
order to create an enemy to fight against “for at least a
generation and preferably longer”, because in the absence
“of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of
domestic well-being”, and “except in the
circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external
threat”, the much touted American "democracy is
inimical to imperial mobilization." (Brzezinski)
If one wasn't a co-opted and deceitful individual being well fed by
empire, and thus was not attempting to goad and/or coerce the rest of
the planet into the imperial mantra of celebrating the 'unbirthday
party' and singing in unison “United We Stand”,
one would immediately recognize that while the monumental criminal
killings and willful decimation of entire societies in the “War
on Terror” are grotesquely real, the motivation to do so is
entirely fabricated.
It is a manifest fraud perpetuated upon mankind to orchestrate the
Machiavellianly-Straussianly crafted “full spectrum
dominance” (PNAC) by the brilliant protégés
and legatees of Leo Strauss in order to “perpetuate
America's own dominant position for at least a generation and
preferably longer” such that “no Eurasian
challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also
challenging America” (Brzezinski), which in turn
necessitates asserting the “Reaganite policy of military
strength and moral clarity” by forcing everyone on the
planet to accept “America's unique role in preserving and
extending an international order friendly to our security, our
prosperity, and our principles.” (PNAC) What a wonderful
natural birth-right to bully and dominate the 'lesser' humanity
cleverly franchised into the left and right ears of 'god's chosen
ubermenschen' “Hectoring Hegemons” - the ZioCons -
'baboons' in suits attempting to pass off as hominids!
In the unabsurd reality when 'Alice' is wide awake, this “War
on Terror” is a monumentally criminal war of supreme “shock
and awe” upon largely defenseless nations and their
civilian populations, including our own, and thus plainly a war crime
against humanity. And Pakistan is willingly and complicitly helping
execute it as per the unilateral absolute decision of just one man
for the bribe of $10b - as the “coalition of the willing”
- who just by sheer 'happenstance' happened to be at the helm of
affairs as the absolute dictator with the full 'unity of command' of
the frontline state at his complete disposal, just as the empire was
gearing up to once again flex its “Primacy and Its
Geostrategic Imperatives” on the “Grand
Chessboard”!
What are indeed the odds that every time the 'empire' makes a move
'by way of deception', we only serendipitously have in-place a
compliant military dictator in power in Pakistan who is intimately
'embedded' and strategically aligned with the 'empire' in all his
significant decisions and commitments? Then again, what are the odds
that the 'empire' itself orchestrates such puppets, and that
especially in this contemporaneously unfolding, devilishly
premeditated, and long in preparation 'War on Terror', it
deliberately made it look like mere 'happenstance' by enacting some
delightful 'katputli tamashas' as red herrings to make the coup
d'état initially palatable to the gullible public? For an
'imperial' nation with at least a 100 year long open-history of
craftily-successful covert-interventions, a history that is only made
'open' after fait accompli, ex post facto, it does not require
much imagination to make a rational bet!
And now, this 'serendipitously' acquired monolithic 'unity of
absolute command' upon our nation, by oppressing and bombing our own
civilians in this fabricated and synthetic “War on Terror”,
is blithely constructing our own suicide and our own pathetic
'retransformation' in partial fulfillment of the hectoring hegemons'
own wet dreams! By fighting the “War on Terror”
against our own citizens in the most brutal ways imaginable, the new
'Terror Central' is artfully being crafted to eventually lead
to the nation's disintegration. And just the cultivated perceived
threat of such chaos transpiring due to the synthesized
'islamofascists', is conveniently affording the hectoring hegemons
their much desired pretext for scooping in at the opportune moment to
salvage our nukes to safety among the 'ubermensch' white races, thus
finally de-nuking us with this entirely pre-meditated deception game
after years of trying unsuccessfully!
All this recent talk of "loose nukes" and "Joint
force for nuke safety" and "raising an international
force to help the Pakistani armed forces if they are attacked by the
extremists", are precisely the weather balloons built upon
the deftly cultivated house of cards of the synthetic 'islamofascist'
boogie-men to seed these new deceptions into the mainstream public
discourse in order to maintain the persistence of a "sudden
threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being".
That's how public opinion is slowly crafted over time to manufacture
the deplorable public consent for committing heinous crimes against
humanity through the active collaboration of the much touted 'fourth
pillar of democracy'.
Another "coalition of the willing" is plainly being
seeded - and this time it's 'destination Islamabad' instead of
Baghdad, and instead of the well worn fiction of the existence of
'WMDs' which won't fly as Pakistan indeed does possess them, it is
the fiction of them getting 'loose' despite being defended by the
world's 5th largest standing armed forces who successfully developed
the effective deterrence in the face of the entire world's opposition
and punitive sanctions, but now is magically unable to defend them in
this fabricated war even as the most valuable non-NATO partner and
needs an external "force that should not only include troops
from the United States, but ideally also other Western powers and
moderate Muslim nations"!
Wow, kill two birds with one stone - and the imperial thinkers are
laughing their way to the banks! I couldn't have possibly conceived
of a better Trojan Horse myself than this dictatorial regime if I was
an imperial strategist! How dare any Muslim nation have the chutzpah
to develop nukes as a viable deterrent against 'ubermensch' predators
and their god appointed "la mission civilisatrice" -
we'll teach them all a lesson! Well, one can't make a frontal assault
on the 'children of a lesser god' already possessing the nukes - but
through the back door, with layers of deception and covert-ops
devilishly crafted with the active connivance of the handful of
planted co-opted leaders and their ten thousand mindless sycophants
to induce self-destruction, while at the same time getting all the
mileage one can get from disposable patsies on the 'Grand
Chessboard'? That works!
These are the best practices of the ancient 'Art of War' - to
"wage war by way of deception" - as any worthy
imperial strategist, as well as any half decent student of history
and contemporary affairs surely knows!
Shame on us that we are opening that back door to our own nation's
destruction with the help of our own 'illustrious' military and
co-opted conscienceless politicians who turn on a dime! Shame on us
that we are deliberately helping in the "Remaking of the New
World Order", which "means in practice one thing:
one center of power, one center of force, one center of
decision-making, a world of one master, one sovereign"
(Putin). Shame on us that our rulers are so co-opted, or so
short-sighted, or such mental midgets, that we are engagingly helping
construct and manage the pretext of battle against the synthetic
'islamofascists' such that now even our own 'family jewels' have been
put on the line - something the 'ubermenschen' West always wanted in
order to clinch their complete full spectrum monopoly on effective
deterrence, and now we are handing them the pretext on which to
realize their dreams of unfettered supremacy upon the Muslim world.
Shame on us that we are directly helping "Recruiting Soldiers
Against Radical Islam" (Pipes) from among the innocent and
the gullible of the world who are now scared to death of both 'Islam'
and 'Muslims' and who now treat Pakistan as the leper-nation of the
world, and shame on us that we have thusly become the wretched
implementation arm of 'synthetic terror' – the 'Terror
Central' - that enables the West to keep their own "populist
democracy" fully primed 24x7 for further "imperial
mobilization" in the "War on Terror" as now
it is is "Not [even] a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash
between the Civilized World and Barbarians" (Pipes)! Holy
Mother of Noble Jesus! What devilishly brilliant craftsmanship for
empire!
Can anyone deny any of this well documented naked and brutish reality
with a straight face? Perhaps only the ignorant, the indoctrinated,
and the Machiavellian. Not any genuine well informed patriot and
decent human being who stares reality in the face and
straightforwardly calls a spade a spade. As I am certain you do which
is why I am so emboldened to write you this note because I sense that
you are hardly the tyrant who might shoot the messenger!
Well I want to ask you again in this letter - as I am sure you had
time to reflect since we met, and also perhaps this new change of
guard may have given you fresh impetus to revisit ab initio many a
fundamental - whom do we need to conquer as a nation that we should
also spend a trillion dollars on our 'military transformation'? No
citizenry of Pakistan as far as I know wants to fight India, except
your own Brig-Gen brethren whose self-delusional raison d'être
seems to be to have India as the prime antagonist in order to exist!
That's hardly the purpose of a modern professional military which
must exist to defend its peoples against both overt and covert real
external threats, not imagined ones, even from supposed friends and
allies, while firmly under the control of a civilian political
leadership that has the public mandate - for in the modernity du
jour, as in all previous times, war fighting and war preparation
logic have only had, and will always have, political purposes,
political rationale, and also political co-optation. The professional
military today, as opposed to the "praetorian guards", in
all developed nations, as I am sure you well know, is mainly an
instrument either of hegemony and power projection, or of
self-defense. It is entirely a fear inducing instrument for achieving
political ends from which it derives its entire rationale for
existence. Why is it different in Pakistan - where the military for
more than half of the nation's wretched existence has also determined
its national and international politics, its national and foreign
policies, and now even its economics with its burgeoning share of
"Military Inc." and its forced fire-sale of our 'public
commons' held in national trust to foreign multi-national
corporations? Politics the military mind least understands, nor is it
trained to understand and participate in - blind obedience and
strictly regimented 'unity of command' being its sole operational
code de conduct. Unarmed, peaceable, and conscionable civilians
cannot be managed this way under the 'social contract' which ab
initio gives the military, and the 'state', its cause d'existance in
the first place! And neither do we accept such dictatorial
management, except for a time under the most brutal of occupations -
the mindset of both autocratic antiquity, and of military conquests
in modernity. In either case, Machiavellian deception is employed to
subjugate the public and neutralize their dissent. And the most
transforming method for that is to use 'terror' as a weapon, both for
pacifying the populations with ones' own terror, as well as using the
'synthetic terror' of the 'pirates' to seek the raison d'être
of the emperor's!
So indeed a transformation is required - and entirely of the mindset
- to enter into modernity, but not that of the 'baboons'! So please
allow me to lead you in this letter into crystallizing some of your
own thoughts as to what you really should be 'transforming' at this
time as a genuinely nationalistic and wholly patriotic Pakistani
multi-star General.
II
Please allow me to first say that if I did not write this humble
letter to you and speak my mind candidly without fear when my own
nation is undergoing destruction at the hands of our own 'ubermensch'
tyrants running amok in Islamabad and our military hell bent on
pacifying our own public, then in good conscience, I would not be
able to do the same against the sole superpower nation – my
adopted home and place of permanent residence - that has been
hijacked by a handful of 'ubermensch' super-tyrants who are running
amok in Washington attempting to engage the entire world in a
perpetual war for their own pelf and fantasy and directly sucking us
into their vortex as a compliant client-state. Time to stand up and
say enough – on all counts. I hope you will agree, at least
with the notion that one must stand up to tyranny and to tyrants!
A tyrant is quite easy to identify even for the dolts and even in
these times of deception galore: a tyrant holds all the guns(!), and
makes all the laws by fiat, and subjects everyone else to these laws
by calling it a necessity! And the tyrant often pretends to be the
greatest patriot, one whom god speaks to directly - the anointed
indispensable 'ubermensch' savior of the nation and the world from
all the 'terrorists' out there! So my dear General sahib, now you too
can also identify the tyrants in the world and in our own backyards
so that we can together stand up to them - they aren't a whole lot
different than the tyrants of the past are they? This is why the
famous theologian - who is often credited with seeding the
foundations of political philosophy behind the West's Renaissance a
full millennium before it actually transpired - noted in his famous
4th century AD magnum opus 'the city of god against the pagans':
"When the King asked him what he meant by infesting the sea,
the pirate defiantly replied: 'the same as you do when you infest the
whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a
robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an
emperor.' "
So let's begin.
To start with, I would highly recommend you read “The Grand
Chessboard” by Zbigniew Brzezinski and compare its
chauvinist content and overarching 'imperial' themes with PNAC's
“Rebuilding America's Defenses” which you
indicated you have already read and are seeking to emulate in its
superficial dressings of military transformation. And you must not
ignore the Pentagon's own document “Joint Vision 2020”
which you confessed to never having heard of, and especially digest
its Chapter 3, titled “Full Spectrum Dominance”.
This document has since likely been superseded by another JV which
you may be able to acquire through your connections as the most
favored non-NATO ally General! Note who the contributing authors are
for all of these, and what do they ideologically and experientially
have in common.
Compare that to what Bernard Lewis wrote in 1990 in CFR's 'Foreign
Affairs' about the supposed “roots of Muslim rage”
deftly planting the following precious seed: “It should now
be clear that we are facing a mood and a movement far transcending
the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue
them. This is no less than a clash of civilizations - that perhaps
irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against
our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide
expansion of both”, which six years later Samuel Huntington
cleverly formalized in his now infamous book as the “Clash
of Civilizations”, even titling the book thusly. On the eve
of 911, Bernard Lewis re-harvested the theme in his famously titled
book “Crises of Islam – Holy War and Unholy Terror”.
It requires a fair degree of political sophistication to astutely
parse these writings and to rationally make the linkages. As the
mastermind doctrinal scholar par excellence, Bernard Lewis argues,
for “devising means to fight the [super]terrorist, it would
surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them.”
Yes indeed, and so must we in order to rationally defend our nation
and its peoples. And the fundamental step in that direction is to
first recognize, and then boldly speak, the abhorrent reality when
'Alice' is wide awake!
Thus towards that endeavor, please note how all these seemingly
unrelated and purely intellectual pursuits from the academe, and the
think-tanks, exercising their much wonted Western freedoms of
academia and speech, very clearly prognosticated the 'War on
Terror' and an enabling “new pearl harbor”. What
in 1990 was a label-less description of “a mood and a
movement” has since acquired the phantasmic nom de
guerre “islamofascism” in order to construct
the “New World Order”, in full consistency with
the state's own doctrine of “Full Spectrum Dominance”
emanating from the Pentagon for which it required a continuous
increase in its defense budget (over domestic social spending) in
order to affect its own military transformation that was then
carrying the vestiges of the Cold War. As coherently argued by
Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and company:
“... it is also clear that for the U.S. Armed forces to
remain preeminent and avoid an Achilles Heel in the exercise of its
power they must be sure that these potential future forms of warfare
[space and cyberspace war] favor America just as today's air, land
and sea warfare reflect United States military dominance. Until the
process of transformation is treated as an enduring military mission
– worthy of constant allocation of dollars and forces –
it will remain stillborn. ... Further, the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one,
absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new
Pearl Harbor” (Rebuilding America's Defenses)
And they got that budget right after 911 for their lifetime of
“enduring military mission”, while the public
schools and libraries in America are suffering, and a few have
already shut down! Now America's defense budget is close to a
trillion dollars annually – to fight a bunch of lunatic, sticks
and stones wielding, cave dwelling, antediluvian “islamofascists”?
No wonder the worldwide ruling elite is salivating at the 'unbirthday
party' with gusto – there are many a crumb from the
corruption pie to go around for everyone! We have received at least
$10b of it!
Indeed, you must give considerable pause for penetrating reflection
on how the “new pearl harbor” was so keenly
'anticipated' by both Brzezinski and the Project for New American
Century, in order to comprehend the global events on, and especially
since, 911. It is entirely unsurprising that many members of PNAC,
all subsequently holding key controlling positions in the White House
and the Pentagon, prepared hard for their immediate response to the
"new pearl harbor" that transpired on 911 years in
advance, as one can easily witness from all the pre-crafted Patriot
Acts that were immediately rushed into Law along with Rumsfeld's
orders to his staff to immediately 'prepare' for attack on Iraq even
as the rushed unforensic retaliation was launched against
Afghanistan, while simultaneously, General Myers, the nation's top
Military General caught sleeping on his watch, was instantly promoted
to lead the “War on Terror”. You can read more of
these details and its forensic deconstruction in my 2003 book
"Prisoners of the Cave". That was an apt title for
the indoctrinated, gullible, and largely ignorant of the world
American public. I hardly think it is befitting for our own educated
ruling elite! For our favored scions and 'ubermenschens', something
else might be more à propos, and I will gladly let your own
imagination construct it!
What you see today dear General sahib has been on the books and in
preparation since the Berlin Wall fell - surely you must know that
being a military man of considerable experience and realpolitik
learning. It is entirely blue-printed in the above imperial documents
that I call the "American Mein Kampfs" – not
independently constructed in some 'unlighted cave' in Afghanistan by
a 'guy on a dialysis machine'! It is facile to insist that it is, or
that 'OBL' and 'Al-qaeeda' are meaningful constructs other than for
“imperial mobilization” through “perpetual
war” against a fabricated but well formulated abstraction!
The end goal of this long fiction? No speculations are necessary to
catch its varied glimpses as this just disclosed White House Press
Release lends an empirical unabashed summation of the reality to all
the doctrinal constructions of the supposed 'arm-chair-only' academic
warriors.
Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of
Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the
United States of America
(https://web.archive.org/web/2007/http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/11/20071126-11.html)
It gives 'legal' sanction to the effective re-colonization and
monopolistic harvesting of a significant Eurasian geostrategic asset
for multiple overlapping hierarchy of purposes as defined by its
imperial exponents with their own hierarchy of overlapping
motivations, all of which effectively enable in practice, “to
perpetuate America's own dominant position for at least a generation
and preferably longer”. This press release leaves no
further room for doubt even among the staunchest skeptics singing the
'unbirthday party' song in our country, that even if one
gullibly accepted all the pretexts since 911 for 'War on Terror'
on its face value, then why permanently colonize one of the victims
in perpetuity through the deftly cultivated tiny minority ruling
elite whose interests will remain permanently allied with that of the
global ruling elite crafting the neo-colonial 'empire'?
Similar templates for future Press Releases from the White House
exist for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi-Arabia,
the entire Middle East, the Littoral States, and other Republics of
Central Asia - each template tailored to the particular geostrategic
significance of the pawns on 'the Grand Chessboard', and each
embedding the respective nation's trivially co-opted 'mercenary'
ruling elite to play the proxy colonizing role while the 'hidden
fist' stays sheathed on site but always on call as: “The
hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist”
(Thomas Friedman). This is why, in fact of empirical evidence, the
not so 'hidden fist' is there in more than 700 locations
worldwide according to the Congressional Budget Office (2004):
“The United States maintains an extensive network of
overseas military bases, as it has since the end of World War II.
Those installations--scattered throughout the world and numbering
more than 700--enable the U.S. military to maintain a permanent
presence on all seven continents.”
But since the “attitude of American public toward the
external projection of American power has been more ambivalent”,
and “Public opinion polls conducted in 1995 - 1996 indicated
a general public preference for 'sharing' power with others, rather
than for its monopolistic exercise”, and because it “is
also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic
abroad” which “limits the use of America's power,
especially its capacity for military intimidation”, and
also because “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”, therefore, a fictitious enemy is
fabricated that is real enough in its construction, but trivially
beatable as so insightfully demonstrated by the character 'Anakin
Skywalker' in “The Revenge of the Sith”.
This fabrication is all the more necessary today than in the past
decades of superpower primacy because:
“... 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.” (Brzezinski)
Yes indeed General sahib, the “War on Terror”
against the synthetic 'islamofascists', and other various
deliberate fictions of 'WMDs' (as now the case for Iran), or their
'getting loose' (as now the case for our nation), and newer ones to
be constructed in the future, lends precisely such a Machiavellian
“high degree of doctrinal motivation” for
continuing on with “imperial mobilization” for “at
least a generation and preferably longer”!
And this is precisely the seed where the lifetime of “World
War IV” emanates from, as the former CIA Director James
Woolsey noted: “the United States is engaged in World War
IV, and that it could continue for years”!
It's monumentally criminal architects and craftsmen: the highly
'respected' intellectuals occupying the corridors and hallways of the
Ivy Leagues, the Rand, the Heritage, the JINSA, the AEI, the Hudson,
the Weekly Standard, the World Bank, et. al. A vast majority of them
civilians. We love to call them the neo-cons, or the realpolitik
warriors, or the neo-liberals, or the neo-conservatives, or the
Democratic Party, or the Republican Party, but we little understand
their perfection of their deadly craft, or how it interplays on
different faces of the same multi-faceted imperial coin pushing
itself onto the 'Grand Chessboard' for “full spectrum
dominance” of the "Zion that will light up all the
world"! This imperial war of barbaric modernity, unlike in
previous times, is a highly polished and elaborate intellectual
doctrinal effort - from the formulation of 'Islamofascism' to the
'Clash of Civilizations' - that has been under preparation for almost
two decades! A preliminary list of the visible top of the iceberg
among its 'craftsmen' is compiled as 'Exhibit A' in my book, to be
presented to a “Robert H. Jackson” someday
(https://web.archive.org/web/20071207214020/http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/nuremberg/close.html)!
(https://web.archive.org/web/20071207214020/http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/nuremberg/close.html)!
I hope that I have now fully convinced you General sahib, of the
background thesis of this letter, that this “War on Terror”
is synthetic and a complete fabrication!
And this must cause you grave concern and many sleepless nights
henceforth as a genuinely patriotic Pakistani General. Because quite
unremarkably, once again, our out-of-control mis-adventuresome
Pakistani military with no genuine civilian democratic controls upon
it, with no genuine public mandates except through an iron fist up
the nation's backside, espousing no known tradition of
intellectualism or sophistication in political thought to be able to
effectively understand let alone counter such Machiavellianly crafted
warfare emanating from the best political minds in the world, and
having no known tradition of seeking genuine independence from
hegemony or from continually bowing to the 'superior white masters'
from whence they derive all their power and funding, has become a
willing accomplice in this suicidal and monumental crime against
humanity as the “coalition of the willing” -
entirely in contra-indication to the Pakistani peoples' own
proclivities, instincts for survival, and cultural and religious
bonds of sympathies with the victims. Little does the mainstay of
genuinely patriotic leadership in this martial institution realize
that we too are situated in the same 'arc de crises'! Or perhaps it
does?
How is the world's 5th largest standing military so easily controlled
by the West to support Western interests over the nation's own? Well,
please permit me to explain candidly the way I see it, and do feel
free to correct me if I inadvertently utter falsehoods at any point
as you are surely more knowledgeable of these matters with your
considerably vast inside-experience of our august institution.
III
As you surely already know, in this world, there are only
'ubermensch' masters, and there are plebeian client-states and
moronic patsies. A client-state stays a client-state like old wine in
a new bottle, merely changing the color of the bottle periodically.
Client-states do not fight their own wars, but others' on their
behalf. So do the patsies, only they do it unknowingly all the while
being misled into thinking that they are serving their own agenda -
like 'strategic depth'! Client-states do not have independent foreign
policies, but carry on with the ones handed them. Patsies are led to
believe that they are crafting their own - like Pakistan's support of
CIA intervention in Afghanistan and the 8 year decimation of that
nation; just as today we are doing the same against our other
neighbor Iran. And the biggest patsies of them all - the ubiquitous
boogie-men - the synthetic 'al-qaeeda' and the wretched Taliban. All
directly under the clever manipulation of the black-ops of the CIA
with so many artificially constructed degrees of separation as to
claim 'plausible deniability' if the facade is ever blown; as in the
case of Iran-Contra to keep Iran and Iraq well supplied with
lower-order weapons to keep them busy mindlessly killing each other
for 8 long years to neutralize the revolutionary changes towards
genuine independence from hegemony taking place in Iran lest it
become globally contagious; or as confessed to by Zbigniew Brzezinski
in his remorseless gloating of “giving to the USSR its
Vietnam war” in a remarkably calculated covert “operation
[that] was an excellent idea” for “drawing the
Russians into the Afghan trap" which eventually led to the
“liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war”,
all gratuitously orchestrated on Muslim soil with the relatively free
blood of “Some stirred-up Moslems” while the patsy
Pakistani military intelligence was led by the nose to the wet dreams
of acquiring 'strategic depth' as a viable defense against Indian
missiles (sic!) and its ranks deliberately staffed with those
sympathetic to the tortuous notion of 'jihad' as funded and crafted
in the USA by Messrs. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Zalmay Khalilzad, and the
late William Casey, former Director of the CIA!
And none-too-surprisingly, client-states invariably have 'ubermensch'
dictatorships in one garb or another running gun-shot upon their own
peoples in the service of the uber 'ubermensch' masters, as we note
between Z, B, N, M, and loop - all serving the hectoring hegemons'
interests first, and all installed by them! Kissinger had outright
warned ZAB that he will make an example of him if he did not give up
the idea of the 'Islamic bomb' - the last time we truly enjoyed an
independent foreign policy for a brief period. And that state of our
nation too was deliberately brought to power as a much weaker and
deliberately dismembered buffer state - far easier to manipulate than
a stronger one in case it ever got its act together as the then
largest Muslim country on the planet.
But ZAB just got too big for his breeches and was replaced by an
obedient soldier to help win the Cold War - the World War III. And
our present obedient one too, before the recent change of guard took
place that is, was brought to power because N got too big for his
breeches by aspiring to be a 'caliph'. M is still entirely following
a scripted set to help the sole superpower once again win their new
World War - World War IV - because the entire game plan is to
accomplish the attack on Iran that was planned more than a decade ago
followed of course by our own further dismemberment which was also
planned when the Soviet Union collapsed; for we were surely only
allowed to come into existence as an additional easily manipulatable
buffer-state during the Cold War. We are entirely following a
scripted path for the past 8 years rushing towards our own demise in
the guise of the artificial and much touted 7% growth rate by selling
off our national assets in a fire sale. The next thing would be
liquidation of our real estate - as any corporate raiders might
inform you. Which is also why the nationalistic Putin reversed the
neoliberalism in his own nation after the fire-sale of the 1990s in
Russia. But we are pressing on contrary to all the manifest signs.
The only rational answer is, deliberately. Treason of the highest
order!
Are you shocked? Surely not! None of this ought to be anything new
for you. But it does beg the following question.
Please let me know if you know of a genuine non-client-state nation.
And then you may also discover that they are also genuinely
independent, have no WB loans - the only ones - and all in the global
North! The rest, the entire resource-rich yet poverty-stricken global
South, with three exceptions of any consequence, all have strong
military and defense establishments ostensibly fighting some
invisible external enemies, but in reality are entirely there to
conquer their own people in the service of the rich nations of the
Global North who have only one open-secret global agenda: 'full
spectrum dominance' i.e. hegemony over the resource rich nations of
the Global South, and of the Earth and its outer and inner spaces
including cyberspaces! We are entirely headed towards a one world
government - you can already see the intervening alliances that are
being crafted in the Global North and their already centralized
financial control over the entire world. Only the Global South is
being prevented from making any alliances in self-defense - the
toothless SCO not withstanding!
For us in the Global South, it remains the time tested formula
'divide and conquer', repeatedly pitting brother against brother! It
is not that we don't learn or are a moronic peoples - it is merely
that there is actual treasonous subversion by deliberately allowing
only such leadership to emerge who will dutifully do the masters'
bidding as a compliant client-state.
So what will really change if the present dictatorial military setup
is replaced by a faux democratic one with all the visible trimmings
of 'democracy' and all the essence of a patsy client-state?
Isn't the unabsurd reality grotesque - one that is brought into
existence by the super-power 'brokerage firms' and remains in
obsequious service to them - continually fighting their fictitious
'War on Terror' and killing our own citizens, and then
shortly, enabling the monumentally criminal invasion and nuclear
slaughter of our neighboring brethren Muslim nation Iran, followed by
our own annihilation and/or re-chalking of our boundaries? I have
already seen at least 6 redrawn maps of Pakistan emanating from the
West, as I am sure you have too.
If I utter any falsehoods, then you tell me: Is there any other
reason that we are not strategically aligned with our co-religionists
and culturally aligned next door neighbor Iran in these trying times
instead of trying to assist in destabilizing it and supporting such
CIA interventions once again from our territories as we did in the
previous military dictatorship?
Is there any other reason why we are not more closely allied with
India, except for the penchants of our military brasses - their
self-delusional raison d'être of existence which miraculously
disappears in its current dispensation of unbridled power exercise
upon the nation once we form a friendship that's our peoples' due
being primarily of the same stock? Please help me understand that if
an EU can transpire within 50 years of those guys mercilessly killing
each other for hundreds of years and being entirely separate nations
and cultures for thousands of years, why can't an entirely similar SU
(Subcontinental Union) transpire today when we have far more heritage
and history in common than the Europeans among themselves, and we
were only artificially torn asunder 60 years ago after thousands of
years of shared history of peaceful co-existence of all its peoples?
Is there any other reason why the fiction 'War on Terror' is
being conveniently harvested by both the Busharrafs against their own
peoples - both peoples losing their civil liberties and living in
police states, one overtly and most brutally, the other still only
covertly awaiting another enabling 'pearl harbor' so that
their rulers may unleash the final full spectrum nuclear 'shock
and awe' upon Iran by blaming it, and also springing the already
prepared and already on the books 'police state' upon the once
'populist democracy' to get them to forcibly go along with the
monumental crime against humanity?
Indeed, it must be obvious to anyone possessing even minor political
acumen that a nuclear armed Muslim state cannot be allowed to exist
except as a compliant client-state (and only temporarily). Thus since
Iran isn't a client-state, indeed, is the only independent and
self-reliant Muslim state on the planet, she is not being allowed to
exist without at least visiting a 'shock and awe' display upon
its peoples - the latest study of American preparations draws the
following conclusion:
"The study concludes that the US has made military
preparations to destroy Iran's WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed
forces, state apparatus and economic infrastructure within days if
not hours of President George W. Bush giving the order."
['Considering a war with Iran: A discussion paper on WMD in the
Middle East']
And we are the best of friends with the very same 'hectoring
hegemons' in a monumentally stupid, never mind monumentally
criminal, suicide pact - along with the patsy, the hectoring hegemons
too are suiciding their beautiful nation long term! We, the patsies
perhaps may not be such a loss at being 'disappeared' on the global
scene, and perhaps only us will mourn that loss while the rest of the
world may well be cheering. But the lofty nation in the West that
once strove to be the beacon of civilization and culture in the
modernity du jour, of learning and knowledge, of freedoms and wealth
for anyone prepared to work hard, biting the dust because of the
tortuous ideology of unbridled greed for pelf and power through
'endless wars' that gave the only pathetic 'meaning' possible
to the puny existence of the tiny tiny amoral largely atheistic
minority of super criminals among them pretending to be the Platonic
wise supermen of knowledge but entirely Nietzscheian and Straussian
'ubermensch' in the depravity of their souls, must be the monumental
tragedy at which even the heavens must already be mourning!
I love America where I got my education, my maturity, and my honest
livelihood, and where I happily raised my family and had an
accomplished engineering career, and above all, where I acquired the
courage of my convictions; just as I love Pakistan, the nation my
father and mother and grandparents immigrated to right after its
creation by the amazing Founder who was from our own tiny minority
community, full of hopes and dreams - all torn asunder by a handful
of 'ubermenschen' criminals in both nations who think themselves
better than all the rest of humanity!
Why should any self-respecting human being ever accept any of this? I
don't. Do you?
Where should ones' first allegiances lie - to a 'flag', to an
arbitrary 'geography' circumscribed by the hegemons of yesteryears
and accidents of history, to the serendipitous place of one's birth,
to the 'false flag of patriotism' and thus "united we stand"
under any banner in the commission of tyranny and monumental crimes
against humanity, or to a peoples composing the vast mass of humanity
to which we all belong as human beings? Should our first allegiances
be to truth and justice, or to the arbitrarily crafted abstractions
of 'nationalism' and 'patriotism'? Should we bear witness against
tyranny regardless of who commits the atrocities upon humanity, or
should we be selective in our memory and in our morality as the
'ubermenschen'? Are we human beings first, or are we American first
or Israeli first or Indian first or Pakistani first? Yes we human
beings do carry multiple identities; I am a Muslim before I am any
nationality, and I am also a Pakistani, my only national identity and
the only nation whose passport I have, by deliberate choice, carried
all my life despite being a legal permanent resident in the United
States for almost three decades. But I am, before anything else, a
human being first. I hope you are too?
And this is why my fingers on my computer keyboard, as do my legs on
the streets in protest marches, move with a feverish pace, of one who
knows that the man-made clock is ticking, and therefore to be
intimidated into remaining a silent bystander is to be an accomplice!
The urgency is fueled by the further surety of knowledge that the
fuse can also be defused if ordinary plebeian peoples, those that
Zbigniew Brzezinski loves to call the 'populist democracy' and
of which he is so afraid as being 'inimical to imperial
mobilization', just damn wake the hell up from their
indoctrinated slumber in my adopted homeland, and from their worship
of their petty stomach in my native homeland, so that together,
collectively, as human beings first, we can take charge of our own
dreams and our own hopes and our own destiny! It is one ship of
humanity – the 'ubermenschen' upper deck of the ship can't
survive, and must not be permitted to survive through their
obfuscating inhuman 'legal' cover whereby the only justification for
medieval torture, 'renditions', 'disappearances', incarcerations,
brutal beatings, and "shock and awe" upon a civilian
population is that it's 'legal', without the lower decks also
equitably sharing in this truly one of a kind and once in a lifetime
collective and wondrous voyage of life now made hell by the original
barbarians calling the 'kettle black'!
The handful of lawyers, and the handful of journalists, with black
and blue backs, arms, and legs, are serendipitously showing the way
to the still zombie populace in both nations content to let others
carve out their destiny for them! What the half million street
protest sizes could not accomplish in America since 911, ten thousand
are accomplishing in Pakistan in less than a few months! Thus we saw
the 'police state' transpire in Pakistan before it did in America!
Well, these immensely courageous 'Patrick Henrys' of 'civil society'
are unfortunately chasing down various and sundry red herrings even
in their disruptive dissent, such as 'rule of law', without
comprehending the bilateral 'social contract' upon which it
must be constructed and which is presently non-existent;
'independence of the judiciary', without appreciating that it
has no real power of enforcement without Executive backing; 'end
to the emergency', without understanding that it is merely a
short-term, window-dressed tool of fiat to achieve something for more
strategic and long term, and will be ended automatically anyway in
due course after having enabled the far worse devious construction of
a 'Pax-Mafioso's contract' upon the wretched nation under
'legal' cover to guarantee that the direction of the nation remains a
patsy client-state under the evolving new political dynamics inside
the nation. Nothing is ever left to chance when the 'empire' calls
the shots!
This spirit of outspoken dissent however, as misguided as it may be
today, is still a remarkably refreshing break from the past towards a
possible re-genesis of the nation. It is unsurprising that the
incumbent rulers in the patsy client-state are making their best
sledgehammer attempts to kill it during its birth-pangs. All
incumbents desirous of maintaining the real status quo would do the
same. This independence of spirit, interestingly enough, can also be
quite easily harnessed and re-directed, and multiplied in its force
of impact exponentially, if just one single ruler at the top
genuinely gets transformed into a real Patrick Henry, and a real Ben
Franklin (respectively representing the courage and the brains that
founded the promise of an independent United States of America from
the full spectrum exploitive reins of the 'hectoring hegemons' of
their time). Now you may perhaps also begin to see why I am writing
this letter to you.
If "hegemony is as old as mankind", so must also its
antidote of 'throwing the tea overboard'!
Unless fundamentals change genuinely - and this present crisis in our
nation can also be an opportunity for making such a genuine
transformation possible by re-imagining our defense, our overarching
purpose, and how to achieve them both by identifying our real enemies
and our real impediments from the imaginary ones and the red herrings
- it will merely remain re-bottling the old wine in a new bottle,
still the bloody 'client-state' at the mercy of local hoodlums and
petty thugs!
Thus, the much touted change of guard at the top to have any real
implication as a genuine change from status quo, must be followed by
a genuine transformation in the overarching, macro, and micro foreign
and domestic policies themselves that must seed markedly visible
changes in the nation's direction - towards a re-genesis!
All indications publicly emanating from the military and so called
'civilian' rulers at this time are entirely to the contrary. I hope
that these statements are merely placate-ments for our Western
'benefactors' and that there is in fact a meaningful change in the
wings – our own covert-ops for a change in the best interest of
our own peoples – of disengaging ourselves from the full
spectrum “imperial mobilization” efforts of the
sole superpower.
If such a meaningful change isn't in the works, then indeed, I feel
it is perhaps better to have martial law and this draconian state of
despondent crisis one after another leading to this naked
brutalization of the unarmed civilians and increase in the overall
state oppression upon the peoples. Because the 'syntactic sugaring'
that otherwise transpires with the facade of 'democracy',
'independence', 'enlightened moderation', and other resemanticized
euphemisms only masks our systemic cancer, prolongs our agony, and
merely solidifies our eventual disintegration as a sovereign nation
that was imagined and constructed upon the blood and sacrifice of
millions of people of the sub-continent. And it surely confirms what
an ill-conceived idea it was to partition India, reinforcing the
analysis of many that it was done entirely as a long term bet on the
'Grand Chessboard' of the post World War II era!
It is, after all, only in crises that nations are formed, and also
destroyed – for it wasn't just unfulfilled maternal instincts
that led Condoleezza Rice to utter her famous quip: 'the birth
pangs of the New middle East'. She obviously learnt her lessons
well from Ben Gurion who understood this better than anyone else as
the greatest unfettered enabler principle for the conquest of
Palestine to create 'Eretz Yisrael' when he wrote: "what
is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times."
Crises bring 'revolutionary times' and make transformations
possible - both good and bad. Only crises are harbingers of real
change! Peace never stimulates any change whatsoever. Oppression does
- and more absolutely brutal the oppression, more likely the
transformation from zombie state to real freedom.
Am I wrong General sahib in my reading of the infernal history of
hegemony since mankind put its footsteps on this earth? Don't you see
what's transpiring on our campuses in our schools and universities -
a serendipitous re-awakening of self-obsessed zombies as a direct
consequence of our praetorian military state's brutality against
unarmed civilians? Perhaps you also understand this historical nature
of transformation all too well and are indeed secretly planting the
seeds of real transformation in our society? Thus unless there is to
be real change, and not mere cosmetic changing of the bottle to
contain the same old wine, it is better to not provide any
pressure-release valve whatsoever – the ultimate instrument of
co-optation!
You cannot be so naive as not to see that all this murderous
'katputli tamasha' of 'synthetic terror' that is being enacted in our
nation is merely tempestuous moves on the evolving Grand Chessboard
in which we are most assuredly still the perpetual pawns. If this is
obvious to an ordinary plebeian like me, it must surely already be in
your expert knowledge too, with even more secretive details that
remain hidden from the ordinary citizenry until they become
irrelevant as faits accomplis. Then we can read all about them
to our heart's content in New York Times best sellers and utter 'tsk
tsk'! If we can only recognize this now with preemptive wisdom borne
of rational hindsights of study of history rather than wait for a
confessional exposé post fait accompli, as even a mere
possibility if not certainty, that the 'synthetic terror' being
orchestrated in Pakistan is along the operational axes to foment the
'arc of crises' and it is deliberately forging chaos in our nation
using our many a well known Achilles heals, than right away we know
what to do! Don't you think so? I don't think I need to spell out the
self-defense actions to take as you are surely more astute than I in
such matters!
Furthermore, if you haven't yet read Ayesha Siddiqa's recently
released best seller book, I highly recommend it. Most people who
talk about it actually haven't bothered to read it – they have
either read summaries, or have mainly heard about if from its
notoriety and read a few press clippings. Neither is sufficient to
appreciate what it has so courageously put together. However it has
its own short comings too. It entirely ignores the concept of
client-states and the obvious global agendas on the Grand Chessboard
in its 'academic' reconstruction of the world order as its author
perceives the world. Indeed the word 'client-state' does not occur
even once in the book. Thus it misses out entirely on the 'hectoring
hegemons' seeding the first-cause traumas in the nation's psyche, and
instead presents all our Faustian pacts with them as mere
exploitation of our ripe and fertile soil. There is a major
difference between planting and harvesting the fruits, and merely
chancing upon the fruit trees and appropriating its fruits – I
am sure you can appreciate the nuanced difference. For unless the
difference is clearly understood and appreciated, we won't know how
not to plant those rotten fruit-trees and how to protect our fertile
soil from them cropping up by 'sheer happenstance' as we go about
transforming the soil itself.
Despite this glaring and inexplicable constraint on the book, it
accurately portrays our humble and meager place in the world with
respect to our domestication by our own military - "Military
Inc.". It straightforwardly points out the drastic consequences
of the rise of this new 'feudal class' which has indeed stunted our
growth into modernity by perpetuating the antediluvian
praetorian-feudalistic society's mindset, both in terms of our
enslaved public's obsequious mindset that does not challenge power
but rather continually sucks up to it just to survive as per the
legacy of our colonial rule, as well as in our ruling elite's own
pelf and power as god's right to usurp and plunder whatever is in
sight also as per the legacy of the colonial rule. We created a new
nation, but were unable to dump the 'old wine' that Lord Babbington
Macaulay bottled for us all through the 19th century!
We may have indeed "descended from the tree-tops, but we have
yet to lose our tail" - as the octogenarian icon of wit
Cowasjee sahib recently put it! I have read this remarkable book of
Ayesha twice - as it is dense reading - and based on the evidence of
empirical reality around me when 'Alice' is wide awake, I know that
it depicts portions of reality rather accurately. You can't possibly
deny this with a straight face, at least to me. You must at least
face up to the obvious fact that our military is indeed a major
'Inc.' today controlling a non-trivial chunk of our economy in our
own bizarre construction of "military-feudal-industrial"
complex!
The complete reality however, as you surely know much better than me,
is actually much worse - only the author could not find the chutzpah
to document it considering it was written under the auspices of
former US Senator Lee Hamilton, who is also the same guy who oversaw
the officially-fictitious 911 Commission Report that lay the blame
for 911 on 19 'evil jihadis'! No mention of the possibility of
'Controlled Demolition' of the towers as a masterful covert-ops upon
the American nation in total contradiction to the copious visible
evidence already publicly available! We all know why a watchdog may
not bark - it is fed by the same owners who come to rob! And
similarly, there is also no mention of how promotions in the upper
echelons of our military are subtly, if not overtly, approved in
Washington with an imperceptible nod to ensure that only those
ideologically sympathetic to the Western interests climb up the
military ladder in senior positions. And for this selection, they are
allowed to have their way with the nation so long as the master's
interests are upheld. There is no other explanation of why, as
documented in Ayesha's book, the General is worth 500 million rupees
and the West continues to do business with the obviously corrupt men!
Despite the book's severe limitations of not providing a completed
picture of the 'why' and 'how' things are the way they are, the
courageous author did draw a good picture and her attempt to beard
the lion in its own den is based mainly on the cite-able evidence
available to her as evidenced by the copious footnotes in the book.
Unlike in the Pink Panther Hollywood detective movies, the latter day
robber barons rarely leave their calling cards behind, which even
when they exist, almost always remain 'classified' or verbal. Given
the lack of access to many confidential and still 'top secret'
archives, her book, compiled largely from freely and publicly
available information that would not be deemed controversial,
conjectural, and entirely speculative, is indeed remarkable, and you
too must indeed feel proud of such a courageous Pakistani.
IV
Having comprehensively deconstructed the reality when 'Alice' is both
wide awake, and also when she is sitting at the 'unbirthday party'
in her phantasmal state, it is now your turn General sahib to
answer some really tough questions as I lead you to re-imagine
Pakistan's defenses with me to genuinely empower her to leap-frog
into modernity!
In such a hegemonistic world as I have disclosed above, where our
military enterprise as well as our country along with its rapidly
privatized economy has become the private largess of our Brig-Gens in
the service of their Western masters and their own pockets, kindly do
explain the rationale of further rebuilding our defense establishment
- for what purpose?
When we don't have clean drinking water or useful quality education
or essential services or quality healthcare et. al. for our own
overburdened barely surviving majority citizenry and the army, navy
and air-force live comfortably ensconced in their own elite enclaves?
When corruption is given official legal sanction and time-tested
politicians re-primed for further loot and plunder of the
public-commons as never before seen anywhere else on the planet in
the modernity of nation-states?
When language is given new meaning and familiar words mean the
opposite of what their dictionary meanings might suggest? When
Orwellian euphemisms are dexterously used to control the mass
public's rather plebeian minds with egregious impunity and such
shamelessness as never before witnessed or accomplished in the
history of civilizations?
When 'war on terror' is to fight and kill ones' own people after they
are cleverly manipulated as patsies into 'synthetic terror' for the
explicit purpose of creating the pretext of fighting the 'war on
terror' for a 'lifetime' - the perpetual war - the 50 year war,
'World War IV'? Sometimes art is made to mimic reality as the only
way to make dissent known – and watching the Star Wars movie
“Revenge of the Sith” brings home that reality better
than any book on current affairs. That depiction has accurately
captured the bombing of Afghanistan in my view, and the entire facade
of 'war on terror' because indeed, in the modernity du jour of a sole
superpower nation aspiring “full spectrum dominance”
as part of its national foreign policy, its domestic policy must
follow suit as otherwise “democracy is inimical to imperial
mobilization” and its peoples unwilling to go fight far off
battles at the cost of their own blood and their own social
spendings. This is the entire reality behind the fiction of “war
on terror” as I have coherently reasoned in this letter. Why is
Pakistan a part of this “imperial mobilization”? What's
in it for our people – to kill and devastate other Muslim
nations? Or any nation for that matter – as the entire Global
South is up grabs!
Is this why we should help rebuild our military for real-time
information warfare? Before a just judge, this would be high treason!
A monumental crime against humanity!
Yes it would be a different matter all together were we a genuinely
independent nation like Iran or India or Venezuela (the only three in
the developing nations of the Global South as of today - we won't
include China as it's in a different league altogether being the main
focus of the fomented 'check' on the Grand Chessboard), not baying
and begging the West for handouts and first and foremost caring for
our own peoples to the extent possible, and with their military
firmly under civilian control and out of controlling and manipulating
politics and economy even from inside the barracks. It would be a
virtue in such a world to even be mildly patriotic. I am eagerly
looking forward to such a re-imagined Pakistan and would be delighted
under such new circumstance to help rebuild our national defenses in
the light of the modernity of information-age for safeguarding our
genuine earned independence. Doing it now would only be in the
service of the status quo! A traitorous labor for pecuniary gains!
We must make choices General sahib - the stomach is attached to us by
biology and we have no free will there unfortunately, but conscience
is the one aspect that does demand free will. The latter under the
diktats of the former is for slaves and client-states who do anything
for a pecuniary gain of pelf and power; the other way around is for
free men and free women! That's what makes a nation of peoples
genuinely independent and free - when its peoples first demand it by
showing it in their own humble choices between the stomach first, or
the conscience first! Sometimes that does entail going hungry, giving
up lucrative contracts and deals, suppressing the ego or even
foregoing the pleasures of speaking to the divine and hearing
commands through its 'ubermensch' voices, and worse - as we see the
handful of lonely but courageous and unarmed men and women undergoing
today at the hands of our illustrious military might once again hell
bent on conquering its own peoples! Any military man or woman in
uniform with a modicum of conscience and iota of self respect
watching this spectacle would die of shame! That day might yet come
when the only sanctuary for them from their own peoples would be
without their caps and stripes! And they would have certainly earned
it! How despicable!
Why should we strengthen this system? It is suicidal and
self-defeating!
A true patriot would walk away... wouldn't you agree? And the truly
courageous, the real commandos, would fight back! 'We are many, they
are few, they need us [and their guns] more than we need them [or
their guns]'! Just our disengagement from supporting the status quo
with our humble daily acts and the courageous decision not to be
co-opted in any shape or form for any reason, are potent weapons
enough!
Might this be called the patriotic 'jihad' of the unarmed 'elite'
civilians - god forbid - lest we all get branded as ' elite
terrorists'?
Yes I can surely assist you in this sort of 'military transformation'
– the transformation of the "military mindset" as you
put it - of first being correctly able to identify its adversaries
from its friends, and its first national obligations of not
conquering its own peoples.
Every Pakistani civilian extra-judicially killed by a Pakistani
soldier or by the praetorian state's henchmen by any other name must
garner the murderer and all those in the 'unity of command' who
ordered such treasonous crime, the immediate death penalty for crimes
against their own peoples. An excursion outside the national borders
or issuance of a PCO or subverting of the Constitution or taking over
the reins of the country, directly or indirectly, through any
manipulative power-plays, being deemed the highest treason for the
entire 'unity of command' structure – retroactively!
It would be an honor to help rebuild such a transformed and
professional military - firmly under the civilian political command
and full accountability up to the gallows through the 'unity of
command' - for the high-tech information-age, and solely for the
purpose of self-defense of our national borders and those of our ally
nations with whom we must make mutual self-defense pact treaties in
our, and our covetous resource-rich region's best interests.
I would love to craft such a professional and human military that has
learnt the lessons from Nuremberg – of the entire rank and file
up to the top commanding officers having the moral obligation of
disobeying an immoral order – one that is against the Human
Rights Convention to which most civilized nations of the world are
now signatory, and then willingly facing the inevitable court martial
for this moral and rational disobedience and defending oneself
honorably. A military without conscience is one that belongs to
'Daarth Vaider' - the imperial storm troopers! We have no need for
such a military. That is a radical transformation of the mindset –
won't you agree? Better that than sitting in the docks lamely arguing
“I was only following orders” - which cannot bring
back the multitude of innocent dead, and nor can it restore the
tabula rasa of nations. Perhaps such laments under the victors'
justice is only useful fodder for more lame theses on the “banality
of evil” - in every new generation! Modernity does tend to
keep up with newer more high-tech ways to be more brutal and inhuman,
doesn't it? Why should we accept that - from anyone?
When we blindly copy so much from the West, what keeps us from also
rationally adapting and inculcating the fundamental sources of their
genuine strengths for our own self-defense and the real genuine
advancement of all our peoples as human beings first? Yes you now
know it too – primarily our 'client-state' colonization that is
so easy to perpetually maintain, primarily due to our antiquated
praetorian mindset egregiously still carrying the vestiges of the
dark ages of self-righteous divine sanction to rule over the
'subjects' in the service of some higher purpose. Unfortunately, once
again we have copied the malaise of the West instead of its lofty
achievements: one man still deciding the fate of the entire nation
with absolute monarchist powers in his hands. A lesson well learnt
from the prime benefactor! Putting a lethal weapon such as a
high-tech information-age enabled storm troopers in such 'ubermensch'
praetorian hands is a monumental crime against humanity, regardless
of which nation does it.
I hope you did not mind my frankly sharing my few inner most thoughts
with you. And I further hope that I won't be sent to the gallows for
it – for re-imagining our military and our nation - under any
pretext or draconian laws enacted under fascism? Will you now protect
my inalienable rights to think my own thoughts and to voice my own
views and to be genuinely concerned for my own nation and its peoples
as I outline for you the path to a genuine military transformation?
Or only distinguished bemedaled Generals allowed such luxuries?
Because I do feel just as patriotic as you – perhaps even more
- but I have no medals on my chest! Surely no one has monopoly over
patriotism, right?
And to keep everyman's patriotism in check is why we need the 'rule
of law', which in the modernity du jour is based on a reasonable,
workable, practical, fair, and humanitarian constitution that is
ratified by the populace willing to be governed by it. Laws merely
enacted by fiat and approved by a hand-picked ruling elite is hardly
a 'social contract'. It is a Mafioso's contract, an 'ubermensch'
emperor's contract. In antiquity, they didn't need a constitution
because the monarch or caliph or tyrant – usually synonymous -
was the constitution, and it didn't need public ratification because
the public didn't matter, and if the rulers didn't like someone, all
they had to order was 'off with the head' and a hundred
legions were ready to execute the command, moral or not. The word of
the ruler was absolute law, and the 'rule of law' still prevailed, by
hook or by crook.
So the statement, 'rule of law' by itself can mean anything - even
rule by tyrants and demagogues and colonial powers under artfully
crafted legal cover - and must be qualified as to whose law, and who
sanctioned it, and who forced it upon us or who willingly affirmed it
as a binding bilateral mutually acceptable 'social contract' under
which the 'people' contractually (i.e. Constitutionally) empower the
'state' to manage their collective macro affairs in return for many a
circumscription upon their individual selves! This is how my finite
mind understands civilized existence in modernity.
If the 'state' abrogates its part of the first-principle upon which
the 'social contract' is constructed, why should the civilians
continue to accept their end of the bargain? Why should we, the
peoples, continue to endure the beatings and tortures and
disappearances and the "shock and awe" just for
exercising our 'contractually' guaranteed and obligatory, nay,
inalienable Human Rights, and our 'contractual' right as per the
'social contract' to peaceably and collectively tell our rulers we
don't approve of their policies, their unjust wars, their unjust
alliances, or that we don't wish to be governed by self-appointed
tin-pot dictators who think they are god's indispensable gift to
mankind? I leave the natural culmination of this line of logical
reasoning to your own unconstrained military imagination!
Are we trying to get back to antiquity as fast as possible today by
completely suppressing freedom of speech with such draconian laws
like the Army Act 2007, and the abominable muzzling of the press that
was still in its nascent stages and hadn't even realized its full
mission before it was killed through its birth-pangs? Or are we
actually trying to enter modernity by adopting the methods of
antiquity, and by magic it will all happen right and we will wake up
in modernity? Or is this the very face of the new emerging modernity
itself under the 'new Mandarins' in which the 'one world government'
rules, where there is "one center of power, one center of
force, one center of decision-making, a world of one master, one
sovereign", as the Russian President Vladimir Putin aptly
put it? I hope you will agree that none of these are acceptable to
the rational mind that seeks independence and freedom from hegemony
of all kinds, starting from those of our own 'ubermenschen'
'praetorian guards'!
I hope that you will also agree, being the thoughtful soldier that
you are, that there is no such time as a specific 'best time' to
usher in such freedoms. Freedom is a continuous practice, not a
reachable state and then resting on ones' laurels. The practice of
freedom must remain constant, perennial, through thick and thin of
the nation. What Abraham Lincoln did with the American Constitution,
and pitted brother against brother to keep the Union, is a dark
question mark on the emergence of America as a civilized nation along
with its merciless extermination of 10 million natives to settle the
land of the free. We need not copy America in its darkest of times
and in its monumental crimes. Let's copy America where it suits us,
when it is at its best, and copy from others what they have that
suits us when they have been at their best, and adapt and transplant
what is good into our own native soil by becoming wise gardeners –
keeping our own valuable trees, the few that we have, and knowing
both, the fundamental nature of 'the transplants', and how to
cultivate the 'native soil' to make it conducive to 'the
transplants'.
That does not however mean, as our demagogues would like the gullible
among us to illogically believe, that if it took the West hundreds of
years of Renaissance and much pain and suffering to acquire their
political acumen and their freedoms and their democratic forms of
government, that we, the 'pathetic Muslims', must also needlessly
continue to suffer in the modernity du jour also for hundreds of
years despite all that has been already learnt, and all that has
already been invented! Only a moron, and a tyrant serving another
higher master would make such fallacious arguments that we too must
persist in inventing our own 'square wheel' first! We cannot on the
one hand claim that we shall be catching up and even surpassing the
entire industrial and information-age revolution within a single
generation with our HEC heralding-in the 'socio-economic engine' of
development with their 9 or 10 billion-dollar instant-universities
imported from abroad along with instant-faculty and instant-learning
so we can overnight catch up on scientific research and
high-technology, not to mention how quickly the 'enlightened
moderation' has been thrust into our conservative culture that expats
returning from abroad even after 2 or 3 years cannot recognize their
own society, and in the very same breadth suggest: oh except of
course for political freedoms.
Such specious red-herring laden arguments can only be made by deftly
planted Trojan Horse(s) to keep the 'wretched of this earth'
continually on our knees as dependent patsy client-states of the
'hectoring hegemons'!
And the best evidence that this is indeed a real smelly-stinking
red-herring, and after which there can be no further argument
possible, and no greater evidence presented, is our own next door
neighbor India, comprising the same stock of peoples, who won their
independence in a shared struggle with us within the same 24-hour
period - a vibrant and thriving DEMOCRACY! People freely speaking
their minds and freely choosing their governments without hindrance
or fear - indeed, India is the largest genuine democracy on the
entire PLANET!
I hope General sahib that you will entirely agree that we must ring
in all our freedoms NOW along with the respect of the 'state' towards
its own 'contractual' obligations towards the 'social contract' - its
first-cause raison d'être for even its very existence! This is
indeed the first-order primary 'transformation' that you must seek!
Without our military relinquishing its full-spectrum dictatorial
controls upon 'we the peoples', we are but slaves to the tempestuous
whims of whosoever thinks he (or she) is the 'greatest invention
since sliced bread'!
The 'modernity' that the West acquired after their Renaissance, and
of which they remained proud for 400 years, itself required the
freedom of thought and of its unabridged expression in unhindered
public speech as the quintessential first baby-step. They were
compelled to banish the 'hemlock' of antiquity and forcefully took
that first baby step against the muzzling of independent thought and
speech by their own 'praetorian guards' before they could eventually
acquire all that fancy military know-how a few hundred years later to
now beat us all over the heads with! We can't harvest the fruits
without planting the trees first. While they are now attempting to
reacquire their 'tail' for reasons best known only to their
controllers, perhaps we will do better with the essential
metamorphosis of changing the mindsets of our own multi-faceted
'praetorian guards' in order to finally lose our own 'tail' that
still inexplicably dogs us despite already having had our first
Renaissance over 1400 years ago!
If you are willing to spearhead this genuine military transformation
for the benefit of our 170 million 'wretched of this earth' who have
suffered enough from this antediluvian praetorian mindset that is our
real enemy within, you can count on my help right away!
Repeal not only the Army Act 2007, but all abhorrent laws and
practices that were enacted in all previous military and dictatorial
regimes including the vestiges from our colonial past, spanning the
gamut of anything that is against the United Nations Agreements on
Human Rights to which we are already a signatory
(http://hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html) and the egalitarian norms of
decency and morality, to construct a genuine non-Mafioso 'social
contract'.
Help this nation craft a genuinely progressive Constitution once and
for all by taking a close look at what Venezuela has done - see this
analysis: "America and Venezuela: Constitutional Worlds Apart"
(https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-and-venezuela-constitutional-worlds-apart/6594),
and do read the amazingly insightful book cited therein: "Cracks
in the Constitution", to intimately comprehend how the greatest
of ideas like 'Democracy' can be trivially corrupted by a co-opted or
incoherent implementation! Several chapters in my book also examine
many aspects related to its supposed watchdog - the 'fourth pillar' -
that has entirely bastardized the present American 'democracy' to
deliberately assist in crafting the out-of-control 'empire' now hell
bent on 'imperial mobilization' with its peoples easily
shell-shocked into 'united we stand'!
We neither want such a 'watchdog' that only reports “truth
with responsibility” (PTV) or only conveys “All
the News that's fit to print” (NYT), nor such a corrupted
system of 'democracy' that cycles the same vested power-interests in
the White House by just changing its front faces! Not a whole lot
differently than what transpires in our wretched nation, except that
we don't even bother changing the faces!
Let's reject both systems and craft a genuine Democracy with a
capital D and without quotes – 'the worst possible system
except for all others' because it cannot be easily co-opted! You
will thus make Pakistan impregnable(!) redeeming all the past
failures of the Pakistan military – an institution to be
finally genuinely proud of without recourse to any Army Acts!
An urgent and timely devolution of dictatorial powers back into a
genuine fractious Democracy may be our only ticket to also safely and
completely disengage our over-committed nation from the sole
superpower's “imperial mobilization” and its fabricated
but monumentally criminal “War on Terror” (please
see its rational analysis and a realpolitik 'Full Spectrum
Deterrence' in my essay: Saving Pakistan from Synthetic 'Terror
Central').
Indeed, had the reins of the entire nation not been held in the
absolute hands of any one man to be able to unilaterally and
criminally commit 170 million peoples to become complicit in crimes
against humanity, no amount of real or fictitious threats from a
bar-room bouncer to 'bomb us back into stone age' could have
convinced a genuinely argumentative FDP (fractious,
distributive, participative) Democracy to go along in
America's ungodly con Wars!
It is no coincidence General sahib that absolute dictatorships in
client-states are the Hectoring Hegemons' best friend, and genuine
Democracy is not! The dictatorships do not come about except through
the deliberate orchestration by the hegemons! Only its public
disclosure has to wait until faits accomplis and the famed
'declassification process' in advanced countries! If we can just
learn to appreciate that naked fact and realize that our clock is
ticking rapidly with the “Re-Gathering Storm”, we can
immediately know how to save ourselves from becoming a mere footnote
in future historians' gleeful writings! “We are made wise
not by the recollections [of history], but by the responsibility for
our future”!
Let's re-imagine Pakistan together General sahib! Surely that can't
be a crime or sin even in the most fascists of mindsets? And to
re-imagine something, one has to negate or erase what came before. It
is much like the Muslim traditional religious creed – the first
part as you surely know, asserts, 'there is no god'. The rest, the
good stuff - as far as Muslims are concerned - only comes afterwards.
The 'Kalima' begins with the denial of the abhorrent, and ends in the
affirmation of the good. To reject the abhorrent can't be a crime or
sin – it is the explicit teaching of our religion and the
foundation of our faith - even if those espousing the abhorrent may
assert so otherwise! Thus to continually re-imagine, in every
generation, and by everyone, in order to know what to negate and what
to erase, what to keep and what to throw away, is our fundamental
religious duty too. Thusly springs forth the freedom to imagine, and
by corollary, freedom to think, and freedom to discuss. It isn't
entirely a gift or invention of the Western civilization you know,
although they seemed to have learned it a bit better than us.
And let's act quickly because the barbarians are already waiting at
the gates of hell for an opportune pretext to strike, as the famous
scion of imperialism, Zbigniew Brzezinski has so thoughtfully warned
us. Reading between the lines of his prepared speech made to the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee in February 2007, one can easily
make out that the grandmaster author of the 'Grand Chessboard',
through his public warning, is bringing to fulfillment his own wishes
expressed in his own blatantly chauvinist writings of a decade
earlier - and that's perhaps the most appropriate ominous note of
empirical realism upon which to end this humble letter of conscience
to you (also see this report on Podhoretz's latest book in the NYT,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/books/26Book.html):
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/books/26Book.html):
'a plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves
Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of
Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in
Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a
"defensive" US military action against Iran that plunges a
lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually
ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan' (Zbigniew
Brzezinski's testimony before the US Senate's Foreign Relations
Committee, Feb. 1, 2007, can be viewed in its full foreboding light
at
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/cacheof-us-sfrc-brzezinskitestimony070201.pdf).
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/cacheof-us-sfrc-brzezinskitestimony070201.pdf).
Warm regards,
Zahir Ebrahim
Founder, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
*The meeting is fictitious.
Chapter 9
Saving Pakistan from Synthetic
'Terror Central'
Orchestration of 'Lal Masjid' massacre in Islamabad – a precursor to full spectrum “Shock and Awe”?
Zahir Ebrahim
July 13-23, 2007
Footnotes Added August 14, 2014, Pakistan's Independence Day
This past week the world watched in abject horror the despicable
spectacle of a Pakistani mosque – a place of worship and
sanctity – under intense “Shock and Awe” visitation
by Pakistan's own elite Army.
To me, watching impotently from 20,000 miles away in California with
a sinking petrified heart, it was all too reminiscent of what is
still being visited upon the wretched peoples of Iraq after the
Western nations under the primal stewardship of the United States of
America – my 'tax-paying' country of residence – had
deliberately cultivated and armed their murderous military dictator
for over two decades when it had suited their interests on 'the
Grand Chessboard' leaving at least two million Muslims dead in
proxy warfare! And when the 'pawns' needed to be reshuffled with the
evolving geopolitical expediencies of the 'New World Order'
being heralded in by the lone unchallenged 'hectoring hegemon'
(this bombastic self-ascribed label is lucidly explained in my essay
“Dialog among Civilizations” [1]) left standing after the
Cold War, the very same hand-pumping supporters of the dictator set
him up as the patsy to commit an international transgression (as also
noted in the Iraqi transcript of April Glaspie's conversation with
Sadaam Hussein [2]). Then they mercilessly 'shocked and awed' that
entire beleaguered nation with strangulating full spectrum economic
sanctions and DU bombings over a thirteen year period in
'retaliation' leaving nothing of consequence in sight: “After
eight years of enforcing a no fly zone in northern [and southern]
Iraq, few military targets remain. ‘We're down to the last
outhouse’” as reported by the Wall Street Journal in
1999.
That being the grotesque unmasked reality, the phantasmal
construction of Sadaam's 'WMDs' leaves much pause for reflection in
doctrinal writings asserting the imminent destruction of the Western
world unless the inhumanity that eventually followed was brought to
immediate fruition, in writing such as those by CPSG [3] and PNAC
[4], to wit [5], the overarching modus operandi:
'Saddam Hussein has been able to develop biological and chemical
munitions. ... This poses a danger to our friends, our allies, and to
our nation. It is clear that this danger cannot be eliminated as long
as our objective is simply "containment,"... Saddam must be
overpowered; he will not be brought down by a coup d'etat ... But
Saddam has an Achilles' heel: lacking popular support, he rules by
terror.'
In other words, 'save' the beleaguered people of Iraq from their
terrorizing brutalizing dictator who, now amnesiacally, was
installed, managed, and fully aided and abetted in the masterful
exercise of that terror by the very same people now clamoring for his
head! Remember this point as we return to it later in the essay.
And as we all know, unless someone has been soundly asleep, such
fanciful constructions were followed by the final blitzkrieg invasion
once again in 2003 under the full blown pretexts of 'WMDs' to indeed,
once and for all, finally 'free' the wretched Iraqi peoples from the
very same reign of terror and the 'frightened civilized world' from
the very same but now non-existent 'WMDs' that had earlier been very
covetously supplied to the erstwhile dictator as the mainstay of his
tyrannical rule over his own 'wretched' peoples. Please observe the
consistency of relationship between the artful planting of the mantra
years in advance, to its final “Shock and Awe”
'liberation' exercise as the 'saviors'.
We won't rehearse the gory details of the illegal eight year long war
of aggression that the barbaric patsy was encouraged to wage upon
another neighboring nation whose unprecedented chutzpah in
exercising her right to real freedom from superpower serfdom the
leading 'hectoring hegemon' du jour could never appreciate. And
obviously still cannot appreciate to this very day as it's now
planning the final coup de grace [6] by all accounts, by the very
same people (“The Case for Bombing Iran” [7]).
That final invasion operation upon the wretched nation of Iraq was
aptly, and also quite Orwellianly, named 'Operation Iraqi
Freedom'. Unsurprisingly, it is still ongoing four years later as
it is especially constructed and deftly orchestrated to continue
'freeing' the peoples of Iraq for a “lifetime” in a
'global war on terror' – the 'World War IV' [8] – that is
also projected to last a “lifetime”. Read here [9] or
here [10] how this WW4 all got started in the words of the 'hectoring
hegemons' themselves, and why it must continually be fought tooth and
nail against the phantasmal 'islamofascists' [11] to win
(sic!).
The forensic job of a detective in unraveling the truth is to find
unobvious linkages in a vast debris-field of real clues amidst
cleverly planted trail of crumbs left behind by any sophisticated
criminals. It is to uncover their philosophies and their motives –
tortuous or sane – to discover the primal motivations that move
them in order to clearly establish premeditation and intent from
random events and 'mere reactions' to 'happenstance'. That is what we
shall be doing in this essay, looking for rational and causal
linkages and patterns to understand the 'Terror Central' transpiring
in our nation – Pakistan – so that we can actually
uncover an efficacious curing protocol rather than continually spin
on red herrings.
The best enemies are of course always the ones that one has created,
aided and abetted, for then one knows precisely everything about the
supposed antagonists, and thus they can be easily destroyed with ease
once they have served some other secretive political or military
agenda. This technique of fighting fake and fabricated enemies, like
hegemony, is as old as mankind. Even the naming technology for these
operations isn't new, as deception is the first principle in the 'Art
of War'' mongering for any “imperial mobilization”.
The difference is that for 'Alexanders', 'Napoleons' and 'Queen
Victorias' leading a charged 'ubermensch' peoples who are already
imbued with the spirit of imperialism, conquest, and 'la mission
civilisatrice', deception is mainly only employed upon the
victims to be conquered – as the 'East India Company' was
employed for the conquest of the 'Jewel in the Crown', and the Trojan
horse to conquer Troy.
But for charlatans and wannabes leading a largely reluctant and
peaceable peoples uninterested in world conquest, or unwilling to
fight other peoples' wars with their own blood and tears, deception
is employed primarily for the conquest of one's own peoples first –
to either sufficiently 'motivate' them into the “imperial
mobilization”, or to sufficiently de-sensitize them into
inaction and resignation as their own tabula rasa is torn asunder
from underneath them in the name of protecting them from the 'evil
doers'. In both cases, after the Rubicon is initially crossed,
inching forward to greater and more egregious 'operations' becomes
relatively more 'palatable' to the peaceable and unwilling peoples!
As a student of history and current affairs, these two rather
un-apparent aspects of this global 'War on Terror' immediately
jumped into my straightforward but ordinary mind as I watched the
unfolding horrific events with bated breadth, constantly in touch
with my mom in Pakistan – for this time, the venue was my own
hometown, and the images were of my own streets that I had roamed
with friends as a teenager in high school.
Apart from fighting deliberately constructed 'evil doers' to
fabricate more 'evil doers' in order to fight the “perpetual
war” on fabricated terror, or 'synthetic terror', it seemed
that there was also the deliberate desensitization of the rest of the
Pakistani public to the notion of there being no red-lines that
cannot be crossed in this global 'War on Terror' at whose
altar the entire nation could also be willingly sacrificed in order
to 'win' it! Indeed, as is being deliberately orchestrated in Iraq,
it seemed that our own nation's 'acceptable' re-drawing of its
borders is being seeded incrementally through increasingly contrived
barbaric events such that it would make its eventual breakup appear
to be inevitable in order to keep the peace and sanity of its peoples
as well as to ensure the safety of the entire world!
For a cynical mind tuned to studying the geopolitical gamesmanship on
the Grand Chessboards of history, there can be no other rational and
strategic explanation for this monstrous case of sledgehammer brutish
military destruction of the Lal Masjid complex and the murder of its
young boys and girls, most of them orphans and extremely indigent
with no one to watch out for their interests, i.e., quite
dispensable, in the very heart of Islamabad among a nation of peoples
already brimming from ear to ear with 'faith' and extremely mindful
of the inviolate sanctity of religion and its mosques.
Did the poor civilian, and at best misguided, predominantly young
victims of this slaughter by the world's 5th largest
standing military deserve this fate for the apparent crimes of
sacking a few video stores, shutting down a brothel, and some other
random acts of puritanical vigilante-justice which were deliberately
aided and abetted by the 'state' to get the matters to a head? To
really understand this question insightfully, one must ask the
concomitant question: did the people of Iraq or Afghanistan deserve
their fate as the backyards of 'hectoring hegemons'? And further
ponder: what might either of these widely disparate wretched peoples
in entirely different nations but yet with so much in common, have
done in retrospect to avoid their fate?
To cut through the chase, I'll share my own limited comprehension of
the matter. The only key lesson I have learned from watching all this
repeat time and again is that when an indigenous peoples do not
courageously rise to overthrow their own dictators that have been
deftly foisted upon them under one expedient pretext or another, the
'foreigners' willingly, and inevitably come to 'free' them from their
shackles once these dictators have served their function!
Do we want such a 'saving'?
The malformed construct of Lal Masjid, like the necessity of the
Iraqi dictatorship in the 1980s, had been deliberately nurtured and
lovingly cultivated, but in its own peculiar and rather bizarre,
almost anachronistic, and hence visually shocking to the 'modernity'
du jour, 'fundamentalist' militant flavor for several years right
under the very noses of the notorious and all powerful intelligence
agencies which shies not even from bugging the homes and offices of
the Justices of the Supreme Court in a setup so elaborate, that the
spooks claim they cannot certify the removal of all illegal
monitoring and tapping devices from the judges quarters in less time
than a couple of weeks even upon the explicit legal directive of the
highest judicial body in the land to sweep them clean immediately!
For the government to claim not to have known what was going on
inside the Lal Masjid is obviously the same sort of incredulous lie
as the American Government's feigned ignorance that they did not know
of the impending 'new Pearl Harbor' of 911. Never mind that in all
likelihood, they brought all three towers down themselves as any
rational unbiased observer will note from the way these
gravity-collapsed (WTC-7), decimated and disintegrated (WTC-1 and
WTC-2), within seconds so symmetrically right unto their own
footprints as is the case in any well executed demolition. [12]
And like all assets deliberately cultivated for proxy services, the
Lal Masjid asset too was eliminated with the same zeal and target
practice vigor in the most exemplary of “Shock and Awe”
demonstration to also 'save' the goodly peoples of Islamabad, the
long suffering Pakistani nation, and all of the advanced civilized
world from its 'sticks and stones' antediluvian reign of terror and
obscurantism that had burned one too many DVDs and shutdown one too
many massage parlors in the city as mere humble beginnings with
sights trained upon conquering the whole world with their white
turbans and slotted black tents. This operation too was aptly named
“Silence”, and the manner in which it has been conducted
is also similarly likely to continue harvesting its stated aim of
'silence' over a “lifetime”!
From Afghanistan to Iraq to Palestine to Lebanon to Iran and now in
Pakistan, strategic military operations and covert 'black-ops' are
continually set in motion that are all aptly named and so wisely and
humanely constructed so as to precisely achieve their explicitly
stated aims as reflected in the simplest meanings of their 'nom de
guerres', but of course only in the Orwellian sector of the Matrix!
In the empirical world, it achieves precisely the opposite of its apt
name – and then, feigned surprise! Even an elementary school
kid will surely know that: “Those to whom evil is done, Do Evil
in return.”
But of course not the brilliant think-tankers at AEI from which Bush
borrowed 20 of their best minds, noting: “Some of the finest
minds of our nation are at work on some of the greatest challenges to
our nation. You do such good work that my administration has borrowed
twenty such minds. I want to thank them for their service”.
And nor the realpolitik strategists at the Pentagon who argue that
the only way to 'free' the world of the menace of the 'evil doers'
is to “Shock and Awe” them to death after cultivating
them first precisely for that purpose.
One given to cynicism borne from rational empiricism will easily
assert that this modus operandi of barbarianism quite conveniently
ensures an endless supply of 'evil doers' by design. Others
will continue celebrating with gusto, the 'unbirthday party'
with the 'Dormouse'!
The Pakistani military dictatorship foisted upon the reigns of the
nation, just like Sadaam Hussein in Iraq was previously, merely took
a leaf out of the same handbook of 'terror' published in the United
States of America for the same purpose.
Except that this Islamabad “Shock and Awe” operation is a
bit unique in that it has been wrought not by an alien superpower
upon a demonized and dehumanized peoples of another 'lesser' god due
to some 'ubermensch' self-proclaimed primacy imperatives on the Grand
Chessboard as had previously been the norm, but by the nation's own
ruling elite military force upon its own 'lesser' civilian people.
It must somehow be better to be 'shocked and awed' by ones' own kind
– as when Sadaam Hussein was doing it to his own people –
than by some 'ubermensch' foreigners, especially if the 'enemy' in
all these operations is projected to be exactly the same, namely, the
'evil doers', the 'evil jihadis', 'radical Islamists', 'militant
Islam', and yes, the ubiquitous 'al qaeeda'! At least when men,
women, and children with the latter labels are slaughtered by
'Muslims' themselves, and at the wholesome hands of their own mighty
national custodians at that, they at least presumably get funeral
prayers, and a chance at half decent burial in individual graves –
provided their body was found intact! It is merely the dress
rehearsal for the final 'shock and awe' where no bodies are found at
the altar of 'Daisy Cutters' and 'JDAMs'.
- how was it possible that under the very nose of the all powerful military Government in the modern Federal Capital could this shockingly antediluvian 'al qaeeda' construct have been allowed to germinate in plain sight, and pretty much all are coming up as empty handed;
- just as in the case of asking the same question of how 911 was allowed to be perpetrated by the 'evil jihadis' using sophisticated flying machines that they only learned to fly on flight simulators and subsequently hijacked with such ease with this incredibly antediluvian weapon systems often referred to as 'box cutters' under the very noses of the most armed to the teeth nuclear superpower state with an annual military defense budget that far exceeds that of the next two dozen nations combined, and similarly coming up empty handed!
In both cases however, the impact upon the world's public is graphic,
immediate, and shocking beyond belief, and of course, remarkably
enabling. The leading argument for their occurrence in both cases
being 'incompetence' and 'intelligence failure' which is promulgated
by both the state and their erudite pundits in all guises.
This 'incompetence' explanation unfortunately doesn't shed a whole
lot of light on the matter in either case, at least for us ordinary
folks who have to first pay for this 'incompetence' with our tax
dollars year after year, and then again for the subsequent
'enablement' of the 'preemptive wars' against 'evil doers' with our
blood and tears!
Since few in the world today apparently possess the profound
mathematics ability to correctly add 'two plus two equal four',
or the linguistic capability to publicly pronounce the words 'false
flag operation' in order to delineate such matters in their
proper perspective which might rather straightforwardly lead to the
unraveling of all obfuscation that surrounds modern deception based
“imperial mobilization” and thus prematurely bring down
the house of cards while it's still being erected before fait
accompli, we see almost all commentators in the ubiquitous
newsmedia and in the multitude of think-tanks, as well as all
politicians worth their salt from the American shining seas to the
Arabian troubled waters, and all the way to our very own shores,
unsurprisingly focusing mainly on discussing the minutiae of the
manifest event itself.
None of them betray that they possess long term memories, or any
comprehension of even recent history that can be contextualized to
the present.
None of them seem to have heard of 'covert-ops' and 'black-ops'; none
of them have read the shrewd analysis of the imperial thinkers
themselves of the necessity of real mobilizing pretexts such as the
“New Pearl Harbor” and “clear and present danger”
as otherwise “Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”
None of them apparently understand that covert-ops while they are
operational and active, are meant to be secretive and mendacious,
which is why they are called 'covert', and that their unraveling
necessitates perceptively seeing beyond what's being deliberately
made manifest and what's being insisted upon as 'two plus two
equals five' – for hard receipts for them will only be
uncovered by historians through the famed declassification process
post faits accomplis.
Thus all of these 'astute' thinkers, commentators, and media pundits
none too miraculously reach the same minimal and common conclusion
space regardless of their own starting thesis or the circuitous
routes taken in their analysis and speculations, that at the bare
minimum, the scourge of 'fundamentalism' and 'militant Islam' needs
to be checked with renewed commitment in the global 'war on terror',
or else no one in the 'civilized world' would remain safe from these
antiquated Taliban style 'evil jihadis' and 'al qaeeda'. That root of
terror has now been successfully showcased as residing in Pakistan –
the “Terror Central”!
It is indeed deemed a 'clash of civilizations', not of the East and
the West titans, but of 'radical antiquated militant Islam' and the
rest of civilized humanity! That “Today [even] if one could
wipe America off the map of the world with a wet cloth, mullah-led
fanaticism will not disappear”, as the distinguished
native-informant par excellence, the world class physicist Pervez
Hoodbhoy, has conclusively observed in his latest analysis of the
matter in “Preventing More Lal Masjids”, [13] and which
he had earlier explored in great analytical depth in “The
Threat From Within”. [14] And none too surprisingly, echoed the
same mantra of Pakistan becoming a 'terrorist sanctuary' as CNN did a
few days ago when it aired its made for TV propaganda documentary by
Nick Richardson: “Pakistan - The Threat Within” [15]. The
unanimity of this conclusion space is scary to say the least –
at least for us Pakistanis.
It would appear that the world's leading thinkers, journalists,
newsmedia, scholars and leaders “United We Stand” that
Pakistan poses a serious threat to world peace! Not the hectoring
hegemons who have cleverly utilized 911 “to goosestep the
Herrenvolk across international frontiers” in what only
appears to be another 'operation canned goods' or the
'Reichstag fire' or the much coveted 'New Pearl Harbor'
to achieve the 'transformation of [its] forces' to achieve
'full spectrum dominance' over the planet and outerspace, but
my wretched lands of the ancient Indus valley, and my wretched
peoples – we are the world threat!
Therefore, as others more astute, learned, and worldly wise than us
have already quite courageously tread the obvious more blatantly
visible paths to 'great depths' and declared our land “Terror
Central” and our troubled wretched peoples a 'world threat',
let us leave the profoundly learned and their various drum beaters to
their own devices, and instead, in this brief space, continue
exploring where the rather unusual columnist Ejaz Haider in his July
12, 2007 oped in the Daily Times titled “Truth will out”
[15a] left off after offhandedly noting:
'Could it be that the government did not want Ghazi to remain alive
and at some point talk to the media? The operation was codenamed
“Silence”. It makes sense to dub it such if there is an
urgent need to “silence” someone'.
Let us further also try to answer the questions that the earnest
journalist Talat Hussain tried to ask on his Aaj TV 'Live with Talat'
show last night, on July 23, 2007, of his distinguished panelists who
could only respond with the most obvious staid platitudes to his
rather profound and surprising key inquiry (paraphrasing and
translating the entire program in a nutshell):
“we think we understand the agenda of the Americans and we pay
attention to their body language and to their pillow talk of
friendship etc. to judge their intentions, and we continually respond
as short-sighted reactionaries to each unfolding event when it occurs
(seemingly by happenstance) thinking we are mutual friends and allies
in this war on terror, and the Americans pay us for our obedient
services while continually demanding more and more from us after
every transgression we heap upon our own peoples; but do we really,
really understand what the overarching long term American intentions
and agenda is all about? Do we really understand their geopolitical
power-plays and how we are designed to fit in to their scheme of
things?”
Let us, the rather 'ordinary' and 'lesser' distinguished Pakistanis,
the 'we the peoples', collectively put on our own thinking hats and
rightly lay the charge for monumental crimes at the proper doorstep
of the first root cause from which 'all the evil that has
followed' as per the justice administered at the Nuremberg
Military Tribunals. [15b] The Nuremberg Principles of justice were so
powerful that it absolved all the Allied powers of their own
monumentally criminal bombing of civilian population centers from
Dresden to Tokyo, and Hiroshima to Nagasaki, as all rather
unfortunate but legitimate and necessary self-defense against the
primary first cause aggressor!
Well, learning from the yardstick setup by the leading superpowers
themselves, and identifying the primary first causes of the disease
accurately in the layers upon layers of secondary and tertiary causal
relationships, rather than merely analyzing its manifest and most
visible symptoms, we stand at least half a chance of identifying the
right remedies and initiating proper and timely self-defense.
An improper diagnosis on the other hand – either under the
distraught and emotional state of siege when no options but to
silently appease seem to dominate the thinking of our ruling elite to
safeguard their own vested interests, or due to deliberately spewed
red herrings that are being disseminated from the highest pulpits
that misguides our analysts, or perhaps our own uncourageous silence
and co-optation due to the fear of calling a spade a spade lest one
be labeled a 'terrorist' just as Patrick Henry might today be labeled
– can easily lead to continued catastrophes very quickly piling
up upon our already beleaguered peoples and a sure death from
disintegration of our already fragile nation!
Such destructive destiny apparently has been pre-ordained by the
powers to be by 2012 according to some news reports, and only
fatalist fools and co-opted traitors will continue to gladly suffer
it. Let's not be counted among them!
Let's instead craft our own destiny that is first and foremost, in
our own best national interests!
And let's not confine the definition of 'national interest' to that
offered by our ruling 'Military Inc.', but also rationally include
within its ambit, the national interests of 'WE', the ordinary and
wretched 170 million peoples of this nation!
Let's begin by observing what is being accomplished with the
monumentally criminal Lal Masjid 'katputli tamasha' (puppet show):
- (1) More credibility and justification to continue fueling the fiction of global 'war on terror' (see for instance “Al-Qaeda, the eternal covert operation” [16]) – and not surprisingly in recent news reports even that linkage to al-qaeeda has been made manifest, even throwing in the name of Daniel Pearl for good measure ;
- (2) Continued desensitization of the locals to Muslims killing Muslims (and the Muslim 'state' being just another one of the actors in the contrived mayhem) to further the global agenda of getting the 'natives' to do the colonizing work – Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, (see the excellent summary in “Condi's creative chaos” [17]) – thus witness that there is no uproar among the local public, they accepted the concept of curfew and curtailment of their movements meekly under the pretext of necessity (what hasn't been wrought under the doctrine of necessity) whereas even if Sir Rushdie sneezes or a cartoon is created somewhere in deliberate provocation, all hell breaks loose in Pakistan to show precisely that 'Moslems' are antiquated fundamentalist nations harboring 'militant Islamists' (see “Satanic Pictures” [18]), and that it's “Not [even] a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash between the Civilized World and Barbarians” (see Daniel Pipes) [19];
- (3) A broader agenda enacted piece-meal and known only to the puppeteers for what's in store for Pakistan between now and 2012 is being successfully orchestrated (and which we can intelligently guess at but, for which we shall find no receipts until ex post facto, i.e., after fait accompli). The timing of the appearance of this book written by a 'native informant' isn't just accidental (“Divide Pakistan: To Eliminate Terrorism” and CNN is already running its slick advertisement [20]), and nor is Pakistan being the most willing of all client states dutifully serving empire ever in question (for instance, see “Pakistan to help as the US's jailer” [21] or “Bush Authorizes New Covert Action against Iran” [22] or “CIA running black propaganda operation against Iran, Syria and Lebanon, officials say” [23]).
- So, can we say that we know for a fact that Bush hasn't authorized a similar covert-ops by black-ops forces in Pakistan to further substantiate, by hook or by crook, the raison d'être for continuing the 'war on terror', especially when it needs to be continually primed for a 'lifetime', and Pakistan is the perfect place of harvest for its plentiful recruits with already in-place “doctrinal motivation” left over from winning World War III, i.e., the Cold War?
- We do however know for a fact that its converse is true, and in the words of empire itself, that the empire does covert-ops a-plenty to achieve its “imperial mobilization” under the cover of “plausible deniability”. Given this realist's realpolitik understanding of the world of hectoring hegemons we live in who openly proclaim “hegemony is as old as mankind”, what are the most obvious first-questions to ask in attempting to unravel this rather bizarre, but easily avertable, Lal Masjid blood bath of manufactured innocent patsies set up for this propagandist purpose of aiding in the crafting of “Terror Central”?
My humble response – as Sherlock Holmes might ask – who
benefits from this Lal Masjid episode? And just this week, based on
all the evidences that we have so very egregiously provided to the
world in the past six months, George W. Bush declared Pakistan
“Terror Central” in a national address on American radio!
Who benefits from such a designation?
The most obvious beneficiaries you ask? No not Musharraf – for
he too takes command from elsewhere and is no less indispensable to
them than his illustrious predecessor in the same uniform who just as
eagerly served the massa in “giving to the USSR its
Vietnam War”, with many more eagerly awaiting in the wings
to bow and scrape to his (or her) master's voice. The passing “mango
season” [24] being just incidental to this dispensation of
gratitude – the land of Pakistan is gifted with many seasons,
not to fear.
In this misanthropic orchestration of Lal Masjid event – which
did not, most assuredly, commence only in January 2007, but rather
the staging began several years prior, and at least as far back as
2004 when the late maulana Ghazi was reappointed to the Lal Masjid as
its head, and all charges of 'terrorism' against him were magically
dropped by General Musharraf's own military establishment –
Pakistani rulers have deliberately handed the justification on a
platter, and once again at the expense of the blood and tears of the
wretched peoples of this land, to the Islamophobe Mr. Daniel Pipes
for his oft repeated lament noted in “Recruiting Soldiers
Against Radical Islam”. [25] The vulgar propagandist of empire
has repeatedly lamented how “so many people in the West
still don't believe that they are at war [with] .. radical Islam”.
Well, no more, and thank you very much!
And had this not been enacted in military strongman General
Musharraf's Pakistan, it could have been enacted someplace else, and
as it surely will. We shouldn't forget that the most recent one was
orchestrated simultaneously in Gaza to stage the Hamas Fatah
incestuous killing zone, and in Lebanon in the Naher al Bared refugee
camp with the world watching silently as the 'wretched of the earth'
are once again displaced for a higher prerogative. The timing and
circumstances just worked out right for this Lal Masjid seedling to
germinate when it did. It conveniently served multiple hierarchy of
purposes. There are many more such incestuous Muslim killing Muslim
seedlings planted in the soil worldwide, rest assured.
If, just for a moment, one can assume that peering through the above
empirical lens also lends a rational perspective in the global
geopolitical context (as opposed to merely a 'tin hatted' conspiracy
theory from an hyperactive imagination), many very useful answers
potentially fall through. Covert-ops have layers of obfuscation
surrounding them like onion rings (see for instance “Islamic
Terrorists” supported by Uncle Sam [26]) amidst a trail of
endless red herrings. These covert-ops end up synthesizing
deliberately crafted consequences, rather than just the mere
'surprised happenstance', or the oft repeat 'surprised blowback'
mantra that we frequently see being discussed among the erudite and
the media, in order to perpetuate a pre-planned agenda through
brilliant Machiavellian deception mechanisms such as Ezra Pound's
superlative exposition of the dialectics of deception:
invent and propagate two or more [opposing] lies and keep the
peoples busily engaged arguing which of them might be true!
While the goodly peoples and their well intentioned intellectuals,
media, press, and think-tanks et. al. remain focused chasing which of
the multiple sets of 'katputli tamashas' may be true, the 'empire'
expands behind the scenes full steam ahead achieving the pre-planned
'full spectrum dominance' in the confusion and preemptive attacks and
new bases and missile defense against rogue actors, etc., that
follow!
I suppose those who insistently allege this open secret are merely
'conspiracy theorists'.
And when these 'tin hats' further insist on bringing up the plentiful
evidence to support their detective work, such as the multiple
existent 'Mein Kampfs', [27] or point to the “significantly
expanded planning doctrine for nuclear wars”, [28] or
narrate the agendas of 'Bush Doctrine' [29] in the words of the
neo-cons themselves and how deception (such as the famous 'WMD' and
'evil doers' and 'sky is falling') is the key weapon system of these
'hectoring hegemons' to confuse, scare and mobilize their own masses
in the most desired direction of inaction and acquiescence as
otherwise “Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization”,
[30] they are very conveniently labeled 'terrorists'!
Thus quite unremarkably easily shutting up anyone pointing to the
trumpeting elephants in the room, but leaving all the various drum
beaters who remain content diligently analyzing the 'katputli
tamashas', in charge of the circus. Often the most cleverly or
shrewdly co-opted who are beyond simple envelops and paychecks, are
amply rewarded with well deserved respite, prominence, junkets,
sabbaticals, and special invitations to speak along the Hudson and
the Potomac worthy of any high ranking faithful 'native-informant' in
the priestdom.
Only when the hard receipts are in some 20, 30, 40 years later, post
fait accompli, that we shall all know for sure the abc of all
the covert-ops, and the same informants who were earlier beating the
drum of 'radical Islamists' and 'militant Islam' will be writing
revealing books of how 'terribly' immoral and devilishly clever the
'empire' was, and magically find the courage to label it a 'rogue
state' and the like.
But that is why history is supposed to be a teacher for contemporary
matters in order to empower altering of the future. When the receipts
finally come in, instead of using them to analyze and unravel any
contemporary events in the light of what has transpired in the recent
past, these covert-ops and foreign interventions are just taken as a
matter of course, as a matter of mere 'primacy imperatives' of the
'hectoring hegemons', and written about ad nauseum by the
imperialists themselves in memoirs, confessions, diaries, or
self-serving gloats for want of applause ex post facto – like
how Brzezinski bragged about his own orchestrated covert CIA
intervention in Afghanistan to set a trap for the Soviet Union and
whose successful engagement in an eight-year long proxy superpower's
war on Muslim soil in Muslim blood seeded all these “Lal
Masjids” for us whose harvest we are now collecting.
Brzezinski created 'militant Islam' in our region by brazenly mixing
god and armed-struggle disguised as 'jihad' against the 'evil Soviet
empire'. We all know this tale, but how many readers in Pakistan have
seen the following claim by Brzezinski 20 years after his initiating
the monumentally criminal covert-ops in Afghanistan to deliberately
manufacture the “opportunity of giving to the USSR its
Vietnam war” on Muslim soil?
This
is incredibly important to understand, what came first: the invasion
of Afghanistan by the USSR, or the CIA covert-ops which was
deliberately and knowingly crafted to lead to such an invasion? In an
interview in 1998 to “Le Nouvel Observateur” (translated
from French by historian William Blum): [31]
Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated
in his memoirs [“From the Shadows”], that American
intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6
months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the
national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a
role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history,
CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after
the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality,
secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was
July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for
secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And
that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained
to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet
military intervention.
Question: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this
covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry
into war and looked to provoke it?
Brzezinski: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians
to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they
would.
Question: When the Soviets justified their intervention by
asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of
the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them.
However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an
excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the
Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets
officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now
have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed,
for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by
the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and
finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Question: And neither do you regret having supported the
Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future
terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the
world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some
stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of
the cold war?
Question: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and
repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global
policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global
Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or
emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion
followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian
fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian
pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what
unites the Christian countries.
Watch
Brzezinski in the following PBS video clip [32] on the Pak-Afghan
border in 1980 asserting to the 'Mujahideen': “god is on
your side” as he deftly manufactured these “Some
stirred-up Moslems” (who is the young man in the topi
standing next to him if not his Honorable Zalmay Khalilzad,
Brzezinski's talented protégé?):
News voice over 1980: “US National Security Advisor
Brzezinski flew to Pakistan to set about rallying resistance. He
wanted to arm the Mujahideen without revealing America's role. On the
Afghan border near the Khayber Pass, he urged the Soldiers of God to
redouble their efforts”
Brzezinski 1980: “We know of their deep belief in God,
and we are confident that their struggle will succeed. That land over
there, is yours, you'll go back to it one day, because your fight
will prevail, and you'll have your homes and your mosques back again;
because your cause is right; God is on your side.”
[enthusiastic clapping by the future 'Mujahideens']
Brzezinski in the studio speaking to the interviewer: “The
purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis will be to make the
Soviets bleed, for as much, as long, as possible.”
(transcription is mine from the video clip [32])
One might well ask the architect of the Grand Chessboard what new
diabolical “secret operation” is he, or his
trained offspring, now following for creating these new 'evil
jihadis' – the new boogie-men to fight their new Post-Cold War
lifetime of “war on terrorism” against, and after how
many years will they be giving their next interview to “Le
Nouvel Observateur” to confess to it, and which PBS videos will
be made 20 years hence to openly show the neo-cons urging on the new
mullahs to wage a jihad for 'enactment of Sharia' because 'god is
still very much on their side'? How will these murderous adventurers
playing their endless great game on the Grand Chessboard of central
Asia dismiss the useful idiot Muslims this time at the conclusion of
what they now call World War IV? Last time Brzezinski had merely
referred to the shedding of our endless red blood and the destruction
of a Muslim civilization in Afghanistan with its ripples percolating
East to West along the “arc of crisis” in the service of
“imperial mobilization”, as merely “some stirred-up
Moslems”!
Would Brzezinski's faithful amoral progeny gloat at the conclusion of
WW IV thusly (in the words of this scribe):
what is most important to the history of the earth – the
preeminence of America or the death of Arabs, Iraqis, Afghanis,
Palestinians, Pakistanis? Some stirred-up Moslems, or the brilliant
American full spectrum dominance of the entire planet, the control of
all the world's resources and all its energy spigots, and the
triumphal return of the Jews to their entire Promised Land in Eretz
Yisrael?
Brzezinski, brazen and boldfaced as ever, has already laid out how
any attack on Iran may materialize, in his Senate testimony [33]
before the Foreign Relations Committee on February 1, 2007. He openly
stated, in front of the recording cameras of C-SPAN:
“a plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran
involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by
accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some
provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran,
culminating in a "defensive" US military action against
Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening
quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and
Pakistan” (Full text of Brzezinski testimony cached [34])
Attack on Iran is indeed the only leg in the neo-con agenda that
remains unfulfilled in the short term during Bush's tenure, and for
which in the face of growing reluctance within the United States to
embark on another 'preemptive war' to achieve their self-proclaimed
primacy imperatives of 'full spectrum dominance', something more
tangible than just the sustained talk of 'evil doers', something more
concrete like the actual 'evil jihadis' in real conflagration against
the civil society, is required in order to prime its own 'democracy'
to wreck the pre-planned havoc upon another Muslim nation – the
only one that has dared to be independent and has openly defied the
sole superpower in the world. Every convincing bit that can be added
to the fabricated mantra of 'War on Terror' is now necessary
in order to mobilize the Western public against the supposed real and
present dangers of 'evil jihadis' and 'militantly Islamic rogue
states' hell bent on achieving their triumphal version of 'antiquated
Islam' with the force of arms. Thus for those who don't yet have
WMDs, it is the 'threat' of their acquiring them, and those who
already possess them, it is the 'threat' of their loosing them to the
'islamofascists'! Both create the boogie-men needed to continue on
with premeditated “imperial mobilization”!
Thus the poor Muslims – continually slogging under the burden
of what Samuel Huntington propagandistically stated as a has-been
“civilization convinced of the superiority of their culture
and incensed with the inferiority of their power”, and
perpetually kept under the iron-fist of Western installed tin-pot
dictators and autocracies of one sort or another from the very
inception of modern nation-states after World War I that ended their
own glorified 'thousand year' Muslim empires in grotesque
dismemberment and plunder – are once again deliberately paying
the price in their own blood, development, political freedoms, and
most importantly, in equitably sharing of their own natural resources
that are deftly being harvested away from them for a song under the
guise of neoliberalism.
The developing nations of the Global South, including all the Muslim
nations in it, are themselves assisting the West in the exercise of
its hegemony for the benefit and comfortable lifestyles of the
Western peoples of the Global North.
When will we in the Global South ever learn? When will we spot the
elephant in the room? When will we begin to build dikes and bridges
to weather the gathering storms that are about to burst?
All matters are inter-linked in this 'war on terror' and its
concomitant 'imperial mobilizations'. These matters cannot be
understood through simple temporal local microscopic lenses when the
image processing requirement calls for rapidly changing zoom lens in
a rapidly evolving global landscape. Red herrings are cleverly strewn
across the board, and deceptive opinions are deftly crafted by the
dutiful servants of empire (knowingly or inadvertently is immaterial)
who tend to carve up the entire discourse space unto themselves and
either ignore, or systematically denigrate anyone pointing out the
dancing-shitting-trumpeting elephant in the bedroom! If one cannot
assert two plus two equals four mes amis, what else is left?
So how must we rationally proceed
We must courageously ask and publicly debate, as a sane and rational
peoples, the following key meta questions in order to really
understand the Lal Masjid episode and how to most efficaciously throw
off the yoke of artificially crafted antediluvian 'fundamentalisms'
that is choking our peoples to death.
Is it impossible to conceive that suitcases full of black-ops dollars
are not in covert-ops replay today to deliberately create the 'evil
jihadis' such as the Lal Masjid in order to continue to generate and
sustain an 'Operation Canned Goods' [35] justification for continuing
to fuel the global 'war on terror' for a lifetime – what the
neo-cons and Ex CIA director have already labeled as a “lifetime
of wars”, the “World War IV”? [op. cit. James
Woolsey]
How else to fight such a war for an entire lifetime without credible
recruits to fight against also simultaneously being constructed for
the duration? And Pakistan-Afghanistan combo is the most fertile
recruiting ground today to extend the conflagration of the Middle
East directly into Iran – the main prize. Disarming Pakistan of
its nuclear arsenal is the other main event. Is it impossible to
perceive how this is being set up through a breakup of the nation
with a preemptive strike and take over by NATO of our nuclear arsenal
ostensibly to safeguard it? I can easily see a time when things have
become so bad that Musharraf personally hands off the safeguarding of
these installations to the hectoring hegemons! The Mission would
really be Accomplished!
Is it impossible to conceive that our General Musharraf's deliberate
aims can be coincident and consistent with those of the neo-cons?
Everything he has done empirically since taking power has been
reflective of their aims, argued with various excuses and apologetics
as mere tactical and reactionary responses to fast breaking events.
Is it inconceivable that under long term geostrategic planning on the
Grand Chessboard by the superpowers that precipitated in 911 as the
key enabler of the century, that they would leave the leadership of
the most frontline client-state whose services would be most
essential to wage this lifetime of 'Global War on Terror' to mere
chance and happenstance of October 12, 1999? Is it inconceivable to
argue that cooperation of the Pakistan's military would have been
orchestrated and would have been equally forthcoming no matter who
was in power? (See How military rulers intensified Zionist influence
in Pakistan By Abid Ullah Jan, June 05, 2007, [36])
Why can't there be other covert players here orchestrating events?
Once again just ask who is benefiting here? Incompetency and lack of
preventive rational response sooner no more explains Lal Masjid than
it does 911. “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If
it happens, it was planned that way”, as the only three
time US President Franklin D. Roosevelt himself believed – the
one who history now hints orchestrated 'Pearl Harbor' by increasing
the likelihood of its occurrence no differently than Brzezinski
confessed to orchestrating the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan four
decades later! If there is a history of such hegemonic planning to
get the gullible public of a democracy to go along in imperial
adventures (see Dialog among Civilizations: Whytalksfail? Part-1),
only fools and collaborators would not argue for preemptively
planning for self-defense against such an operation unfolding
contemporaneously.
Only the most 'learned' and the 'wise' would argue that there is no
proof in hand of any of these conspiracy theories, that we must not
learn from history which is only for memorization and torturing high
school students, to let's wait for the famed declassification
process, or the self-confessions, or the posthumous publication of
diaries, or the awarding of Nobel Prizes for winning the 'war on
terror' – i.e. ex post facto, after fait accompli, when
nothing can be done to alter the reality on the ground – before
we can conclude that it was all pre-planned!
These 'learned' folks will insist today on not reading the multiple
'Mein Kampfs' that exist in the hand writings of the 'hectoring
hegemons' themselves, vehemently dismissing all questions of
premeditation as conspiracy theories, but tomorrow, will make
millions in selling history books pointing out the obvious shitting
trumpeting dancing elephant in the bedroom as the 'rogue state', and
will be duly praised for their glorious dissent as the most prominent
gadflies and historians of repute!
Who benefits? Why was this benefit needed now, as the war on Iran is
being prepared for while the world is getting wary of the neo-con
agenda?
Watch the Star Wars movie 'Revenge of the Sith' in which Anakin
Skywalker goes and kills off the faithful collaborators of the Sith
Lord (the Senator) after the fiction of 'rebellion' has been
successfully crafted, and defeated, and which as the primal
first-cause, enabled the transition of a Republic into Empire.
So, was 'operation silence' necessary to get rid of the evidence of
covert-ops – a bizarre convolution of art imitating life, and
life imitating art?
Our intelligentsia in Pakistan must move the national dialog into
hitherto unexplored directions that transcend focusing on the
manifest leaves (which all can see and speculate upon), and start
intelligently exploring and unraveling the DNA of the tree in a
rational and strategic manner in order to even point to the
overarching rational solution spaces.
The most obvious, rational, and efficacious solution space under
these revised explorations whereby the problem space is posited
correctly, instead of well intentioned people being perennially sent
off chasing red herrings, automatically points to 'throw the tea
overboard'!
Only breaking out of the “Plebeian States” [37] syndrome
can we ever become a free peoples finally guiding our own wretched
destinies to something better for all our peoples.
A Realist's Strategy for Self-defense on the Grand Chessboard
And what does all this mean in concrete realist's terms of defining
an efficacious curing protocol for our systemic cancer before it
finally kills us?
In my straightforward view of the Grand Chessboard, the realpolitik
moves any beleaguered nation can make on it as a pawn in her own
effective self-defense such that she may have her cake and eat it as
well rather than continually offer herself as a perpetual pawn
sacrifice, is obviously circumscribed by its ruling-elite. The truth
of this statement is beyond doubt. It is self-evident. Whereas its
“awam”, the public, the wretched of the earth and
the rank and file forever caught between bread and circuses,
frequently do not count for much on the Grand Chessboard except as
cannon fodder, and as malleable putty in Machiavellian hands that
fabricate “revolutionary times” on demand. The colored
“democracy revolutions” brought to the streets with
useful idiots and stooges is a self-evident example of
this latter fact which is even underwritten in the actual recipe for
ushering in the neoliberal looting of a targeted nation (see From
Dictatorship to Democracy By Gene Sharp, professor of political
science at the University of Massachusetts and with the Albert
Einstein Institute in Boston, known as FDTD, the recipe cookbook for
manufacturing revolutions has been translated into more than 30
languages, evidently for every linguistic group targeted for the
harvest of “revolutionary times” for specific advantages
on the Grand Chessboard [38]).
Therefore, it is first necessary to boldly admit that there is no
independent strategy of survival possible for cowards and cowardly
nations, nor for nations dominated by fools and run by traitors and
mercenaries. These mental midget nations and its colonized peoples
will forever remain slaves to the massa no matter what. Let's
also just accept the fact up front that even a God given divine
prescription can be crippled by self-interest. The history of
tyrannical and autocratic rules in the name of God in all three
Abrahamic religions lend ample empiricism to leave any room for
doubt. The truth of this observation is beyond question. It is
self-evident. With the current crop of fools and mercenaries running
Pakistan, nothing can be done in any system, whether democracy,
dictatorship, autocracy, theocracy, or plutocracy, each one worse
than the other when it is beholden to the massa for its
survival. Sorry! But in order to effectively strategize what to do
when surrounded by house niggers in tyrannical systems of
control that strangulate and emasculate the creative energies of a
nation and sap the will of its peoples to be free from the shackles
of servitude, one must assume that the nation must experience a
national metanoia at some point, a metamorphosis of Biblical
proportions if you will, and a crop of “David” will come
to the helm of affairs who will have the nerve:
- (1) to fully disengage from the fiction of 'war on terror'
- (2) to close our borders not just to the so called 'islamofascists' and various and sundry cultivated 'terrorists', but to the American agenda and its black-ops agents moving freely throughout the country as their own backyard synthesizing and financing 'militant Islam' under 'plausible deniability' and several degrees of separation
- (3) to close down and banish all American military bases immediately from Pakistani soil
- (4) and to point our deterrence-inducing weapons that we have so covetously developed ostensibly for the defense of our own peoples at much sacrifice to our social spendings and developmental economics including clean drinking water in our taps, directly towards all the geopolitical 'hectoring hegemons' outside of our borders on mated full alert in a genuinely threatening 'Samson Option' of our own, fully disclosed as our ultimate, publicly mandated, political doctrine for a 'MAD' self-defense such that no one, not even the world's lone superpower and its nuclear armed minions, [39] can co-opt our self-defense by arm twisting games of poker on the Grand Chessboard – the only sensible (sic!) and rational raison d'être for possessing such deterrence in the first place
(genuine Origami paper tigers would surely have been a lot less
painful investment otherwise; and it may yet be more effective to
unilaterally disarm like South Africa if we don't have the 'balls',
the chutzpah, the mind, and the political will to make
effective use of the only rational way that such horrendous and
inconceivable Armageddon inducing weapons can ever be used – as
'MAD'ness – as most of us would surely prefer having clean
drinking water in our taps and quality K-16 education for all)
Furthermore, as these unilateral acts of disobedience to the 'master'
will surely bring-on the grave displeasure of the 'hectoring
hegemons' through their intense saber-rattling, economic sanctions,
and of course the merciful closing down of the infernal 'corruption
pipeline', i.e., the Trojan horse of 'American Aid', as well as other
heightened arm twisting tensions and even deadly covert-ops and
destabilization as the 'camel is already inside the tent', we cannot
safely execute on this disengagement goal on one fine morning in our
present system of monolithic power-dispensation even if we had a
reformed 'turn-coat' dictator willing to do it.
We additionally need two other crucial gestalt shifts in order to
realistically play on the Grand Chessboard – as all nations of
the world invariably do when 'hectoring hegemons' are the
'Grandmasters' – to ensure our immediate as well as our long
term survival, and without the persistent fear that we are among the
proverbial patsy pawns to be strategically played and ultimately
sacrificed by the 'Grandmasters' at the altar of realpolitik
expediency and conquest.
We must transform ourselves, a minor pawn though we might well always
remain, into a more heavy weight pawn that has a tremendous built-in
inertia in its internal structural makeup to be never again so
trivially co-opted by mere phone calls to one man, nor our destiny
trivially covertly-channeled by cleverly planted conscienceless
'Trojan Horses'. Indeed, we may, through judicious gestalt shifts,
promote ourselves into an 'autonomous pawn' on the 'Grand
Chessboard'. We only move or not move – and perhaps in
conjunction with others like us for a greatly amplified control upon
our own destiny – when we want, where we want, and always only
in our own public's best interest. This invariance is accomplished by
the very design of our internal structural makeup! Imagine such a
'Grand Chessboard' where some of the pawns move autonomously based on
their own control of their destiny, and by the very design of their
internal makeup, can never come under any 'Hectoring Hegemons' direct
manipulative control! The realpolitik has just been made more
interesting, naturally 'damped' and thus safer, and more equitable!
Now that we have imagined it, let's briefly note how to get there
realistically. The first gestalt shift must be in the construction of
our system. The only system I know of that lends the above desirable
properties is that of a genuine Democracy. It is naturally fractious,
distributive, participative (FDP), thus decision making
on important national matters and international policy decisions is
spread out by design. If we immediately make the gestalt shift of
dumping our 'praetorian' authoritarian mindset to adopt a more
progressive 'social contract' and FDP based systems of governance, we
can easily put the decision of whether or not to disengage from the
global “War on Terror” to the system itself for
adjudication. A national decision collectively taken by the peoples
under a legal framework of Constitutional mandates through their
representative parliaments, senate, put through another 'assembly of
patriotic un co-opted domain experts' for expert evaluation and
recommendation, and finally ratified directly by the peoples through
a direct vote on the critical issue, has overwhelming inertia and
built-in damping, as well as blanket international recognition and ab
initio legitimacy that simply cannot be easily subverted even by the
saber-rattling 'Hectoring Hegemons'.
Imagine if Musharraf had put the key decisions that he took
unilaterally based on his 'own judgment' after 911, through such a
FDP based public-vetting wringer process! This is called genuine FDP
based empowering Democracy in action – the first nemesis of the
'hectoring hegemons'!
And this is precisely why we find, that if we rationally accept,
based on all readily available empirical and intellectual evidence,
that this whole “War on Terror” is in reality a
very premeditated “imperial mobilization” in disguise,
then how can we rationally conclude that the brilliant minds who
conceived and meticulously planned for years, who artfully crafted
the requisite 'doctrinal motivations' into the public
discourse years in advance, and who finally orchestrated the imperial
march upon the much anxiously awaited and anticipated mobilizing
pretext of the 'new pearl harbor', would then so thoughtlessly
leave such a key component of their strategy to mere chance –
of the indispensable front-line state whose services are absolutely
essential for this “imperial mobilization” to succeed,
not being under the firm 'unity of command' of some autocratic
dictatorial regime to follow orders obediently?
And this analysis directly helps us save Pakistan – never mind
hanging the 'traitors' as the ship is sinking and we haven't the time
for fighting amongst ourselves – to immediately implement what
the 'hectoring hegemons' are indeed afraid of, and which can yet
derail their remaining “imperial mobilization” plans of
“Shock and Awe” visitation upon Iran and possibly Syria!
Thus the politically astute realpolitik thinking individuals in the
nation can easily anticipate and shrewdly predict considerable
opposition from the 'empire' and its minions, its 'native informants'
of all stripes, and our own ruling-elite and institutions preferring
the status quo, to our attempts to usher in such a genuine FDP
Democratic transformation. They would prefer that we only acquire the
faux 'democracy' they would like to foist upon us, one that has all
the 'trimmings' of 'democracy', such as elections and over staffed
parliaments, but is in essence, the same old recycled rotting wine in
a new bottle with the same centers of raw power that continually sing
the empire's song.
As we can witness the travails of Venezuela in its own social and
political struggles towards a genuine FDP based social Democracy, and
the layers of deception, disinformation, and political opposition
being artfully crafted by the 'empire' and the ruling elite within
Venezuela in its path, we can easily learn from their experience and
preemptively co-opt all similar and newer attempts that will also be
hurled at our attempts for genuine transformation. Just as the
construction of 'empire' and its patsy client-states in the
'modernity' du jour requires considerable mastery of both the art and
science of “imperial mobilization”, i.e., considerable
intellectual sophistication and manipulation of souls, so must
breaking loose from its chains. Or so it appears to me.
Thus realpolitik would dictate that in order to succeed in realizing
this gestalt shift towards re-genesis, we must have all the key
owners and the traditionally 'feudal' and 'praetorian' leaders in
public opinion-molding and power-wielding institutions among our own
ruling elite (a number less than a few hundred at best) preemptively
signed on to this metamorphosis, even if it is initially seeded by
executive fiat. These key stake holders controlling the money and the
power in the nation must be made to be just as engagingly and
overzealously supportive of it with their heart and soul, as the
imperialist thinkers and planners and their ruling elite and their
media-owners are of their own 'la mission civilisatrice' and
its “primacy and its geostrategic imperatives”!
Otherwise, nothing can be accomplished by even an army of 'mercenary'
patriots – our present crop of politicians and our
'empire-enabled' ruling elite including our military which got funded
at least to the tune of $10b by the empire to sing the empire's main
theme song!
I have no idea how this zeal can ever be infused among the zombies
and the Faustian pact holders, but without the key players among the
ruling elite directly on board this re-genesis, no rational
transformation in the 'modernity' du jour is possible short of a
global plebeian rebellion. Today, even though most everyone among the
ruling elite is still loudly singing the main imperial theme song of
“War on Terror” at the 'unbirthday party'
with the 'Mad Hatter' (sic!), I hope that this humble analysis
from the mind of a plebeian is a rational wakeup call! If it can
strike a chord in even one person of consequence, the dominoes will
fall on the Grand Chessboard!
Indeed, our immediate gestalt shift to a genuine FDP Democracy is our
only remaining lifeline on the Grand Chessboard! Not only does it
enable us to show the world that our complex and sophisticated
systems of genuine FDP Democratic dispensation have finally spoken in
unison as we safely disengage from the “War on Terror”
under our Constitutional mandate to listen to the formal spoken
voices of the peoples, and for which our Executive has no choice in
the matter but to follow suit immediately, but a properly
constructed, un co-opted, non 'special-interest' driven Democracy
would also enable us to implement the second crucial gestalt shift
that we need in order to safely disengage ourselves from this
barbaric “imperial mobilization” without committing an
economic suicide!
The second gestalt shift of realpolitik is to entirely reverse the
“divide and conquer” mechanism that is the mainstay of
any 'Hectoring Hegemon' as this amazing 8 minute youtube video of
“Battle at Kruger” [40] graphically illustrates. We can
easily grasp that if dividing is their main weapon system of
conquest, then uniting must be ours of self-defense! And this
remarkable “Battle at Kruger” from the world of nature
itself quite emphatically proves it, leaving no room for any further
rational objections to the matter.
Thus as the first crucial act of self-defense in our new genuine
Democratic dispensation, we must accelerate Full Spectrum
Alliances with our immediate neighbors, all of with whom we share
our history, our heritage, our languages, our cultures, and our
common national interests of being free from predatory hectoring
hegemons and living in equitable harmony in a multi-polar world that
espouses the simple moral Golden Rule 'Do unto others as you
have others do unto you' in governing all its foreign
relations!
And looking beyond that across to the greater Asian continent, to in
parallel, accelerate further 'Full Spectrum Alliances' in the SCO
(Shanghai Cooperation Organization) framework by positing mutual
self-defense and equitable regional trade treaties for the entire
Asian continent in an eventual AU (Asian Union) construction as the
only realists' means for accomplishing persistent and immediate Full
Spectrum Deterrence against all predatory adventurers hell bent
on “full spectrum dominance”.
Further 'Full Spectrum Alliances' constructed with the greater
humanity in the nations of the Global South is indeed how we save the
peoples of our region and of the entire developing world from the
curse of both neo-con-servatism, and neoliberalism and its
deliberately induced consequences of further sustaining global
poverty among the masses. Instead of the indigent and developing
nations being forced to adapt to the existent reality of
'Globalization' which is constructed by design to entirely favor
Western economic and corporate interests, to adapt 'Globalization'
itself to more equitably serve the economic interests of the
indigenous nations of Asia, Africa, and South America! As insoluble a
problem as poverty and developmental economics appear to be today, it
is trivial to solve by a single gestalt shift. Instead of one world
government of laws crafted to favor the 'free trade' mantra of
developed nations, employ the model of soccer leagues:
'A league' teams play amongst themselves, and 'C league' teams play
amongst themselves. The leagues only meet to play inter-league
matches under rules that are negotiated between the two supra-leagues
for a greater power-balance – not between individual teams from
different leagues where one of them may comprise super-dominant
Alpha-males dictating terms at the barrel of a gun and its exponents
unabashedly recognizing it for what it is: “The hidden hand
of the market will never work without a hidden fist”, or
between a highly developed power-block of a handful of nations who
crafted the WTO, and each individual nation in the rest of the world,
as is presently the case in the world today!
In one fell swoop of astute and genuine political ascendance, we not
only immediately save Pakistan and its wretched peoples from the very
predictable aftermath of this fictitious “War on terror”,
but also from the persistent legacy of our own 'praetorian guards'
and our colonial past! While simultaneously we seed important new
doctrines into the international arena by virtue of our setting the
example among the developing nations of Full Spectrum Alliances.
It is also how we save the entire world from the 'islamofascist
evil-doers' – for their militant source and lethal weapon
systems of suicide attacks will just as magically melt away from our
psyche and our lands – never again to be called “Terror
Central” – as it had 'magically' appeared! When their
'gardeners' are 'terminated' with extreme prejudice, they will also
whither away in their natural death in due course as they are an
unnaturally cultivated pariah in our societies and cannot long exist
on their own.
The Question of Annealing the festering Sectarianism and Radicalization of Muslims on the Grand Chessboard
This question has been examined in: Path Forward: Altering The
Legacy With Qur'anic Political Science – Impacting Muslim
Existence
Final thoughts and a demand
I feel that we can thusly plant the seeds of re-genesis which in the
past 60 years we have repeatedly failed to do primarily for the lack
of forensic understanding of the efficacy involved in any protocol we
randomly and ad hocly constructed and followed, for a disease we
perhaps either failed to appreciate for its nuanced viral shades, or
lacked the courage of our convictions to devise the right protocols.
In the presently outlined protocol, we can not only save ourselves
from the murderous clutches of the 'hectoring hegemons' at whose
mercy we have floated, from all empirical evidence, since our very
inception, but simultaneously also become a genuinely independent and
self-reliant nation for which we were presumably constructed by our
ailing founder who saw the world from his own peculiar vantage point
that is now little shared by our cynical younger generation of this
nation.
Unless we can prove it to them that the tyrannical-sacrifice of
millions of innocent 'dispensable' peoples on the sub-continent
leading to the largest displacement of humanity from their native
soil in modern times – far surpassing the original forcible
displacement of the indigenous Palestinians by the imported Zionist
Jews in 1948 – was worthwhile for the vision of a handful of
intellectuals of the twentieth century, we have betrayed the promise.
And indeed, it is mainly the promise to our progeny for which the
founders of Pakistan constructed Pakistan. Our failure, quite
unsurprisingly, mirrors that of the apartheid state of Israel (see my
similar forensic analysis and deconstruction of Zionist mythologies
in my essay “The endless trail of red herrings” [41])
primarily because we share the same manipulative 'Hectoring Hegemons'
in our history and in our present. And our future promise, like that
of the 'Children of Abraham' equitably sharing the land of Canaan, is
entirely in our own courageous hands too!
Just as the seeds of the original 'birth-pangs' of these two
evidently malformed-constructs of history were laid first in
intellectual thought – Theodore Herzl in 1896 for 'Der
Judenstaat' [42] in his diabolically seminal work of the same name
for importing World and European Jewry into Palestine as an
existential matter of their survival in the genuinely anti-Semitic
European world of the time, and Ch. Rahmat Ali [43] for his
realist's-idealism of a separate political Constitution for the
indigenous Muslims already living on the Indian subcontinent as an
existential matter of their survival in the new post-colonial
political 'nation-state of India' that would be dominated by a Hindu
ruling majority in his equally seminal 1933 Declarative Manifesto
“Now or Never: Are we to live or perish forever”
[44] – the seeds of re-genesis must also be laid first in
intellectual thought. (See Sacred Cow: Allama Iqbal - marde-momin
or superman? [45] for how the separatist seeds were planted to
divide the Indian sub-continent with intelllectual thought.)
At the risk of stating a self-evident truism, one has to imagine the
goal before one can be inspired to work towards its arduous journey
and overcome all the divisive impediments and obstructions by
power-brokers that will surely exist, as was originally the case too,
for both nations. Well, both original constructions backfired, both
were clearly sanctioned by the global superpowers of the time to best
manage the 'sinking ship' of a waning empire for the future exercise
of hegemony by a new empire, and consequently both are still causing
egregious injuries to the tabula rasa of their respective indigenous
peoples under the direct control and financial assistance of the same
'hectoring hegemons' du jour, and therefore both need to re-imagine
their re-genesis that allows their respective indigenous peoples to
indeed exist in equitable peace and justice in the new global and
local realities du jour.
This re-genesis is precisely what the peoples of Pakistan today must
insistently, and by all uncompromising means possible, demand.
It is what I, a humble ordinary citizen of this land demands, for it
is a 'political right', and a hope, that I have covetously
safeguarded, despite having lived in the West all my adult life.
If I can boldly imagine and demand it for the wretched of Palestine
by the images of the 'jackboots' of the Zionists permanently etched
upon the face of a Palestinian child (in “The endless trail of
red herrings”), I would be a cowardly hypocrite if I did not
imagine and demand it for the wretched of my own soil watching the
images of our own “praetorian guards” in constant service
to their 'ubermensch' masters permanently squashing my own kith into
perpetual serfdom of the 'hectoring hegemons' fighting fabricated
enemies. To remain silent, is to be an accomplice. And to be an
accomplice is to incur the immortal imprecation of all victims: “I
still curse the killers, their accomplices, the indifferent
spectators who knew and kept silent”!
But who is there to spearhead this re-genesis? Such transformations
rooted in deep political thought and an appreciation of complex
realities du jour cannot be wrought through the simple minded
politics of street agitation by sheep who are often led by shrewd
Machiavellis themselves – as powerful as mass protests can be
to force any political issue to its head when they do reach a
'critical mass'. It first and foremost requires wise and
uncompromising leadership from our greatest minds and talents –
'Patrick Henrys' and 'Ben Franklins'!
Is anyone listening to the sound of realpolitik reason and sanity?
Even the animal kingdom has more collective instincts for survival
than apparently we do! And as one can witness in the “Battle at
Kruger”, they don't even need a unifying leader – the
instincts for survival amazingly unites the herd automatically in
their otherwise characteristic 'flight' response for Full Spectrum
Deterrence! As human beings, is our 'herd' entirely co-opted from
even this innate self-defense mechanism that god even bestowed upon
the animals?
Let it never be said in the annals of future history that we did not
know how to save Pakistan! We just did not have anyone among our
pathetic ruling elite – some 'ma ka lals' – courageous
enough to detach themselves from their stomach, their greed, their
plunder, their co-optation, their praetorian mindset, and espouse a
selfless rational idealism rooted in realism and realpolitik wisdom
du jour. If such persons do exist anywhere on this planet, and are
not yet to be born, they will surely find not just the entire nation
of 170 million behind them, but billions of peoples on this planet,
including even the peace-loving from among the greatest “populist
democracy” itself that is most assuredly “inimical
to imperial mobilization”! When we artfully remove the
fabricated 'threat' to their existence, they will surely also
let us exist too!
But this must be executed upon before it is too late and we start
witnessing the 'made in USA' “Shock and Awe” visitation –
choreographed by only a handful of monumental criminals who have
continually hijacked the promise of that great nation in every
generation – upon every city, town and village in our wretched
nation in the pretext of 'saving' us from the 'islamofascists'! And
if that pretext fails to create a viable 'coalition of the
willing', then to 'save' us from our own 'Sadaam Hussein'. This
is what the manifest history on 'the Grand Chessboard' has taught me.
Who is flying the F-16s or which uniform is driving the armored
vehicles will soon become irrelevant as the outcome will be the same!
Let's 'dump all teas overboard'
now to save Pakistan!
If we succeed, we would have
saved the world by setting a very contagious global precedent!
Footnotes
[2] Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting with U.S. Envoy, The New
York Times International Sunday, September 23, 1990
https://web.archive.org/web/2000/http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html
[3] Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf Open Letter to
President Bill Clinton: February 19, 1998,
https://web.archive.org/web/2000/http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Committee_for_Peace_and_Security_in_the_Gulf#CPSB_Letter:_February_19.2C_1998
[4] Letter to President Clinton on Iraq January 26, 1998
https://web.archive.org/web/2000/http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
[5] Overthrow Hussein, U.S. group advises, CNN, February 20, 1998,
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/20/iraq.war.presser/
[6] Congressman Ron Paul's speech on the House floor, January 15,
2007, Escalation in the Middle East,
https://web.archive.org/web/20070125073120/http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst011507.htm
[7] Normon Podhoretz, The Case for Bombing Iran, June 2007,
https://web.archive.org/web/20071201173444/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/The-Case-for-Bombing-Iran-10882/
[8] Ex-CIA director: U.S. faces 'World War IV', CNN, April 3, 2003,
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/03/sprj.irq.woolsey.world.war/
[9] Normon Podhoretz, World War IV: How It Started, What It Means,
and Why We Have to Win, September 2004,
https://web.archive.org/web/20071225080629/http://www.commentarymagazine.com:80/viewarticle.cfm/World-War-IV-How-It-Started-What-It-Means--and-Why-We-Have-to-Win-9785
[10] PDF Normon Podhoretz, World War IV: How It Started, What It
Means, and Why We Have to Win,
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/pmt/exhibits/1726/ww4.pdf
[11] David Horowitz ‘Declares’ Islamo-Fascism Awareness
Week for October 22-26, 2007,
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/08/29/david-horowitz-declares-islamo-fascism-awareness-week-for-october-22-26/
[12] WTC-7 CBS News Footage Video Clip URL:
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/wtc_7_cbs.mpg
WTC-1 Demolition News Footage Video Clip URL:
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/north_tower_collapse.mpeg
WTC-2 Demolition News Footage Video Clip URL:
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/south_tower_collapse.mpeg
[13] Pervez Hoodbhoy, Preventing More Lal Masjids, 11 July, 2007,
https://web.archive.org/web/2007/http://www.countercurrents.org/hoodhoy110707.htm
[14] Pervez Hoodbhoy, The Threat From Within, 23rd May 2007,
https://web.archive.org/web/20070609110654/http://spaces.brad.ac.uk:8080/download/attachments/748/Brief+number+13.pdf
[15] Nick Richardson, CNN, Pakistan: The Threat Within - Part1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEDCWUQ68uc
[15a] Ejaz Haider, Truth will out, July 12, 2007,
https://web.archive.org/web/20120121015126/http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\07\12\story_12-7-2007_pg3_2
[15b] "One Hundred and Eighty-Seventh Day: Friday, 7/26/1946:
Morning Session: Part 2", in Trial of the Major War Criminals
before the International Military Tribunal.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071207214020/http://www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/nuremberg/close.html
[16] Larry Chin, Al-Qaeda, the
eternal covert operation: British “terror” incident
latest product of “war on terror” propaganda, Jul 5th,
2007,
https://web.archive.org/web/20070905200927/http://onlinejournal.com:80/artman/publish/article_2160.shtml
[17] Fatima Bhutto, Condi's creative chaos, June 17, 2007,
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/60355
[18] Israel Shamir, Satanic Pictures,
https://web.archive.org/web/2006/http://www.israelshamir.net/English/Satanic.htm
[19] Susan L. Rosenbluth, It's Not a Clash of Civilizations, It's a
Clash between the Civilized World and Barbarians, Jewish Voice and
Opinion, February 2007,
https://web.archive.org/web/2007/http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4264
[21] Syed Saleem Shahzad, Pakistan to help as the US's jailer, Jun
29, 2007,
https://web.archive.org/web/20070701080521/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IF29Df01.html
[22] Brian Ross and Richard Esposito, Bush Authorizes New Covert
Action Against Iran, ABC News Blotter, May 22, 2007,
https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/156/26454.html
[23] Larisa Alexandrovna, CIA running black propaganda operation
against Iran, Syria and Lebanon, officials say, June 07, 2007, Raw
Story 7 June 2007,
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-running-black-propaganda-operation-against-iran-syria-and-lebanon-officials-say/5903
[24] It’s mango season again — Dr Ayesha Siddiqa, May 21,
2007
https://web.archive.org/web/20120121062646/http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\05\21\story_21-5-2007_pg3_2
[25] Aaron Hanscom, Recruiting Soldiers Against Radical Islam,
FrontPageMagazine.com, April 2, 2007,
https://web.archive.org/web/2007/http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4410
[26] Michel Chossudovsky, “Islamic Terrorists” supported
by Uncle Sam: Bush Administration “Black Ops” directed
against Iran, Lebanon and Syria, May 31, 2007,
https://www.globalresearch.ca/islamic-terrorists-supported-by-uncle-sam-bush-administration-black-ops-directed-against-iran-lebanon-and-syria/5837
[27] PNAC, Rebuilding America's Defenses, August 18, 2000,
https://web.archive.org/web/20130616051254/http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/cacheof-rebuildingamericasdefenses-via-pnac-hectoring-hegemons-august182000.pdf
[28] William M. Arkin, Secret Plan Outlines the Unthinkable. A secret
policy review of the nation’s nuclear policy puts forth
chilling new contingencies for nuclear war, March 9, 2002, Los
Angeles Times,
https://web.archive.org/web/20020414091818/https://www.commondreams.org/views02/0309-04.htm
[29] Norman Podhoretz, In Praise of the Bush Doctrine, Commentary
September 2002,
https://web.archive.org/web/20030204082824/http://www.ourjerusalem.com/opinion/story/opinion20020904a.html
[31] William Blum's translation, The CIA's Intervention in
Afghanistan, Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel
Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html
[33] Brzezinski confirms U.S. can organise attacks in own territory,
20 February 2007, http://www.voltairenet.org/article145515.html
[34] Zbigniew Brzezinski, SFRC Testimony, February 1, 2007,
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/cacheof-us-sfrc-brzezinskitestimony070201.pdf
[35] Hitler's Fake Attack on Germany that Started World War II -
Operation Canned Goods,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
[36] The website carrying this
article is now defunct: How military rulers intensified Zionist
influence in Pakistan By Abid Ullah Jan, June 05, 2007.
https://web.archive.org/web/2007/http://archive.dictatorshipwatch.com/
Abid Ullah Jan, the fearless former journalist from Pakistan living
in forced exile in Canada, concludes his excellent analysis
(evidently written circa 2003) with what should be self-evident fact
of the matter for any honest intellectual, a rare breed in Pakistan:
“It is not that Musharraf does not know the following realities
and he is only blinded by self-interest. It is simply that besides
opportunism he is under Zionist influence and immense pressure. In
short, General Musharraf is as helpless before the Zionist pressure
and influence as is his nation before his brute force. He will remain
so until he breathes his last or the Zionists achieve their
objectives. There is absolutely no hope that he can release himself
from Zionist clutches. As long as he remains entangled in the Zionist
and the neo-cons web, as long as Pakistan remains under their
influence, its sovereignty and independence will remain at stake.”
Also published by Media Monitors Network as Pakistan: Zionist
Influence Intensifies, By Abid Ullah Jan - Monday, January 16th,
2006. The byline states: This is an excerpt from the author’s
latest book, “The Musharraf Factor: Leading Pakistan to
Inevitable Demise,” which explains the factors that have
brought Pakistan to the edge of disaster.
https://www.mediamonitors.net/perspectives/pakistan-zionist-influence-intensifies/
[37] Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur, Plebeian states, The Post, Pakistan,
Monday, June 18, 2007, cached at:
https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/cacheof-plebeian-states-by-mir-mohammad-ali-talpur-thepost-june182007.pdf
[38] Download PDF of From Dictatorship to Democracy By Gene
Sharp in at least 35 languages from
http://www.aeinstein.org/from-dictatorship-to-democracy/
[39] Pak nukes already under US control: Report, Nov 20, 2007,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2556824.cms
[40] Battle at Kruger, how animals stand up to the hectoring hegemons
of their jungle, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
[41] Zahir Ebrahim, The endless trail of red herrings, Feb 28, 2007,
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/03/endless-red-herrings.html
[42] The Jewish State, Der Judenstaat, Theodor Herzl, 1896,
Translated from the German by Sylvie D'Avigdor, Adapted from the
edition published in 1946 by the American Zionist Emergency Council,
http://www.mideastweb.org/jewishstate.pdf
[44] (Choudhary) Rahmat Ali's Pakistan Declaration, January 28, 1933,
NOW OR NEVER: ARE WE TO LIVE OR PERISH FOR EVER?, link1:
https://www.mediamonitors.net/perspectives/now-or-never/
link2: https://web.archive.org/web/20020803021717/http://www.slam33.freeserve.co.uk:80/non.htm
link2: https://web.archive.org/web/20020803021717/http://www.slam33.freeserve.co.uk:80/non.htm
[45] Zahir Ebrahim, Sacred Cow: Allama Iqbal - marde-momin or
superman? December 14, 2012,
http://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2012/12/allama-iqbal-marde-momin-or-superman.html
Chapter 10
Heads-up warning to the
American Peoples – Nuclear attack on Iran appears imminent!
Zahir Ebrahim
March 29, 2008.
Addendums: April 06, 2008 ; May 15, 2008 ; June 29, 2008
(Covering the crisis period March 29, 2008 to June 29, 2008)
Project HumanbeingsfirstTM
cannot humbly emphasize enough the first order most crucial question
that must concern all conscionable 'United States persons' today,
including courageous genuinely patriotic whistleblowers. The
impending nuclear attack on Iran, under all kinds of contrived
pretexts, and especially disguised as a “'defensive' U.S.
military action”
(Brzezinski) must be prevented if this is indeed a genuine
“populist democracy” for which Brzezinski had
observed: “Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization”!
To present a more extensive and coherent analysis than is possible in
these Op-Ed pages, the following essay is available from Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org: “Beware
of Red Herrings on Nuclear Security spun by Hectoring Hegemons and
their patsies!”
There must be only one immediate, near term, and long term goal for
the equitable security (and prosperity) of all peoples on the planet
Earth so long as there remains an imbalance of power among us, so
long as there remain 'hectoring hegemons' seeking “full
spectrum dominance” among us, and so long as there remains
an absence of 'full spectrum deterrence' to “the pursuit of
power”, for indeed, “hegemony is as old as mankind”:
prevent new “'defensive' U.S. military action”.
Especially one in response to a horrendous 'nuclear terrorist act'
transpiring in the United States of America “that will make
Sept. 11 pale by comparison” – as President George
Bush himself prognosticated on February 13, 2008, in full
anticipation of precisely another catalyzing 911. For what else,
other than a nuclear terrorist act in America can be described as
making “Sept. 11 pale by comparison”?
A major indication that something is imminently afoot is that the
sudden 'Civil War' now raging in Iraq, is about to be directly blamed
upon Iran! A weapons cache allegedly of Iranian origin has just been
uncovered, as briefly reported on March 29, 2008, in the Pakistani
newspaper The
News: “Col. Dominic Caraccilo, commander of the 3rd
Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, said the rockets were marked with
manufacture dates as recent as 2007, and were believed to have been
brought into the country from Iran during a buildup of U.S. troops
last year. The U.S. military accuses Iran of arming and funding
Shiite extremists in Iraq, although Tehran denies the charges.”
While that war of words and the concomitant Iraqi-fodder of 'Muslim
on Muslim' violence in itself is not a sufficient pretext to nuclear
bomb Iran, it is consistent with the rapidly developing pattern of
escalating warnings of another terrorist act “that will make
Sept. 11 pale by comparison”. The 'setup' is in accelerated
progress to most assuredly lay the blame for “Iraqi failure
to meet [American] benchmarks” upon Iran, and as
'presciently' noted by Zbigniew Brzezinski before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee in 2007, it will be followed by
“accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then
by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on
Iran. culminating in a 'defensive' US military action against Iran
that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire
eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
Well, the 'unequivocal evidence' fingering Iran for Iraqi
Army's easy to predict defeat at the hands of Iranian backed militias
in this American backed 'Muslim on Muslim' violence was just found.
Even President George Bush expressed his great satisfaction at this
turn of events by noting that it was a “positive
moment”, gleefully adding:
“I understand people here want us to leave, regardless of
the situation, but that will not happen so long as I’m
Commander-In-Chief.”
And this unverified
report points to the following ominous headline: 'Saudis
Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit',
which if true, requires no further elaboration.
In isolation and without context, all these rapidly breaking events
are mere unrelated point events. However, in the light of the
none-too-secret White House and Pentagon's overarching agenda, these
are not isolated events. They are now culminating in the build-up of
pretexts for nuclear attack on Iran!
Do the American peoples want to wait until the matters are a fait
accompli?
As William Arkin had reported in the Washington Post three years ago,
America can mobilize CONPLAN-8022
in less than 12 hours notice. Quoting Lt. Gen. Bruce Carlson,
commander of the 8th Air Force: “We're now at the point
where we are essentially on alert ... We have the capacity to plan
and execute global strikes ... in half a day or less.”
And from all accounts of the enormous mobilization-buildup to attack
Iran already in place, as noted in this
2007 study which concluded “the US has made military
preparations to destroy Iran's WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed
forces, state apparatus and economic infrastructure within days if
not hours of President George W. Bush giving the order”,
and which today, in 2008, 'include[s] not only a vast array of
weapons, including nuclear weapons, cruise and other missiles and
hundreds of aircraft but also “insertion” (invasion)
forces and equipment' as noted by one observer,
that “half a day or less” timeperiod is today
almost near real-time. And the moment a
nuclear terrorist '911' in an American or European city, or a
provocation by Israel
taking out Iran's nuclear reactor sites, or a 'Gulf-of-Tonkin'
or 'USS Cole' or 'Lavon Affair' event that sinks
America's entire 5th fleet in the Persian Gulf
transpires, the timeperiod will likely be instantaneous!
The American public will be rendered as bewildered at that time as a
fawn caught in headlights, and as enraged to go nuclear-bomb the
entire planet as any 'ubermenschen' simply because they can get away
with it! But interestingly, they won't pick on Russia or China who
can fight back. No – they will only pick on a defenseless
peoples who dare to standup to “full spectrum”
hegemony of the 'hectoring hegemons'. Only the Iranians (and
Pakistanis) will bear the brunt of America's
wrath next!
Therefore, knowing how the future is likely to unfold in extremely
rapid, fast-breaking developments leaving no time to wisely-reflect
or to react-sanely at that time by peoples opposed to America's
endless wars, time to act is now.
A Domestic Solution Space That Works
Firstly, anything, including all 'nuclear terrorist acts' on American
soil, or anywhere in the world, all shocking revelations by
whistleblowers, all leaks in newspapers, and all phantasmal mantras
that distract from the afore-stated goal, regardless of how
compelling the reasons, must be treated by the unwary and gullible
American public and its intellectual dissenting-chiefs, as red
herrings, pretexts, and deceptions for premeditated "imperial
mobilization" by their nation's rulers.
Let the American peoples not be 'surprised' once again by facile
disingenuous conclusions like this one in 2005 by the Iraq Study
Group in the aftermath of the premeditated invasion of Iraq under
false WMD pretexts:
“We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong
in almost all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction. This was a major intelligence failure”. (Iraq
Study Group report, March 31, 2005)
Or even by un-surprising exposés like this one in 2008,
titled: “FBI says, 'No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to
9/11'”, being among the top
25 most censored stories of 2008. It quotes Rex Tomb, Chief of
Investigative Publicity for the FBI:
“The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama 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.”
Secondly, if there is reason for the United States to nuclear
decimate any country or any peoples in purported 'self-defense', the
American peoples must demand a ratification of the decision to go to
war through a public referendum – let its great “populist
democracy” speak directly in the modernity of the 21st
century before it is called upon to make its sacrifices, before it is
called upon to pay its taxes to fund the war, and before it is called
upon to acquire innocent
blood on its hands!
Even better, draw the soldiers, officers and war-technicians from the
pool who vote for war! If they can vote yes to invade other nations
and wantonly shatter the tabula rasa of a 'lesser humanity', then
they must also first be willing to sign up for doing it themselves –
instead of having a draft of economic conscription. Every 'yes'
voting home in America must have at least one 'patriot' from the
immediate family show up on the front-lines without exception –
or their 'yes' vote is void!
A commonsensical and calculated demand such as this publicly made
today, right now, to be adjudicated upon in Congressional public
hearings and converted into law, is infinitely more sensible for
assuring America's national security given the hundred+ year history
of deception for “imperial mobilization” by this
nation's Executive branch with willing complicity from its entire
ruling elite from legislature to newsmedia – as evidenced from
the fiction of USS Maine to the fiction of WMDs – and which
today rings the entire globe with more than 700
of its military bases eagerly paid for by Congress year after
year in the pretense of keeping an “American peace”.
FY 2009 budget is to cost the American tax payers $3.1
trillion! Both the Congress and the Executive effectively
comprise the same pool of 'hectoring hegemons', with the Judiciary,
not espousing the tradition of 'suo moto' action, preferring to
remain silent on any and all matters projected as being related to
foreign policy matters, politics, or executive privilege under times
of 'war'!
And to preemptively understand how such a demand for public
referendum – if it were to gain a threatening traction –
will surely be co-opted by the Executive branch and willingly aided
and abetted by the Congress and the Courts, recall that the
'Continuity
of Government' Executive Order can now 'legally' disable this
“populist democracy” and its entire democratically
elected legislature under emergency powers already appropriated by
the Executive. A Martial Law will be declared with the American
soldiers (or the privatized profit-making wing of it which goes by
the name 'Blackwater') re-training their blood soaked guns from the
'lesser humanity' in the Middle East and South Asia onto the American
peoples themselves.
“Al Qaeda operatives who look western”
One can already see that particular 'setup' in active construction
even as we speak. Now the domestic threat is no longer perceived to
be primarily from 'Arab' looking 'jihadi' men out to terrorize
America, but from “Western” looking ones as ominously
noted
by the CIA:
'[Al Qaeda] were training “operatives who look western”
and “would be able to come into this country without attracting
the attention others might ... making it easier for them to get past
security at US airports, according to CIA Director Michael Hayden. If
there is another terrorist attack, it will originate there, [along
the border with Afghanistan].” ' (Pakistani newspaper Dawn,
March 31, 2008)
Do you “look Western”? Now it's your turn
buddy!
The moment George Bush's, and the CIA's, and the American military's
prognostications of another '911' come true, all you 'United We
Stand' “western” looking Americans better run and
hide quickly under your beds – for who knows which one of you
flag-waving 'white-boys' is secretly 'al Qaeeda'! Perhaps you all
are!
This scribe takes no pleasure in pointing out the 'I warned you so'
in his 2003 narrative “They
dared to knock on my door” available at
http://humanbeingsfirst.org.
It is of course hastily presumed that “look western”
means 'white'. It could also possibly mean 'Black', 'Hispanic',
'Chinese', and of course, also 'Arab'. The only thing it surely
doesn't mean is 'Pakistani' looking! Great! Should all
'brown-skinned' peoples in America finally breathe a sigh of relief?
No – we will be the first ones interned as the already known
'old enemy' under any Martial Law!
It is the free-willed Americans who must now be afraid the most as
the new 'enemy combatants', for most of us lowly immigrants escaping
from our respective 'hell-holes' to make a better lives for ourselves
have already shown our
true cowardly 'native-informant' and 'uncle tom' sides to the
authorities! The fascists have genuinely nothing to fear from us
'brownies', and they know it ever since Sept. 11 when our mosques to
our wedding halls began crawling with FBI agents. It is mainly the
free-willed peoples who “look western”, and who
are also armed under their 2th Amendment Rights and who
might also insist upon their 4th Amendment Rights, that
the fascists genuinely fear the most! It would be a pleasure to
observe how FBI agents fare among their 'western' churches,
synagogues, weddings, and wine parties!
Welcome to the Fourth
Reich in America where the new enemy is those who “look
western”!
Shrewdly anticipating what the 'hectoring hegemons' will do to thwart
a conscionable peoples' imperatives to stay a free peoples, the
American peoples must make their own next moves now as outlined above
while they still possibly can, and with much alertness, in order to
prevent the premeditated orchestration of nuclear “revolutionary
times” which will surely become the harbinger of many
“inconceivable” operations in the world, including
many changes right here in the US of A. Once the nuclear 'Rubicon' is
crossed, the “revolutionary times” intended to
“birth-pang a new Middle East” for the “New
World Order” will predictably acquire an uncontrollable
dynamics of its own right here in the American homeland itself.
Demanding a public referendum before any act of 'retaliation' as a
matter of law is the only peacefully-efficacious American peoples'
immediate protocol for arresting the cancer of “imperial
mobilization” in its tracks with all its concomitant
benefits directly accruing to the ordinary peoples of this nation in
the longer run – from increased social spending to a safer
world for them to vacation in, to proudly disclose in far away places
that they are American without the fear of being gunned down. Other
collective protocols by the rest of the planet's peoples may not be
so benign.
It is the profound and most earnest plea of Project
HumanbeingsfirstTM to the American newsmedia to not be
co-opted by another 'shocking' USS Maine, another 'Gulf of Tonkin',
another '911', and another 'mantra of WMDs' into misleading their own
peoples to mobilize for war. Even if, as a leading Pakistani English
newspaper's editor once explained to this scribe, 'freedom of the
press, in effect, actually means freedom of the owners of the press -
worldwide', please exercise at least that freedom to not go to
war on the American peoples themselves!
Zahir Ebrahim
email: humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com
Addendum April 06, 2008:
This heads up warning is made even more ominous and abhorrently
prescient by the report of April 05, 2008 in the UK
Telegraph:
“British officials gave warning yesterday that America's
commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the
US-backed Baghdad government.
A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran's
intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian
military facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment. In closely
watched testimony in Washington next week, Gen Petraeus will state
that the Iranian threat has risen as Tehran has supplied and directed
attacks by militia fighters against the Iraqi state and its US
allies.”
Paul Craig Roberts, the former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury
and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, immediately
noted:
'The neocon lacky Petraeus has had his script written for him by
Cheney, and Petraeus together with neocon warmonger Ryan Crocker, the
US governor of the Green Zone in Baghdad, will present Congress next
Tuesday and Wednesday with the lies, for which the road has been well
paved by neocon propagandists such as Kimberly Kagan, that “the
US must recognize that Iran is engaged in a full-up proxy war against
it in Iraq.” Don’t expect Congress to do anything except
to egg on the attack.'
It is the earnest and most profound hope of Project
HumanbeingsfirstTM that this warning is entirely wrong –
that the last nuclear attack on any peoples, and upon any country,
under any pretexts, was in 1945!
But if hopes were horses – beggars would ride, and there would
have been no 911, and no invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon,
to “Birth-pang a New Middle East”. Therefore, a
complacent but “populist democracy” is shown how
to rise to the challenge of the 'hectoring hegemons' – demand a
public referendum before going to war on Iran!
Both NY Times and LA Times showed no interest in this oped
submission. Surely, newsmedia: “either you are with us, or
with the [super]terrorists.”
Addendum May 15, 2008:
The same act that General Colin Powell had performed before the UN in
March 2003 while waving his PowerPoint slideshow of non-existent
Iraqi WMDs, was also performed by General David Petraeus in April
2008 before the US Congress by holding up evidence of non-existent
Iranian weapons in Iraq. The following press release of May
10, 2008 by CASMII (Campaign against Sanctions and Military
Intervention in Iran) titled “US confession: Weapons were not
made in Iran after all”, is only remarkable in that it notes
the retraction by the US Military before the fait accompli has
been constructed. Unlike the one in Iraq, whereby, the retraction
only followed two years after the fact of the invasion which was
constructed using WMD as a pretext, with the disingenuous Iraq Study
Group blithely asserting ex post facto, in March 2005: “We
conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost all
of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
This was a major intelligence failure.” The CASMII notes
the following:
“In a sharp reversal of its long-standing accusations
against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an
unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently
found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.”
This premature retraction ostensibly implies to the forensic mind
that there is, in some likelihood, some dissent within the senior US
military establishment on the wisdom of continuing on with “full
spectrum dominance” that is bankrupting the United States
while making it the most violent pariah nation on the planet. One
must however, if one has the geopolitical acumen to understand the
diabolical “forces that drive them”, not count on
the efficacy of such dissent to avert any of the catastrophic
scenarios, including a staged 'Gulf of Tonkin', or a staged nuclear
terrorist act within the United States, or an Israeli attack on Iran,
or an escalating Israeli war in Lebanon and Syria, all of which can
lead to “'defensive' US military action against Iran [and
Pakistan]”.
The Iranian and other Asian leaders would be wise to not
underestimate the tortuous power of the 'Dark-Side' that is
attempting to seed Total War in Asia using America as the 'hired
hand'. See “Letter
to Editor Press TV with a message to the Iranian Peoples”,
and “The
WAR on TERROR 2008 Omnibus Collection”, in order to
effectively grasp, with minimal readings, the grotesque reality that
is being orchestrated to deliberately seed “revolutionary
times”. For indeed, “what is inconceivable in
normal times is possible in revolutionary times.” The
following insightful analysis by Richard Cook “Has
the Battle for America Begun?” lends additional forensic
clarity to the “forces that drive them” towards
Total War. Rather than continually dismiss the tortuous aspirations
for global domination as lunacy, it would be prudent to treat them as
real doctrines of conquest by a handful of the world's ruling elite
partnering together in a twisted convolution of mutual interests –
never to be underestimated for its destructive power upon the weak.
Such an assessment, based on full spectrum comprehension of reality,
permits the construction of the only effective self-defense by the
weak. Why such a self-defense is not transpiring is a puzzle that
defies explanation, as noted in “The
Missing Link - Full Spectrum Deterrence”.
That deterrent solution-space, according to Project Humanbeingsfirst,
is only in the forming of NATO-like Full Spectrum Alliances with an
effective “Dr. Strangelove” type Samson Option that is
publicly targeted at Israel and Western Europe as a declared
self-defense nuclear doctrine, to construct the only viable and
effective Deterrence: MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)!
Only in the insanity of its “sublime irony”,
wherein, in the immortal words of Winston Churchill, “safety
[is] the sturdy child of terror and survival the twin brother of
annihilation”, can there be any assured prospects of
defeating the war-mongers before they hand the world a nuclear fait
accompli.
This heads-up, originally issued on March 29, 2008, is even more
pertinent today under the premise that there may be a covert
power-struggle going on within the US military that can make a
nuclear fait accompli tactically all the more expedient.
Addendum June 29, 2008:
An alleged assassination attempt was made on Nicholas Sarkozy at the
time of his departure on June
24 2008, from Israel's most closely guarded institution –
the Ben-Gurion Airport. That same day, Israel, the United States, and
Iran, all denied rumors of the launching of full spectrum attack on
Iran, as narrated by the Jerusalem
Post “US, Israel, Iran all flatly deny attack rumor”.
See assertions and denials in Jpost,
Haaretz,
Atimes
here,
Press
TV, Globalresearch
here
here
here
here,
armchair scenarios here
here.
See Iran's ineffectual bravado of its limitless response as in “the
response would have no time and space limitations and would be quite
devastating” here
here,
which is analyzed and deconstructed by this scribe in the as yet
unpublished Letter to Editor to Tehran
Times and Press
TV. Also visit the famous conscience of the US
military brass and the IAEA
brass who “will quit” if US attacks Iran –
some good will that do for the millions of 'wretched of the earth'
on the receiving end of a nuclear holocaust! Finally, witness these
ominously descriptive words of concern emanating from the Republican
Congressman Ron Paul, as reported by Press
TV on June 28, 2008, with no formulation of effective
prescriptions and merely still restating the supreme monumental crime
to be, which most already know:
"In the last several weeks, if not for months we have heard a
lot of talk about the potential of Israel and/or the United States
bombing Iran. Energy prices are being bid up because of this fear. It
has been predicted that if bombs start dropping, that we will see
energy prices double or triple," said the Republican.
"To me it is almost like deja vu all over again. We listened to
the rhetoric for years and years before we went into Iraq. We did not
go in the correct manner, we did not declare war, we are there and it
is an endless struggle," he told a nearly empty House chamber.
"I cannot believe it, that we may well be on the verge of
initiating the bombing of Iran,"
"This resolution, House Resolution 362 is a virtual war
resolution. It is the declaration of tremendous sanctions, and
boycotts and embargoes on the Iranians. It is very, very severe,"
Paul said.
Supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),
House Resolution 362 (and the Senate version Resolution 580), known
as the 'Iran War Resolution' can be considered a means of imposing
harsher sanctions as well as a naval blockade restricting exports to
the oil-rich country.
This bill, which was introduced at an AIPAC annual policy conference,
has gained 208 co-sponsors in the House and 29 in the Senate. It will
likely be put to a vote after July 4.
"This is unbelievable! This is closing down Iran. Where do we
have this authority? Where do we get the moral authority? Where do we
get the international legality for this? Where do we get the
Constitutional authority for this?" asked Paul.
Instead of such glorious words of endless expression of concern
(which are mere repetitions of what was already uttered in the Jan
2007 speech), endless petition writing in conscionable dissent,
endless calls for impeachment,
more courageous acts of soothing
the conscience after the fact, and vacuous bravado of the
victims, please refer to Project
Humanbeingsfirst's forensic headsup warning
and the outlining of the only
effective deterrent solution-space which can actually prevent all
predatory attacks on all underdogs. Only
the immediate re-ushering in of the “sublime irony”
in which, once again, “safety will be the sturdy child of
terror and survival the twin brother of annihilation”, is
there any possibility of effectively turning back from the edge of
precipice. There is no other solution apart from “full
spectrum alliances” against the hectoring hegemons!
The level and potency of their mantras is far greater than even the
victims have perceived. The Zionist 'uber' war-mongering circus clown
in the United States, Dr. Daniel Pipes, in his latest screed “The
Enemy Has a Name”, re-spins his attack on Islam thusly
(with Iran as the newest harbinger of this 'threat' to Western
civilization): “vanquish Islamism and help Muslims develop
an alternative form of Islam. Not coincidentally, this approach
roughly parallels what the allied powers accomplished vis-à-vis
the two prior radical utopian movements, fascism and communism.”
The insightful debunking by Khalid
Amayreh has already dealt with this Goebbellian “manufacturing
consent” among the Western populations quite effectively.
See the following Project Humanbeingsfirst rebuttal to Daniel Pipe's
protégé's parallel cheerleading assault “Response
to 'Islam in America's public schools: Education or indoctrination?'”
Sooner the conscionable peoples in the West standing up to the
aggression of their own nations, and too the victims now so
Machiavellianly divided and reduced to easy pickings, both rationally
come to grips with this blatant single fact that the only effective
self-defense possible against this level of full spectrum assault is
in full spectrum alliance, sooner will all stop wasting time on
ineffective pursuits and finally begin to focus on the only real
deterrence solution-space.
It is also entirely feasible that Iran has already covertly
constructed such a mutual defense pact treaty with Russia (with tacit
supply-line assuring economic treaties with China and India). In
fact, only the existence of such, can actually explain Iran's
irrational bravado in the face of the extreme danger facing their
nation. Perhaps it is indeed a devilish setup to obliterate Tel
Aviv by goading Israel and America into first ineffectively attacking
Iran!
While Zbigniew Brzezinski may have planned the “Grand
Chessboard” in the West, his Eurasian targets of the great
game actually invented chess. All four of the regions burgeoning
powers, Iran, India, China, and Russia, are ancient civilizations far
older than the Atlantic powers put together, and are also expert
chess players in the very ethos of the richness of their
civilizations. Many public parks in Iran for instance, are dotted
with stone and wood carved chess tables where ordinary peoples gather
daily under the shady trees to spar with each other, bringing their
own chess pieces. Chess is not an acquired skill in Asia, nor is it
of recent acquisition, as it is for the West! It is innate to the
peoples. The Chinese classic “Art of War” is 2500
years old and still teaches the Rand Corporation how to play their
great games! The Israelis would be wise to not forget that,
along with who has continually sheltered the Jewish peoples when the
Atlantic Christians were persecuting them for two millennia. Even Uri
Avnery, a self professed progressive Jewish leftist, and Zionist,
was forced to admit it when he fairly noted in his famous 2006 essay
“Muhammad's
Sword” (also available here):
'Every honest Jew who knows the history of his people cannot but feel
a deep sense of gratitude to Islam, which has protected the Jews for
fifty generations, while the Christian world persecuted the Jews and
tried many times "by the sword" to get them to abandon
their faith.'
The Israeli Jews, the Zionists, and all their genuine exponents
worldwide itching to bomb Iran, might reflect on this alternate “war
game” scenario before their hubris takes them to their own
suicide. Muslims are not the Jews enemies! Step back from the
brink if you really are the true inheritors of Solomon's wisdom, and
not merely impostors! For this may be the ultimate patsy setup by
your own 2000 year old true nemesis!
Chapter 11
Letter to Sibel Edmonds on
'Pakistan's Bomb, U.S. Cover-up'
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
March 18, 2008.
To: The courageous Sibel Edmonds (via email)
Founder, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition,
Alexandria, VA 22320.
March 18, 2008.
Dear Ms. Sibel Edmonds,
I chanced upon your work today from Daniel Ellsberg's essay
“Pakistan's Bomb, U.S. Cover-up”
(http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7884),
and followed up on some of your fascinating disclosures and
courageous efforts.
First of all, please accept a humble 'keep your chin up' message of
encouragement and gratitude from Project Humanbeingsfirst. Just as
Rachel Corrie had to stand up to the bulldozer
(http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/03/reremembering-rachel-corrie-2008.html),
you too are surely driven by the same compulsion for truth and
justice to stand up to another colossus 'bulldozer', but I hope with
more efficacious and certainly more pleasanter outcome. There is
however, always a price
to pay for an awakened
conscience. Thanks for being a tremendous role model for other
conscientious denizens of the world. As Daniel Ellsberg – the
'mother' of all whistleblowers – states,
and as your founding of the NSWBC.org
encourages, I too humbly hope that other whistleblowers in the 'know'
do not wait but come out directly to the public on such crucial
matters of monumental criminality when they suspect treason and lies
being told to subvert the populist notion of the 'American way'.
Especially, to prevent the impending nuclear attack on Iran under
variously contrived pretexts (A,
B).
To the credit of this nation whose worthy citizen you are, such
'outings' and quests for truth and justice are still only possible in
this country despite your onerous struggles to this effect. Which is
why, I also still continue to live in this nation as a permanent
resident despite being a citizen of Pakistan. If you are interested,
you may read a bit about me here.
Secondly, and more to the point, this letter is mainly about the
interpretation you have given to the facts that you discovered. It is
not about your long and horrendous ordeal in getting the U.S.
Government and the newsmedia to acknowledge that you indeed did speak
truthfully about your discoveries and of your experiences and ordeals
while attempting to bring them to light as a patriotic and concerned
citizen.
The following observation by Daniel Ellsberg in his essay pointing
out your work is intriguing:
' ... various American journalists in the last weeks have
reportedly received calls from "intelligence sources"
hinting that "what Sibel Edmonds stumbled onto" is not a
rogue operation by American officials and congressmen working to
their own advantage -- as believed by Edmonds and some other former
or active FBI officials -- but a sensitive covert operation
authorized at high levels. ... '
Indeed, the absence of this sense from your own
writings, public
disclosures, and the recent Times
articles, in itself is intriguing to me. As one close to the
investigations and to the 'gagged' data, i.e., being an informed
insider, and also surely far better well versed than most among the
public with the notion captured in this pithy saying of a former CIA
counter intelligence chief (of over 2 decades) “deception
is the state of the mind; and the mind of the state”,
why is this line of inquiry missing from your own public
assessments of your discoveries in the FBI recordings and in
its files?
The consistent impression one gets from your articulations of your
profound discoveries is one of mercenarial 'criminal rogue
operators'. The Times
article of January 8, 2008, too is sensationally titled “For
sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets”. Looking at
'Iran-Contra' in the same light (had such data been available) would
certainly have led to an altogether different conclusion space.
Whereas in reality, as known to all and sundry today, it was an
officially sanctioned White House covert-policy to get Iran and Iraq
to fight it out by arming them both in order to neutralize and
contain the Iranian people's revolution, 'plausible deniability' and
Presidential pardons among the guilty at the highest levels not
notwithstanding. And what were these pardons for when it all
unraveled? Not for devilishly getting two nations to fight and the
fratricidal death of a million Muslims on both sides. But for
subverting US laws that precluded officially sending arms to Iran. So
a convoluted covert method for doing it was crafted, and when it
unraveled, that was determined to be the only crime in the matter for
which the criminals were later pardoned! You can perhaps not sense
the outrage among the peoples of the world at the hubris of the
world's most autocratic and diabolical superpower – that its
secretive foreign policy calculus of setting up two nations to fight
each other to death is never questioned in the Congressional inquiry
or in the newsmedia, but only on the method used to arm one of the
foes. That is how the underlying envelope of 'legality' is defined
for you. And that is also how 'rogue' versus 'kosher' is delineated.
This aspect is revisited again in the concluding paragraphs of this
letter to bring out the key meta question to pursue as the highest
order bit of the matter in order to achieve real, measurable, and
enduring change from your immense effort to speak out which is
already surely at great personal cost to you.
But to the point here, in your case too, such a rational
conclusion-space seems inescapable as well, that what you have
discovered are merely the covert leaves of an officially sanctioned
foreign policy calculus rooted in the DNA of hubris and conquest on
the 'Grand Chessboard'. Especially by the weight of your own
testimony
of consistent thwarting of the official investigations that happened
multiple times, across multiple agencies, including within your own,
and still continues to happen to this day across the board to the
point that “... the FBI took the highly unusual step of
retroactively classifying information it gave to Congress two years
ago about the Sibel Edmonds case” (CBS). The fact that
small sums of money are changing hands may be the clever red herring
learnt from the unraveling of 'Iran Contra'. Please permit me to
explore this single aspect in some depth in the rest of the letter.
What are the chances that all of a sudden, so many simultaneous
'treasonous
peoples' materialized in the USA on this very matter on which
the National Security Apparatus of the world's sole superpower spends
a trillion dollars every couple of years in its defense budget, and
which is the crown jewels [of its nuclear primacy] that enables it to
become the 'hectoring
hegemon' in the world [under the stewardship of the very same
'treasonous' peoples]?
And what is the probability that it is a deliberate, multi-tiered,
overarching, compartmentalized covert-ops that transcends
Administrations based on perhaps an unwritten or highly and deeply
classified foreign policy principle – as the real powers and
architects behind all of the Administrations largely remain the same
in an institutionalized revolving door consisting of Administration,
Academe, Military, Think-Tanks, and sometimes Corporation board
rooms?
Just as one illustrative example of enduring policies and long lived
strategic policy craftsmen across multiple Administrations, witness
Zbigniew Brzezinski laying out the 'chess moves' on the 'Grand
Chessboard': serving as National Security Advisor to a
Democrat President while “giving
to the USSR its Vietnam War”, and then advising and
guiding the subsequent Republican and Democrat Administrations
equally in continuation of the 'chess moves', all of which are
entirely blue-printed by him in his remarkable 1996 book. Its
strategies for “imperial mobilization” to maintain
“American Primacy” seem to have been adopted in
its entirety by the present Administration, and is likely to remain
the guiding policy aspect of the overarching American
Foreign Policy calculus in the near term no matter who comes
to occupy the living quarters in the White House. This is really no
different from the so called 'Truman Doctrine' which ran the American
Foreign Policy calculus during the hey day of Communism for over four
decades after World War II. Have you had an opportunity to examine
'Operation
Gladio' (pdf here),
to appreciate the depth of devilishly orchestrated, often convoluted,
compartmentalized layerings that are possible in long term covert-ops
when instrumented under overarching covert-policy principles?
Thus please permit me to ask whether you considered examining your
data and conducting your forensic analysis in the light of this
perspective of unraveling the multi-tiered and highly complex
calculus of the geostrategic chessgame of an 'empire'? If not, then
why not. If you have done so, then why is it missing in your public
exposition?
Why do you base your entire comprehension of the snippets of data
that you have so far gleaned as only a 'rogue' operation? There must
surely be some rational and convincingly arguable reason for your
perspective. What is it? The missing 'pink panther glove' to prove
that it was officially sanctioned covert-ops? That will never be
found – and surely you must know that! In case you are
interested, this issue is fleshed out in some detail in
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/03/dialog-among-civilizations-whytalksfail.html.
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/03/dialog-among-civilizations-whytalksfail.html.
It is easy to forget that whatever one may learn of secretive
'contemporary history' as it unfolds in near 'realtime', is likely
only a tiny slice, a snapshot, a fragment, or multiple fragments, of
a much bigger highly 'compartmentalized' picture, especially when it
pertains to 'national security', covert-ops, and “imperial
mobilization”. I am surely pushing an open door here and
preaching to the choir when I utter this self-evident bit of truism.
However, it forms an essential underlying axiom, often unarticulated
and ignored, of accurate and rational 'model building' to comprehend
hidden and secretive overarching compartmentalized realities based on
fragmentary and often misleading or misinterpreted data acquired from
manifest reality – the modus operandi and starting premise of
all good forensic detectives – despite the attendant trail of
deliberately cultivated red herrings and bread crumbs.
As you will surely agree, higher the level of the secretive nature of
covert-ops and greater its criminality (moral or legal), and longer
the planning and execution horizon, greater and more convoluted are
the red herrings surrounding them to keep the public (and other
branches of the bureaucracy) from discovering the big picture while
the covert-ops are still 'hot'. This modus operandi of cloaking
secrets in sophisticated deception is often referred to as the
'technique
of infamy' as you surely already must know. Why ignore it in
your forensic analysis of your discoveries? Why could red herrings
also not be planted to mislead other agencies of the Government in
case something prematurely blows up in an ultra-high sensitivity
global intelligence covert-ops in the geostrategic policy-plane that
is to transcend Administrations and is designed to possibly create
covert proxy wars and mayhem against powerful foes in the future?
The following is what leads me to think that your interpretation of
these recorded conversations and its extrapolation to the bigger
picture that America's nuclear secrets were being sold, may be a red
herring deliberately set up to be interpreted that way if exposed.
For fundamentally, you are echoing your theories in the backdrop of
the same official narratives of the Pentagon and the White House,
that there is a rogue network, that there is the 'al qaeeda', and
that America is threatened by external enemies who perpetrated 9/11.
Thus you are accomplishing two things simultaneously. One, lending
credence to the official narrative of the threat to America being
from external outlaw 'pirates', and two, swallowing their decoy. The
first point is not addressed in this letter further. Please see
Webster Tarpley's book “9/11
Synthetic Terror” (pdf)
for a good analysis of how such an external terror threat might be a
complete fabrication, and that the real enemy might well be within,
or see Michel Chossudovsky's website http://globalresearch.ca,
or see my rather plebeian book “Prisoners
of the Cave” that examines it from the lens of Zbigniew
Brzezinski's book 'the Grand Chessboard'. Please permit me however to
point out a few anomalies for the second aspect as a reality check
based on my limited experience.
The monies you mention changing hands is really pocket change, almost
as if a couple of zeros are missing. Why would senior career
administration folks jeopardize their good name for petty cash -
regardless of the country they are from? Why would diplomats risk
their own daughters in covert-ops? I don't see George Bush or Dick
Cheney risk theirs. Why would you think that people in other nations
love themselves and their kin any less? You evidently seem to have
little idea how trivial it is for most recipients of American aid or
World Bank loans to repeatedly skim several billion dollars from the
top. Or how the state's apparatus rewards its operatives and
supporters in developing nations like Pakistan and Turkey with
unaccountable military governments having a free hand over the
national treasury and public commons. They can trivially loot with
both hands, and quite legally too – since the military (or the
dictator du jour in civilian clothes) pretty much dictates the laws
to the parliament! Yes a few zeroes are indeed missing to make these
amounts even sound tempting. There are far easier ways for them to
make far larger amounts of monies than to be stealing secrets from
the world's most shockingly powerful superpower in its own den that
is crawling with its sophisticated security apparatus and
uncompromisingly patriotic field agents!
Thus, in a nutshell, the motive for doing this risky trade by the
Turks for a pecuniary gain is highly suspicious, and less than
convincing. Same for the high ranking Americans – they have far
too much to lose, and far too much smarts to be caught this way in a
phone conversation selling state secrets! These aren't just ordinary
peoples.
Furthermore, if these treasonous operatives are so smart that they
can indulge in such covert activities so successfully in the world's
largest security state, and yet be so dumb that they don't know or
have never heard of the NSA, the Echelon system, or that the United
States of America runs the largest most extensive
intelligence network in the history of civilizations under
its DIA [ see signals intelligence in sections 1.11
and 1.12
of EO12333
] with budgets which run into unaccountable billions of black-ops
dollars and with backdoors to almost all secure communication
channels to instantly decipher all communications in near realtime
(even if a myth but largely believed by most people), and so
nonchalantly and openly be speaking of their drops and pickups and
using a location that is easy to identify back to their own countries
which, despite their diplomatic immunities, can have severe
consequences for their nation if found out, is almost akin to the
Pentagon and the White House suggesting that “Bin Laden”
is so smart and resourceful that it can hijack 4 airliners
simultaneously in the air, outwit all of America's vast air defenses,
and run them into tall buildings of the most armed to the teeth
superpower nation at 500 mph, and yet be so dumb that his operatives
would draw so much attention to themselves the night before the
dastardly deed so that anything could go wrong potentially, openly
disclose that they didn't want to learn how to land to their
instructors as they learnt how to fly jet airliners only on
simulators and have that be needlessly remembered or raise
suspicions, and leave well identifiable calling cards behind the day
of the crime so that America would know exactly where to drop their
retaliatory payloads!
Thus, not to deny that these recordings that you were asked to
interpret are genuine, but only to ponder at the nonsequitur
conclusions that you have been propounding so energetically which
leads one to believe that morons were executing this sophisticated
covert-ops for petty cash!
The only rational explanation that credibly explains your discoveries
is that these operatives were following policy directives that were
agreed to at the highest levels of their respective governments, with
assurances and guidance in what they operationally ought to be doing,
whether or not each one of them may have known the big picture –
most likely not due to rigid compartmentalization of such covert
processes which you surely must know much more accurately about than
ordinary members of the public brought up on Hollywood.
After the outing of 'Iran-Contra' that went straight into unraveling
the government's covertly sanctioned policy at the highest levels, it
is much easier to blame pecuniary greed if things ever blow up
prematurely. All this blame upon A.Q. Khan under his forced
confessional, that his unbridled greed was behind his proliferation
network, is the most facile of explanations for it all. He likely had
signed blank checks drawn on numbered Swiss accounts in his pockets
all through the 1970s until at least the fall of the Berlin Wall –
if money is what he wanted, he had plenty of millions by the
blessings of his bosses and the magic of carte blanche. But that
mercenarial explanation for a pecuniary gain is more useful than the
unraveling of the entire official collusion space, and is thus in
repeated replay since 'Iran-Contra'!
Just to play the devil's advocate to further this analysis, please
allow me to ask why the following line of reasoning is so trivially
rejectable that it is entirely absent in your analysis: that Pakistan
may have been 'officially' armed with nuclear technology* as a
covert-policy to check India's (and China's) advances in the long
term on the 'Grand Chessboard'?
Creating a three-way manipulatable tie-up between
China-India-Pakistan in favor of the 'hectoring hegemons' can be far
more advantageous on the 'Grand Chessboard' with a wildcard like
Pakistan in the fray. It has the real potential of neutralizing any
unexpected threatening alliances between the two most
burgeoning challengers to “American Primacy and Its
Geostrategic Imperatives” by engaging them in proxy-warfare
with a nuclear armed client-state next door if the need ever arises!
Pakistan was, after all, largely 'blessed' out of the Indian
sub-continent deliberately as a patsy client-state on the evolving
'Grand Chessboard' of the time by the active collusion and sanction
of the waning and the emerging imperial masters of the time! In case
you are interested, please see this Open
Letter to a Pakistani General to further examine this line of
reasoning, written from the perspective of how Pakistan can actually
get out of its client-state status to genuinely serve the aspirations
of its own long suffering peoples. For indeed, your whistleblowing
data also tends to far more rationally support this notion of a
deliberate patsy client state being primed on the geostrategic plane
in the aftermath of India making its first nuclear explosion in 1974,
than a mere 'rogue operation' of how Pakistan clandestinely acquired
its nuclear weapons in plainsight of the world's most watchful
superpower, and how these might today be conveniently hijacked by the
'al-qaeeda' as the famed 'loose
nukes' despite being guarded by the world's 5th
largest standing army (see wakeup
call at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org).
Certainly, to effectively carry out devious long term covert
operations under hegemonic state-doctrines, requires a concert of
mercenaries, patsies, moles, and patriotic soldiers, but also
ideological masterminds and policy frameworks to strategically guide
its execution, and many cloaking devices, red herrings, and psyops to
hide the operations. To deny this is to deny the hegemonic history of
the United States of America in the face of plenty of ex post facto
historical evidence already in plainsight.
And what lends further substance to the idea that a covert 'official'
sanction may also be the situation in your case, is the almost
bipartisan nature of 'hush ups' being seamlessly observed here. And
if there is any truth to any of this analysis, then it is easy to
predict that this 'hushing up' will continue into the next
Administration, and that what you seek – the public inquiry –
will either never be allowed to materialize, or become another “9/11
Commissions Report” if public pressure ever piles up!
Because of this predictable inefficacy of the end result of your call
for public hearings, it is perhaps more useful to ask and explore the
following meta question which was also briefly alluded to at the
beginning of this letter: is it a 'crime' if the matter is deemed to
be an 'official' (even if covert) American Foreign Policy Initiative
to nuclearize Pakistan and Israel? Or is the only crime here that it
may have employed mercenaries, moles, patsies, and client-states in
its operational execution without first getting the right
Congressional laws on the books (which they very well could have at
the risk of tipping off their hands to the world prematurely)? Thus
note that Turkey has recently been approved (or is about to be
approved) for nuclear cooperation – thus Turkey's role in this
covert-ops may (retroactively) no longer be defined as a crime in the
strictly legal sense. So what exactly is the definition of a crime?
What exactly have you discovered that you think is a crime? The fact
that money changed hands? Or the fact that Pakistan was given nuclear
technology? All these appear to be merely matters of semantics in
defining what is a crime and what isn't, and the underlying real
substantial issues are indeed not being addressed by focussing on the
leaves of the tree and not its DNA.
Witness that the decimation of Vietnam and millions of its peoples is
yet to be classified as a monumental crime against humanity, and its
harbingers went to their graves without ever being hung by their
balls. And what was one of them threatened with at best? Impeachment
because of lying about illegally breaking into a building! Also
witness that the 'Truman Doctrine' which criminally held hostage the
entire world at the brink of Armageddon for almost the entire second
half of the twentieth century, and which culminated in the decimation
of Afghanistan and its millions of peoples in order to finally take
down the USSR in a proxy war on another's lands with another's blood,
is often hailed as a major
success of America's
foreign policy. Its harbingers are still vigorously pursuing
their 'American Dreams' in various think-tanks and academe in your
neck of the woods while planning more decimations under its successor
doctrine, the 'Bush
Doctrine'.
You tread a rather vacuous line if you use the existing model and
definition of 'justice' and 'legality' to uncover this crime as well.
However, if you were to move over to a more rational and equitable
set of universally applied norms for fairness and legality –
let's say for example, acknowledging the overwhelming superiority of
the Judeo-Christian heritage, the Ten Commandments and the Biblical
Golden Rule are both suitably 'secularized' and applied to American
Foreign Policy calculus and the Congress is prevailed upon to make
laws in accordance with these – you may more efficaciously be
able to hang the real monumental criminals at the altar of real
justice. I suspect if such fundamental matters enter the public
consciousness and are openly debated, it may yet change the
complexion of this nation.
Otherwise what really changes? Unless you are bold enough to assert
that “imperial mobilization” is itself a
monumental crime; that it is counter to the democratic aspirations of
the peoples of the United States of America because “democracy
is inimical to imperial mobilization” and thus its covert
pursuit is treasonous by definition under any pretext, even when
couched as 'American Foreign Policy Initiative' or 'preemptive
self-defense'; that the very exercise of 'hegemony' is the
prime-mover that leads to covert-ops in the first place, and to the
wanton usurpation of the 'lesser' humanity; and that both its
advocates and harbingers alike are the worst monumental criminals of
humanity to be sent off to Guantanamo Bay for eternity; unless you
boldly assert all these commonsensical truths, at best, after you are
done successfully prosecuting your investigations at the FBI and
getting your public Congressional hearings on them, what do you get?
One set of dispensable 'hectoring hegemons' is simply replaced by
another, but in continuation of the same overarching policies of
'empire'. The 'party' still continues! Witness that the underlying
themes of dealing in “straight power concepts”
articulated by George
Kennan in 1948 still hold sway in 2008, and are directly
responsible for the unspeakable horrors committed from Vietnam to
Iraq, and perhaps now in Iran
and Pakistan!
One final note: You might find the following rebuttal essay on
'Nuclear Security' thought provoking in the context of your public
disclosures and concern for nuclear security
(http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/12/response-toziamian-nuclear-security.html).
The essay argues that a fair calculus of nuclear security should not
just be limited to protection of the 'empire' from the terrorist acts
of the so called 'pirates' and 'rogue' states acquiring 'loose nukes'
and/or developing their own crude arsenal, but also include
protection from the predatory impulses of the 'emperor' to threaten
preemptive nuclear first-strikes on non-nuclear nations to get them
to heel. And further include protection from the emperor's vengeful
retaliatory nuclear strikes in the event of any wanton nuclear
terrorist act that is unilaterally blamed upon the lowly non-nuclear
state merely because that darn stateless terrorist master actor, “Bin
Laden”, is cited within its borders and releases a confessional
video!
A sound nuclear security calculus [and global systems of checks and
balances] must be able to [at least] deter both these [nuclear
primacy] scenarios (A,
B),
and must become
the focus of concerned whistleblowers as the likely near term
threat facing a vast majority of innocent peoples. Would you agree
that this poses a far greater threat to the world's security and
peace prospects then the 7 or 8 year old FBI [recorded] conversations
in Turkish? And would you further agree that more you insist on
visiting old information, more current information and present risks
will be swept under the rug? Thus it isn't surprising to me that
Rupert Murdoc's newspaper in England leaked your story out at this
time when America is getting ready to attack Iran – for to my
cynical mind, it's a wonderfully distracting and vacuous mystery
chase that can occupy the otherwise sharp minds focussed on matters
of more pressing urgency!
I hope this was useful. It may be entirely off the mark as well, as
it is just an outsider's view trying to make sense of it all.
However, as you may well have learnt listening to the FBI tapes, the
concept of independent 'nation-states' is now quite passé, and
we are entering a New World Order in which “The United
States has overstepped its borders in all spheres -- economic,
political and humanitarian and has imposed itself on other states.”
This “unipolar” world “means in practice
one thing: one center of power, one center of force, one center of
decision-making, a world of one master, one sovereign,”
which makes the world “extremely dangerous.”
(Putin,
February 10, 2007). A recognition of this blatant fact must [surely]
enter into the forensic interpretation of any data that pertains to
covert-ops on the 'Grand Chessboard'. Nothing
is at face value.
With best wishes for continued success in your on-going quest for
real truth
and justice
as 'just
a citizen' that can make a lasting and substantial impact on
the calculus of your nation's foreign policy initiatives for the
benefit and welfare of the entire world's peoples.
This letter will be posted at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
Kind Regards
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
* Since this writing, further research by this scribe has revealed
that it is very likely that the so called rogue network of American
intelligence operatives was working hand-in-glove with the Pakistani
metallurgist Dr. A. Q. Khan to in fact sabotage, compromise, and/or
delay Pakistan's nuclear weapons program by planting false and/or
unworkable products, technologies, purchases, and leads. The evidence
based on the actual role of Dr. A. Q. Khan in Pakistan's nuclear
weapons development which was indeed minuscule, suggests that Dr. A.
Q. Khan may have been a Trojan Horse diabolically planted in Pakistan
by Western intelligence to subvert the genuine efforts of Pakistani
scientists like Dr. Munir Ahmad Khan at the Pakistan Atomic Energy
Commission. Private conversations with several Pakistani scientists
and researchers reveal an entirely different perspective from the one
publicly promulgated in the West as well as in Pakistan. Unable to
sabotage the nuclear weapons development directly, the 'loose nukes'
has been fashioned for plans B and C – saving Pakistan and the
world from their falling into the hands of Ali Baba.
[ Caveat Lector: As the saying goes on state secrets: Those who know don't speak, those who speak don't know! The conjecture of Dr. A. Q. Khan possibly being a double agent falls within the cracks of closely guarded state secrets of at least two nations, Pakistan and the United States, and therefore will likely never be adjudicated as fact. Dr. A. Q. Khan has remained cloaked in controversy from the very beginning when he first wrote to prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in September 1974, gratuitously offering his services as a great Pakistani patriot after India exploded their first nuclear bomb which created an existential threat for Pakistan. In the cloak and dagger world of compartmentalized intelligence ops and military ops of a national security state, there is more between heaven and earth than the best public minds can possibly dream of. The official narratives in the public domain on Pakistan's nuclear weapons program have been put there deliberately by both nations -- the truth can be something else entirely. Even deathbed confessions cannot be trusted in such cases. Intelligence operatives and all those working on state secrets and sworn to secrecy as part of their job, only take their real secrets to the grave, if not in the name of patriotism, than at least for the fear of reprisals to the loved ones left behind. That is the hard reality which cannot be ignored when examining the “confessions” of “whistleblowers”! Even official looking “secret documents” can be manufactured for public disclosure as part of the famed “declassification” process, or cunningly leaked, for writing the public version of official history. Whistleblowers of state secrets therefore, especially when it pertains to national security, are either a Trojan horse, or, patsies and useful idiots still unwittingly serving their former masters in the name of conscience. That appears to be the case with Sibel Edmonds as demonstrated in the letter to her. Her meaningless revelations of low level chatter are mere tunes of the Mighty Wurlitzer. The opinions of Pakistani nuclear scientists also cannot be trusted for the same reasons. They will never disclose any real state secrets! The same is true of officialdom. Since his downfall from grace after his shameful public confession on February 4, 2004, on Pakistan television of illegally participating in nuclear proliferation without the knowledge and permission of the state, thus saving Pakistan from any backlash were it also implicated, it has become fashionable to speak ill of the sacrificial lamb who can hardly defend himself with any moral standing after that public performance. Dr. A. Q. Khan will surely take all his state secrets of both nations silently to his grave. He may well be the true patriot, or he may be the double agent recruited by Uncle Sam, or his own self-serving agent, or, all three! His recompense will surely be in his grave (from Allah!)]
[ Caveat Lector: As the saying goes on state secrets: Those who know don't speak, those who speak don't know! The conjecture of Dr. A. Q. Khan possibly being a double agent falls within the cracks of closely guarded state secrets of at least two nations, Pakistan and the United States, and therefore will likely never be adjudicated as fact. Dr. A. Q. Khan has remained cloaked in controversy from the very beginning when he first wrote to prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in September 1974, gratuitously offering his services as a great Pakistani patriot after India exploded their first nuclear bomb which created an existential threat for Pakistan. In the cloak and dagger world of compartmentalized intelligence ops and military ops of a national security state, there is more between heaven and earth than the best public minds can possibly dream of. The official narratives in the public domain on Pakistan's nuclear weapons program have been put there deliberately by both nations -- the truth can be something else entirely. Even deathbed confessions cannot be trusted in such cases. Intelligence operatives and all those working on state secrets and sworn to secrecy as part of their job, only take their real secrets to the grave, if not in the name of patriotism, than at least for the fear of reprisals to the loved ones left behind. That is the hard reality which cannot be ignored when examining the “confessions” of “whistleblowers”! Even official looking “secret documents” can be manufactured for public disclosure as part of the famed “declassification” process, or cunningly leaked, for writing the public version of official history. Whistleblowers of state secrets therefore, especially when it pertains to national security, are either a Trojan horse, or, patsies and useful idiots still unwittingly serving their former masters in the name of conscience. That appears to be the case with Sibel Edmonds as demonstrated in the letter to her. Her meaningless revelations of low level chatter are mere tunes of the Mighty Wurlitzer. The opinions of Pakistani nuclear scientists also cannot be trusted for the same reasons. They will never disclose any real state secrets! The same is true of officialdom. Since his downfall from grace after his shameful public confession on February 4, 2004, on Pakistan television of illegally participating in nuclear proliferation without the knowledge and permission of the state, thus saving Pakistan from any backlash were it also implicated, it has become fashionable to speak ill of the sacrificial lamb who can hardly defend himself with any moral standing after that public performance. Dr. A. Q. Khan will surely take all his state secrets of both nations silently to his grave. He may well be the true patriot, or he may be the double agent recruited by Uncle Sam, or his own self-serving agent, or, all three! His recompense will surely be in his grave (from Allah!)]
Chapter 12
Beware of Red Herrings on
Nuclear Security spun by Hectoring Hegemons and their patsies!
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
March 27, 2008.
The following letter was sent to Ms. Sibel Edmonds in continuation of
the theme from Project Humanbeingsfirst's letter to her of March 18,
2008, on 'Pakistan's
Bomb, U.S. Cover-up'.
March 21, 2008.
Dear Ms. Sibel Edmonds,
Hi. FYI. A copy of letter
to editor of Foreign Policy In Focus, citing your work among
other matters. I bring it to your kind attention mainly to point out
that there are many urgent and pressing matters which can today lead
to the nuclear holocaust of an innocent nation at the hands of
'hectoring hegemons' in your own nation. There is far greater
imminent threat to humanity by the imperial 'hectoring hegemons' in
your own nation right now, than some fictitious 'pirates' and 'rogue'
states half way across the world that may have been sold nuclear
secrets 10 years ago. The latter is already fait accompli, the
former will soon be unless courageous and prominent activists,
whistleblowers, and men and women of conscience stop chasing down
cultivated red herrings and focus on the highest order, most
significant bits of the matter as it unfolds today. This letter to
FPIF references a rebuttal
essay by Project Humanbeingsfirst that disassembles one such
deftly cultivated red herring by a prominent Princeton University
nuclear non-proliferation expert. I strongly suspect that you are,
quite inadvertently, pushing another red herring. Both have the
theme in common, that they entirely ignore the premeditated
diabolical intent by your own nation to use nuclear weapons on Iran
under one pretext or another. There is no bigger threat to nuclear
security than a rogue cabal within the United States Government
hijacking the American nukes, or contriving their deployment and use,
under pretexts! As men and women of conscience and uncommon courage,
let's also “call a spade a spade" shall we? I would not be
writing you had you not become such a prominent person among the
dissent-stream and whistleblowers. Please channel this prominence and
visibility upon matters that have a current high import. If you are
doing it already, that's great, and thank you.
The following letter was emailed to you a few days ago; just in case
it ended up in the junk mail bit bucket, here is a pointer to it for
your reference:
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/03/letter-sibeledmonds-nuclear-security.html.
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/03/letter-sibeledmonds-nuclear-security.html.
I would appreciate an acknowledgment that you have received it.
Kind Regards,
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Project Humanbeingsfirst cannot humbly emphasize enough the first
order most crucial question that must concern all conscionable
'United States persons' today, including courageous genuinely
patriotic whistleblowers. How do these revelations of FBI recordings
about supposedly 'treasonous' matters that are already fait
accompli from ten years ago, and the incessant demands by Ms.
Edmonds and her supporters to hold a (surely to be sensationalized)
Congressional public inquiry to air them out, today deter Presidents
Bush/Cheney or Israel
from their devilishly crafted premeditated plans for launching
nuclear
attacks on Iran disguised as a “defensive U.S.
military action” (Brzezinski)?
Or, how will it prevent future such attacks, or derail the ongoing
systematic destabilization of that entire Eurasian continent
identified by 'Dr.
Strangelove' mastermind du jour as the “Global Zone
of Percolating Violence”, in the next Administration to
occupy the White House which will most assuredly be composed of
merely new 'water carriers' for the same genre of 'hectoring
hegemons'* continuing forth with the enduring legacy of George
F. Kennan's unabashed 1948 memo PPS23:
'Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of
relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of
disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do
so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and
day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated
everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive
ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and
world-benefaction.'
That refrain from “altruism and world-benefaction”
was in a bipolar world that was emerging from the ashes of World War
II, for which Kennan emphasized the necessity of dealing “in
straight power concepts” as the very corner stone of
America's foreign policy going forward:
'We should dispense with the aspiration to "be liked" or
to be regarded as the repository of a high-minded international
altruism. We should stop putting ourselves in the position of being
our brothers' keeper and refrain from offering moral and ideological
advice. We should cease to talk about vague and--for the Far
East--unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the
living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we
are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are
then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.'
In the unipolar world of the sole superpower's hectoring hegemony
today, where the term “unipolar” was rather bluntly
defined in 2007 by the Russian President Wladimir
Putin thusly:
“what is a unipolar world? However one might embellish this
term, at the end of the day it refers to one type of situation,
namely one centre of authority, one centre of force, one centre of
decision-making. It is world in which there is one master, one
sovereign. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for
all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself
because it destroys itself from within. And this certainly has
nothing in common with democracy. Because, as you know, democracy is
the power of the majority in light of the interests and opinions of
the minority.”
we have empirically seen the barbaric lengths to which the United
States has gone to introduce its “Grande baille of the New
World Order” from Iraq 1990 to Iraq 2008, to the point of
it now actively planning preemptive nuclear attacks on developing
nations unwilling to follow the diktats of “one master, one
sovereign.” Only an adversely
indoctrinated person would deny this empirical reality today,
however colorfully it might be embellished as the “war on
terrorism”.
Please think before acting – please analyze why,
systematically, and consistently, all efforts by well intentioned
peoples have been inefficacious in preventing new wars? That, if any
attack on Iran was postponed due to the American
'loose nukes', it was likely entirely because courageous
commanders within the American military establishment refused to
follow immoral orders?
Could it be because the real patriots of America have been cleverly
co-opted by endless red herrings, and by deliberate focus on the
'leaves' instead of the 'roots' and the 'DNA' of the disease leading
to new leaves continually being created by the same diseased
tree of infamy?
Yet inexplicably, we observe courageous whistleblowers like Ms.
Edmonds entirely silent on matters of “imperial
mobilization” of her own adopted nation, or that 911 could
have been an inside job because the “imperial mobilization”
and dramatic increase in defense spending to affect the military
transformation that immediately followed was precisely predicated on
such a shockingly catalyzing event – the “new
pearl harbor”!
She is also silent on how 911 could possibly have occurred in an
armed to the teeth superpower without treasonous peoples on the
inside aiding and abetting in its operational planning, logistics,
and execution. And not just aiding and abetting inadvertently through
their incompetence, or aiding and abetting thugishly by being in the
pay of foreign governments, both of which Ms. Edmonds asserts likely
caused an otherwise preventable 911 from occurring, but aiding and
abetting in actually making 911 happen on purpose as a deadly
military covert-ops by a rogue cabal inside the United States upon
the American nation like Hitler's 'Operation Canned Goods' and the
'Reichstag fire'! For the latter definition of aiding and abetting,
the ultimate in treason, she is silent. One imagines that like Noam
Chomsky and Robert Fisk, she
too believes that 19 Muslim jihadis, controlled by a man on a
dialysis machine in the Hindu Kush and armed with laptops and cell
phones, trumped the world's largest most sophisticated
superpower into lowering
its air defenses, into not following routine operational
procedures, and suspended the laws
of physics by demolishing the towers at free
fall speed.
Ms. Edmonds is bizarrely mute on the empirical observation –
which requires no interpreters or translators or intermediaries –
that the towers collapsing into their own footprints is suspiciously
similar to how buildings collapse under expert controlled demolition.
Nor is she willing to opine on the logical implication of the highest
levels of treason that would be involved in such a case if the
empirical evidence of the eyes, years of engineering experience, and
the rational mind are taken as the starting point of forensic
analysis instead of the facile unproven theoretical expositions from
the Pentagon and 'Popular Mechanics'. Indeed, she seems entirely
fixated in her untiring efforts, to draw attention to, and elevate
the threat from, the boogiemen 'pirates', who are now, in effect,
made out to appear more real and less fictitious because real
identifiable 'treasonous thugs' from within the US Government
themselves sold the bad guys America's nuclear secrets for a song!
(Sibel Edmonds' words, non-utterances, and omissions gleaned in only
these references: A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
as of 03/27/08)
Therefore, it is legitimate, it may be tortuously argued under
certain ripe conditions, to nuclear
decimate both Pakistan and Iran, in order to claim back
America's stolen nuclear secrets that Ms. Edmonds is drawing
attention to as an insider whistleblower. Especially if it's carried
out in the guise of retaliatory-response to another even more
horrendous 911 as President
Bush himself prognosticated on February 13, 2008 is imminent:
“terrorists are planning new attacks on our country ... that
will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison”. Or even in response
to another Gulf of Tonkin scenario that Congressman
Ron Paul had prognosticated on January 15, 2007: “I
am concerned, however, that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin- type incident
may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran”.
Or in response to perhaps an entirely
different scenario that will appear so publicly shocking at
the time of its occurrence that it would necessitate Martial Law in
the United States, and hurriedly lead to nuclear 'retaliatory' “shock
and awe” upon all pre-planned targets. That such reasons
for nuclear retaliation and preemptive nuclear strikes are not far
fetched is ominously foreshadowed in build-up statements from
American military commanders such as this one reported in Pakistani
newspaper Dawn on February 7, 2008: 'Defence officials
told Congress on Wednesday that Al Qaeda is operating from havens in
“under-governed regions” of Pakistan, which they said
pose direct threats to Europe, the United States and the Pakistan
government itself. ... Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, predicted in written testimony that the next
attack on the United States probably would be launched by
terrorists in that region.' More of such ominous statements
building up the boogieman in the Hindu Kush can be gleaned in this
open
letter to a Pakistani General warning Pakistan's leaders that
they are unwittingly (or perhaps deliberately) suiciding that country
by continuing to engage in the American
fiction of the 'War on Terror' which has made Pakistan
“Terror
Central”, the “very
petri dish of international terrorism”.
But it suffices to examine the above cited Adm. Michael Mullen's
clairvoyance even with a modicum of one's own commonsense and a bit
of un-indoctrinated rationalism.
“Next attack on the United States”? Is it
so easy to attack a Goliath superpower isolated on a continent with a
natural coastline from sea to shining sea and which spends trillions
of dollars on its high-tech defense? Some barefoot mullahs with
sticks and box cutters can so outwit the sole superpower and reduce
it to such shambles that it has to enact draconian laws and deny its
own civilians their own Constitutionally mandated Bill of Rights and
Democratic existence? Then what's the point of all this defense
spending if some “under-governed regions” of
Pakistan can “pose direct threats to Europe, the United
States”? Why not just take all that monies and put a roof
over every man woman and child on the planet, provide everyone with
clean drinking water, primary medical care, K-16 education, and
lifetime livable-pension after retirement? And still have monies left
over to build libraries, roads, and social services for all? That
would most assuredly take the wind out of the sails of all terrorism
– unless of course Daniel Pipes is to be believed, that it's
not the peoples, but radical Islam and Islamism which is the enemy!
That, it's "Not
[even] a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash between the Civilized
World and Barbarians". Even there, such genuine altruism
and world-benefaction would surely eliminate the fertile recruiting
grounds that are harvested through economic conscription and dead
bodies created by the imperial bombings itself! Thus if despite this
enormous defense spending, the American military-industrial complex
failed to protect the Americans that they now cannot even disclose
their true identities in most countries of the world, and often have
to pretend that they are Canadians, shouldn't some peoples be
demanding that the Pentagon be dismantled and its enormous
kitchen-sink budget used for the good of the majority of the ordinary
peoples of the United States?
Because these statements from the American President and his military
commander can only be true at the 'unbirthday party' with the 'Mad
Hatter' and the 'Dormouse' boisterously singing the war song “United
We Stand”, it is not difficult to imagine the purpose of
this facile charade of governmental secrecy behind Ms. Edmonds'
travails. Indeed, these FBI recordings may become a tortuous setup to
authenticate the supposed 'nuclear
signature' of the fateful tipping point, wherein, nuclear
attacks on targeted countries would finally be deemed acceptable by
the public – when once, just contemplating its use was
unimaginable because of the MAD deterrence that had kept the world
precariously perched on the edge of Armageddon for 40 years. When the
conditions are ripe, all of a sudden, Ms. Edmonds' wishes for
Congressional inquiry may get granted! It will be determined that the
nuclear signature of the terrorist event matched that of 'loose
nukes' based on stolen American technology, hijacked from Pakistan by
the Taliban and al-qaeeda, and squirreled into Iran and used by them
to inflict shocking harm to the peoples and interests of the United
States! For an outlandish scenario where this could plausibly be sold
to the gullible American public no differently than the facile
pretexts of WMDs to invade Iraq, see “Wakeup
to the grotesque reality of the 'Grand Chessboard'”.
Beware of both, diabolically crafted, as well as inadvertently spun,
endless trail of red herrings and dupes and patsies being made the
pied pipers to hell. The 'technique
of infamy' in its many variations is all pervasive in times
of war, and this is, after all, 'World
War IV', slated to last an entire lifetime! It will surely
require highly inventive minds from 'Hollywood's script writers
guild' to continually come up with increasingly compelling 'Alice in
Wonderland' sequels to continue the pretexts for perpetual war!
There is, apparently, one American
nuclear bomb missing! How will it be used? How many ways can
another 'new pearl harbor' “make Sept. 11 pale by
comparison”? If there is any terrorist or accidental
nuclear event anywhere in the world, remember that the world's
largest national security state had trivially misplaced or miscounted
some nukes recently!
And lastly, Ms. Sibel Edmonds' conception of whistleblowing on
national security matters is also greatly troubling. It is, by her
own admission, entirely encapsulated in the envelop of 'legality' and
'officialese' with no obvious moral or international-law dimensions.
She has apparently never heard of the penalty for “goosestep[ing]
the Herrenvolk across international frontiers.” In
response to a question in this video
speech (at minute 66:43) to the ALA
in 2007, she elaborated that she felt that if it's a really
genuine state-matter, like a secretive “very important
covert operation”, then it is okay to apply the
'state-secrets privilege' to gag whistleblowers. She is only against
it for its whimsical arbitrariness – not because of some moral
principles. Thus if Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon et. al., are set
up with deadly very important covert-ops – like the Israeli
'Lavon Affair' of not too distant past – to create pretexts to
lay blame for crimes one did not commit and go nuclear bomb them to
smithereens, or to destabilize nations because they sit on the vast
quantities of natural resources that 'hectoring hegemons' covet in
the name of 'national security', or because of some geostrategic
significance in the calculus of American foreign policy interests
(for a sampling of covert-ops warfare on Iran as American foreign
policy interests, see 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15),
then it is just dandy to apply 'state-secrets privilege'. And by
implication, whatever she has unfortunately experienced as an
institutionalized gagging and bi-partisan stonewalling to her
whistleblowing, would be entirely legitimate in such international
covert-ops premature disclosure cases! By further implication, just
so long as America's own national security is not threatened, the
world can go to hell!
Thus if a whistleblower, for instance, were to discover official
receipts for the American covert footprints in the destabilization
of Tibet as a proxy covert engagement of China in the
on-going game of hegemony on the 'Grand Chessboard' – like its
predecessor Covert
CIA Intervention in Afghanistan – that would be fair
game to squelch hard. If such disclosures can prevent officially
sanctioned criminal wars and the death and destruction of the 'lesser
humanity', they are still entitled to be gagged, because they might
disclose a very secretive “important covert operation”!
By her exposition, one can only conclude that gagging Daniel Ellsberg
would also have been entirely legitimate because he did after all,
reveal official state-secrets as the 'Pentagon Papers'. Thus while
she justifiably, and very articulately, offers her narrative of how
arbitrary draconian measures have curbed whistleblowing, “there
is no [effective] 911 for whistleblowers to call” as she
puts it, even if there was, so what? It does not enable covert-ops to
be 'legally' disclosed before they lead to horrendous faits
accomplis! Thus a courageous whistleblower has to approach the
public directly in order to expose monumental crimes against humanity
in any case at considerable risk of prosecution. So what is the fuss
all about?
There is really no principled stance, that predatory covert-ops
performed upon other nations to destabilize them, as precursors to
prosecute wars of conquest and hegemony upon them, or to strangulate
them, are not only illegal by international law, but also criminally
immoral – even when done in the pretext of '“defensive”
US military action', or as preemption in the name of “national
security”! Lessons
of Nuremberg are obviously only a victor's justice
continually applied to the vanquished and the demonized, never to the
saintly victors themselves!
Just the fact that Edmonds specifically uttered the words
'covert-ops' as an illustrative example of where all branches and
offices of the American juggernaut can draw their line of national
security and 'state-secrets privilege' boundaries, suggests that she
is, in essence, just as much a 'hectoring hegemon' as any other who
fits that definition. There is no condemnation from her, for
instance, that can be gleaned in any of the afore-cited references to
her statements and websites, of the euphemism that has been used to
construct the blood-drenched American empire: 'American foreign
policy interests abroad'!
Surely this is not what Ms. Sibel Edmonds intended, for she is most
certainly a morally courageous and a genuinely patriotic person who
dared to speak out. However, in the intelligence game of conquest and
hegemony, a game that is as old as empire, a game in which Ms.
Edmonds only accidentally stumbled into as a language translator,
patsies and dupes are as essential to imperial
mobilization as foot
soldiers and F16s; as necessary as NATO's
Grand Strategies for the preemptive
use of nuclear weapons to preserve the American way of life;
and as indispensable as the
World Bank and the IMF to harvest the global South of its resources.
None of this information is particularly secret. In fact, all of it
is a matter of record.
Why Ms. Edmonds does not betray any sense of awareness of these
blatantly obvious matters – and yet, she has endorsements from
such erstwhile pioneers of whistleblowing as the respected Daniel
Ellsberg “I'd say what she has is far more explosive
than the Pentagon Papers”, and also the rapturous attention
of almost the entire so called dissent-space which does not often
agree on anything – is greatly troubling!
How does what she supposedly has, at all bring the impending nuclear
attacks upon defenseless nations to an end even before they are
launched? Can there be anything of higher importance and greater
significance today than preemptive (or 'retaliatory') nuclear strikes
by the United States, Israel, and/or NATO? How is anything that Sibel
Edmonds has disclosed thus far (see reference A-N cited above) “more
explosive than the Pentagon Papers” which catalyzed the
ending of a barbaric and immoral war that had needlessly caused more
than 50,000 Americans dead, and several million Vietnamese killed who
still remain only a statistic in the West? What does Ellsberg know
about it that hasn't been publicly disclosed? The prima facie impact
of the focus on 'house-cleaning' due to 'incompetence' and
'lower-grade treasonous behavior' of supposedly 'selling nuclear
secrets' ten years ago is to effectively keep the attention of the
world sensationally distracted on Sibel Edmonds until the impending
nuclear “imperial mobilization” which is only
awaiting go-ahead orders from the White House is fait
accompli!
Her obvious charm, and laudable exclusive focus (from the American
public's perspective) on America's national security and its
treasonous subversion as the cause célèbre of her
whistleblowing, is a fantastic red herring when all attention ought
to be focussed on preventing the impending immoral war on Iran and
the destruction of new nations who refuse to kowtow
to Western imperialism! Yes it exists
today! Ask those who suffer it.
After going through all of the afore-cited references about her,
Project Humanbeingsfirst is greatly concerned about the new red
herring that has been crafted in the guise of Ms. Sibel Edmonds that
is attracting the attention of the already tiny dissent-space!
Another who partly tells the truth, but judiciously refrains from
forensically examining the prime-mover behind this present “imperial
mobilization”: 911 being an inside job (the highest treason
imaginable)! Or even recognizing that “imperial
mobilization” is what's going on in the guise of “War
on Terrorism” employing false and fabricated pretexts! Why
such myopia?
It would be a different matter to reach the conclusion that 911
couldn't have been an inside job but only an evil jihadi invasion
from abroad after a forensic investigation. But to religiously
proclaim, based on new found faith in the U.S. Government, which on
the one hand, one accuses of being an 'Outlaw
state' or full
of treasonous peoples under the influence of foreign governments
who have hijacked
the American nation (as the case might be), and on the other,
unquestioningly believes in their veracity of who did 911 and how it
was done, despite the evidence of history and first hand confessional
disclosures of governmental lies and deceit such as “Secrets
– a Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers”,
is a blatant non sequitur.
An endorsement by the author of this memoir to its disproportional
significance given the Armageddon that the world is perched on today,
“the major American media have been guilty of ignoring
entirely the allegations of the courageous and highly credible source
Sibel Edmonds”, is an even greater non sequitur.
While Ellsberg
does disclose that it may in fact be “a sensitive covert
operation [which] appear to be [as] if it were truly presidentially
authorized”, he, and surely inadvertently, re-spins the
famous 'blowback' theory “giving us the Pakistani bomb”
as a convenient pre-explanation of any future nuclear terrorist act
that is attributed to Pakistani 'loose nukes' by the United States
and its forensic agencies but whose nuclear signature as determined
by the Russians unfortunately matches American technology:
'In support of the official cover-up, various American journalists
in the last weeks have reportedly received calls from "intelligence
sources" hinting that "what Sibel Edmonds stumbled onto"
is not a rogue operation by American officials and congressmen
working to their own advantage -- as believed by Edmonds and some
other former or active FBI officials -- but a sensitive covert
operation authorized at high levels.
If there is any truth to that, we clearly have another prize
candidate -- giving us as blowback the Pakistani Bomb and nuclear
sales -- in the category of "worst covert operation in U.S.
history": rivaling such contenders as the Bay of Pigs,
Iran-Contra, and the secret CIA torture camps abroad. '
Perhaps there are real compelling secrets that Ellsberg and Edmonds
are privy to that have yet to be disclosed to the public! If there
are, please don't wait in the name of 'national security' until
another civilization is criminally laid to nuclear rubbles at the
hands of your own 'hectoring hegemons'! Ellsberg
however is indeed on the mark when he notes covert-ops as being
“criminal”:
' “Sensitive" and "covert" are often synonyms
for "half-assed" 'or "idiotic," as well as for
"criminal," as the pattern of activities revealed by
Edmonds would appear to be if it were truly presidentially
authorized.'
And thus Sibel Edmonds eagerly accepting “very important
covert-ops” to be silenced under 'state-secrets privilege'
is incredibly telling of the red herring nature of her disclosures.
Almost as if, perhaps unwittingly, she has become one of the
'good-cop bad-cop' team members. Can't tell which one. But it matters
little, for both have the pursuit of the same goals as their
overarching mission statement. In a tortuous way, she is echoing the
policy of the Pentagon and its DIA, and its children the CIA, the
NSA, the ABC and the XYZ – keep criminal covert-ops a secret,
until at least they are fait accompli! Such is the case with
Brzezinski's
and Gates' confessions regarding CIA's covert interventions
in Afghanistan. President Jimmy Carter even won a Nobel Peace Prize –
despite this blood-drenched covert operation having been initiated
during his watch, and upon his approval – after an entire
civilization was decimated to hand the “USSR its Vietnam
War”!
Not uncharacteristic of new immigrants escaping from their native
hell-holes, it is also almost as if yet another new 'native
informant' has been created. This one successively escaping
from oppression first in native Iran, and then in first adopted
country Turkey. One whose family was victimized and tortured, by her
own admission
of these atrocities, and who so aspires for the Western freedoms that
her second adopted homeland promised to offer but let her down, that
its single minded tenacious pursuit almost blinds her to the glaring,
shitting, trumpeting elephant in the newlywed's bed! After listening
to her speech on video
and learning of her imposing educational credentials and
multicultural-multilingual
background, while a rational mind is unwilling to accept that
she is like a typical indoctrinated American who has bought into the
mantra of “war on terrorism”, it is also unable to accept
her as entirely objective. The only inescapable conclusion that
remains in the light of this essay, and which certainly begs a
critical examination by the reader, is that she is unwittingly being
made a patsy due to her natural proclivities. It could be just an
overactive imagination, but effectively, a rebel has been
'constructed' who is focussing the attention of the world on
irrelevance in the calculus of on-going moves on the 'Grand
Chessboard'.
Without a congenial psychological profile, especially for a foreigner
and naturalized citizen that Ms. Edmonds is, no one can surely get to
work for the FBI, or for any intelligence agency to begin with, let
alone be given top
security clearance for translation work from Middle Eastern
languages. I doubt very much if there are any turban wearing mullahs
translating Pushto or Dari into English for the FBI at this time –
but surely they were enlisted during the CIA's Intervention in
Afghanistan because then, they were ideologically congenial as “moral
equivalent of our founding fathers”! And I also doubt very
much that the FBI will ever ask me to translate my native language
Urdu for them, or give me top security clearance even if I was
willing, regardless of how short-handed they were, while knowing that
I have not been fooled by the fiction of “war on terror”.
And while Ms. Edmonds has indeed courageously dissented, the bottom
line is that she has also very willingly retained several very
congenial religious axioms of “911” and the “war on
terror” upon which premise she has constructed all of her
whistleblowing and interpretations. At least for everything that has
been publicly reported, and due to which, she makes an ideal
manufactured dissent. It is great to have such self-controlled and
self-policing dissenters in America – from the viewpoint of
'empire'!
Some 'hectoring hegemons' somewhere surely must have un-gentle smiles
slowly uncurling upon their 'ubermensch' Straussian
lips at the prospect of tortuously reaping multiple harvests
from a single seed!
Manufacturing consent to keep the masses acquiesced to “imperial
mobilization” is plenty understood. Manufacturing dissent
to keep the handful of courageous gadflies, who invariably rise to
oppose it, endlessly busy pursuing the various lies, red herrings,
and the 'low order bits' which do not penetrate to the core that
matters, in the 'technique of infamy', has been least examined by the
so called profound intellectuals of modernity. See its superficial
first order examination by a mere plebeian: “Responsibility
of Intellectuals – Redux”!
The overarching first principles of imperial mobilization that, if we
are wise, should become the touchstone of all forensic unraveling of
secrets and interpretation of 'contemporary history', were
brilliantly captured by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book 'The
Grand Chessboard' thusly:
“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.”
And also additionally elaborated upon by Noam Chomsky in his book
“Rogue
States” by highlighting comments from a 1995 study by
the U.S. Strategic Command:
'A secret 1995 study of the Strategic Command, which is
responsible for the strategic nuclear arsenal, outlines the basic
thinking. Released through the Freedom of Information Act, the study,
Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence, "shows how the United
States shifted its deterrent strategy from the defunct Soviet Union
to so-called rogue states such as Iraq, Libya, Cuba and North Korea,"
AP reports. The study advocates that the US exploit its nuclear
arsenal to portray itself as "irrational and vindictive if its
vital interests are attacked." That "should be a part of
the national persona we project to all adversaries," in
particular the "rogue states." "It hurts to portray
ourselves as too fully rational and cool-headed," let alone
committed to such silliness as international law and treaty
obligations. "The fact that some elements" of the US
government "may appear to be potentially 'out of control' can be
beneficial to creating and reinforcing fears and doubts within the
minds of an adversary's decision makers." The report resurrects
Nixon's "madman theory": our enemies should recognize that
we are crazed and unpredictable,...'
Indeed, deliberately cultivated 'crazed and unpredictable',
and 'out of control' persona explains the facile 'selling' of
America's nuclear secrets as an authorized and sanctioned official
covert-ops at the highest levels far more convincingly than any rogue
foreign spies running rings around the world's
largest national security state as Ms. Edmond's own
interpretation of her disclosures would have the world believe! Its
possible geostrategic significance on the 'Grand Chessboard' was
briefly examined from the calculus of 'checking' China and India in
this
letter to Sibel Edmonds. And with that psyops persona as the
backdrop, the crazed superpower actually acting that way as a wounded
elephant in response to 911 works great for “imperial
mobilization”. And for deflection purposes in case public
criticism of official foreign policy becomes too loud, 'blowback'
theories and 'incompetence' make wonderful red herrings to explain
away premeditated execution of international monumental crimes for
which adverse consequences to the national security of the hectoring
state were inadvertently not anticipated! Right, as if
brilliant-morons are building empire! Only in a 3-stooges Hollywood
spoof, or in Alice's Wonderland, mes amis!
The veritable proof of the empirical validity of this assessment is
in the many ex post facto 'we are shocked at the incompetence' type
statements of feigned surprise, like this famous one:
“We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong
in almost all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction. This was a major intelligence failure,” (Iraq
Study Group report, March 31, 2005)
And to forensically relate this bit of disingenuousness of not too
distant history from the highest levels of the United States
Government, to the present, in order to prevent an abhorrent future,
here is the dark meat of the matter:
“As I said last week on the House floor, speculation in
Washington focuses on when, not if, either Israel or the U.S. will
bomb Iran-- possibly with nuclear weapons. The accusation sounds very
familiar: namely, that Iran possesses weapons of mass destruction.
Iran has never been found in violation of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, and our own Central Intelligence Agency
says Iran is more than ten years away from producing any kind of
nuclear weapon. Yet we are told we must act immediately while we
still can!” (Ron
Paul, January 15, 2007)
Caveat lector: the endless red herrings cleverly spun by the
hectoring hegemons. There must be only one immediate, near term, and
long term goal for the equitable security (and prosperity) of all
peoples on the planet Earth so long as there remains an imbalance of
power among us, so long as there remain 'hectoring hegemons' seeking
“full spectrum dominance” among us, and so long as
there remains an absence of “full
spectrum deterrence” to “the pursuit of
power”, for indeed, “hegemony is as old as
mankind”: prevent new “defensive U.S. military
action”. Anything, including all acts,
revelations, and magical mantras that distract from this goal,
regardless of how compelling the reasons, must be treated by the
unwary and gullible public and its intellectual
dissenting-chiefs as red herrings, pretexts, and deceptions
for premeditated “imperial mobilization”. As
President Bush said it – either you are with us, or with the
terrorists! And St. Augustine defined that term quite
unambiguously 16 centuries ago:
“When the King asked him what he meant by infesting the sea,
the pirate defiantly replied: 'the same as you do when you infest the
whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a
robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an
emperor.' ”
If there is reason for the United States to bomb any country in
'self-defense', demand a ratification of the decision to go to war
through a public referendum – let its great democracy speak
directly in the modernity of the 21st century before it is
called upon to make its sacrifices, before it is called upon to pay
its taxes to fund the war, and before it is called upon to acquire
innocent
blood on its hands! Even better, draw the soldiers, officers
and technicians from the pool who vote for war! If they vote yes to
invade other nations, they must be willing to sign up for it
themselves first – instead of having a draft of economic
conscription!
A commonsensical and calculated demand such as this made today, right
now, to be adjudicated upon in Congressional public hearings and
converted into law, is infinitely more sensible for assuring
America's national security given the hundred+ year history of
deception for “imperial mobilization” by this
nation's Executive branch with willing complicity from its entire
ruling elite from legislature to newsmedia – as evidenced from
the USS Maine to the WMDs – and which today rings the entire
globe with more than 700
of its military bases.
It is the only efficacious American peoples' protocol for arresting
the cancer of “imperial mobilization” in its
tracks with all its concomitant benefits directly accruing to the
ordinary peoples of this nation – from increased social
spending to a safer world for them to vacation in, to proudly
disclose in far away places that they are American without the fear
of being gunned down. Other collective protocols by the rest of the
planet's peoples may not be so benign.
* To glimpse an instance of this genre of would be 'world
conquerers', see the list of contributors at the back page of this
document.
To learn how to unmask them publicly leaving them no place to hide
except in a 'Spandau', and before they can inflict their monumental
crimes upon a 'lesser humanity', see the Project Humanbeingsfirst's
Dialog Algorithm in this document.
Chapter 13
Response to Zia Mian's 'How
Not to Handle Nuclear Security'
Foreign Policy In Focus
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
December 20, 2007.
Updated December 25, 2007.
Dear Sir,
In reference to Zia Mian's article “How Not to Handle
Nuclear Security” (http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4818),
please accept the following detailed response for publication in your
august 'Foreign Policy In Focus'. An abbreviated version was
submitted as 'comment' to the article on your website that never made
it.
Begin-Quote: Either the entire world must be free of nuclear
biological and other WMDs, or every peoples must have credible
deterrence against them through realpolitik 'full spectrum alliances'
when predators seek “primacy and its geostrategic
imperatives” and “full spectrum dominance”
on the 'Grand Chessboard'! End-Quote
The above is excerpted from an “Open
Letter to Pakistani Peoples” published by Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org.
The realpolitik reality that is surely known to even the most naive,
is that the 'hectoring hegemons' will not give up their
“primacy imperatives” borne from their full
spectrum supremacy of “air, sea, land, space, and
cyberspace”. And why should they? It gives them the much
coveted “hegemony” over the 'have-nots' and other
'lesser haves', which is the openly acknowledged imperative of the
strong and mighty, and is “as old as mankind”!
Therefore, even presumably thoughtful articles like Zia Mian's that
warn of the real and genuine dangers of nuclear weapons - and indeed
all WMDs are fraught with peril and double-edged swords - but which
blanketly ignore the chauvinist and monumentally criminal doctrines
for their deliberate preemptive use by the 'emperor' which is
a far greater empirical and realistic threat to humanity than their
accidental-use or fictional 'hijacking' by the 'pirates',
and which further repeats the boogie-man disinformation discourse
crafted by 'empire': “A key concern about nuclear security
in Pakistan is the risk of radical Islamist militants making a bid
for its nuclear weapons or its stock of the materials with which to
make nuclear weapons”, is merely re-spinning the 'loose
nukes' mantra from the high pedestal and prestige of an Ivy. In
practice, it only serves the specific agenda of the 'hectoring
hegemons' themselves.
The question of 'nuclear security' must begin from the very ab
initio rational premise of how to protect mankind from all the
predators amongst them; not merely from its accidental or 'terrorist'
murder of humanity by any 'pirates', but also its monumentally
criminal 'official' murder of humanity by the 'emperors' under
blaring trumpets and marching horns!
The analysis by Zia Mian, whose main focus is entirely 'accidents',
and 'pirates', and specifically 'islamist militant'
pirates, and also specifically not the 'emperor's' own
terrorism by its glaring omission and no mention of the outstanding
'imperial' threats of nuclear attack on Iran that might sow a real
Armageddon, artfully concludes that no one must possess nuclear
weapons! To wit: “The only sure way to secure nuclear
weapons and materials is not to have them. The only way to be sure
that nuclear weapons scientists do not pass information is to forbid
scientists from working on such weapons.” He neglects to
mention the 'emperors' not using them to exercise their hegemony,
evidently not being familiar with the 'Nuclear Posture Review'.
But he does throw in, presumably for his own concept of completeness,
this bit of self-evident truism: “Anything short of that is
taking a risk and being willing to pay the price for living in a
nuclear-armed world.”
His main recipe for securing the nuclear weapons “by not
having them” is obviously a utopian un-realizable
'fools-paradise' conclusion in the real world of geopolitics that
plays with other peoples' blood on the 'Grand Chessboard'. Any
sane realist who isn't entirely lost at the 'unbirthday party'
celebrations with the “Mad Hatter” would
immediately recognize it as such. And hence it is less than
convincing, no differently than a security strategy for world peace
might be that suggested to the Zionist Jews to follow their Ten
Commandments, or pleaded with the devilishly inspired 'primacy'
advocates among the Evangelical Christians rushing to bring on 'the
Rapture', including their leader sitting in the White House and
in direct communication with his 'lord', to be 'good' and to turn the
other cheek for the 'new pearl harbor' that they suffered as the good
Lord suggests in the Bible!
What brilliant purpose is being served here? Okay perhaps it's
morally sound platitudes. Is this the best Princeton can give from
its 'Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs'
that any high-schooler can equally churn out even in a developing
nation where moral platitudes abound by the bucket-loads? No, there
is something more to it if this article isn't to be outright rejected
as mere self-evident gibberish. In fact, its very real, but rather
covert purpose appears to be directed primarily at creating and
sustaining rationales for the 'have-not' nations to continue not
possessing them, and disarming of those 'lesser' ones that do!
And why would a worthy Princeton scholar at 'Woodrow Wilson' espouse
any other purpose and reach any other conclusion(?) - it is after all
an 'imperial' doctrinal establishment that is designed to perpetuate
America's "preeminence" above all other nations' by
seeding sophisticated 'doctrinal scholarship' that works hand in
glove with superpower geopolitics and disinformation doctrinal
warfare. The worthy scholar and his “Project on Peace and
Security in South Asia” are directly funded by the
university which immediately sets the overarching tone for all the
“American Peace” project strategies for continued
future funding and prominence!
And the present “American Peace” project
manifestly revolves around Pakistan and Iran, and the scare of
nuclear weapons getting 'loose', or being acquired by a 'rogue
state', just as its ideological predecessor “Center
for Peace and Security in the Gulf” (CPSG) was instrumental
in bringing the now familiar very “American Peace”
to Iraq with the familiar scare of 'WMDs' that could reach the West
within moments of Sadaam Hussein dreaming such in-sanctity!
Indeed, even though Pakistan is only mentioned in the context of
'securing the nukes' with lots of anecdotal stories, it appears to me
that the main agenda of this piece is to plant the one key central
plausible idea that: “If the United States can’t
secure its own nuclear complex, why expect Pakistan to do it any
better?” as in its very opening gambit. All the rest of the
verbiage in the article merely supports this central theme. The
article entirely echoes the ubiquitous mainstream discourse du jour
as variously spinned by the White House and the Pentagon in relation
to Pakistan.
The following excerpted quote from an Open Letter lends perspective
to the actual reality that is not being talked about today, but will
surely be the topic of many erudite books and studies tomorrow - just
as this next bit of disingenuousness was in the aftermath of the fake
'WMD' reports that had already led to the decimation of Iraq. And
yes, also with nuclear weapons ('JDAMs' and 'Daisy Cutters' and other
cocktails of Depleted Uranium black-death spread out across Iraq and
Afghanistan far more devastatingly than a handful of atomic bombs)
that has even destroyed the very DNA of its 'wretched' victims under
deliberate, premeditated, false pretenses: “We conclude that
the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost all of its prewar
judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This was a major
intelligence failure,” (Iraq
Study Group report, March 31, 2005 – the report even has
some of the same distinguished Princeton footprints in it as in the
prewar mantra of 'WMDs' from the CPSG that preceded this
'morning-after' bit of bold-faced chutzpah).
Mae culpa after a Machiavellianly crafted irreversible fait
accompli for deliberate “imperial mobilization”
and full spectrum conquest of Iraq (its culmination being duly noted
in the 'Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship'
in the November 26 2007 White
House Press Release) does little to restore the irrecoverable
tabula rasa of a devastated civilization! Unlike the rest of erudite
America, this humble plebeian scribe learns rapidly from history and
is working hard in preventing its horrendous replay!
Excerpted from “Re-Imagining
Pakistan's Defenses - Open Letter to a Pakistani General”,
the full text of which may be read at: http://humanbeingsfirst.org:
Begin-Quote: ... All this recent talk of "loose nukes"
and "Joint force for nuke safety" and "raising
an international force to help the Pakistani armed forces if they are
attacked by the extremists", are precisely the weather
balloons built upon the deftly cultivated house of cards of the
synthetic 'islamofascist' boogie-men to seed these new deceptions
into the mainstream public discourse in order to maintain the
persistence of a "sudden threat or challenge to the public's
sense of domestic well-being". That's how public opinion is
slowly crafted over time to manufacture the deplorable public consent
for committing heinous crimes against humanity through the active
collaboration of the much touted 'fourth pillar of democracy'.
Another "coalition of the willing" is plainly being
seeded - and this time it's 'destination Islamabad' instead of
Baghdad, and instead of the well worn fiction of the existence of
'WMDs' which won't fly as Pakistan indeed does possess them, it is
the fiction of them getting 'loose' despite being defended by the
world's 5th largest standing armed forces who successfully developed
the effective deterrence in the face of the entire world's opposition
and punitive sanctions, but now is magically unable to defend them in
this fabricated war even as the most valuable non-NATO partner and
needs an external "force that should not only include troops
from the United States, but ideally also other Western powers and
moderate Muslim nations"! ... End-Quote
Why should anyone with sound judgment and keen political acumen be
trusting any reports that are emanating from the same 'imperial'
sources – the CIA, its parent the DIA, its parent the Pentagon,
and its parent at the top of the totem pole, the White House, not to
mention the 100 think-tanks from privately funded civil society in
America that share the same 'imperial' aspirations as those in public
life, and all busily crafting multifaceted doctrines for world
conquest(?), and especially when there is a “lifetime”
of war on, the “World War IV”? I believe it is
still taught in any freshman political science class in any good
university that the first casualty of war is the truth – unless
this has also been done away with by the Patriot Acts and substituted
with Orwellian craft!
Yet Zia Mian betrays no memory of any of these matters in his
purported analysis of 'how not to handle nuclear security',
while right outside his own doorsteps are the very preparations for
preemptive nuclear attack on Iran which have reportedly already been
completed and merely awaiting the go-ahead from Washington: “The
study concludes that the US has made military preparations to destroy
Iran's WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus and
economic infrastructure within days if not hours of President George
W. Bush giving the order.” (see “Considering
a war with Iran: A discussion paper on WMD in the Middle East”)
He is also evidently unfamiliar with Israel's avowed nuclear warfare
attack plans on Iran in full tag-team cahoots with the White House,
including nuclear attack on her non-nuclear neighbors in the region
if they even raise a whit of a finger to deter the nuclear
armed-to-the-teeth Zionist pariah 'Der Judenstaat' in their midst. It
must be wonderful to ignore the 'ubermensch' rogue state (see “Ex-CIA
official: Israel will attack Iran on its own”) which hasn't
signed the NPT and which has continually preached 'War on Iran' –
a signatory to NPT – with repeated mantras borne out of
'erudite studies': “One essential requirement for nuclear
confrontation in our region, according to the study, is allowing
Iran’s nuclear program to develop, unhindered by a pre-emptive
strike by either Israel or the United States.” (see “US
report: Israel would weather nuclear war with Iran”)
These absurdities at the 'unbirthday party', demonizing the
Iranians – a rich and sophisticated civilization far older than
all of Europe and America combined and whose scholars and scientists
predominantly fueled the ascendance and dominance of Muslims for 700
years while the Europeans languished in their Dark Ages - as an
irrational peoples willing to risk complete obliteration from the
face of future history; demonizing Pakistan as about to be taken over
by “radical Islamist militants” who are about to
hijack the 'loose nukes' such that even the 5th
largest standing army in the world would need help against them;
etceetra, etceetra, are now being rehearsed continually in the
newsmedia precisely to seed the notion of a 'legitimate' preemptive
(or retaliatory) use of nuclear weapons. An idea once so abhorrent
and unthinkable, is now being made palatable to mainstream American
and European public under all sorts of imaginary and/or 'synthetic'
threats (see “Wakeup
to the grotesque reality of the 'Grand Chessboard'!”). The
Western public is being deftly primed with multi-modal psyops by the
crafty construction of one key gigantic stinking red herring of
'nuclear security' - the 'highest order bit' of the matter - the
deliberate premeditated criminal use of nuclear weapons against
defenseless foes by its own 'legal' guardians. That very real and
visible threat to humanity is carefully elided in the calculus of
'nuclear security' in the best tradition of Straussian scholarship of
'half-truths only', and absurd boogie-men are crafted from immanent
whisperings! Also see “Disassembling
the Pakistani red herrings” on humanbeingsfirst.org for the
deconstruction of the “radical Islamist militants”
into its commonsensical reality!
Why has the nuclear weapons security discourse been deliberately
limited to their accidental and 'pirated' (mis)use?
Why does it not also include their much more significant and
immediate threat stemming from their deliberate, premeditated,
monumentally criminal deployment as a weapon of choice of the
'hectoring hegemons' for intimidation, coercion, and very real
'shock and awe' under the self-ascribed 'ubermensch' mandate
of 'primacy and its geostrategic imperatives' that is the
trumpeting elephant grotesquely shitting in the newlywed's nuptial
bed?
If the overarching objective is to secure the existence of human
beings from themselves and to enable them to survive without an
Armageddon and without anyone slaughtering a 'lesser humanity', then
the genuine factors that pose the highest levels of threat to mankind
must rationally be triaged and addressed in that order. Why this
stepchild treatment to the most significant threat to humanity's
existence today – the depravity of the 'ubermensch' hectoring
hegemons who have actually demonstrated their willingness to use
these nuclear weapons? Or is the point to keeping the nuclear weapons
secure, only until such time that they are 'officially' let loose to
murder a million or two under blaring trumpets and marching horns,
and then it's merely securing 'American Foreign Policy Interests
Abroad', or preemptively fighting the “War on Terror”
to the thunderous applause from the upper 'ubermenschen' deck of
humanity flashing the “mission accomplished” sign?
The very first manifest collateral damage of the “War on
Terror” - even before “Operation Infinite Justice”
was launched, way before “Operation Iraqi Freedom”
was launched, and while they both still continue unabated being only
about a fourth of the intended 'lifetime' of “perpetual
war” into their duration - has been the very hijacking of
our basic everyday tool that enable us to think commonsensically,
rationally, as human beings first. Our language! It has thus
channeled our minds in the mantras of the 'empire' convincing us of
one absurdity after another, and which directly led to the very first
bombing run “United We Stand” in the “algebra
of infinite justice”. And which may yet lead to a
preemptive nuclear war against sitting ducks once again! And erudite
scholars like Zia Mian are complicit in perpetuating that hijacking
by deliberately repeating the “doctrinal” mantras
of the empire from its highest pulpits!
Furthermore, within its own myopic discourse, Zia Mian's article is
indeed informative with respect to how vulnerable some of these
security measures can be in implementation-space when the rubber
really meets the road, mainly in reference to '0000000' and
pilot-errors. One has to however be a realist-idealist so long as the
morbid reality of nuclear weapons is with us. As an MIT trained
engineer who has actually built and deployed real systems rather than
just talk about third-and-fourth hand perceived vulnerability in
other peoples' systems - even if only commercial ones which are
surely orders of magnitude simpler and certainly do not pose the
danger of any catastrophic Armageddon being inflicted upon human
beings unless they are also being (mis)used to control the nuclear
weapons launch sequences, and anyone who asserts the latter is either
a fool or a Machiavelli – the effective pragmatic strategy is
one of continued risk management through continual improvement in the
architectures, the implementations, the processes, the validations,
the access controls, and the drills. This is very much the process
today in its various gradations of 'imperfections', and is to be
continually improved for risk mitigation of 'unauthorized theft' –
since 'authorized theft' of humanity's lives is deemed okay and not
part of the 'nuclear security' protocol by definition, as a cynic
might infer from Zia Mian's article.
This continual risk management and mitigation strategy through
feedback on implementations, improvement, and better evolving
architectures - which would be undertaken by any 'sensible' nuclear
power - is the rational lesser of two evils over succumbing to the
only other realism-rooted and exponentially far greater risk of
giving a signed blank check for “full spectrum dominance”
to murderous 'hectoring hegemons' who will obviously never
give up their own WMDs but instead, even as we speak, are rushing to
develop even more lethal ones across the board, and use cunning
doctrinal warfare to “goosestep the Herrenvolk across
international frontiers” and kill a million to the sound of
horns and trumpets and proudly call it “mission
accomplished”!
In such a real-world reality full of predators, even the
wilder-beasts make “full spectrum alliances” to
defend themselves with the best available weapons at their disposal,
rather than give up all their defenses which is what the predators
would surely love to get their pending 'meals' to believe as their
only 'safe' choice in the matter - as can be gleaned in this amazing
8-minute 'Battle at Kruger' video-clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM.
That is the unfortunate, naked, brutish, 'MAD' reality we live in
Sir! As Robert Oppenheimer had said it far more realistically and
fairly than Zia Mian - either all nations must possess them, or none
must possess them! Only a few possessing this awesome power to impose
their plunderous will upon another, is what fuels this “imperial
mobilization” du jour that is sending America's precious
sons and daughters to their slaughter, never mind what they are doing
to a few million of the 'lesser humanity'! And as even a previous
commenter 'Charles Colton' commenting on this article on your website
also much more wisely noted (absence of such wisdom in Zia Mian's own
article indeed demands a pause for some hard reflections on
motivations): “The international community needs a strong
policy on how to not only safeguard the world's nuclear arsenals but
to devise a universal plan that will ensure these weapons will never
be used.”
Yes indeed, and thank you for that! Clearly this commenter has likely
read the White House's “Nuclear Posture Review”
and is perhaps familiar with their present doctrine of preemption
even against non-nuclear states who are signatories to the NPT - thus
in complete violation to International law to which the superpower
nation whose prestigious university employs Mr. Zia Mian in his
capacity as a 'nuclear specialist', is also a signatory; if honoring
such laws is of any relevance in the foreign policy and 'nuclear
security' calculus anymore.
For an analysis of 'nuclear security' being published in
'Foreign Policy In Focus', such glaring omissions only extends its
incredulity to even this august forum that advertises having 'no
walls'! I have quite innocently taken that to mean that this
forum rationally analyses foreign polices and keeps them in focus in
the best interest of the entire world, and is not merely a
re-spinning propaganda arm of the Pentagon. I haven't read all the
writings on 'nuclear security' by Zia Mian and am merely analyzing
this one article which already leads me to not want to read anything
further from the doctrinal pen of this mighty scholar on account of
his deliberate resemanticizing the definition of 'nuclear security'
to preclude the 'emperor's premeditated use of nuclear weapons. Such
absences legitimizes these doctrines in the mainstream discourse of
America that mainly takes its cues from the scholars of the empire.
And finally, I would conclude by suggesting that there is indeed
something fishy about how the nukes were 'lost' for so many hours as
has repeatedly been reported in the newsmedia, all quoting more or
less the same sources. Zia Mian so unquestioningly accepting that at
face value and using it to craft his own myopic thesis on how not to
secure nuclear weapons is at best troublesome. IMHO, the public
version of this tale, as again repeated by Zia Mian, is quite asinine
(see for instance: “Missing
Nukes: Treason of the Highest Order” on
globalresearch.ca). It is just as 'believable' occurring in a
super-power's own sophisticated arsenal and top-secret classified
security processes constructed by the most polished and brilliant
military minds that sees the expenditure of a trillion dollars every
other year, as the '19 evil jihadis' tale doing 911 all by themselves
and collapsing those tall buildings directly into their own
footprints at almost free-fall speed while 'Able Warrior',
'Able Danger', and 15 other terrorist attack-response drills
were simultaneously transpiring that very moment all of which were
ethereally super co-opted by a bearded 'evil yoda master' sitting
cross-legged in a cave in Afghanistan on a dialysis machine using
merely his awesome 'power of the dark side'! (See for instance, what
the former Italian President who set up 'Operation
Gladio'
thinks of 911.)
The real story, IMHO, in all cases, as in the ex post facto
revelations of the 'Maine' to the 'Gulf of Tonkin' being entirely
self-inflicted affairs to launch wars of conquest, is yet to be
revealed. Wait 50 years! In the meantime, the fait accompli
constructed upon the backs of all the clever lies and deceptions
generated from within the august halls of the Ivy, the Rand, and the
100 other think-tanks to seed the expansion of 'empire', will in turn
become the new ex post facto narratives of history that our
grandchildren will be learning one fine day in their sixth grade. If
there is anymore 'one fine day' left!
Mr. Zia Mian's recipe for achieving that lofty shared aspiration is
highly improbable as stated, even if genuinely conceived. If he would
like to learn a more pragmatic solution emanating from the rather
plebeian mind of a humble engineer turned justice activist who does
not live in the ivory towers of the IVYs but in the real world that
experiences the realpolitik power-plays on the 'Grand Chessboard' in
blood, it is conceptually very simple – first all 'MAD' to
create 'full spectrum deterrence' through 'full spectrum
alliances' to contain the 'full spectrum dominance' of the
few primates who refuse to lose their tail, and then his recipe,
which will now magically become more practical and realizable just as
the SALTs were under the détente! Power only respects power,
and that lesson too, is “as old as mankind”!
It usually takes one polished sentence to construct a myth, but
considerably more space to deconstruct it, as Noam Chomsky had once
noted. Hence this length. Thank you for reading.
An aside general note on this article: “How Not to
Handle Nuclear Security”
For Mr. Zia Mian, as an erudite academic from a prestigious IVY, to
mostly repeat, nay parrot, the mantras that are deftly seeded by the
Pentagon, without any critical questioning and deeper analysis of
their own motivations or of the mantras themselves, doesn't leave
much room for doubt in my quite finite and humble mind that his
entire article is anything other than a thinly veiled shill for
'empire'. Perhaps the author can also be directed to read “Secrets:
A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers” by Daniel
Ellsberg before he puts much stock in what Robert McNamara says. It
is un-surprising to me anymore that this level of craftsmanship from
the Ivy is also from the pen of one who is supposedly on the
'dissenting left' and a 'peacenik' - unless I am keenly mistaken; for
I surely only possess a humble plebeian mind and am mercifully not a
scholar or even a domain expert in matters of 'empire'. Thus the
specialist should be trivially able to rationally and convincingly
address the objections raised in this plebeian letter.
For us ordinary mortals in the lower-decks of humanity who are
perhaps not so erudite, the mere plebeians, we are often gullibly led
by erudite scholars in understanding pressing matters whose expert
and objective analysis they purport to bring us. Be they of the
Straussian variety as 'chief priests' of empire – like Bernard
Lewis, or be they the 'dissenting priests' as the gadflies to power –
like my own worthy mentor Noam Chomsky, or be they any domain-experts
and specialists like Zia Mian. We need to wakeup to the realpolitik
fact of the matter that sophisticated doctrinal warfare and psyops
are also being deftly crafted for 'manufacturing consent' in society
to either carry the 'populist democracy' forward for “imperial
mobilization” so “United We [can] Stand”,
or deflect its handful of conscionable dissenters in mindless
pursuits chasing this and that red herrings. How can the ordinary
people tell the difference between the various nuanced shades of the
diabolical 'ubermenschen' domain-experts shilling for 'empire', and
the genuinely honest truthful scholars out to enlighten the masses as
“moral agents” in the best mold of Platonic
teachers?
The scholar's word and what motivates it, unlike his soul, must be of
utmost concern for us plebeians. And as the other Princeton
University erudite scholar Bernard Lewis cleverly puts it, albeit in
perhaps a different context in his doctrinal classic 'Crises of
Islam – Holy War and Unholy Terror', “it would
surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them”.
Only then can the plebeian flock understand the scholars' analyses in
the full and proper perspectives of their respective mindset and with
an insightful understanding of all the “forces that drive
them”. Only thusly may one be rightly guided in their wise
leadership on knotty and vexing matters in which a non-expert
ill-informed polity must trust them in their judgment as fair
domain-experts.
This is a far more significant matter of public education in order to
'teach one how to fish and thus feeding one for life' so that
one can learn to accurately parse complex foreign policy matters that
are undeniably complex and almost always clouded in obfuscation and
vested interests. Merely keeping the clouds “in focus”
does not necessarily divulge what's hidden behind it. If one is
interested in further penetrating through the clouds that have
actually laid the foundation of “United We Stand”
in the American society as the prerequisite prelude to herding its
“populist democracy” into accepting the nation's
'Imperial' Foreign Policies without question under the guise of
“American Interests abroad”, step-1 begins with
“Responsibility
of Intellectuals - Redux” at
http://humanbeingsfirst.org.
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High School Student Comment:
Wed, 26 Dec 2007
In the Christmas week of December 2007, I asked one of my teenage
children who was a graduating senior in America's high school and
visiting Princeton university on college exploration visit:
"can you look at my response to Zia Mian? Do I entirely demolish
his nonsense - the guy you went to see (did you ever catch him)? It's
on my website. Let me know how persuasively have I 'done his
arguments in'! How will he dodge out of this one? You need to compose
his dodge arguments, for that's how you counter debate in real life,
by anticipating, by preemption."
Begin quote
Yeah, you pretty much demolish him, but what he would say in
refutation would probably be the following:
My paper was not written for partisan concerns or to further any
political agenda. My paper was intended to address the specific
problem of securing nuclear weapons. While I deplore the use of
daisy-cutters and such weapons which may contain nuclear materials,
they are still not nuclear weapons, and if accidentally deployed,
would cause far less damage than, say, a hydrogen bomb. I wanted to
make sure that these weapons with such capacity for destruction would
never again be used. My paper fairly assessed the current state of
nuclear security in the context of nuclear weapons and found it to be
immensely lacking, which is why I agreed that a new system of
international governance of nuclear proliferation is needed. Even if
you do not approve of the politics of the West, would you not agree
that all parties globally would be better off without nuclear weapons
ever being used? The question of how to control the United States
with a truly international body is a more difficult one, and perhaps
the most important one since the US is the only state to have used
nuclear weapons - but it is not one that is easily resolved. My
objective is to make the nuclear weapons as secure as I can, and I
don't think ranting against the injustice of the US as a bully
superpower will help achieve that goal. I have to address the
situation from the perspective that nuclear weapons must not be
deployed - so first, let us ensure that at a state level, there are
no nuclear weapons accidents due to discord or factionalization. Then
the next step - which I will address in a later paper - is the more
politicized recommendation of creating a powerful international body
which can eliminate the threat of using nuclear weapons in
international state-state warfare. The US in particular, as you point
out, is not going to comply easily to idealistic non-proliferation
and elimination agreements - but from a realistic perspective,
perhaps the rise of China and resurgence of Russia will challenge US
hegemony enough in a few decades that all superpowers will be ready
to sacrifice nuclear endowments to conform to an international
standard.
=----------------
That's the best I can come up with in a response from him, but I'm
not the most knowledgable on this issue. I am really not sure what he
would have to say about dispelling fake fears. I suppose he would
concoct some sort of argument about the possibility of Pakistan or
Iran eventually using nuclear weapons, but I cannot imagine what. I
doubt he would dispute your criticisms of the US as they're all true;
he would probably just try to distance his role in abstract nuclear
security discussion from the unfortunate political realities he
doesn't really see in his comfy Princeton office - or on his
business-class trips to London. I never actually got to see him, by
the way, he was leaving for London that day.
End quote
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Letter to FPIF Editors to print my rebuttal response:
To: John Feffer, Emira Woods, Emily Schwartz Greco
Cc: Miriam Pemberton
Date: December 24, 2007
Dear distinguished Editors, FPIF
Seasons greetings from Pakistan.
I earlier sent you an email from my Project's address
Humanbeingsfirst.org and sometimes it can end up in the spam
bit-bucket, and since I did not receive any acknowledgment from you,
I am retrying from my MIT address.
Your lead story this week on 'nuclear security' by Zia Mian
was so interesting that I spontaneously wrote the attached response.
I usually read FPIF as you carry some interesting diversity of
perspectives (but in a rather restricted gamut). I hope you can also
carry mine which entirely rebuts this distinguished expert from
Princeton on matters 'nuclear' and extends your gamut a bit. Please
do note the tiny critique therein of FPIF as well, as an august forum
carrying disinformation articles from well known 'domain experts'.
You must be aware of the drum beat for the new wars, not much
different from the drum beat for the previous two wars. When such
drum beats are going on - many tend to lose focus on what America's
Foreign Policy means, and has meant, from its very inception. Many
also tend to lose focus on how modern 'empires' are constructed on
the backs of primarily 'doctrinal scholarship' that lays the
foundation of social discourse which is subsequently mindlessly
repeated by the mainstream newsmedia to mobilize the public “United
We Stand”, and of course by the vested interests of the
various imperial 'circus clowns' who repeat the mantras from its
august institutions to continually add fuel to the fire.
This exercise has been judged necessary by the most 'ubermensch'
thinkers of the 'empire' themselves, as indeed the most prominent
realpolitik strategist among them argues that “democracy is
inimical to imperial mobilization” except in the case “of
a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic
well-being”, and “except in the circumstance of a
truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat”,
because 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” and which “requires a high
degree of doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment, and
patriotic gratification.”
Please note the really important point in this quote from Zbigniew
Brzezinski's 'the Grand Chessboard' - “high degree of
doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment”.
This is what my rebuttal to Zia Mian's essay is about, as I claim,
through the rational deconstruction of his brilliant essay, that it
is classic 'doctrinal motivation' to perpetuate the myth of
'loose nukes' – the new boogie man after the 'missing
WMDs' in Iraq for which Rumsfeld had glibly claimed “absence
of evidence is not evidence of absence” and was never
called upon this bit of 'Alice in Wonderland' by anyone,
including FPIF (if my memory serves me well) when the mantra still
had currency in its heyday – the new enabler for continued
“imperial mobilization”.
Surely none of this can be news to any real American Foreign Policy
analysts who know their craft and their domain, as I am certain of
this distinguished team of editors.
There really aren't too many ways to look at America's Foreign Policy
other than through her own words - i.e., the words of her ardent
'imperial' exponents and office bearers - which going back to George
Kennan in 1948 I reproduce for you below. We can certainly go back
even further to gain even deeper perspective, but this suffices as
the transition point of 'modernity' du jour between the decline of an
empire upon which the Sun once never set, and a new 'empire' upon
which the Sun is perhaps about to set, and upon the thousands of
whose gullible sons and daughters, slaves of economic conscription,
the Sun has lamentably already set.
As you will note in Kennan's famous PPS Memo, dealing in 'straight
power concepts' it was then, as it is now, and not just in theory as
noted in Brzezinski 1997 book, in order to “perpetuate
America's own dominant position for at least a generation and
preferably longer” such that “no Eurasian
challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also
challenging America” (Brzezinski), but also by-way of
practice in the present Bush Administration which mainly arose from
the PNAC group, and which also argued the same theme as Brzezinski,
that it necessitates asserting the “Reaganite policy of
military strength and moral clarity” by forcing everyone on
the planet to accept “America's unique role in preserving
and extending an international order friendly to our security, our
prosperity, and our principles.” (PNAC).
You can clearly, and rationally see nothing changed between 1948 and
today's 2002-Nuclear Posture Review which only exercised the
'ubermensch' “American Primacy and its Geostrategic
Imperatives”! It is interesting to note how naturally, even
the supposedly objective intellectuals in America, accept this
“Primacy Imperative” as the underlying
unquestioned axiom upon which they build all their analysis of the
world, and indeed, of America's Foreign Policies. This is precisely
the issue in Zia Mian's disinformation masterpiece as is solidly
deconstructed in my response-essay.
Quote-George Kennan PPS 23 1948:
“We have about 50% of the world’s wealth, but only
6.3% of its population …. In this situation, we cannot fail to
be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming
period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us
to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to
our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all
sentimentality and day-dreaming, and our attention will have to be
concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need
not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism
and world-benefaction …. We should cease to talk about vague
and - for the Far East - unreal objectives such as human rights, the
raising of living standards, and democratization. The day is not far
off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The
less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
And just as the distinguished halls of the Ivys in the past have
served this distinguished job-function of supporting their nation's
'empire' in its “imperial mobilization” very well
by synthesizing “the high level of doctrinal motivation”,
they still continue to do so just as admirably today.
Being quite familiar with the Ivys as having studied at MIT - which
though not an Ivy per se, is more prominent among the lot, and also
gets as much as 90% of its martial research budget from the various
agencies of the martial state and its private corporate
collaborators, thus serving the technology needs of the 'empire'
equally admirably in 'actual war making toys' in cahoots with the
soft 'doctrinal scholarship' peddled from the Ivys such as 'Clash of
Civilizations' and 'WMDs' - the twain craft of “doctrinal
motivations” and technological innovations for “full
spectrum dominance” must go together to fuel an empire for
which Brzezinski rightly claims that its “populist
democracy” is unburdened by “la mission
civilisatrice” of traditional empires!
From the 'Maine' through the “Gulf of Tonkin” to '911' –
are all one continuum of American Foreign Policy Initiatives for
“American Interests Abroad”, or putting it in its
syntactically unsugared form, “imperial mobilization”.
It is the naked empirical reality for those who are scientists among
us and can objectively evaluate the reality around us and artfully
able to distinguish between the 364 days of 'unbirthday' party
celebrations, and one genuine day of birthday! It is also the brutish
reality for those on the receiving end of this syntactic sugaring!
Therefore, lest all of us unwittingly acquire deep red blood upon our
clean hands as we continue to fish for truth while it stands
stark-naked right before us as the trumpeting shitting elephant in
the newlywed's bed, I humbly submit my detailed analytical
deconstruction of Zia Mian's essay, attached as a PDF file, for your
consideration to carry right alongside Zia Mian's stellar piece of
work for the 'empire' from its most prestigious Ivy.
You can also glean this response-essay on my website as “Response
to Zia Mian's 'How Not to Handle Nuclear Security'”.
I hope that you will very kindly at least acknowledge my letter, even
if you choose to not carry my response-essay for whatever reason,
perhaps with an explanation why you did not carry it which will of
course be duly posted on my website.
But I do feel quite hopeful for a positive response as my rebuttal
not only intellectually speaks for itself and begs for a rational and
cogent rebuttal in turn to further the rational debate on a subject
that can soon mean life-and-death for millions – the hallmark
of democracy if it is to mean anything other than singing with the
choir among its ruling elite - but also lends a fresh perspective to
really put the Foreign Policy in Focus for a “think tank
without walls”. I do believe in your concept of “without
walls” but naively interpret it to mean in the best
interest of all nations and all humanity. I am also (un)happy to be
corrected in that assumption if it is unwarranted. Let's all be
mature enough to call a spade a spade, at least in this august forum.
I am further Cc'ing your resident disarmament expert who can perhaps
weigh in on the merits of the arguments as a 'domain expert' with
real world experience.
You may further be interested in “Wakeup
to the grotesque reality of the Grand Chessboard”
on my website.
It is okay with me if you choose to also print this letter in FPIF
for the benefit of your readers.
Kind Regards
Zahir Ebrahim
founder, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
public email: humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com
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Conclusion: Nuclear Security and Hectoring Hegemons
October 30, 2009
Conclusion written for The Pakistan
Decapitation Papers Section on Nuclear Security
The “American
Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives”1 is
empirical and has been publicly known for a very long time. Well,
certainly to its victims, and of course to its imperial harbingers,
if not to its ordinary citizens kept perpetually busy with their
'American Dreams' as “Prisoners
of the Cave”2. And its predatory nuclear
first-strike imperative has also been publicly known without any room
for ambiguity, at least since the White House's 2002 Nuclear Posture
Review was 'leaked' to the Los Angeles Times. It is briefly covered
in this article of March 11, 2002, by Patrick Martin “US
plans widespread use of nuclear weapons in war”3.
Writings of other contrarians which coldly make apparent the outright
omissions in Zia
Mian's column in Foreign Policy In Focus3.1 span the
gamut from this WSWS report of September 07, 2007 by Bill Van Auken
“Why
was a nuclear-armed bomber allowed to fly over the US?”4,
and their editorial of April 13, 2006 “US
threats against Iran—the specter of nuclear barbarism”5,
to Edward S. Herman's comprehensive deconstruction of America's
primacy alliances with the European powers in “NATO:
the Imperial Pitbull”6, dated January 23, 2009.
Study
after study6.1 has publicly revealed the preparations
United States and its allies have been un-secretly making to
preemptively attack Iran, and the superpower remains precariously
perched at that very Rubicon crossing as ominously depicted in
“Heads-up
warning to the American Peoples - Nuclear attack on Iran appears
imminent!”7. Among its murderous axis partners
preparing for this monumental crime against humanity, are of course
the Zionist
state8, and NATO.
Indeed, taking an un-jaundiced look at NATO's self-ascribed
imperatives makes the Atlantic alliance only appear as a
proxy-service hegemon for the primacy of the entire industrialized
Global North upon the resource-rich but impoverished Global South.
Here is the 24 Apr. 1999 NATO report cited by Edward S. Herman in his
imperial Pitbull article: “The
Alliance's Strategic Concept”9. I also came
across this December 31, 2007 proposal from NATO officials (by simply
typing “NATO” with some qualifying filters into an
internet search engine) on how to continue spreading Western primacy
objectives (properly syntactically sugared of course): “Towards
a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World”10,
subtitled: 'Renewing Transatlantic Partnership'. The following two
penetrating analyses by Ben Hayes, of April 21, 2006 on 'The EU's
Security Research Programme' titled: “Arming
Big Brother”11 ; and the most recent one dated
September 2009 with the Transnational
Institute12 on the 'EU Security-Industrial Complex'
ingeniously titled: “NeoConOpticon”13,
show how the West is Machiavellianly conniving for its own primacy
disguised as “preemptive” self-defense in an “uncertain
world”. Project Humanbeingsfirst has shown, both in this book
and in its many other reports, who is primarily responsible for
making it an “uncertain world” and for what purpose.
Succinctly put, but only in the choicest political science diction of
David Ben Gurion, “what is inconceivable in normal times is
possible in revolutionary times.”
Therefore, daring to call a spade a spade, to omit such blatant
doctrines of imperial predatory planning in one's purported
“analysis” of nuclear security as a domain expert, and at
a prestigious IVY no less, is to in fact be explicitly allied with
the global aims and aspirations of the monumentally criminal
hectoring hegemons themselves. The commonality in Zia
Mian's implicit axioms14.0 with another 'whiteman'
domain expert's is revealing: “Letter
to Matthew Bunn of Harvard on his risk assessment of Nuclear
Terrorism”14. The make-belief pretenses as a
leftist and a peacenik aside, it is merely “manufacturing
consent and dissent”15 to influence public
opinion and fabricate justifications for empire's own axioms in its
egregious pursuit of “Full Spectrum Dominance”15.1
in a Game
as Old as Empire16. The import of crafty omissions for
manufacturing sophisticated propaganda cannot be minimized, as was
also commonsensically pointed out by the well known essayist Aldous
Huxley:
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of
view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain
subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much
more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent
denunciations.”
Let no one mistake it – the Pakistani physicist turned nuclear
disarmament specialist, Dr. Zia Mian's article is prima facie
evidence that he is merely a paid propagandist (through the
academic-respectability cover) for the same imperial forces that are
today arrayed against his own native nation. One might understand the
'whiteman' carrying his or her own burden. One is however hard
pressed to fathom a 'Negro' willingly doing it for them, the eloquent
wisdom of Martin Luther King quoted elsewhere in this book
notwithstanding.
Since there is surely going to be no Nuremberg17,18
(as the hectoring hegemons must perceive), nor any moralist's report
from Jerusalem19,
no Justice Robert
H. Jackson20, and not even a victors'
justice21, the fate awaiting the 'untermenschen' gives
me the shakes! There is absolutely no apparent deterrence today for
finally annihilating all the “undesirables” and other
“useless eaters” from the planet as a world government at
the barrel of a global police state is rapidly orchestrated by the
hectoring hegemons and their vassals. Is there really a god(?), one
must surely ponder at these existential moments. While the atheists
might not think so, the
victims, all victims, must believe so22. There surely
must be one! And there surely must also be a Judgment Day too! For
otherwise, where and how are hectoring hegemons ever to be paid back
an eye for an eye, and their victims fairly recompensed?
Dialectical hegemons like Zia Mian would only snicker at the sheep
dreaming of its revenge as the Hegelian23
butcher approacheth!
Footnotes
[1] Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand chessboard - American Primacy And
Its Geostrategic Imperatives, 1996,
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119973.pdf
[2] Zahir Ebrahim,
http://prisonersofthecave.blogspot.com/2007/04/preface.html
[3] Patrick Martin,
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/nuke-m11.shtml
[3.1] Zahir Ebrahim, Response to Zia Mian's 'How Not to Handle
Nuclear Security', December 20, 2007,
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/12/response-toziamian-nuclear-security.html
[4] Bill Van Auken,
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/nucl-s07.shtml
[5] WSWS Editorial,
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/apr2006/iran-a13.shtml
[6] Edward S. Herman,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11989
[6.1] Plesch and Butcher, SOAS,
http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/5688/1/0707StudySeptrevPC.pdf
[7] Zahir Ebrahim, Heads-up warning to the American Peoples - Nuclear
attack on Iran appears imminent!, March 29, 2008,
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/03/warningamerica-nuking-iran-imminent.html
[8] Project Humanbeingsfirst Press Release: Holocaust Redux –
Heads-up Warning to the Jews, June 30, 2008,
http://pressreleases-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/06/pr-holocaust-redux-headsup-june302008.html
[9] NATO,
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_27433.htm?selectedLocale=en
[10] NATO,
http://csis.org/files/media/csis/events/080110_grand_strategy.pdf
[11] Ben Hayes, http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/bigbrother.pdf
[12] Ben Hayes, http://www.tni.org/en/report/arming-big-brother
[13] Ben Hayes,
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses/neoconopticon-report.pdf
[14.0] Zahir Ebrahim, Letter to 'Foreign Policy In Focus' on Zia
Mian's 'nuclear security', December 24, 2007,
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/12/letter-fpif-ziamians-nuclear-security.html
[14] Zahir Ebrahim, Letter to Matthew Bunn of Harvard on his risk
assessment of Nuclear Terrorism, April 02, 2008,
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/04/letter-bunnharvard-nuclear-terrorism.html
[15] Zahir Ebrahim, Manufacturing Dissent: Weapons of Mass Deception
– The Master Social Science, June 01, 2008,
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/06/wmd-master-social-science.html
[15.1] DOD JV2020, Chapter 3, Full Spectrum Dominance, see excerpt in
Zahir Ebrahim, Prisoners of the Cave, 2003, Chapter 1, Strategic
Thinkers of the Empire,
http://prisonersofthecave.blogspot.com/2007/04/chapter-1.html
[16] Zahir Ebrahim, Introducing A Game As Old As Empire, Feb. 4,
2007,
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/03/introducing-game-as-old-as-empire.html
[17] David Irving, Nuremberg, The Last Battle, 1996,
http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/Nuremberg/NUREMBERG.pdf
[18] Zahir Ebrahim, Nuremberg: The grotesquely dancing trumpeting
elephant in the newlywed's bed!, April 10, 2008,
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/04/nuremberg-elephant-in-bedroom.html
[19] Hannah Arendt, Eichman in Jerusalm: A Report on the Banality of
Evil, 1963, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/arendthome.html
[20] Justice Robert H. Jackson, famous moralizing-sermonizing Closing
Speech at Nuremberg, Day 187, 26 July 1946,
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/07-26-46.asp
Video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No06Lwk_TAg
[21] Mainly, the atrocious crimes committed by the Nazis/Axis-powers
and not committed by the Allies were defined as War Crimes. Such as
the HolocaustTM, and first aggression by invading Poland,
Pearl Harbor, etc. In fact, the prosecuting powers defined the
first-aggression to be a crime so heinous that Justice Robert H.
Jackson called it “the supreme international crime differing
only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the
accumulated evil of the whole”. In consequence of such
artful definitions of war crimes, attrocious crimes committed only by
the Allies, like burning down civilian cities of Dresden, Tokyo with
sustained apocalyptic fire bombings night after night (David Irving,
Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden,
http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/ ), and dropping of the A-Bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki upon largely civilian population centers, were
not defined as war crimes, either at the International Military
Tribunal at Nuremberg, or at the Tokyo Trials.
In the case of similar crimes committed by both sides, the criminal
cases against the Nazis/Axis-powers was argued to be weak, and
ultimately not prosecuted. See for instance the well known case of
Admiral Karl Dönitz in David Irving, pg. 156, Nuremberg, Ibid.
The most shocking aspect of victors' justice however, is the
relatively lesser known case of the Nazi banker, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht,
the singular financial genius behind the Third Reich – Reich
minister of economics until 1937, Reichsbank president until 1939 –
with deep connections to Wall Street (Antony C. Sutton, Wall Street
and the Rise of Hitler,
http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/ ), and to
the Bank of England (David Irving, Nuremberg, Ibid.), and without
whom the Nazi war machine simply could not have been financed, and
therefore, no World War II waged. Hjalmar Schacht was actually
set-free, just as he had boasted throughout the trial that he would
be (David Irving, Nuremberg, Ibid. Also Zahir Ebrahim, “Monetary
Reform: Who will bell the cat?”).
Sadly, as hypocritical, and as Edward Bernays' style shrewd public
relations campaign that these war crimes trials were, even that level
of victors' justice is not a deterrence for aggression today, nor
available to the victims of World War IV. See Justice Robert H.
Jackson's lofty closing statements at Nuremberg, ibid., for the clear
criminality it established for today's war mongers, their vassals,
state executers, philosophers, political scientists, shills, and
other vulgar propagandists. Today, they all spin absurdities upon
absurdities of 'war on terror' while committing the most egregious
crimes against humanity with impunity! Who will stop them? Never mind
stop, people aren't willing to even speak the truth, or even hear it
when it's plainly spoken. The “banality of evil” has
transcended Hannah Arendt's attribution of it exclusively to the
'Good Germans', to all the 'Good peoples' of the world! One is
arguably more sickend by their pious apathy 'looking from the
side', than by the hired mercenaries, paid assassins, and
ideological circus clowns of empire who do their misanthropic wont
mainly because good people let them.
[22] Zahir Ebrahim, About Me and My Little Jihad, April 2007,
http://zahirebrahim.blogspot.com/2007/04/about-me-and-my-little-jihad.html
[23] Zahir Ebrahim, Tutorial on The Hegelian Dialectics of Deception,
May 21, 2009,
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/05/anatomy-of-modern-lies-pakistanishills.html
Chapter 14
Letter to Matthew Bunn of
Harvard on his risk assessment of Nuclear Terrorism from 'pirates'
while ignoring the 'emperor'!
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
April 02, 2008.
To Mr. Matthew Bunn,
Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Harvard University.
April 02, 2008.
Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Harvard University.
April 02, 2008.
Dear Mr. Matthew Bunn,
In reference to your “testimony to Committee On Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs of the United States Senate”
urging:
“a global campaign to ensure that every nuclear weapon and
every cache of potential nuclear bomb material worldwide is secured
against the kinds of threats terrorists and criminals have
demonstrated they can pose”,
which you began with these poignant words:
“It is an honor to be here today to talk about what I
believe is among the most urgent threats to America’s security
– the threat of nuclear terrorism. My message to you today is
simple: the danger is real, but there are specific steps we can and
must take that would greatly reduce the risk”,
I would like to humbly inquire if you included in the calculus of
nuclear security and the nuclear threat to America, the also very
real threat from a cabal within the United States Government
hijacking its nukes and its foreign policy instruments to construct
an 'ubermensch' global empire by seeding 'perpetual war' in the
“Global Zone of Percolating Violence”?
What happens if such a rogue 'all-American' cabal were to construct a
nuclear 'terrorist act' within the United States - one for which both
Harvard and Stanford have been duly preparing for, as in this report:
The
Day After – Action in the first 24 hours after a Nuclear Blast
in an American City, and which you too gravely allude to in your
testimony - in order to create the pretext to nuclear decimate Iran?
Far fetched? A former national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
like your good self, also chose to share his geostrategic fears with
Senate Foreign Relations Committee a year before you did [with the
Committee on Homeland Security], and offered the following prescient
warning that any such attack would immediately be blamed upon Iran:
'... a plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran
involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by
accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some
provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran,
culminating in a "defensive" US military action against
Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening
quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and
Pakistan ' (Zbigniew Brzezinski's testimony before the US
Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Feb. 1, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PKhD9EfO-4).
Your report The
Risk Of Nuclear Terrorism – And Next Steps To Reduce The Danger
does not seem to include such real threats from the rogue 'emperor'
to “America's Security”, while it does seem to
include all the immanent threats from the rogue 'pirates'! Even to
mathematical probabilities and precision – basing specific
steps to take to prevent such possibilities based on only
probabilistic calculations! Whereas, the very real empirical evidence
of the eyes and the mind based on the unfolding reality on the 'Grand
Chessboard' is entirely omitted. It entirely appears to this scribe
that the testimony was being provided at the 'unbirthday' party
celebrations in some wonderland which the 'lesser' humanity outside
the shores of the United States was apparently unfamiliar with. Not
speaking of their ruling elite which are equally at home at such
parties with the 'Mad Hatter'. Perhaps I misperceive. If so, please
do feel free to point out the relevant passages in your 15 page long
text which I did try to read carefully. I may still have missed it.
In case you have indeed genuinely missed these blatantly obvious
threats to humanity, Project Humanbeingsfirst would like to draw your
kind attention to its following three far humbler reports which
rationally and unemotionally attempt to identify the
'highest-order-bits' of the problem-space, and recommends several
more equitable solution-spaces to mitigate all nuclear threats from
all sources. These span the gamut of seeking a public ratification of
any Executive decision to go to any future American war by way of a
public referendum, to 'full spectrum deterrence' by way of 'full
spectrum alliances' among the 'have-nots' to counter the "full
spectrum dominance" impulses of a handful of 'baboons' still
clinging to the vestiges of the 'mighty club' from the Neanderthal
era.
Clearly, not being privileged to witness the inner calculus of such
threat assessments to America [from] within the beltways of empire,
this is a mere outsider's and obviously rather plebeian attempt to
mitigate threats to this great nation by mitigating its unbridled
lust for 'American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives'. After
all, it is usually the plebeians who become the immediate canon
fodder to service such imperatives, as well as the victims of all
terrorism including both the pirates' and the emperor's. Thus, one
could reasonably expect, in a fair and rational world minus the
ubiquitous disinformation and deceptions, that our plebeian concerns
and our plebeian fears for the safety of our humble plebeian lives
would also somehow be included in the calculus of nuclear security
and America's security.
In order to rapidly situate the overarching plebeian context within
the empire's worldview so that one harbors no misconceptions, and
suffers from no delusions of the glaring underling grotesque reality
of “full spectrum dominance” that is fueling the
'war on terror', and furthermore, so that one is courageous
enough to 'call a spade a spade' when one sees “imperial
mobilization”, you may perhaps wish to read the prefacing
letter to 'Foreign Policy in Focus' first before proceeding with each
of the listed documents. It will also save you considerable time and
effort if you don't agree with the premise [of the] letter, in which
case you can perhaps focus some of your considerable expertise in
refuting it - for that will surely allay much of our plebeian fears
that we are safe from this particular strain of the deadly mutating
virus that genuinely threatens world security, including America's
security.
With best wishes, and prayers, hopes, and aspirations for a safer
world for all of our children, both American and the rest of the
world's,
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
P.S. This letter will also be posted at http://humanbeingsfirst.org
Chapter 15
Old wine in a new bottle –
Happy-Happy Zardari: A monologue on Hope and Voluntary Servitude
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
September 10, 2008
Revised September 18, 2008
Introduction
In response to a felicitous greeting received from my good old
college professor in Pakistan, I wrote back:
Best wishes for you and your family too in this month of blessings
[Ramadan] – the election of such a distinguished president must
also be a source of tremendous joy all around – “happy-happy!”
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And then, almost as an after thought, I composed the following
monologue in the postscript to further elaborate upon my cryptic use
of “happy-happy”! I had borrowed that phrase from another
close friend in Pakistan whom I had called right after Mr. Zardari's
election, and upon asking him how he felt, he had sardonically
replied: “happy-happy”! That phrase captures and
hides a wellspring of emotion and resignation to fate for an average
Pakistani, and after I had written the phrase down, I felt I had to
intellectualize it in order to lend a bit greater comprehension to
the human condition which trivially seems to cause silent acceptance,
or acquiescence, to that hope filled state. In fact, I have always
found the similarities between the Pakistani and the American public
to be rather striking in the state of their voluntary servitude,
despite their vast disparity in affluence, life-style, and
“modernity”. So I expounded upon my humble take on my
friend's “happy-happy” to my respected professor –
and all as a postscript, for indeed, ironically, intellectualizing
any human condition is but a mere postscript in its impact on
ameliorating it. The history of mankind is evidence of this truism.
Is man even worse-off than even the lowly animal born free, in the
best of circumstance? Wherefore the “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat”
[the best of creation – an attribution by the Qur'an to man]? I
see scant evidence of this lofty Islamic theory in practice. As a
scientist, theories are only as good as their ability to explain the
empirical evidence – right?
Please see this book
written by a 22 year old in 16th century France (1552 AD) named
Etienne de La Boétie if you have the time: “The
Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude”.
You can find its translation in English on the Mises
Institute website [1]. It's only 81 pages long and can be read in
one afternoon. Here is an extended excerpt from the introduction [not
written by its author], and the one main concluding observation
reached by the young author in his own words:
Begin Excerpt
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude is lucidly and coherently
structured around a single axiom, a single percipient insight into
the nature not only of tyranny, but implicitly of the State apparatus
itself. Many medieval writers had attacked tyranny, but La Boétie
delves especially deeply into its nature, and into the nature of
State rule itself. This fundamental insight was that every tyranny
must necessarily be grounded upon general popular acceptance. In
short, the bulk of the people themselves, for whatever reason,
acquiesce in their own subjection. If this were not the case, no
tyranny, indeed no governmental rule, could long endure. Hence, a
government does not have to be popularly elected to enjoy general
public support; for general public support is in the very nature of
all governments that endure, including the most oppressive of
tyrannies. The tyrant is but one person, and could scarcely command
the obedience of another person, much less of an entire country, if
most of the subjects did not grant their obedience by their own
consent.
This, then, becomes for La Boétie the central problem of
political theory: why in the world do people consent to their own
enslavement? La Boétie cuts to the heart of what is, or rather
should be, the central problem of political philosophy: the mystery
of civil obedience. Why do people, in all times and places, obey the
commands of the government, which always constitutes a small minority
of the society? To La Boétie the spectacle of general consent
to despotism is puzzling and appalling:
"I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many
men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes
suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power
they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which
they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them
absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather
than contradict him. Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common
that one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of
a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke,
not constrained by a greater multitude than they..."
And this mass submission must be out of consent rather than simply
out of fear:
"Shall we call subjection to such a leader cowardice? ... If a
hundred, if a thousand endure the caprice of a single man, should we
not rather say that they lack not the courage but the desire to rise
against him, and that such an attitude indicates indifference rather
than cowardice? When not a hundred, not a thousand men, but a hundred
provinces, a thousand cities, a million men, refuse to assail a
single man from whom the kindest treatment received is the infliction
of serfdom and slavery, what shall we call that? Is it cowardice? ...
When a thousand, a million men, a thousand cities, fail to protect
themselves against the domination of one man, this cannot be called
cowardly, for cowardice does not sink to such a depth. . . . What
monstrous vice, then, is this which does not even deserve to be
called cowardice, a vice for which no term can be found vile enough .
. . ?"
It is evident from the above passages that La Boétie is
bitterly opposed to tyranny and to the public's consent to its own
subjection. He makes clear also that this opposition is grounded on a
theory of natural law and a natural right to liberty. In childhood,
presumably because the rational faculties are not yet developed, we
obey our parents; but when grown, we should follow our own reason, as
free individuals. As La Boétie puts it: "If we led our
lives according to the ways intended by nature and the lessons taught
by her, we should be intuitively obedient to our parents; later we
should adopt reason as our guide and become slaves to nobody."
Reason is our guide to the facts and laws of nature and to humanity's
proper path, and each of us has "in our souls some native seed
of reason, which, if nourished by good counsel and training, flowers
into virtue, but which, on the other hand, if unable to resist the
vices surrounding it, is stifled and blighted." And reason, La
Boétie adds, teaches us the justice of equal liberty for all.
For reason shows us that nature has, among other things, granted us
the common gift of voice and speech. Therefore, "there can be no
further doubt that we are all naturally free," and hence it
cannot be asserted that "nature has placed some of us in
slavery." Even animals, he points out, display a natural
instinct to be free. But then, what in the world "has so,
denatured man that he, the only creature really born to be free,
lacks the memory of his original condition and the desire to return
to it?"
La Boétie's celebrated and creatively original call for civil
disobedience, for mass non-violent resistance as a method for the
overthrow of tyranny, stems directly from the above two premises: the
fact that all rule rests on the consent of the subject masses, and
the great value of natural liberty. For if tyranny really rests on
mass consent, then the obvious means for its overthrow is simply by
mass withdrawal of that consent. The weight of tyranny would quickly
and suddenly collapse under such a non-violent revolution.
Thus, after concluding that all tyranny rests on popular consent, La
Boétie eloquently concludes that "obviously there is no
need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is
automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own
enslavement." Tyrants need not be expropriated by force; they
need only be deprived of the public's continuing supply of funds and
resources. The more one yields to tyrants, La Boétie points
out, the stronger and mightier they become. But if the tyrants "are
simply not obeyed," they become "undone and as nothing."
La Boétie then exhorts the "poor, wretched, and stupid
peoples" to cast off their chains by refusing to supply the
tyrant any further with the instruments of their own oppression. The
tyrant, indeed, has nothing more than the power that you confer upon
him to destroy you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon
you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many
arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet
that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not
your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How
would he dare assail you if he had not cooperation from you?
La Boétie concludes his exhortation by assuring the masses
that to overthrow the tyrant they need not act, nor shed their blood.
They can do so "merely by willing to be free." In short,
“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do
not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but
simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like
a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own
weight and break in pieces.”
--- End Excerpt
And to comprehend how La Boétie's insight has been cleverly
employed to checkmate the common man in the West by the same tyrant
and his exponents, who in these times, conveniently install the
despot as the front-face of a secretive oligarchy, see “Weapons
of Mass Deception – the Master Social Science” [2].
It is the profound lack of understanding of this latter discourse
that today enables "Voluntary Servitude" in the affluent
West. No amount of rehearsing Boétie's commonsensical
platitudes, the profound Ten Commandments, or even the Biblical
Golden Rule “Do unto others as you have others do unto you”,
is going to empower Plato's “Prisoners
of the Cave” [3]. For indeed, “none are more
hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
Only astute political science can effectively counter devilish
political science! See for instance “How
to derail 'imperial mobilization' and preempt the crossing of the
Nuclear Rubicon” [4].
But what about the “Voluntary Servitude” in the East and
the Global South that is egregiously loaded with almost 3/4th of all
the natural resources of the planet and is yet also home to 3/4th of
the world's poverty stricken humanity? Surely the hungry man unable
to feed his family knows the price of “cake” quite well?
And yet, he continues to persist in enabling his own servitude? What
prevents La Boétie's prescription today when the same
principle exemplarily brought down the majesty of the British Empire
in its own Jewel in the Crown less than four score years past?
The answer must remain the same as during La Boétie's time –
the threshold of the masses' tolerance hasn't been crossed yet –
the poor among mankind having been endowed with infinite patience and
eternal hope! It is this “hope”, and man's misplaced
optimism due to it, that primarily enables one's “Voluntary
Servitude”. Therefore, despite the simple mechanism of
overthrowing it – albeit only collectively – being quite
naturally available to man as rationally demonstrated by Boétie,
“hope” perniciously incapacitates him.
The omission of this empirical observation of eternal “hope”
in man – also a key to his survival by averting despondency
during misfortunes – in La Boétie's political discourse
can perhaps be attributed to the author's youthful inexperience at
the time when he composed his remarkably astute treatise, and for
which, he may surely be forgiven! Perhaps this is why Boétie
did not publish the discourse as he may have intuitively felt its
incompleteness (although some others have offered more exoteric
reasons for it such as concern for his own personal safety from the
tyrants of the day).
As with the surfeit of anything, man's natural affinity towards
“hope” becomes his enduring anchor into his own long-term
“Voluntary Servitude”. It is a natural “opiate”
that apparently only exists in humankind. It is far more universal in
its sedative effect than any imagined by Karl Marx when he mistakenly
blamed man's tolerance for his own exploitation, upon his obsession
with “religion”! Far transcending the realm of social
inculcation, but often exploited by it, “hope” appears to
be innate in every individual human being!
Lest one might be mistaken that this opiate is only for the backward
humanity of the Global South, the miserable poor in the religion and
spirituality imbued East that is perennially “waiting for
Allah” or “Karma”, the recent statistics for the
United States, the exemplar of advanced civilization out to teach the
rest of the world how to live, exposes that misconception
[5]:
“A recent survey of this group by the Washington Post, the
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University conducted
this past June looked at the beliefs of adults ages 18 to 64 working
30 or more hours a week, not self-employed and who earned no more
than $27,000 in 2007. The results show a fascinating dichotomy.
Though there is widespread pain and discontent there is also a
stubborn faith in the American dream despite little help from
government.
Ninety percent of this group sees the current economy negatively,
either not so good or poor, with 52 percent feeling financially
insecure and 50 percent feeling less secure than a few years ago. The
fractions saying they have difficulty affording basic things are
severe, including: 88 percent that cannot save money for college or
other education for their children, 82 percent paying for gasoline or
other transportation costs, 81 percent saving money for retirement,
65 percent paying for health care and health insurance, 65 percent
handling child care, close to 60 percent paying credit card bills,
monthly utility bills and rent or mortgage costs, and 47 percent
buying food. Three quarters say it has gotten harder to find good
jobs and nearly that fraction for finding affordable health care, and
68 percent finding decent, affordable housing.
In the past year this group has had to take many actions to make ends
meet, including 70 percent that cut electricity use and home heating;
62 percent that took an extra job or worked extra hours, 51 percent
that postponed medical or dental care and 50 percent that took money
out of savings or retirement funds.
All this sounds pretty bleak. But are these people mad and
pessimistic? Not exactly.
An amazing 69 percent are hopeful about their personal financial
situation, 59 percent believe they are more likely over the next few
years to move up in terms of their social class, 59 percent believe
that their children will have a standard of living much or somewhat
better than theirs, and 56 percent think they will achieve the
American dream in their lifetime.
[...] The unmistakable conclusion from all these data is that no
rebellion against the power elites running the two-party plutocracy
seems likely. If the bottom 40 percent of Americans in terms of
income still believe in the American dream and change-spouting
politicians like Obama, it is hard to believe that the more affluent
middle 40 percent of the population are ready to support more radical
change through political rebellion.
[...] Forget all that nonsense about the proletariat. Most Americans
use their faith in God or religion or conventional politicians to
cope, even in some of the most insecure economic times in American
history. They remain overly confident in voting as the path to
change. The ruling class has successfully used propaganda to dumb
down and manipulate most of the public because delusion has become
the opiate of the masses.”
And what appears to hasten or preempt man's natural threshold for
bearing infinite pain due to his infantile lingering “hope”
for better times, is always inspiring leadership! Leaders courageous
enough to boldly assert “enough”, with a vision and a
plan, before that inevitable turning-point can be naturally reached
when only the uncontrolled mob with nothing more to lose takes over –
as it did in the French Revolution which subsequently spawned the
tyranny of Napoleon!
Which is also why, the devilish hectoring hegemons, well versed in
political science based state-craft and Machiavelli, Orwell and
Huxley, also purposefully cultivate and promote the corrupt and the
co-opted feudals to serve as false leaders of any plebeian peoples.
These leaders are carefully manufactured to only serve their own
larger class interests as client-states of higher authorities –
the puppetmasters. If a genuine leader emerges who can mobilize a
nation towards un-servitude, who can inspire and energize, he is
assassinated as an example to all others.
Pakistan remains exemplary in this – see Project
Humanbeingsfirst's February 2008 prescient report “Who
Killed Benazir Bhutto? In her own words!” [6], and its
November 2007 solutions recommendations “Open
Letter to a Pakistani General” [7]. The election of Mr.
Asif Ali Zardari as the new President of Pakistan confirms the setup
by the Hectoring Hegemons for devilishly re-architecting Pakistan's
borders – as predicted in the series of reports on Pakistan's
Destabilization by Project Humanbeingsfirst – through
increasing economic
oppression [8] [9] [10] [11] and tyranny
[12] upon the common
man [13] already unable
to make ends meet [14].
And then, the 'ubermensch' will come on their white horse wielding
“shock and awe” to “save” the “the
very petri dish of international terrorism” [15] from
becoming the new “Terror
Central” [16] and threatening the civilized world due to
its instability and civil war! That ominous “saving”
[17] is already in its advanced
setup stages [18] even as I write this. Many front-faces have
been lined up who will retain and maintain the core-lie to
continually enable the 'ubermensch' quest for “full spectrum
dominance” – that of 'war on terror' – and the
present incarnation with Mr. Zardari is just another “happy-happy”
ever-smiling face! [19] But a more insidious face than the Generals'
before, in order to present the more acceptable illusion of freedom
and democracy as that is what is being demanded by the constituency
to be controlled. Well, let's give it to them under the praetorian
tutelage of a re-incarnated seasoned Godfather who can be relied upon
to obediently do the master's bidding on account of natural
inclination [20] to usurp
[21] and plunder
[22], with plenty of skeletons in the closet to keep a strong check
on the desired strategic direction when
necessary! [23]
Observing the events of the day (September
10, 2008) [24] being rehearsed with all the pomp and majestic
show – complete with horse-drawn buggy and kisses on the cheeks
and all – before the applauding world with Mr. Zardari taking
the highest oath of office in Pakistan, reminded me of the opening
wedding scene from Mario Puzo's movie the Godfather, attended by the
motley of morality-challenged, all dressed in their finest Sunday
outfits. The only thing that appeared to be missing during the
festivities in the non-movie version was the camera zooming into
private meetings in beautifully shuttered oak and mahogany paneled
darkened rooms behind closed doors on how the “territory”
was to be divided up, who would get what loot, and who would be
assigned to make which offer that couldn't be refused! Even the
fictional Michael Coreleone could not go so “legit” as
the real life enactment! Once made “legit” and cleansed
into a “virgin”, is it slanderous to recall the past?
None of the afore-stated staid recollections from newspaper reports
even begin to scratch the real surface of the actual experiences of
many Pakistanis under Asif Ali Zardari during the two short
hereditary reigns of his beloved wife. His popular nom de guerre of
“Mr. ten percent” among the general public hardly did him
justice. And neither could Al Capone ever be charged for anything
other than tax evasion! Even that opportunity no longer exists –
so long as the godfather dutifully continues America's “war on
terror”!
The earnest columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee of the Daily Dawn had
repeatedly noted in his many weekly columns that the former
President, General Musharraf, was the best among the worst of the
lot, and while I never agreed with the famous octogenarian of
Pakistan on the notion of choosing the lesser of two evils from a
carefully constrained artificial choice forcibly inflicted upon the
suffering populace, I do agree with that sentiment. But not because
of anything Ardeshir Cowasjee ever observed.
But because, with President Zardari at the helm, and aided in his
mission by the mindlessly silly and horrendously greedy
Parliamentarians who turn on a penny, Goethe's notion of servitude –
“none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely
believe they are free” – is being attempted in
Pakistan under a godfather-civilian ruler as an alternative to the
brute servitude under a military-general that was beginning to wear
thin with the people! The latter however, in comparison, was surely a
superior option to serve under, as there was at least no illusion of
freedom! The cycle of false-leaders is quite revealing even as it
continually fosters only the imperial agendas.
Let's snapshot from the setup that began this “imperial
mobilization”: The democratically elected Nawaz Sharif
being replaced by Musharraf in 1999 to acquire a “unity of
command” over the client-state, and the pubic showing enormous
relief at being rescued from their misery by a military dictator who
seemed to wanna fix everything for them – for the people wanted
someone strong to lead them after all the previous debacles under
“democracy”; 9 years later Musharraf now being replaced
by Zardari and the people once again showing even more relief because
they wanted to be led by democracy once again after all the debacles
under military dictatorship that has brought the country to the brink
of bankruptcy and dismemberment! The new “democratic”
leader now appears to be equally keen on fixing everything for the
people, but marches quickly in lock-step to the same beat as his
autocratic predecessors!
While the people are kept busy in these 'katputli tamashas' [puppet
shows] expertly crafted for them by the Rand Corporation and the
Pentagon in America, no element of “imperial mobilization”
is ever left to chance. It is just as precision an operation in
Pakistan as 911 was in New York! If a military strongman is needed to
enable the 'war on terror' by nurturing “jihadis” with
the attack on Afghanistan, the climate is created to install him. If
destabilization is needed to enable dismemberment of a former
frontline client-state which has outlived its usefulness on the
'Grand Chessboard' in its present configuration, faux democracy is
crafted to bring the destabilization to its critical mass. The
concept of years of planning and long consistent execution times, as
is political science based state-craft, is entirely alien to the
impetuous Pakistani mind. Brought up over the past sixty years to
only expect uncertainty, loot and plunder, disappearances and
oppression, a Pakistani has become mentally attuned to going to sleep
at night not knowing who will be in-charge the next morning (or where
one might wake up)!
Thus, the notion that a devilish multi-year precision planning, and
such state-craft sophistication as the 'dialectics of deception'
described by Project
Humanbeingsfirst in many of its reports, is even possible, is
entirely foreign to the relatively simple, feudalistic Pakistani
genius. Therefore, 'katputli tamashas' and frequent change of Acts
and actors is great for the masses – for many couldn't care
less who is in power, tied as most have become to their daily bread
and hope for miraculous deliverance!
The exuberance shown by the world's leaders in rushing to
congratulate the new Mr. 100% Pakistani President into their fold –
one who had candidly noted:
'The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), if it comes into power,
must persuade the people that the fight against militants is “our
war”, not just America’s war' [25] – and all of
them together agreeing to maintain that enabling core-lie of
“imperial mobilization” intact, amply demonstrates
this.
This coddling of a person who was further reported
brazenly proclaiming “Asif Ali Zardari told a British TV
that political agreements were not words of Qura’an which could
not be changed with the changing political scenario. According to the
TV, he was asked about his shifting positions and not fulfilling his
promises to which he said there was nothing final in politics and
positions could change with the changing situations.” [26],
makes President Zardari actually the best qualified among the lot for
the job of presiding over the dismembering of Pakistan! One who need
not, by one's own admission, honor any agreements one may sign, or
the deals one may make, with one's own countrymen in order to gain
their trust! Wow! What an egregiously blatant mocking of a peoples
quite accustomed to “Voluntary Servitude”. Notice that
there are no riots in the streets in Pakistan, no protests, and while
the nation's ruling elite is politically and visibly united in
celebrating the victory of democracy over dictatorship, the poor man
is kept busy trying to barely survive!
Finally, one can rightfully claim, that there is little difference
between the peoples of America, and the peoples of Pakistan –
united they do stand in “hope” and inaction for a better
tomorrow, as the rich plunderers laugh their way to the bank!
Indeed, I hate to suggest once again that all this was plainly
manifest when Musharraf had issued his own proclamations paving the
way for PPP and Bhutto to come to power with the NRO and the sacking
of the judges by crafting his unilateral Executive Orders, which like
in America, once made into law, become effectively irreversible. I
had plainly written on December
21, 2007 in Project Humanbeingsfirst's warning to the Pakistani
peoples “Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the 'Grand
Chessboard'!” [27] (while most of the Pakistani and Western
press appeared not to have ever been students of political science,
history, or even forensic science – the only reason most among
them are likely called journalists, the press, the newsmedia, is
surely only because they carry suitably designed business cards or
are rich enough to own the media – there are a few exceptions
of course, as shown by this oped in the Nation of February
22, 2008 [28]; and I have no idea why the rest of the respected
columnists like Ardeshir Cowasjee remained silent, despite my urgent
and repeated pleas to them to at least comment on the warning in
their own soap-boxes in order to draw attention to it, as no English
newspaper in Pakistan was willing to publish it or any of the letters
to editor [29] that I sent them before I gave up on further
wasting my time; I had also, in my earnestness, foolishly apprised
two newly retired 3-star Pakistani Generals in Islamabad of these
matters over a long private lunch conversation, with obviously little
impact and much wasted effort):
“#2. The present 'elections' in Pakistan are a manifest fraud
under the orchestration of the 'hectoring hegemons' themselves, and
must be abandoned in the greater national interest of the peoples of
Pakistan themselves.
This mantra of elections is replete with red herrings craftily
synthesized to maintain Pakistan as a servile client-state in order
to carry on with the same bold 'imperial designs' on the 'Grand
Chessboard'. It is merely the rebottling of the same old wine in a
different bottle. It will surely be legitimately conducted, with no
apparent riggings, and duly approved by all the impartial
international observers to give the artful elections an official
international legitimacy.
It is quite immaterial who wins in these elections. The laws and
the judiciary of the nation have already been reconstituted under the
umbrella of 'emergency' to enable the nation to carry on unfettered
in its primary objective of fighting the 'War on Terror' as an
obedient patsy client-state – and hence to carry on in its own
devilishly crafted suicide!
These elections will conveniently 'elect' a legislature whose
leaders have also been deftly primed by the 'hectoring hegemons'
themselves! And the highest executive office in the land is already
retained in the hands of the same old 'wine' drinker.
Thus all the 'ducks' are still lined up perfectly in a row, just as
they were on the very eve of 911.
#3. The people of Pakistan must fully reconcile with the Military of
Pakistan immediately - the reconciliation being of the type that was
witnessed by the surprised world between the oppressors and the
oppressed in South Africa.
Not the type that is being pushed through the NRO to legitimize
looters, plunderers, and rapists of the nation in order to staff the
legislature with the made by 'CFR in the USA' and made by 'RIIA in
the UK' Pakistani politicians with at best criminal credentials, and
at worst, treasonous ones!
The military of Pakistan, as an institution, is indeed also the only
hope of Pakistan as we must survive on the 'Grand Chessboard' and
only they hold the cards. What is about to befall the nation can also
only be averted by them. The civilians and the Military must unite –
immediately – for overarching national considerations that far
transcend individual grievances, ego trips, and past transgressions.
Thus the civilians must abandon all meaningless and mindless protests
which are in any case devoid of any fundamental comprehension of the
reality du jour on the 'Grand Chessboard' – none of them seek
fundamental changes to our fate, nor do they appear to fathom what
such changes are even supposed to be - and are merely only chasing
red herrings that have been deftly crafted as perhaps per the
Machiavellian 'technique of infamy'. ...
These protests are needlessly continually giving the Western public
the impression of 'instability' which only adds to the credibility of
the various pretextual mantras to come 'deliver' us from ourselves!
There is much more at stake than to usher in a thin veneer of faux
'democracy' which is all that these protests are unwittingly
accomplishing as can be empirically witnessed by anyone with half a
brain.
#4 Instead of the faux 'democracy', the Pakistani Military rulers on
their part must now rise to the challenge of genuine patriotism and
as genuine guardians of the nation and help carve a genuine
Democracy, with the capital D and without the quotes, as briefly
outlined in “Re-Imagining Pakistan's Defenses – Open
Letter to a Pakistani General”, and as explored in “Saving
Pakistan from Synthetic 'Terror Central' ”.
Briefly, that entails crafting a genuine Constitution under a
bilateral 'social contract' between the people and the state, that is
subsequently ratified by the people of Pakistan through a direct
referendum vote. This can be accomplished within a few short months
if there is the national and military will that understands the
urgency of the matter and executes on it by gathering the right
peoples to craft it!”
Item 2 above, in bold, appears amazingly prescient – right? The
new “wine drinker” makes little impact on the journey
however. And we observe that Musharraf withdrew
[30] without rectifying any of his own power-shenanigans in favor of
the new “wine drinker” whom he had himself enabled and
pardoned with the NRO that has lent new meaning to the adage 'steal
only in millions and billions, for generous pardon in the name of
national security, national interest, or national reconciliation is
the only outcome for monumental crimes when all loot'.
The new “wine drinker” in turn was, and is, being guided
by the same hectoring
hegemons [31] [32] [33] [34] who crafted and led the American
foreign policy in the decimation of Afghanistan and Iraq, as expected
– and so brazenly at times that there is no need to even hide
that fact from the public – when Musharraf very well could have
implemented all of the afore-stated recommendations for the genuine
protection of Pakistan, as he enjoyed absolute power and the public
would have welcomed his moves against the hectoring hegemons with
open arms! Therefore, the lame surprise as demonstrated in this news
report, aptly titled “Benazir's promise remains
unfulfilled” [35], is at best – well what can one say
that hasn't already been said about the press! Pakistani media is now
but a distant reflection of the American media eagerly galloping down
the same path. See Chapters 4,
6,
and 7
of my book “Prisoners
of the Cave” for a better understanding of what one is
likely to see more and more of in Pakistan! [36]
If all this prescience is such advanced rocket science, how is it
that an ordinary plebeian, with only a computer and an internet
connection, can figure it all out, including the solution space, and
none of the profound intelligentsia and the press in Pakistan can?
The answer must be that we are a well deserving nation ready to be
replaced by a better peoples – as per the promise of the
Qur'an! But wait – I am not ready to be replaced, nor am I
willing to accept that verdict, and neither are the 200 million
Pakistanis suffering under the yoke of the handful of co-opted
praetorian ruling elite of Pakistan! “Voluntary Servitude”
may indeed be our failing due to excessive misplaced hope, but is
that as criminally culpable as the tyrants who criminally rule over
us by exploiting that failing? Being a victim is not a crime, even if
being a foolish one repeatedly is reprehensible!
Under such a torpid existence of the patiently servile populace
forever controlled by different flavored praetorian tyrants serving
only the larger geopolitical interests under Machiavellianly crafted,
political-science based, Western state-craft, it is only the perverse
insanity of "Balance
of Terror" [37] that can “free” the common man
without him expending his own efforts to break his “hope”
driven “voluntary servitude”! For at least, under the
“balance of terror” doctrine, he becomes as “free”
to survive as the poor beetle enslaved between two hungry scorpions.
The astute beetle can construct some space to still breathe and live
in that precariously balanced time-space continuum! In a world where
one's very existence is anathema to the 'ubermensch' hectoring
hegemons, and one's extinction is their planned endgame for
population control and elimination of a vast majority of “useless
eaters” from the planet, physical survival by hook or by crook
must first rationally precede any freedom from servitude. The latter
struggle in these times appears to be next to impossible task, with
expert and sophisticated global masters deftly managing “hope”
driven populations into a permanent state of “Voluntary
Servitude” – by trickling some minimal level of
sustenance down their throats to not cause all loss of “hope”
and the concomitant violent riots when it's not needed – while
cleverly inhibiting the rise of any popular leadership (or
dissemination of knowledge of what's in store for them) that can
genuinely lead them to the contrary!
Therefore, “balance of terror” forms an imperative
doctrine of urgent survival conveniently not examined in political
science discourses, never mind the global press, but is the only
realizable and efficacious solution-space taught by nature itself for
the times when 'ubermensch' hectoring hegemons rule the roost. See
Project Humanbeingsfirst's
August and September 2008 reports “Georgia-Russia:
It's a Classic Brzezinski Project!” [38] and “Hegemony
is as old as mankind” [39] respectively, for how aggressive
(i.e., non-passive) posturing between titans can temporarily reprieve
an almost sure to be decimated nation on the 'Grand Chessboard! And
if played astutely – as Russia appears to be doing by
announcing the stationing of its largest nuclear armed warship in the
Caribbean
waters [40] and its anti-submarine aircraft at the Venezuelan
airport [41] – permanently reprieve it, and all others as
well.
An effective counter to the IMF/WB/NATO and the dollar-hegemony, by
SCO for instance, under an uncompromising leadership from Russia,
China, India, Iran, Venezuela, et. al., while simultaneously enabling
the United States to actually bring her coveted SPP into fruition
through her own crafty shenanigans, can give reprieve to all servile
client-states of the Global South without a masses' destructive
uncontrolled revolution when the “hope” threshold is
finally breached. The SPP prematurely being forced to create the
North American Union, by other nations outside the Pax Americana
forcing a dollar crisis upon it before it is ready, can be the best
reprieve for the world. Provided of course, the rest of the planet is
empowered to astutely dump the dollar before the dollar dumps them!
The guns at China's and Middle East nations' throats remain there
mainly to prevent that very act of defiance. America's creditors are
targeted to remain patiently holding onto their dollar reserves until
the opportune time for the United States, as the new North American
Union, to adopt the new yet to be introduced Amerio. Thus in one fell
swoop, the richest nation on Earth intends to not only write off all
its debts, backed with big guns, but also (selectively) crash all the
Asian creditor nations' economies. Much use is Confederate currency
today, except in a museum.
This is the un-stated purpose behind Iranian President Ahmadinejad's
bold suggestion in the last SCO meeting on August
28, 2008 “Iran's suggestion is to use the currencies of
the SCO states in transactions between members of the organization,
... Such a measure will help maintain and strengthen the value of the
foreign exchange reserves of member states. The organization can also
devise a long term plan to study the feasibility of using a single
currency in the future”, in order to preempt these nations'
growing supply of future toilet-paper! [42]
This gambit of prematurely forcing the Hectoring Hegemons' already
pre-planned “revolutionary time” to make possible what
would otherwise be “inconceivable in normal times” –
in other words, turning the tables on the Hectoring Hegemons with
their own devilish weapon – is now perhaps the only realistic
way to motivate the “Prisoners of the Cave” out of their
“Voluntary Servitude” to standup for the sanctity of
their own nation.
The same patriotic fervor which indoctrinates the public into “United
We Stand”, can also create active resistance among the same
peoples who love their country so blindly that they are willing to
acquiesce to the merciless killing of other 'lesser' humanity in the
absurdity of preemptive 'self-defense'! No patriotic public in the
entire pluralistic multicultural America, no matter how
indoctrinated, will voluntarily accept a North American Union, a loss
of their beloved America that was hitherto fully defined by the
Monroe Doctrine of four well defined borders. And forcing this union
upon the peoples through martial law remaining the only choice
available to the hectoring hegemons, will finally align the American
public's patriotism with the rest of the world's interests! In that
reprieve scenario – a ransom from extinction through full
spectrum alliances by the rest of the world – new leaders among
the hope-driven populace all across the world might yet be born under
these “revolutionary times”, who can eventually lead
their servile populations into aborting their “Voluntary
Servitude”! While one might perhaps call this logic perversely
“hope” based, the history of the world, as is the history
of the American Revolution (see Patrick Henry's speech below), is
also testament to courageous leaders often arising among a fed-up
public mainly at crises times when there is no “hope”
left.
In a calculated play of astute political science against the devilish
one, the same manipulative tools can serve both masters on the 'Grand
Chessboard', not just the hectoring hegemons! Unfortunately, its
efficacy lies solely with state-actors, institutions, and apparatus.
Therefore, ordinary masses under astute political leadership can
actually directly play in that space by efficaciously engaging the
state in order to throw-off the yolk of their “Voluntary
Servitude” as explained by Project Humanbeingsfirst in its
numerous
[43] reports
[44].
“Hope” – the eternal friend and the
perennial enemy of man! Hope is what empirically subverts us from
becoming the so called “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat”, and
lulls us into inaction even as it enables us to survive the darkest
of times without despondency! Like a snake's venom, both a poison and
an antidote, “hope” is what co-opts us to become less
than animals by falsely leading us into losing our basic instincts to
be free from servitude under some fuzzy higher cerebral function of
optimism that we seem to have acquired from who knows where over the
eons of supposed evolution of our species! There are however no
vestiges of such an abstraction in the Darwinian worldview of how man
might have descended from the lower beings. No other living creature
possesses it, in any amount. It is characteristically a human trait!
Where does “hope” spring from? Did god implant it in us?
Or did the devil? When is it god's work, when is it the devil's, and
how is it an evolutionary gift that leaves no trace in other species,
but is present in all of humankind on all continents? Is there a
“hope” gene?
Regardless, it is quite evident that it is mainly the deprivation of
“hope” that enables one to abandon “Voluntary
Servitude”. Be it towards the despondency of the weak, and
hence they perish. Or be it towards the assertion of fight-back by
the strong – who have had it up to their neck and are not
willing to take it anymore as they are going to perish anyway, who
are left with no hope of being rescued by anyone else and have
nothing further to lose by standing up – by their minimally
copying the instinctive
behavior [45] of the free animals! The courageous history of
mankind is evidence that it is only when there is no hope of rescue,
or of the suffocating conditions ameliorating, that “Voluntary
Servitude” ends!
This was indeed the premise behind the famous speech given by Patrick
Henry on March
23, 1775 [46] when he hath proclaimed: “Is life so dear,
or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and
slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may
take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” A
fuller quote would be more instructive:
“There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be
free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges
for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to
abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and
which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious
object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it,
sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all
that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope
with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?
Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are
totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in
every house? Shall we gather strength but irresolution and inaction?
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely
on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our
enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the
God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed
in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we
possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against
us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and
who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant,
the active, the brave.
Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire
it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no
retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their
clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is
inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry,
Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The
next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash
of resounding arms!
Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What
is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have?
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price
of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but
as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Only a year later, the intimate realization that “There
is no longer any room for hope”, led to a Declaration
which today, surely still resonates, albeit mutely, in the hearts of
some, and sends a winter's chill down the spine of every despot and
demagogue:
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them
to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety
and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established
should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly
all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Wherefore such a people? Only whence bereft of hope, and only when
courageously led! Or at least, that is what the empirical history of
mankind suggests.
Epilogue
Elevating oneself to man's ultimate destiny of “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat”,
i.e., the highest spiritual state of “Irfan”,
which Islam axiomatically teaches is the ultimate “khud-muktar”
man of God's creation, wherein – as artistically put by that
famous 'Poet of the East' – the Creator too favors the “best
of creation” by asking the “khud-muktar” man
what might he desire as his destiny before apportioning the same to
him, is a far cry! Muslims apparently are forever dreaming of “Irfan”
– at least the ones in our beloved 'Land of the Pure', with
every Pakistani serf awaiting a savior, every oppressed “waiting
for Allah”, all patiently bearing their burden resigned to
their destiny of toil and hunger, but still full of hope for some
miraculous rescue, and seeking comfort in the vision of a rewarding
after-life for their stoic forbearance in this ill-fated one –
while we, the egotistical us, cannot even live up to the level of
exercising the innate desire to be free as shown by the animals!
Forget about other useful
self-defense [47] taught us by the supposed lower order beings!
Whence “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat”?
Surely it must have been a metaphor for some other man yet to be
born! A man who will finally understand the gift of “hope”
– to protect one from despondency – and yet not be unduly
saddled by it into “Voluntary Servitude”, as beautifully
and succinctly spelled out for him in the last two of the four short
verses of Surah Asr in the Qura’an! While the Western
Hegemons [48] cleverly hijack the concept of jihad to create
“militant Islam”, “radical Islam”, and
“Islamism”, and mindless “native informants”
par excellence continually bleat it for multiplied effect in asinine
writings such as “Between
Imperialism and Islamism” [49] that keep the core-lie of
“Islamism” intact in dutiful service to their higher
masters (or perhaps only serving them in pathetic ignorance as
patsies), its real meaning becomes imprisoned in La Boétie's
“Voluntary Servitude” until hopelessness, with little
possibility of parole
[50] during our lifetime!
Yes, “happy-happy” indeed on the long road of voluntary
serfdom into oblivion.
Footnotes
[0] The News, September 10, 2008, 'The president, his massive
support, the big disappointment'
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=17140
'ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari began his tenure as a popular
head of state in an ideal setting, with all his political friends
and foes strongly supporting him and the entire bureaucratic and
military establishment ready to give him a chance.
For him it was a great day, the best day of his life, but somehow the new president did not let the people of Pakistan celebrate the day with him, as he chose not to make any major announcement, did not address any of the burning issues which have divided the society and offered them no hope on his debut, though he may try to do so later. ...
[T]he country and the nation are waiting for President Zardari, PM Gilani, Speaker Mirza, their chief ministers in Sindh, Balochistan and NWFP, to come up with something which the people can celebrate. They say Zardari has got his Big Day, when will the people, in whose name he rules, get their break.'
For him it was a great day, the best day of his life, but somehow the new president did not let the people of Pakistan celebrate the day with him, as he chose not to make any major announcement, did not address any of the burning issues which have divided the society and offered them no hope on his debut, though he may try to do so later. ...
[T]he country and the nation are waiting for President Zardari, PM Gilani, Speaker Mirza, their chief ministers in Sindh, Balochistan and NWFP, to come up with something which the people can celebrate. They say Zardari has got his Big Day, when will the people, in whose name he rules, get their break.'
[5] Joel S. Hirschhorn, 'Working Poor Unready to Revolt'
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/08/09/p27615
[8] Daily Times, September 08, 2008, 'Pakistan could be next big IMF
customer'
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\09\08\story_8-9-2008_pg1_6
[9] The Nation, August 28, 2008, '14-hour loadshedding' in Karachi
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Karachi/28-Aug-2008/14hour-loadshedding
[10] The Nation, August 28, 2008, ‘Industry suffering due to
power shortage’ in Lahore
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Business/28-Aug-2008/Industry-suffering-due-to-power-shortage
[11] Business Recorder, August 29, 2008, 'Business activities come
to a halt: power outages in various parts of Faisalabad'
http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=801230
[12] Daily Times, September 08, 2008, 'Military unlikely to pressure
new president'
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\09\08\story_8-9-2008_pg1_7
[13] The News, September 01, 2008, 'An endless struggle for
survival' http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=133206
[14] The News, September 01, 2008, 'People going to bed hungry due
to record price hike'
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=133205
[18] AP, September 11, 2008, 'Officials: Bush OK'd US raids in
Pakistan' By PAMELA HESS and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writers,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_pakistan
; and 'Bush secretly approved free hand to US troops in Pakistan'
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=468185&sid=WOR
[19] The News, September 10, 2008, 'The president, his massive
support, the big disappointment'
https://web.archive.org/web/20080912213539/http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=17140
[20] John F. Burns, NYT January 9, 1998, 'HOUSE OF GRAFT: Tracing
the Bhutto Millions -- A special report.; Bhutto Clan Leaves Trail
of Corruption'
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE5D91F30F93AA35752C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
[21] Anjali Mody, Indian Express April 14, 1998, 'Graft charges
against Benazir lead to UK'
http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980414/10450284.html
[22] NYT July 28, 1998, 'Bhutto Is Ordered to Post Bail in Graft
Case'
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E5DA1638F93BA15754C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
[23] Zee News, November 01, 2007, 'Pak ready to give Swiss courts
proof in Bhutto's graft case'
http://www.zeenews.com/print_articles.asp?rep=2&aid=404772&sid=SAS
[24] The News, September 10, 2008, 'Pakistan enters Zardari era'
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=17139
"A horse-drawn black chariot, decorated with the national flag,
then carried the new president a short distance before he
disembarked to inspect the troops. Zardari kissed his son Bilawal -
the chairman of the PPP - and bowed at the feet of his father, Hakim
Ali Zardari, before being embraced by his daughters, Bakhtawar and
Asifa. ...
The president was given a guard of honour by a smartly turned out contingent of the three services at the main gate of the Presidency when he arrived for the ceremony in the traditionally decorated buggy. Present at the gate was his father Hakim Ali Zardari, son Bilawal, daughters Bakhtawar, Asifa, sister-in-law Sanam Bhutto and personal staff received him.
Like a deferential son he touched the feet of his father Hakim Ali Zardari, an elderly politician of Sindh who kissed Asif Zardari on both the cheeks and then shook hands with him. Asif Zardari’s son Bilawal was clad in dark blue shalwar and long kurta while both his sisters were wearing shalwar kameez. President Zardari kissed his son and daughters affectionately. Pakistan High Commissioner in the United Kingdom Wajid Shamsul Hasan was also present at the main gate of the Presidency. Asif Zardari inspected the guard of honour gracefully with confidence visible on his face."
The president was given a guard of honour by a smartly turned out contingent of the three services at the main gate of the Presidency when he arrived for the ceremony in the traditionally decorated buggy. Present at the gate was his father Hakim Ali Zardari, son Bilawal, daughters Bakhtawar, Asifa, sister-in-law Sanam Bhutto and personal staff received him.
Like a deferential son he touched the feet of his father Hakim Ali Zardari, an elderly politician of Sindh who kissed Asif Zardari on both the cheeks and then shook hands with him. Asif Zardari’s son Bilawal was clad in dark blue shalwar and long kurta while both his sisters were wearing shalwar kameez. President Zardari kissed his son and daughters affectionately. Pakistan High Commissioner in the United Kingdom Wajid Shamsul Hasan was also present at the main gate of the Presidency. Asif Zardari inspected the guard of honour gracefully with confidence visible on his face."
[25] Daily Times, February 17, 2008, 'Taliban fight is our war:
Zardari'
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\02\17\story_17-2-2008_pg7_7
[26] The News, August 24, 2008, 'Agreements not words of Qura’an'
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=16803
'Accords not holy Quran or Hadith, says Zardari'
http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-51713
'Agreements with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) "are
not holy like the holy Quran and the Hadith" and can be
modified if circumstances change, Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said in an interview with BBC Urdu on
Saturday.
"Political parties do not make promises, they only arrive at understandings," Zardari said, adding that political understandings are "sometimes 50 percent successful, and sometimes more than that, but are still considered successful."
To a question on the future of the ruling alliance, Zardari said Nawaz had stayed away from democratic forces for a long time and that "we will try our best to take him along." '
"Political parties do not make promises, they only arrive at understandings," Zardari said, adding that political understandings are "sometimes 50 percent successful, and sometimes more than that, but are still considered successful."
To a question on the future of the ruling alliance, Zardari said Nawaz had stayed away from democratic forces for a long time and that "we will try our best to take him along." '
[31] Dawn, August 27, 2008, 'US envoy to UN questioned over contacts
with Asif' http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/27/top8.htm
Also: The News, Jul 13, 2014, 'Zardari had assured US, UK, Kayani of
Musharraf’s immunity'
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/639128-zardari-had-assured-us,-uk,-kayani-of-musharrafs-immunity
'ISLAMABAD: Former army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani had
played the most important role in brokering an immunity deal for
former president General Pervez Musharraf in 2008, according to
which Asif Zardari gave a firm commitment to the US, UK and Gen
Kayani that indemnity for Musharraf would be forthcoming if he
stepped down.
According to at least two leaked American diplomatic cables which had made their way to the international media on December 7, 2010, a series of political and strategic blunders by Musharraf had given cause and justification to both Asif Zardari and the then army chief General Kayani to work separately for his honourable exit.
In two separate cables written by then US ambassador to Islamabad Anne W. Patterson, details were given about how General Kayani (who had just been elevated as the army chief after Musharraf took off his uniform to retain the presidency), and Asif Ali Zardari, the leader of the majority party in the new National Assembly (after the 2008 polls), had systematically started to distance themselves from Musharraf.
In a ‘brief’ and ‘talking points’ prepared for Admiral Mike Mullen during his early 2008 visit to Pakistan, Ambassador Patterson states:
“As expected, Gen Ashfaq Kayani is taking slow but deliberate steps to distance the army from now civilian President Pervez Musharraf.” In a separate cable about a meeting of US Representatives Adam Schiff and Allyson Schwartz with Asif Zardari in May 2008, the American ambassador had given details of how the PPP co-chairman (who later became president following Musharraf’s exit) advocated an ‘honourable exit’ for Musharraf.
According to the cable, “Zardari blamed Musharraf for not taking enough responsibility for the war on terrorism in Pakistan”, which resulted in a marked increase in anti-US sentiments in the country.
“Anti-US feeling will go away when the old faces go away,” the leaked cable noted, adding that the American government should no longer rely on just Musharraf in fighting terrorism. In her own assessment of Musharraf’s public standing, Ambassador Patterson wrote in the cable that a year ago, his popularity was high. But “beginning with his decision to fire the Chief Justice (Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry) in March 2007, Musharraf has made repeated blunders culminating in a state of emergency and temporary suspension of the Constitution”. A detailed reading of some of these cables suggest that by this time all three major players, Asif Zardari, General Kayani and the American ambassador, had made up their minds that time was up for the former military ruler who had already been accused of involvement in the tragic assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto.
According to one of the leaked cables, the US ambassador wrote on August 23, 2008, during her meetings with Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and General Kayani, immunity for General Pervez Musharraf was discussed besides some other issues. The US Ambassador met with Pakistan People’s Party leader Asif Zardari on August 23, 2008 with then prime minister Gilani on August 21 and with then army chief General Kayani on August 20, 2008.
“In separate meetings with Asif Zardari, PM Gilani and chief of army staff Kayani, the ambassador pressed for quick action on immunity for former Musharraf. Zardari and Gilani said flatly they were committed to providing immunity, but not until after the presidential election (now scheduled for September 6, 2008). Pushing immunity now, they believed, could jeopardize Asif Zardari’s candidacy. General Kayani expressed concern that if immunity becomes tied up with the ongoing debate over the judges’ future, it may never happen. Zardari plans to continue to slow roll action on the judges’ restoration but remains confident that Nawaz Sharif will not walk out of the coalition.
“Nawaz’s deadlines for action on the judges continue to pass unfulfilled; the next one is scheduled for August 27, 2008. The August 20 decision by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to back Zardari for president has strengthened Zardari’s hand against Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz is left with the option of walking out of the coalition, but having little prospect of forcing a new general election in the short term.
“Asif Zardari is walking tall these days, hopefully not too tall to forget his promise to General Kayani and to us on an immunity deal.”
According to the leaked diplomatic cables, “Asif Zardari told the US Ambassador that he was committed to indemnity for Pervez Musharraf.
The ambassador stressed that only the promise of indemnity had persuaded Musharraf to step down as president. We believed, as we had often said, that Musharraf should have a dignified retirement and not be hounded out of the country. Zardari (subsequently) cited a British anecdote about the Spanish empire and said: “Tell the most powerful man in the world that there is no way that I would go back on what I have said.” Zardari noted that he already had firmly committed to the US, the UK and chief of army staff Kayani that indemnity for Musharraf would be forthcoming.
As the ambassador urged him to do it quickly, Zardari said flatly that to do it before he was elected president would lose him votes, but he would pass both the legislation and a presidential pardon as soon as he was elected. Zardari then revealed that Musharraf had approached chief justice (Abdul Hameed) Dogar about issuing a restraining order against the impeachment motion, but Justice Dogar had refused. Zardari also alleged that Musharraf had planned to replace General Kayani as COAS if Dogar had blocked the impeachment. Zardari said he was trying to keep Nawaz in the coalition and was candid that he planned to tie up the judges’ issue for a long time. He added that parliament would debate the restoration of the judges; chief justice Dogar would then submit some rulings on the restoration of the judges; all this could take months. In the meantime, he was trying to persuade former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to become Governor of Balochistan.
Going by the same leaked cable which was written by the US ambassador, Zardari said he did not think Nawaz would leave the coalition, but he admitted the Pakistan Muslim League had become increasingly testy. He said that he had already agreed with Nawaz Sharif to curtail the powers of the president and then allow Nawaz to be eligible for a third term as prime minister; both measures would require constitutional amendments. Zardari said he also had leverage over Shahbaz Sharif, who through paperwork snafus, had been technically elected illegally for a third term as the chief minister.
This, too, would have to be resolved in parliament, Zardari said. “So I can give them something they want,” noted Asif Zardari, “that’s what politics is all about.”
According to the leaked cable, after an August 20 (2008) meeting with the visiting S/CT Coordinator Dell Dailey, General Kayani asked the ambassador to stay behind and discuss his concerns that Asif Zardari was delaying General Musharraf’s immunity bill. Kayani had heard the large meeting of coalition partners (chaired on August 19, 2008 by the newly returned Bilawal Bhutto) had discussed the judges primarily. Then they decided to take a 72-hour break to consult the party members.
General Kayani said he took Asif Zardari’s commitments to now ex-president Pervez Musharraf as the most important argument in persuading him to resign. Asif Zardari made very specific commitments to Kayani. Now, for Asif Zardari to delay makes him (Kayani) look bad within his own institution “and I have to take the Army along with me.” Kayani also noted that the delay does nothing for Zardari’s reputation for trustworthiness. If this issue gets conflated with the judges and with Zardari’s own desires to be president, it will become too complicated to pass, Kayani said.
The US ambassador met with Prime Minister Gilani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik for 30 minutes on August 21, 2008. Gilani said the PPP was going to provide immunity to Musharraf, but the timing was important.
They were afraid that putting forward immunity legislation would lose them votes for Asif Zardari‘s presidential campaign. The ambassador pressed on this issue, saying that Musharraf would never have agreed to resign without the promise of immunity. He assured the ambassador that he and the party did not want vengeance. Regarding immunity, Gilani said “many will say that we have done a deal with America, but I still understand that we have to do it.”
Six years later, Gilani revealed on Friday that an understanding had been reached with the establishment that Musharraf would be given an honourable exit if he resigned, instead of going through impeachment proceedings.'
According to at least two leaked American diplomatic cables which had made their way to the international media on December 7, 2010, a series of political and strategic blunders by Musharraf had given cause and justification to both Asif Zardari and the then army chief General Kayani to work separately for his honourable exit.
In two separate cables written by then US ambassador to Islamabad Anne W. Patterson, details were given about how General Kayani (who had just been elevated as the army chief after Musharraf took off his uniform to retain the presidency), and Asif Ali Zardari, the leader of the majority party in the new National Assembly (after the 2008 polls), had systematically started to distance themselves from Musharraf.
In a ‘brief’ and ‘talking points’ prepared for Admiral Mike Mullen during his early 2008 visit to Pakistan, Ambassador Patterson states:
“As expected, Gen Ashfaq Kayani is taking slow but deliberate steps to distance the army from now civilian President Pervez Musharraf.” In a separate cable about a meeting of US Representatives Adam Schiff and Allyson Schwartz with Asif Zardari in May 2008, the American ambassador had given details of how the PPP co-chairman (who later became president following Musharraf’s exit) advocated an ‘honourable exit’ for Musharraf.
According to the cable, “Zardari blamed Musharraf for not taking enough responsibility for the war on terrorism in Pakistan”, which resulted in a marked increase in anti-US sentiments in the country.
“Anti-US feeling will go away when the old faces go away,” the leaked cable noted, adding that the American government should no longer rely on just Musharraf in fighting terrorism. In her own assessment of Musharraf’s public standing, Ambassador Patterson wrote in the cable that a year ago, his popularity was high. But “beginning with his decision to fire the Chief Justice (Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry) in March 2007, Musharraf has made repeated blunders culminating in a state of emergency and temporary suspension of the Constitution”. A detailed reading of some of these cables suggest that by this time all three major players, Asif Zardari, General Kayani and the American ambassador, had made up their minds that time was up for the former military ruler who had already been accused of involvement in the tragic assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto.
According to one of the leaked cables, the US ambassador wrote on August 23, 2008, during her meetings with Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and General Kayani, immunity for General Pervez Musharraf was discussed besides some other issues. The US Ambassador met with Pakistan People’s Party leader Asif Zardari on August 23, 2008 with then prime minister Gilani on August 21 and with then army chief General Kayani on August 20, 2008.
“In separate meetings with Asif Zardari, PM Gilani and chief of army staff Kayani, the ambassador pressed for quick action on immunity for former Musharraf. Zardari and Gilani said flatly they were committed to providing immunity, but not until after the presidential election (now scheduled for September 6, 2008). Pushing immunity now, they believed, could jeopardize Asif Zardari’s candidacy. General Kayani expressed concern that if immunity becomes tied up with the ongoing debate over the judges’ future, it may never happen. Zardari plans to continue to slow roll action on the judges’ restoration but remains confident that Nawaz Sharif will not walk out of the coalition.
“Nawaz’s deadlines for action on the judges continue to pass unfulfilled; the next one is scheduled for August 27, 2008. The August 20 decision by Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to back Zardari for president has strengthened Zardari’s hand against Nawaz Sharif. Nawaz is left with the option of walking out of the coalition, but having little prospect of forcing a new general election in the short term.
“Asif Zardari is walking tall these days, hopefully not too tall to forget his promise to General Kayani and to us on an immunity deal.”
According to the leaked diplomatic cables, “Asif Zardari told the US Ambassador that he was committed to indemnity for Pervez Musharraf.
The ambassador stressed that only the promise of indemnity had persuaded Musharraf to step down as president. We believed, as we had often said, that Musharraf should have a dignified retirement and not be hounded out of the country. Zardari (subsequently) cited a British anecdote about the Spanish empire and said: “Tell the most powerful man in the world that there is no way that I would go back on what I have said.” Zardari noted that he already had firmly committed to the US, the UK and chief of army staff Kayani that indemnity for Musharraf would be forthcoming.
As the ambassador urged him to do it quickly, Zardari said flatly that to do it before he was elected president would lose him votes, but he would pass both the legislation and a presidential pardon as soon as he was elected. Zardari then revealed that Musharraf had approached chief justice (Abdul Hameed) Dogar about issuing a restraining order against the impeachment motion, but Justice Dogar had refused. Zardari also alleged that Musharraf had planned to replace General Kayani as COAS if Dogar had blocked the impeachment. Zardari said he was trying to keep Nawaz in the coalition and was candid that he planned to tie up the judges’ issue for a long time. He added that parliament would debate the restoration of the judges; chief justice Dogar would then submit some rulings on the restoration of the judges; all this could take months. In the meantime, he was trying to persuade former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to become Governor of Balochistan.
Going by the same leaked cable which was written by the US ambassador, Zardari said he did not think Nawaz would leave the coalition, but he admitted the Pakistan Muslim League had become increasingly testy. He said that he had already agreed with Nawaz Sharif to curtail the powers of the president and then allow Nawaz to be eligible for a third term as prime minister; both measures would require constitutional amendments. Zardari said he also had leverage over Shahbaz Sharif, who through paperwork snafus, had been technically elected illegally for a third term as the chief minister.
This, too, would have to be resolved in parliament, Zardari said. “So I can give them something they want,” noted Asif Zardari, “that’s what politics is all about.”
According to the leaked cable, after an August 20 (2008) meeting with the visiting S/CT Coordinator Dell Dailey, General Kayani asked the ambassador to stay behind and discuss his concerns that Asif Zardari was delaying General Musharraf’s immunity bill. Kayani had heard the large meeting of coalition partners (chaired on August 19, 2008 by the newly returned Bilawal Bhutto) had discussed the judges primarily. Then they decided to take a 72-hour break to consult the party members.
General Kayani said he took Asif Zardari’s commitments to now ex-president Pervez Musharraf as the most important argument in persuading him to resign. Asif Zardari made very specific commitments to Kayani. Now, for Asif Zardari to delay makes him (Kayani) look bad within his own institution “and I have to take the Army along with me.” Kayani also noted that the delay does nothing for Zardari’s reputation for trustworthiness. If this issue gets conflated with the judges and with Zardari’s own desires to be president, it will become too complicated to pass, Kayani said.
The US ambassador met with Prime Minister Gilani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik for 30 minutes on August 21, 2008. Gilani said the PPP was going to provide immunity to Musharraf, but the timing was important.
They were afraid that putting forward immunity legislation would lose them votes for Asif Zardari‘s presidential campaign. The ambassador pressed on this issue, saying that Musharraf would never have agreed to resign without the promise of immunity. He assured the ambassador that he and the party did not want vengeance. Regarding immunity, Gilani said “many will say that we have done a deal with America, but I still understand that we have to do it.”
Six years later, Gilani revealed on Friday that an understanding had been reached with the establishment that Musharraf would be given an honourable exit if he resigned, instead of going through impeachment proceedings.'
[32] Dawn, August 27, 2008, 'US defends Khalilzad'
http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/27/top14.htm
[33] Dawn, September 04, 2008, 'Khalilzad denies providing political
advice to Zardari' http://www.dawn.com/2008/09/04/top22.htm
[35] The News, September 10, 2008, 'Benazir's promise remains
unfulfilled'
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=17163
'ISLAMABAD: The public commitment made by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto was
not honoured on Tuesday when Asif Ali Zardari took oath of his
office from Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, instead of Justice Iftikhar
Mohammad Chaudhry whom the martyred PPP leader had termed the "real
chief justice of Pakistan".
After the imposition of emergency on November 3 by Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto had categorically rejected the elevation of Justice Dogar to the post of chief justice. She had declared in front of the official residence of Iftikar Chaudhry that he was the real CJ and if she returned to power she would hoist the national flag at his residence.
For many who saw a smiling Zardari taking oath from CJ Hameed Dogar, this was a breach of public promise made by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.There were unconfirmed reports that prior to swearing-in ceremony Zardari might ask the prime minister to restore the deposed chief justice.
The message given by Asif Zardari was quite clear - that the people and the media should now forget the defiant chief justice who had actually triggered the movement against Musharraf which enabled the exiled leaders like Nawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto, Shahbaz Sharif and even Asif Zardari to come back to Pakistan.
In exile, Benazir Bhutto was opposed to the judicial activism as she thought it might impede her return to Pakistan through NRO, particularly when Iftikhar Chaudhry had objected to such a law. That was why Benazir Bhutto had criticised Iftikar Chaudhry in her press conference, which she addressed a day before she landed in Pakistan on October 18 last year.
But once she returned to Pakistan she swiftly changed her position as she came to know the ground realities. The same Benazir Bhutto who had blasted Iftikar Chaudhry in her press conference in Dubai was seen leading a big political rally of her supporters to the house of the deposed chief justice. In her defiant and emotional speech, Ms Bhutto had told her workers that Iftikar Chaudhry was the real chief justice and that one day she would hoist the national flag on his residence. It is hoped that those who claim her legacy would fulfill her promise.'
After the imposition of emergency on November 3 by Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto had categorically rejected the elevation of Justice Dogar to the post of chief justice. She had declared in front of the official residence of Iftikar Chaudhry that he was the real CJ and if she returned to power she would hoist the national flag at his residence.
For many who saw a smiling Zardari taking oath from CJ Hameed Dogar, this was a breach of public promise made by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.There were unconfirmed reports that prior to swearing-in ceremony Zardari might ask the prime minister to restore the deposed chief justice.
The message given by Asif Zardari was quite clear - that the people and the media should now forget the defiant chief justice who had actually triggered the movement against Musharraf which enabled the exiled leaders like Nawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto, Shahbaz Sharif and even Asif Zardari to come back to Pakistan.
In exile, Benazir Bhutto was opposed to the judicial activism as she thought it might impede her return to Pakistan through NRO, particularly when Iftikhar Chaudhry had objected to such a law. That was why Benazir Bhutto had criticised Iftikar Chaudhry in her press conference, which she addressed a day before she landed in Pakistan on October 18 last year.
But once she returned to Pakistan she swiftly changed her position as she came to know the ground realities. The same Benazir Bhutto who had blasted Iftikar Chaudhry in her press conference in Dubai was seen leading a big political rally of her supporters to the house of the deposed chief justice. In her defiant and emotional speech, Ms Bhutto had told her workers that Iftikar Chaudhry was the real chief justice and that one day she would hoist the national flag on his residence. It is hoped that those who claim her legacy would fulfill her promise.'
'Widower Of Bhutto Takes Office In Pakistan',
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05EEDC1731F933A2575AC0A96E9C8B63
'Mr. Zardari, 53, took the oath of office from Chief Justice Abdul
Hameed Dogar, a controversial start to his rule because Mr. Dogar
was appointed under an emergency decree by the former president,
Pervez Musharraf, and has remained in place with Mr. Zardari's
support.
The role of Mr. Dogar at the ceremony appeared to definitively signal that the former chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was fired twice by Mr. Musharraf, would not be invited back to his old job. Mr. Zardari has refused to reappoint Mr. Chaudhry despite pressure from his former coalition partner, Nawaz Sharif, who left the government over the issue.'
The role of Mr. Dogar at the ceremony appeared to definitively signal that the former chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was fired twice by Mr. Musharraf, would not be invited back to his old job. Mr. Zardari has refused to reappoint Mr. Chaudhry despite pressure from his former coalition partner, Nawaz Sharif, who left the government over the issue.'
[36] http://prisonersofthecave.org
http://prisonersofthecave.blogspot.com/
[40] Defense Tech, September 10, 2008, 'Russian Force to the
Caribbean' http://www.defensetech.org/archives/004410.html
[41] Daily Times, September 09, 2008, 'Russia to base anti-submarine
aircraft in Venezuela'
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\09\09\story_9-9-2008_pg4_2
[42] Press TV, August 28, 2008, 'Iran proposes using SCO currencies'
http://www.presstv.com/Detail.aspx?id=67804§ionid=351020101
[46] Patrick Henry, 'Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death'
http://www.law.ou.edu/ushistory/henry.shtml
[47] Video 'Battle at Kruger', please watch this 8-minute inspiring
video that puts “Ashraf-ul-Makhluqat” to shame,
which, as of this date, has been watched at least 36,687,965 times,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
[48] Zbigniew Brzezinski on Pak-Afghan border, 1980, “God is
on your side”, watch video at:
http://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/god_is_on_your_side.wmv
; Also see
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/08/georgia-russia-its-aclassic-brzezinski.html#Part-II
[49] Pervez Hoodbhoy, Himal Southasian, October-November 2007 Issue,
'Between imperialism and Islamism' http://www.himalmag.com, also at:
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/14364
Chapter 16
Harvesting Perspective
Pollution
Democracy Revolutions and Useful Idiots on the Grand
Chessboard
Zahir Ebrahim
August 31, 2014.
I have observed that in contrast
to the small percentage of “haves” and elites who
purchase the continuity of their self-interest with a surfeit of
silence and rationalization, a great many useful idiots, fatal
victims of perspective-pollution
(see definition in “The
Art and Science of Co-option”),
most often from among the “have-nots”, but also students
and young idealists of every socio-economic class, also exist who are
motivated to the extreme for their great cause and are easily led by
the demagogue and the Machiavelli to that very end. We once again
brazenly observe this trend today in all the televised “Democracy
Revolutions” that the world has witnessed over the past quarter
century since the fall of the Berlin Wall, including the one
occurring in Pakistan even as I write this, in August 2014. The ugly
fact of the matter that these “Democracy Revolutions” are
run by Western assets, stooges and mercenaries, following the script,
monies, training and logistics all laid out for them by the same
predators as part of their guns and butter package for the
on-going rape, pillage, and subjugation of nations on the Grand
Chessboard, is un apparent to these “revolutionaries”.
Only the methods employed by the master chess players vary depending
on their whim, fancy, and objectives:
- (1) neoconservatism, meaning, using guns and F16s to “liberate” the oppressed people from hard dictatorships that they had originally foisted upon the people themselves, with the replacement “neoliberal democracy”;
- (2) neoliberalism, the self-help “Democracy Revolutions”, the butter, to save the people from their own installed house niggers or other fabled enemies of the West, with a new crop of house niggers who will continue to write off the sovereignty of the nation and its public commons to privatization and corporate interests, euphemistically termed “globalization”, under carefully cultivated pretenses of bringing “democracy” and efficiency through electoral politics of musical chairs in a never ending game of mind-fck of nations.
The New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman highlighted the
relationship between these two sides of the imperial gun held to the
head of nations, with the cold chutzpah that only Jewish
hubris can muster in defense of the obvious truth: “That is why
sustainable globalization still requires a stable, geopolitical power
structure, which simply cannot be maintained without the active
involvement of the United States. ... The hidden hand of the market
will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish
without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden
fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is
called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.”
The Confessions of an Economic Hitman, Mr. John Perkins, a
former energy consultant for the World Bank who helped rape
developing nations, underscores that bold Jewish veracity of what it
means to be an empire.
Both these “regime change” modus operandi for raping
nations, often accompanied by the propaganda cover of “humanitarian
assistance” to the local population, summed up as guns and
butter, are the tried and tested techniques that have been
witnessed throughout the Middle East and many parts of the world from
South America to Eastern Europe to post Soviet Central Asian nations
including Russia. The neoliberal looting of Russia in the 1990s after
the disintegration of the Soviet Union which led to its “Democracy
Revolution”, was most sanguinely justified by the former
chairman of the IMF in Moscow: “It was the price which Russia
paid for moving forward”. Debt-enslavement, privatization of
public commons for a song, plundering the wealth of nations, are
evidently the price of “liberty” and “moving
forward” with reforms. This is openly proclaimed time and again
but evidently to the short attention span public mind, it quickly
disappears into the ether. Its historical precedent for those
who can remember is in fact most impressive. After famously throwing
that tea overboard in 1776 to seed its own successful “Democracy
Revolution”, the United States too was brought in line with
debt-enslavement as sanguinely proclaimed by Alexander Hamilton. The
founding father of the United States and her very first Secretary of
the Treasury, is proudly quoted on the US Treasury website some two
and half centuries later: “The United States debt, foreign and
domestic, was the price of liberty.”
Recent history can be a great lender of both insight and perspective
for parsing current affairs when the receipts of the breaking events
of the “contemporary history” in the making are often not
in hand. Narrative control and secrecy make it impossible to get at
the hard facts and evidence until these are revealed ex post facto
when nothing can be done about the matter, which is by then, in any
case, fait accompli and long lost to the pages of history. The
example of the “Democracy Revolution” in Pakistan in 1977
during the tenure of prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) in the
aftermath of the national elections which the opposition parties on
the right claimed was rigged and came out in massive civil
disobedience street protests in a grand alliance that brought the
country to a standstill, is illustrative. The following confession by
the then Director of Pakistan's ISI in his memoir, should reveal to
even the most die hard fanatic revolutionary of today how these
“Democracy Revolutions” are covertly planned, setup on
the ground, funded, mobilized, and depending on the outcome,
opportunistically harvested from behind the scenes for a greater
geopolitical agenda. This does not happen overnight but has forces
and motivation that transcend the immediate situation:
“The US Plays its Role. According to some candid intelligence
estimates, the US was fully involved in exploiting the situation by
guiding and aiding the opposition political parties and ultimately
getting him removed and hanged. (page 33)
It is generally believed that the US wanted ZAB to be removed from
the political scene of Pakistan mainly on two counts. First, for the
nuclear policy that he framed and tried to relentlessly pursue and
secondly, for apprehensions that ZAB's was influencing the minds and
policies of a number of Islamic and Third World countries. He posed a
serious challenge to the US interests in the region. 'He had to be
eliminated'.
On August 9, 1976, American Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger
had a talk with ZAB, in Lahore, to dissuade him from acquiring
Nuclear Reprocessing Plant from France for which the deal had already
been finalized after Pakistan had agreed to all the safeguard
requirements laid down by both France and the International Atomic
Energy Agency. In their talks, Dr. Kissinger found ZAB inflexible and
determined to go ahead with the acquisition of the Reprocessing Plant
and make Pakistan a nuclear power. Incensed, he warned ZAB, "We
will make a horrible example of you," adding menacingly, "When
the railroad is coming, you get out of the way." But ZAB stood
his ground. The US virtually mowed down ZAB. The political and
economic crisis situation that started to develop during 1976-77 was
fully exploited by the power broker USA. This is how they did it:-
- The Americans had successfully cultivated a number of well-placed
bureaucrats, PPP stalwarts and ministers who wittingly or
inadvertently served as the US agents of influence. American
diplomats and CIA operators not only got most of the 'inside'
information from these 'gentlemen' but also utilized their good
offices to 'convey' whatever they wanted to feed or plant.
- During 1976-77 ZAB, probably working on the structured advice of
these agents, continued to slip deeper and deeper into the political
quagmire. They somehow convinced him that PPP must win and hold two
third majority in the elections. When the agitation was moving from
bad to worse, some of these men wanted weapons and chalked out plans
to defeat MNA movement by force. ZAB also seriously started to
consider this option.
- Some officers from USMAAG had also meaningful ingresses in the
General Headquarters and not only gathered the thinking in the
Services Headquarters but would also drop a 'suggestion' here and
there.
- Some of the US diplomats had established direct contacts with a
number of PNA leaders whom they continued to aid, support and give
day-to-day line of action.
- As soon as the PNA movement gathered momentum, a large number of
foreigners, particularly Americans descended on Pakistan in the garb
of freelance journalists, reporters, observers, and photographers to
cover the events. These men and women loaded with cameras, tape
recorders and money seemed to have done their home-work well and were
also being fed locally by invisible sources. They all seemed to know
the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of every one who was any
one in politics. It would be interesting to note that, (thanks to our
days of slavery, we still have not overcome the 'white skin' phobia)
most of our politicians were not only always available to these
manipulators but would actually feel elated on getting a call from
them and would pour out whatever they had in their minds. Every day,
we in the ISI received a flood of telegrams that these journalists
would send home and it was surprising to know who all they were
speaking to and what information and political analysis they
received.
- All that was being sent out by these so-called foreign journalists,
who were actually CIA operators, was being beamed back on Pakistan as
psychological warfare and propaganda aimed at building up a scenario
of ZAB's fall.
- A number of diplomats were not only actively involved but also
directed the operations against ZAB. Jan M. Gibney, Political
Officer, US Consulate General, Lahore, duly assisted by a couple of
Pakistanis, was extremely active and would frequently visit a number
of politicians. It was Gibney who had telephoned and conveyed to
Howard B. Schaffer, Chief of Political Affairs, US Embassy,
Islamabad, that notorious sentence, "The party is over.
Merchandise has gone." ZAB had retorted by saying, "Party
is not yet over. Elephant has long ears......"
- We had reports from Karachi that exchange rate of US Dollar in the
open market had considerably dropped. The market was flooded with US
Dollar currency notes and too many people were trying to exchange US
Dollars for Pak Rupees. Who unloaded all those US currency notes in
the market, is a question not difficult to answer.
- PL-480 funds had also been released by the US. Over-night some JI
workers were seen with pockets full of money and spending lavishly.
...
... The US not only aided but also directed most of the PNA
activities. On July 4, 1977, PNA negotiators Mufti Mahmood, Nawabzada
Nasrullah Khan and Professor Gafoor had agreed on a joint formula
with the PPP but suddenly Air Marshal (retired) Asghar Khan, Pir of
Pigaro, Begum Nasim Wali Khan, Maulana Noorani and some other of
their ilk declared that they did not endorse the agreement reached
between the parties. On whose behalf these leaders sabotaged the
reconciliation proceedings, is any body's guess.
Martial Law. On the night of July 4/5, 1977 General Zia-ul-Haq
declared Martial Law. ...
The US Issues Black Warrant. When ZAB's trial for his alleged
involvement in the murder of Nawab Muhammad Ahmad Khan was being
heard in the Supreme Court, Islamabad, ... a telegraphic message from
Washington [was received]. When decoded, it contained directions for
the local US offices to ensure that ZAB was hanged. It also laid down
instructions for arranging retirement and shifting of some of the
general officers.” --- Profiles of Intelligence by Brig.
Syed A. I. Tirmazi, 1995, pgs. 33-38
The benefit of having some distance in time of course now also
indicates that a military government in Pakistan was simply essential
for an even greater geopolitical great game: to “have the
opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war”, which too
did not suddenly materialize in the fall of 1979 but had strategic
game-theory laced diabolical orchestration behind it. Here is another
confession, ex post facto:
“According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the
Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army
invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded
until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that
President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the
opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I
wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my
opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
... Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had
the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want
me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the
border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of
giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years,
Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a
conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the
breakup of the Soviet empire.” --- Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1998
interview to French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto clearly could not have gone along with that
American great game plan with global aspiration of his own as the up
and coming respected statesman of the Muslim world, and had to be
eliminated from the scene altogether with a more compliant,
boot-licking, greedy, tin-pot military dictator who could easily be
controlled. Zia-ul-Haq at the time was well known in the
establishment as the most subservient lackluster general who was
promoted to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff (or as the Chief of Army
Staff) over other more senior generals by prime minister Zulfiqar Ali
Bhutto in the keen expectation that the groveling general will follow
orders. Well, he did, but of a different master. “Democracy
Revolution” was used as the pretext for that coup d'état.
And under the iron-fisted military rule of General Zia-ul-Haq, which
he once demonstrated on television by slowly closing his fist, a full
blown Islamic militancy operation was structured in Pakistan to
recruit and train the “Mujahideen” as cannon fodder for
the Afghan war. They were famously greeted as the “moral
equivalent of our founding fathers” by President Ronald
Reagan on their celebrated visit to the White House in 1980s. The
plentiful harvest of this fabricated “militant Islam” to
last many generations, is continually being “tickled”,
re-seeded, trained, and re-harvested, this time as the “enemy”,
to fuel the Global War on Terror.
The official state receipts for this new “imperial
mobilization” aren't in as yet since it is still very much
“contemporary history” in the making. But one can still
observe the “coincidence” (sic!) that by another timely
“happenstance” (sic!), yet another military general is in
power in Pakistan before the launch of that second “imperial
mobilization” into Afghanistan using 9/11 as the pretext. Once
again, the then elected prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, who
remarkably is now once again the ruler of this pawn nation for the
third time, and is once again experiencing “Democracy
Revolution” against him, at the start of his second tenure in
1997 aspired to become the “amir-ul-momineen” and had
promoted General Pervez Musharraf over other more senior generals in
the exact same expectations as Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and suffered the
exact same loyalty in payback. As the new iron-fisted ruler of
Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf immediately went on board the 9/11
steam-train and gave the entire stock-room away to assist in the
second “imperial mobilization” of the United States into
Afghanistan, forging a unity of command with the American military
command so that nothing was left to chance. Game theory was displayed
at its most effectiveness vis a vis Pakistan in both imperial
mobilizations, by having military dictatorship rule Pakistan at both
times to precisely follow orders of its own masters.
To even think that the Global War
on Terror and its underlying pretext of the catastrophic terror event
in New York was not years in the planning is to be pathetically
ignorant of the reality of “imperial mobilization” --- a
fate that is willingly suffered not just by the Uncle Toms and
house niggers installed to run surrogate nations, but also by
the support systems of domestic power comprising intellectuals,
journalists, news media owners, NGOs, and the local industrial and
economic elite whose bread and butter depends on compliance with the
massa. ( See the section “Taking
a Deeper Look into the Dynamics of Mantra Creation: Islamofascism”
in my Report
on the Mighty Wurlitzer,
http://tinyurl.com/mightywurlitzer
)
Scrutinizing that first instance of “Democracy Revolution”
against ZAB with the un jaundiced eye of an analyst, one readily
observes that it is almost like the layers of an onion. You peel off
one motivation and you see another cleverly hidden underneath it. You
unpeel that layer and you see yet another, and another... What if a
noble people with some wherewithal (meaning, not dumbed down between
bread and circuses), and their noble leaders (meaning, not
mercenaries and mental midget Uncle Toms cunningly installed
in power with pretenses of democratic elections and arguments of
expediency in military coup d'état), understood the kernel
motivation of the great game up front by-passing all the layers of
manufactured pretexts and the concomitant cause-and-effect
“happenstance” cunningly built upon each other, and made
wise and moral decisions in the national interest rather than in
their own narrow self-interests? The imperial covert agendas would
not succeed, now would they? These agendas rely on the compliance of
surrogate states to pull them off. Precisely to preempt that hurdle
from ever arising despite the presence of house niggers in all
positions of power, it is made so much more difficult to unravel
on-going covert operations and their secret motivations while these
are still current affairs. Ex post facto, it is even made known to
the world with considerable gloat, knowing fully well that the dumbed
down public along with their co-opted rulers and mental midget
intellectuals placed in all prominent positions will not dare learn
from it to preempt the next episode of “contemporary history”.
(See my deconstruction of the doctrine of “Plausible
Deniability” as per the US National Security Directive NSC 10/2
permitting the CIA to indulge in hard covert-operations upon the
enemy while permitting the political and executive leadership of the
United States and its allies with deniability cover, in Anatomy
of Conspiracy Theory,
http://tinyurl.com/anatomy-of-conspiracy-theory
)
Not to be outdone by the
historical tag team combination of neoliberalism-neoconservatism to
conquer nations, a new version is being added to the mix of
neoconservatism as I write this. The creation of freshly armed
terrorist states wielding “militant Islam”, to augment
the stateless terrorists wielding “militant Islam” with
merely box-cutter knives against whom the perpetual World War IV is
now being waged. That is this new “ISIS” phenomenon
rapidly being spread in Iraq and Syria as I write this (see
Understanding
ISIS,
http://tinyurl.com/Understanding-ISIS).
The new militant “Islamic State” with “caliphate”
galore is only the manufactured progression of going from empire's
own stateless antediluvian actors playing their scripted “terrorist”
role, to antediluvian state actors playing their scripted “terrorist
expansionist” role. Barbarians being brought to power akin to
the manufacture of NAZI socialism and godless Communism, both
secretly supported and funded from Wall Street to fabricate potent
state enemies to wage world wars against in order to fashion a new
world order from the concomitant ashes of the old world left behind.
The headlines announcing the new phantasmal terror threat to Western
civilization: “Islamic State 'beyond anything we've seen':
'Washington: The Islamic State poses a greater danger than
conventional “terrorist group” and is pursuing a vision
that could radically alter the face of the Middle East, US Defence
Leader said Thursday [August 21, 2014].
The IS jihadists could be contained and eventually defeated by local
forces backed by the United States, but the Sunni population in both
Syria and Iraq would need to reject the group, Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel and General Martin Dempsey told reporters.
Hagel warned that the Islamic State is better armed, trained and
funded than any recent militant threat.
“They marry ideology and a sophistication of strategy and
tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well funded. This is
beyond anything we've seen,” Hagel told a news conference.
Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the
group adheres to a fanatical ideology and has “a long term
vision” to take over Lebanon, Israel, and Kuwait. If they
achieve that vision, it would fundamentally alter the face of the
Middle East and create a security environment that would certainly
threaten us in many ways,” he said.
... The bombing runs and humanitarian aid to the local population
[Zahir's note: the guns and butter again] have stalled the
Islamic State's “momentum and enabled Iraqi and Kurdish forces
to regain their footing and take the initiative”.
Asked if the US would hit the militants in neighboring Syria, Hagel
did not rule out the option but did not indicate strikes there were
imminent.' --- AFP, Friday August 22, 2014, via Dawn.com
The local public often just join the burgeoning crowds in these
revolution-fevers that are brought to their door-steps out of their
own frustrations, disenfranchisement, misplaced sense of patriotism,
nationalism, liberation, or religionism, not to neglect paid
participants on the endless dollar payroll, and those coerced into
attending who'd rather just be sitting at home with their family. The
real social problems affecting ordinary peoples are all fabricated to
start with as part of the Hegelian Dialectic strategy in the way the
territory is administered as a surrogate state by rulers, dictators,
plunderers, all pathetic house niggers, some wearing the garb
of “democracy” and constitutional electoral mandate if
that more agreeable format is in vogue when a state has seen some
“liberation”. There is, of course, always the “real”
“Democracy Revolution” waiting in the wings for even
greater “liberation”. The public's natural reaction to
their social, political and economic discontents is suitably
amplified with specific slogans at the national scale and cunningly
fertilized for advancing “revolutionary times” by making
it all appear organic. It is not organic. It is synthetic. But its
basis is in the hard reality of discontent. Sometimes that discontent
is synthetically induced, as was the Hindu-Muslim discontent after
the failed rebellion of 1857. After that combined Hindu-Muslim effort
to get rid of the British empire, the white man decided to
ensure that the two people should forever remain at loggerheads,
leading to the blood-drenched partition of the Indian sub-continent
when the British finally withdrew 90 years later (see my Sacred
Cow series: Allama Iqbal - marde-momin or superman?, which
examines the role of the principal local architect of that
orchestrated separation in his service to the British Empire,
http://tinyurl.com/Allama-Iqbal-ubermensch
).
I have learnt that it is virtually impossible to explain any of this
to these overzealous “democracy” and anti-government
protesters, their sympathizers, and even to their antagonists,
including the “Islam” flag bearers of any flavor driving
for caliphates among the Sunni fanatical Muslims and “revolutionary
Islam” among the Shia fanatical Muslims, that these
“revolutionary times” are synthetic and people are being
taken for a ride for quite a different endgame. I have tried it ---
no one is even willing to read the script of “How to Start a
Revolution”, “From Dictatorship to Democracy”,
freely available on the internet, to adjudicate for themselves what
kind of script the latest two circus clowns of “Democracy
Revolution”, Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri, are following in
Islamabad.
Both are Uncle Toms of empire not much different from their
opponents whom they want to dislodge from power in their version of
the “real” “Democracy Revolution”. Both eat
at the same globalist's table with the massa, like their
opponents. Both echo the same core narratives of empire, like their
opponents. And they both make coordinated maximalist political
demands in their “Democracy Revolution” which are
designed ab initio never to be fulfilled, but to principally disrupt
the state's functioning at the expense of increasing public anger at
nothing functioning, thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy with
more state repression, more dysfunction, more public anger, the
theory being that this will topple the regime – “regime
change”.
Behold the two house niggers of Pakistan now championing
“revolution” and “change”, seated comfortably
at the massa's table at the Western financial super elite's
World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January
27, 2011. (For the definition of the term house nigger see my
FAQ
What is an Intellectual Negro?,
http://tinyurl.com/faq-intellectual-negro
)
Caption Pakistani house niggers Imran
Khan and Tahir ul Qadri seated at the massa's table at the
Western financial super elite's World Economic Forum annual meeting
in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2011. What are they doing there?
Would it be rude to suggest that they are each being rewarded for the
following facts: (a) selling the “moderate Islam” part of
Hegelian Dialectic (both Imran Khan and Tahir ul Qadri) ; (b) the
600-page Fatwa on Terrorism against “militant Islam” to
reinforce the Hegelian Dialectic with some theology backing one side
and condemning the other (Tahir ul Qadri) ; (c) for both parroting
the core axioms and narratives of massa on its Global War on
Terror ; (d) for both demonstrating to the massa that although
the massa knows that the “Price of a Pakistani
oscillates between a free trip to the US and a bottle of whisky.”
(see Profiles of Intelligence by Brig. Syed A. I. Tirmazi,
1995, pg. 45), and that as in yesteryear, even today all mercenaries
from Pakistan are as willing and able to play its diabolical games to
fck their own peoples, but that these two are the more
promising of the current crop as prospective political and religious
national leaders of “moderate Islam” in Pakistan with an
ideological following of mostly young people and women fed up with
both the status quo of corrupt political parties and with “militant
Islam”, and thus offering them the gentle mix between slightly
secular to “moderate Islam” to ensure that this large
demographic group too is also led to the same “United We Stand”
pastures by the devils the massa knows and supports, and
consequently, that they are also worthy of being noticed and backed
as their new horses among the massa's many other horses. The
massa evidently agreed, and even rewarded them with
participation and global visibility on the massa's table.
Imran Khan needed the massa's backing, because without it no
one can come to power in their surrogate states, but he already had
the national visibility, and has already been partaking of the crumbs
that fall off the British Establishment's table. While Tahir ul Qadri
has been more dependent on the massa's full spectrum support
for his sudden meteoric rise to national prominence in Pakistan. The
two house niggers, as different as they are in their
personality and profession, coordinating their scripted “Democracy
Revolution” protests in Islamabad is therefore no surprise.
(Image source from my response to Dr. Tahir-ul Qadri on his Fatwa in
2010: Response
to the Fatwa on Terrorism in the Service of Empire,
http://tinyurl.com/Tahir-ul-Qadri-Fatwa-Terrorism
)
Well, one such green colored “Democracy Revolution” was
foiled by the Iranian government in 2009 with great foresight and
understanding of the devil before them. Other nations have been less
successful. Pakistan is the most pathetic --- ruled entirely by house
nigger class across the board, both in and out of uniform. The
recipe is all laid out in the script known as “FDTD” for
disrupting an existing governance system by making it more and more
difficult to govern. The pretense for take-down of course is
“liberation from tyranny”, with a promise of better
“democracy” --- otherwise only fools would fall for it.
Now even intelligent people are deceived by the “honey trap”
of platitudes for the want of realistic perspective on primacy, for
the want of intimacy with the mind of sociopaths who play with
nations like pawns on the grand chessboard, and due to immersive
permanent bondage to adept global perception managers.
Few who fall for these “revolution” scams in fact ever
want to understand that all this is manufactured, synthetic, run by
Western assets and stooges. Perspective-pollution is the ultimate
patsy-maker creating an abundance of useful idiots out of the
handful of “jihadis” and “idealists” willing
to put aside self-interest for a greater cause. These patsies are
trained into the mechanisms of “Democracy Revolution” and
they seed the large flag-waving crowds which are formed in herds by
the victims of discontent spanning the gamut from disenfranchisement
to poverty to joblessness to lack of security to just wishing change
from living under the jackboots of tyranny. A study of such crowds
would surely reveal that these are populated more by genuine people
with real discontents than by mercenaries, hired hands, and those
conscripted to attend, even though there is never any shortages of
the latter set. Genuine disaffection is fundamentally necessary for
this recipe to be sustained for any length of time and through its
trials and tribulations.
Such disaffection is not always the result of any one single corrupt
government's limited tenure. It is often an accumulation of the same
common state policies of serfdom over many years and many changing
uniforms and shalwar kameez on the lucrative throne of a nation like
Pakistan. This has made her national cancer systemic. Even so, smart
crooks in power, whether military, civilian, autocratic, despotic or
tyrannical, should at least be politically astute enough to know
whether these “Democracy Revolutions” are foreign funded
and orchestrated or not, by being intimately familiar with the script
being played out. Evidently, unlike the Iranian governance system
manned by learned well-read intellectuals who suffer a great deal of
national interest with modesty and honesty of purpose despite nearly
four decades of international sanctions and marginalizing, the
Pakistani government, like the Pakistani nation, suffering from a
severe drought of intellectuals and run by fools and mercenaries many
of whom even purchase fake college degrees to become elected, all
seeking personal payback with compound interest after purchasing
their meal ticket to elected statehood for hundreds of thousands of
dollars a piece, appear to be entirely unfamiliar with the script.
Well, by the law of nature, those who live by the hand of the devil
are forced out by the same hand.
It is, however, not that there is anything more profound in these
political recipes for bringing about “revolutions”
against tyranny than is contained, for instance, in the nearly 600
years old Discourse on Voluntary Servitude written by the
young French idealist and revolutionary, Etienne de La Boétie.
This fellow straightforwardly argued the following most obvious moral
commonsense for genuine liberation which could still never come to
pass on its own despite the vista of six centuries of experimentation
to verify its efficacy: “obviously there is no need of fighting
to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if
the country refuses consent to its own enslavement. ... [Therefore:]
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask
that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply
that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a
great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own
weight and break in pieces.”
There is indeed a very extensive bibliography on non-violence
resistance, including yesteryear examples in Nelson Mandela and his
resistance to Apartheid South Africa, Mohandas Gandhi and his
Satyagraha resistance to support the Quit India movement, etc.
The standard academic text for Westerners, especially Americans, is
of course the classic by one of their own, Henry David Thoreau's On
Civil Disobedience and other related essays.
Books, platitudes, and moral commonsense however don't bring
“revolutions” or overthrow tyranny. Otherwise, the
world's great religions would have been sufficient to end all tyranny
for all times. Today, it is the singular fact that big money,
strategies, tactics, logistics, trainers and handlers, media and
support systems, are all deployed together on a vast scale to make
these “Democracy Revolutions” happen as a means of
creating “revolutionary times” for agendas that have
little to do with freeing the people from their serfdom. Endless
piles of big money and sophisticated logistics planning are deployed
by front-men of the financial oligarchy operating through tax-exempt
charitable foundations and other non-profit organizations (NGOs) in
conjunction with the intelligence apparatuses of Western nations. The
bibliography on this subject of covert subversion of nations by the
superpower is quite extensive. Even a little study of freely
available web resources will quickly take one to names like the
financial speculations wizard George Soros and his behind the scenes
funding of the multi-colored “Democracy Revolution”; to
the CIA manufacturing local agents and assets who are deployed to
seed the “Democracy Revolution” from the Left to the
Right, or to furnish other “revolutionary times” on
demand such as Operation Gladio style terrorism blamed on
patsies; etc. Not to forget to mention that the former head of
Pakistan's ISI openly admitted in his memoir that the superpower
“master” even installs “CIA agents as presidents,
prime ministers, ministers, generals and senior advisors, etc.”
(Profiles of Intelligence by Brig. Syed A. I. Tirmazi, 1995,
pgs. 20-22). The massa holds its house niggers in such
utter contempt that the head of ISI further quoted the chutzpah
of the US Counsel General at Lahore: “Price of a Pakistani
oscillates between a free trip to the US and a bottle of whisky.”
(Ibid. pg. 45, quoting Dr. Andrew V. Corry, US Counsel General at
Lahore).
The Pakistani spook chief went on to confirm the reality of that
trite American observation of its surrogate state: “He may not
be too far wrong. We did observe some highly placed Pakistanis
selling their conscience, prestige, dignity and self-respect for a
small price.” (Ibid. pg. 45) And then, surprisingly for an
establishmentarian insider and spook chief of a spy agency that is
itself fed by the United States, the most candid of all questions is
asked: “The nation has the right to know and ask the leaders
how far has the situation changed and have we developed enough
muscles and guts to get rid of the old masters and their agents? That
is the question.” (Ibid. pg. 23) Indeed. It is still the
question. Matters have only worsened today. More and more agents,
mercenaries, stooges, patsies and dupes have been planted in all
significant positions of power and influence across Pakistan for
obediently continuing Pakistan's manufactured front-line role as
“Terror Central” in the Global War on Terror (see my 2007
report: Saving
Pakistan from Synthetic 'Terror Central',
http://tinyurl.com/saving-pakistan-2007
).
This reality-check and especially the previously discussed example of
Pakistan's first “Democracy Revolution” of 1977 where the
religious Right was mobilized with suitcase full of US dollars,
should convince even the most obdurate mind by now to be at least a
tad more skeptical of these new generation of holier than thou
puppetshows of “Democracy Revolution”.
Who is funding Tahir ul Qadri's and Imran Khan's “Democracy
Revolution” mania today? Both their crowds appear to be
well-trained, dedicated, armed with heavy cranes and air-conditioned
shipping containers (a first not just for Pakistan but not seen in
any “Democracy Revolution” before), and for all the
claims of theirs being two independent protests just coincidentally
united by happenstance on the same occasion, seem rather well
coordinated. As of Saturday, August 30, 2014, intense violence has
erupted against the protesters with Islamabad being turned into a war
zone by the state security apparatus. The Muslim on Muslim violence
that has characterized the Global Zone of Percolating Violence
that Brzezinski outlined on page 53 of his 1996 book The Grand
Chessboard, the hallmark of fourth generation warfare to
demoralize nations from within, has achieved its intent in every
nation visited by it, including Pakistan. What a mind-fck that
the quest to get rid of the military from governance in 2007 with “go
Musharraf go” sloganeering is now transformed into the question
on most Pakistani lips: why is the military not intervening? As of
Monday, September 1, 2014, the Pakistani newsmedia is awash with
revelations made by the elected president of Imran Khan's political
party who left the protest site in disagreement, that Imran Khan is
following a “script”. Duh! Its complete unraveling
someday promises to be the unpeeling of the onion of several layers
of covert motivations each one compartmentalized and staged by its
own handlers.
Where is all this going? If history is a worthy teacher, clearly to
some staging of next pawn moves on the grand chessboard. A Gordian
knot has been tied on Pakistan the extrication from which,
without a real throwing of tea overboard, is impossible. The
carefully cultivated house niggers, agents, assets, and
mercenaries in and out of uniform ensure that the primacy interests
of the massa will always remain the first priority in
Pakistan. Perspective-pollution will continue to enfeeble and co-opt
her public. The causal chain of national liberation then is to
transcend perspective-pollution first, the godhead of all co-option
for any brave people willing to rise beyond their own narrow
self-interests. All else will naturally follow. But without it, the
chances of being harvested as useful idiots and patsy-fodder with the
right set of “doctrinal motivation” implanted in every
partisan group, is virtually one hundred percent. This modus operandi
of making the public mind should be self-evident. Just look at how
Tahir ul Qadri provides a different set of “doctrinal
motivation” to his flock of revolutionaries in contrast to
Imran Khan, but both group of protesters are coordinated towards the
same mobilization. The perpetual rich harvest of useful idiots at the
hands of demagogues is the principal reason I have devoted so much
space here to this matter of Machiavellian social engineering so that
the motivated and well-intentioned minority willing to put their good
life on the line to bring change in the greater public interest, can
also overcome their stupidity first, just like they overcame their
apathy.
An insightful and brilliantly oratorical statement attributed to the
ancient Roman statesman and orator, student of law and justice,
Marcus Tullius Cicero, made several decades before the birth of
Christ during the zenith and rapaciousness of Pax Romana on its way
to pernicious decay, captures a fundamental truth: “It is not
freedom that permits Trojan Horse to be wheeled within the gates.”
Cicero went on to plead his case before the Roman Senate in words
that appear to be timeless commonsense, but lost to any civilization
in decay:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it
cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less
formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against
the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely,
his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very
halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he
speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their
face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies
deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works
secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city;
he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A
murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the carrier of the
plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him.” ---
Cicero's speech to the Roman Senate, appears in Cicero's
Prognosis, 1965, by Millard F. Caldwell, Justice, Supreme Court
Florida (source AAPS, aapsonline.org)
I have however observed that fools are indispensable to the fifth
columnists of modern times. The traitor in our intensely
Machiavellian times cannot generally be very effective in his
subversion without the plentiful harvest of useful idiots, stooges,
patsies and dupes, all fervently believing in their divine mission
while executing the superman's script, often written several
degrees of separation removed from the scene. The traitor answers to
alien masters.
These manufactured “Democracy Revolutions” are not the
harbinger of any meaningful and substantive changes for the
betterment of the people. Indeed, anyone with even a tiny bit of
intellectual capacity to reason can easily ascertain from empirical
evidence that at best, it merely changes the shape and form,
sometimes the uniforms, sometimes the flag.
But nothing fundamental changes, except for the worse.
It is of course all couched in Orwellian Newspeak to convince
a gullible public of the absurd, and the reprehensible. But behind
the fancy tunes of propaganda, their resources are still plundered
regardless of who's brought into power under which pretext; they are
still kept in debt to international lending agencies led by the World
Bank which is controlled by private internationalist bankers who seek
global governance at the expense of eroding national sovereignty with
the diabolical tricks of their trade; their economies are still
transformed into MNC economies by the WB-IMF debt trap; their own
once thriving domestic industries are shut down in obedience to IMF
restructuring and privatization mandates as temporary relief in the
debt-trap, making it prohibitive for local industries to compete and
the country and its vast resources are easily bought out for a song;
their social spendings are continually siphoned off in debt-servicing
for loans incurred for frivolous and military pursuits; and they
remain vassals and surrogates of empire with merely a different set
of house niggers in the ceremonial seats, sometimes in
uniform, sometimes out of uniform.
These observations are entirely empirical. Anyone can observe this
state of affairs as it isn't a classified state-secret.
In fact, this is so patently obvious to anyone with an iota of
intelligence that for any public to be continually taken for a ride
on the “horse of democracy” with election frenzy and
revolution mania, its mind must be really really foolish. Or really
really controlled. Which one is yours?
I have learnt that this is as much a great game among satiated
predators who just play with nations and gullible public to see who
can fck them more, as it is a strategy of destabilization with
“regime changes” to achieve the objectives of fourth
generation warfare on the Grand Chessboard. The demoralization of a
people is complete even after a few such episodes of guns and
butter liberation, imagine endless ones lasting a lifetime,
multiple generations, in which kids are born and die young knowing no
other existence! The ultimate prize sought: one-world.
What I wonder about though, and it is not something I have figured
out yet, is what happens afterwards? It would become awfully boring
for the sociopaths and predators once they control every living being
and system on earth. What new games would they then have to devise to
entertain themselves, to exercise their lust for power --- go back to
child-like competing and warring nation-states to restart the great
game all over again? Or look for new frontiers in outerspace for
exercising primacy as the fledgling United Earth Federation?
And that, all that, dear reader, is the tortuous reality of the
matter and the path mankind has been deliberately put on without our
consent or knowledge. The sociopaths creating major wars, the social
Darwinians deciding who lives and who dies, the controllers creating
perspective-pollution, and the narrow self-interests of even the best
of people, always win out in the end. To this effect, my greatest of
all disappointments is to finally accept the empirical fact that even
the most profound world religions teaching lofty moral virtues have
failed equally miserably in getting the public mind to transcend
self-interest.
This fact is now compounded by the high degree of
perspective-pollution across the board which, integrated over time
and space, throughout history and mythology, has come to divide
mankind into us vs. them ad infinitum on narrow differentiation more
than uniting it as human beings first. It is not merely that people
have taken religion as an opiate --- the disturbing and readily
observable fact is that the public mind everywhere, in every nation
on earth, appears to not be capable of anything different from what
socialization teaches it, the needs of existentialism compel it, and
the stages of co-option entice it. Spiritual gratification when
sought is found in prayer. Intellectual thirst when lighted is
quenched in career. Ego is satiated in awards and accolades and
feel-goods. The super ego lies dead. The age of Solon is long past.
That age 3000 years ago when the Athenian lawgiver had decreed good
governance: “That city where those who have not been injured
take up the cause of one who has, and prosecute the case as earnestly
as if the wrong had been done to themselves.” That age was
short lived as well and vanished after its lawgiver.
Solon's distant progeny Plato subsequently decreed the
“Philosopher-king” abstraction for that reason of good
governance of the Republic, of having truthful intelligent thinkers
seeking high moral ideals become the leaders of a Republic because
deceitful super-intelligent amoral thinkers will only put the public
mind in chains. Fools will only run them aground or be shepherded
themselves from behind the scenes. With the world all but co-opted by
the superman, what then is left behind to interdict the
superman's dystopia now in the making?
What I have learnt in my journey as the student of truth does not
paint a very flattering picture of man as it exists today, and as it
has existed from time immemorial --- his inability to break the bonds
of servitude. Back then it was involuntary servitude under the
jackboots of kings who ruled in the name of god, often as gods
themselves. Today it is by creating systems of social control that
induce voluntary servitude under the pretenses of liberty,
fraternity, equality, democracy, elections, getting man to accept his
own servitude, and to even love it.
Sadly, over time, only the forms and formats of mass behavior control
have changed, from physical chains of antiquity to mental chains of
modernity, but the objective remains the same – primacy!
There is always a new tomorrow though. A better painting beckons.
Chapter 17
Election Illusion
What
Not to do in the Upcoming Elections
(and all future elections in
Pakistan so long as Pakistan remains a geopolitical pawn and
vassal-state ruled by house niggers, useful idiots and mercenaries)
Zahir Ebrahim
February 21, 2013.
Updated January 22, 2018.
What can the Pakistani public do with Pakistan presently diving
deeper and deeper into the endless quagmire leaving an endless stream
of dead bodies behind, and the upcoming elections promising change?
Two things to begin with.
ONE: Perceptively understand the overarching motivation of the super-terrorists in order to come up with proper self-defence
Among all the patent lies and deception the “vulgar
propagandist” (Noam Chomsky's epithet, not mine) Bernard Lewis
spinned on Islam over the years, the one observation he most
accurately made was: “Terrorism requires only a few.
Obviously the West must defend itself by whatever means will be
effective. But in devising means to fight the [super]terrorist, it
would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them.”
Well, obviously, victims of the superterrorists must also
intelligently play at that table to defend themselves by whatever
means will be effective!
To be effective however, one minimally has to be at least as
intelligent and sophisticated as the foe so that one can figure out
its Machiavellian game. Unfortunately, intellectually lazy people,
foolish people, people unread in the political theories that motivate
and guide the foe, and those patiently waiting for Allah to destroy
the foe, cannot play at that table except as canon fodder.
It is a game of primacy. The predator is orders of magnitude more
advanced and resourceful in its thinking than the sheep it is using
as bait and canon fodder to achieve its objectives.
The Pakistani mind minimally has to put itself in the shoes of the
superterrorists; study what he has studied, read what he has
read and written, understand what he has understood, comprehend the
forces that drive it, in order to acquire at least some appreciation
for the sophistication of the devil before them. To beat the modern
devil, one has to at least comprehend its villainous methods.
And its first method is to make nothing as it appears. Behind
everything that's made visible to the observation of the naked eye of
experience, there is quite another reality and quite another
motivation at work. See unlayering
reality.
This method is not new. In fact, it is as old as mankind. See Plato's
Simile of the Cave.
It explains the stark failure of empiricists in parsing political
science and Machiavelli driven reality. One has to acquire some
ma'arifat (wherewithal) of primacy and its techniques of
making the mind, before measurements. Those unread in the social
sciences often make that mistake when trying to study history,
current affairs, and any human affair that is beholden to authority
figures.
It cripples epistemology (see definition in “Some
Problems in Epistemology”). The unseen forces that motivate
events, sometimes from both near and far, spread over time and
distance, remain invisible to the historian, the narrator, the
documenter of man's deeds, who tends to focus on what's near and
before the eyes. Just the thought experiment of trying to document
and analyze what's on the screen in Plato's Cave, gives
clarity to the sharpened mind of how divorced those screen images are
from actual reality; but only when one escapes outside to catch a
glimpse of it. Or, as in Alice in Wonderland, Alice has to
awaken to realize that all the absurd events she saw in her dream
were imaginary. Imagine the thought experiment of great imperial
scholarship documenting Alice's dreams and pitching that to the
public as the reality to worry about?
The tools of primacy to make the public mind, as Plato demonstrated,
and Bernard Lewis epitomized, include the manufacture of such
epistemological sources by authority figures.
One has to minimally acquire some ma'arifat of all this which
may sound incredible to the simpleton mind that believes in authority
figures, takes its “truth” from authority figures, and
gives its obedience to authority figures.
This will lead all of us who are capable of understanding, to
comprehend that virtually all modern variants of “Islam”,
the trifecta of “militant Islam”, “moderate Islam”,
and “revolutionary Islam”, are creations of, or aided and
abetted by, and sustained by, diabolical minds working assiduously on
“imperial mobilization” over a lifetime. See Hegelian
Dialectic.
None will therefore be fooled by them!
This means Shia Muslims won't be fooled by Shia version of
“revolutionary Islam” to bring back the glory days of
nizam-e-wilayat despite their partisanship with the Shia sect,
and Sunni Muslims won't be fooled by the Sunni version of
“revolutionary Islam” to bring back the glory days of
Caliphate and dynastic empires despite their partisanship with the
Sunni sects.
These revolutionary exercises in many cases have little to do with
the religion of Islam and its 1.6 to 2 billion ordinary believers ---
but with methods of creating “controlled chaos” by
cognitive infiltration of the religion. Which means, creating chaos
that is predictable, its tempo increasable and decrease-able at will,
and switch-off-able when its purpose is harvested. At present, that
tap control resides in the West. It is entirely independent of the
local population which therefore cannot break through its
strangulating grip in the normal fashion. Just like the “Iron
Wall” that surrounds Palestine. That diabolical construct was
accurately described by Vladimir Jabotinsky: “This
colonization can, therefore, continue and develop only under the
protection of a force independent of the local population – an
iron wall which the native population cannot break through.”
Something similar to that “Iron Wall” protects these mal
constructs of “Islam” rapidly devouring our nation while
simultaneously lending the much needed pretext to the West for
sustaining its “imperial mobilization”. Its strategic and
full spectrum redressing takes more than just ineffectively banning
these terrorist organizations (which has been tried halfheartedly in
lip-service to the Hegelian Dialectic), or ineffectively curtailing
their antediluvian “Islamization of Pakistan” programs
(which is bandied about by their presumed antagonists, the so called
secular humanists who are the second line of useful idiots of empire,
the first being our leaders, those who are not outright mercenaries
that is). The Path
Forward (http://tinyurl.com/Impacting-Muslim-Existence)
is to astutely engage with Qur'anic Political Science examined in:
Case Study Why is the Holy Qur’an so easy to Hijack?
(PDF),
in order to neutralize the dispersive power of these rapidly evolving
killer viruses with efficacy, making the native Muslim soil
permanently infertile for their incubation.
TWO: Don't vote in the upcoming elections thinking it will make things better
Only when the ubiquitous existence of perspective-pollution
(see preceding chapter) is recognized as epistemological, and
its effects even marginally overcome, does it become obvious what is
really going on in Pakistan behind the many public puppetshows.
Almost miraculously, with the fog lifted, it becomes straightforward
to see through the election illusion foisted upon the nation. The
public mind liberated from the shackles of crippled epistemology and
self-serving partisanship, perceptively sees, by the weight of
empirical evidence, that faux-democracy is merely the continuation of
colonial rule, only disguised!
After the Musharraf era military dictatorship had run out of steam to
aid and abet massa's imperial mobilization under its
propaganda cover of waging World War IV against “militant
Islam” – the perpetual “global war on terror”
– a change of attire became necessary. So we got ten years of
neoliberal democracy after almost a decade of neoliberal military
rule; Dr. Zardari and company followed by followed by Dr. Nawaz
Sharif and company, once again not only vying to surpass each other
in wealth accumulation and pecuniary graft scandals that are still on
going, but also in their continuation of support of Musharraf era
America's World War IV and Musharraf introduced "enlightened
moderation" to undo the traditional mores and values of the
Muslim society. Some betterment! Fed up with choosing between
democratic crook and democratic crooked? No problem. Now we can have
a return to military rule as the savior of the nation from the graft
scandals. They now look a lot better don't they; at least patriotic
soldiers who don't fear laying down their lives on the LOC, and not
patriotic soldiers of fortune who don't fear plundering the wealth of
the nation, will be in charge of important matters of the state which
they already are anyway.
Oh, but we are also fed-up with that cycle that's been run just too
often and there is no change in the life of the common man except for
the worse? No worries. We can now choose from among the many flavors
of nizam-e-mustafa and Dr. Imran Khan & company, or some
new revolutionary get-up amenable to the current crop of Pakistani
genius, all of whom shall worry about the common man and leave
incomprehensible matters of state to the military. But what about the
noble man in uniform? Isn't he genuinely patriotic - so what's wrong
with that? Yes indeed, and his high command meets up with the Western
high command to get his overarching marching orders! It is all out in
the open --- the Americans have paid countless billions of dollars
for the services of their proxy army, of which only the public
numbers have been variously reported as $33 billion since 9/11. It is
likely a lot more than that --- for who is auditing the secretive
accounts of all the different modes of American aid to Pakistan and
America's payments for the rental state's services (euphemism
for state for hire)?
It isn't a state secret that we offer the state's services and land
and airspace to anyone who can pay: from land bases and logistics
support to the American military for their criminal adventures in
poverty-stricken fourth-world Afghanistan, freedom for its drone
attacks on Pakistani citizens on Pakistani soil, protection and
immunity from prosecution for crimes committed in Pakistan by the
American soldiers of fortune in the rare case that they are caught
(Raymond Davis), giving free rein to American intelligence apparatus
to operate in Pakistan as their own back yard, etcetera, etcetera,
etcetera; to Saudi Arabia which appears to own us outright as proxy
agent of the Americans; to the Arab rulers of the Gulf states who
love to privately hunt rare and protected migratory birds over our
territories in lieu of what form of payment and favors only the state
knows; to God only knows what state assets we have hawked to China
and what debts incurred for posterity in a secret deal for CPEC whose
details the state insists shall remain classified and need to know.
We have indeed been reduced to a status far lower than a vassal
state. Our social fabric has been torn asunder, our dignity and
self-respect made as rare as the migratory birds, and hunted just as
fervently to root it out completely. Don't know what polite and
PR-correct name to give to what Pakistan has been turned into, except
“slave state”. What is sadder is that the rank and file
don't know what to do about their own destiny, and they are more than
90 percent of Pakistan. Many are hungrily waiting for Allah to bring
salvation. Others clutch at every straw thrown our way. They lap up
the sales pitch of every used car salesman who can command our
airways, our streets, and fifteen seconds of our attention. The
elites could be the least bothered; they continue to live like the
Parisian aristocrats, kings and princes, before the storming of the
Bastille.
This is the success of the next generation style of modern warfare,
which the American think-tanks call Fourth-gen warfare (and now into
its Fifth-gen version which evidently attacks the moral fabric of
society): to demoralize and destroy a nation from within, without
dropping a single atomic bomb! The advantage over Third-gen warfare
is that the conquered nation becomes a permanent slave state
without the need of reconstruction expense which also tends to put
people back into their natural stride. This has been witnessed in
both Japan and Germany after their reconstruction from the
devastation of Third-gen World War II, and also from the
reconstruction of Iraq after its Third-gen destruction. The Iraqis
have now regained at least their own dignity and self-respect by its
indigenously grown Hashd-al-Shabi people's military force resolutely
defeating the American proxy brigade that had come wrapped in the
“militant Islam” flag and infected both Iraq and Syria in
the form of ISIS and Daesh. This defeated virus was saved from
complete extinction by its allies and covetously airlifted to
Afghanistan to target both Iran and Pakistan.
Change of attire makes no difference to Pakistan's prescribed role
on the Grand Chessboard.
None of the fundamentals are permitted to change for a vassal
state / slave state unless the massa wants it changed to suit
its imperial enterprise!
The exercise of colonial rule in post colonial era requires a
continuous supply of a house nigger class, a mercenary class,
and a useful idiot class as the local apparatchik of
the massa. Pakistan is rich in these classes for some strange
reason, and new generations are born into them almost every day in
both civilian and military attire. Their common overarching mission:
to make the public mind to accept the prescribed rule so that the
servants can continue doing the massa's bidding while making a
pretty penny for themselves. It makes no difference whether it is
military dictatorship or faux-democracy; the public mind is made to
support, or at least acquiesce to, whatever rule is being foisted
upon the nation for the massa's overarching agenda to be exercised
during that period. The judiciary, in its feigned nod to justice and
morality, gives legal cover to any rule and ruler in the name of
political expediency on the one hand, and puts to the gallows an
elected prime minister and anyone else they are instructed to on the
other, in compliance with the massa's will. The errand boys
and girls as the local apparatchik only get to see a tunnel
vision of the massa's directives, and usually it is made to appear to
be in their own narrow self-interest (or the nation's self-interest
if a particularly patriotic useful idiot is being brought to power;
mercenaries and godfathers of course don't really care). When the
rule's times-up, whether by the clock, or by public discontent, the
attire is simply changed.
All this is now obvious as daylight to many people in Pakistan, but
perhaps not to everyone. High time the nation, its rank and file, the
wretched of the earth, and the white-collar cats in
their comfy offices, all took off their dark glasses and stopped
being simpletons.
Boycott the forthcoming Pakistani elections (and all future
elections in Pakistan so long as Pakistan remains a geopolitical pawn
and vassal-state ruled by house niggers, useful idiots and
mercenaries).
Not participating in the ballot is a resounding NO vote to reject the
entire corrupt system. Do not participate in a fabricated system
designed ab initio to continue its servility to massa; all waters run
only Westward, even if wearing the turban, the beard, clean-shaved,
in uniform, in awami-libas, in duppatta, in burqa – and that
includes Imran Khan, the favorite savior of the young generation.
Imran Khan is some part of the right-wing Difa-e-Pakistan Council
(Defence of Pakistan Council – DPC) group of “militant
Islam” formerly known by different acronyms some officially
banned: SSP1, LeT2, LeJ3, JeM4,
ASWJ5, JuD6, TNSM7, etc., (I lost
track), who are state-sponsored, and even openly supported by the
Punjab government (PML-N’s Chief Minister in Punjab Shahbaz
Sharif et. al.), and by right-wing elements of the intelligence and
military apparatus as the state's proxy agents out of uniform. And of
course, Imran Khan also occasionally flirts with the “moderate
Islam” of Tahir-ul-Qadri. Both the (Hegelian Dialectic of)
“Islams” are domestically sponsored, principally under
the hierarchical sirparesti (aiding and abetting), of
different factions from within the Pakistan military, which in turn
is paid from the Western tax-payers hard earned monies to become the
coveted Military Inc. of Pakistan with the Western powers' great
blessings. This praetorian guard, a rising newer “feudal class”
in Pakistan, is now fully invested in staying America's proxy army in
Pakistan! This is how power actually flows in Pakistan behind the
veneers and puppetshows put up before the public – be it the
elected Parliament, or the many variants of “Islam”.
Without the military's minimally tacit approval, not a fly can buzz
in Pakistan. It would be found riddled with bullet holes the very
next day, if found at all after its disappearance.
The fact that so much is made of going after the militant groups for
example, by display-bombing their foot soldiers and those among whom
they live, meaning, unarmed innocent civilians who become “collateral
damage” of either being dead or IDP (see Swat
Operation where the civilian displacement was headlined “In
Pakistan, an exodus that is beyond biblical”, photo),
and doing absolutely nothing to the white collar “respectable”
peoples and institutions who are fathering them, both in the civilian
and military state apparatus, speaks volumes in its own language of
omission. It explains why these groups cannot be rooted out
completely despite all the military operations against them over the
years by both the United States and Pakistan militaries, and which
has, in fact, only succeeded in creating newer crops of recruits to
harvest from for future patsy services. See my September 2009 report
“The
Decapitation of Pakistan by its own Military!” for the
detailed forensic scrutiny of Pakistan's role in manufacturing the
organic motivation for recruits of “militant Islam” under
American foreign policy imperatives and payments.
The combined output of all these variants of “Islam”
sprouting in the ever fertile soil of Pakistan and their open and
secret benefactors, is to fertilize the groundwork for the creation
of “revolutionary Islam”, whether or not they each
realize it. We are, after all, looking at a lifetime of World War
IV. Many teams have to play their part, and it seems to me that
“revolutionary Islam” has been gestating in the oven too
long. I am sure General Hamid Gul (late) understood this better than
the brainless posterboy of modernity, Imran Khan, his foolish rapidly
aging protégé who has been dying to become president
(or prime minister) of Pakistan at all cost. A good donkey to ride on
for the ubermensch.
But then again, perhaps not, After all, inter alia, it was this
traitor Pakistani General, the so called grand spymaster of Pakistan,
who in his own intellectual brilliance and great military wisdom,
enabled the United States to give “to the USSR its Vietnam
War” on Afghan Muslim soil next door, while purveying the
fiction of “strategic depth” to string the Pakistan army
along. The presence of unity of command in Pakistan under a military
general's rule has been absolutely essential for all of America's
imperial mobilizations. That is just an empirical observation.
The military chain of command is conditioned to obey orders without
question, and ours obviously excel at it without any moral calculus.
All it takes is one man in uniform at the top – and we have had
more than our share in the hierarchy of command who have proudly
carried the white man's burden and still died holily in
bed. Facts sting? Kill the messenger of course.
I once had a long conversation with a former director of ISI the day
after his daughter's wedding at which I was an unofficial (hobbyist)
photographer. When I presented the bride and groom with a beautiful
photo album of their wedding pictures that I instantly had processed
the same day, the father of the bride invited me to join them for
lunch, which I did. In the conversation he disclosed that he was a
former director of ISI, and when I explained to him where he got his
specious “strategic depth” from to fck Pakistan, he
simply couldn't believe nor refute the commonsense of my
straightforward observations. I held him to rapt attention for the
entire time and all he could murmur was: why did it not occur to
us? None of these brave Generals are known for their commonsense.
Groomed at Westpoint and Sandhurst, they reach their positions of
power in Pakistan's military hierarchy only after being vetted by the
white man to be psychologically able to carry the white
man's burden on Pakistan's back without complaint. As I noted in
2008
(http://tinyurl.com/ali-baba-in-mumbai):
'In 2007, while the 'Army Act 2007' was still in effect, I offered
two Pakistani military men, recently retired 3-star generals, whom I
had occasion to partake a meal with in Islamabad, that I could craft
any terrorist to their specification for them for a mere $15000 –
a number that I conjured up out of thin air thinking it was suitably
low to impress upon them how easy it was to harvest the surviving
victims whose parents, wives, daughters, sons, had been bombed to
smithereens, who had nothing to look forward to in life except the
abyss of hunger, deprivation, and alienation, and especially from
among those holding the 'Pakhtoonwali' tradition. I was trying to
rationally talk them out of bombing our own peoples in the tribal
belt in this fictional 'war on terror' by explaining to them how
Machiavellian political science works. I had held their attention for
over 3-1/2 hours. And I was rather stunned when one of the 3-star
generals of Pakistan's Army, and let me hasten to add (Retired),
responded to my 'jihadi manufacturing challenge' with “Zahir
you are asking too much, I could do it for $2000”!'
Imran Khan may prove to be the worst Trojan horse of them all –
why? Because he is presented as “Mr. Clean”. He can
therefore do even more harm as a patriotic useful idiot which
is what he appears to be. Because, unlike the mercenaries we have
already experienced in Pakistan who always look out for their own
self-interests first, the useful idiot actually believes in his cause
and will willingly die for it, taking everyone else down with him as
well. Ever hear of the suicide bomber? That's an extreme example of a
useful idiot for sure, but to carry the abstract thought experiment
just a little further, imagine now the useful idiot as the head of a
nuclear weapons state? Suitably controlled and motivated useful
idiots can be deadlier than mercenaries working for pecuniary gain,
and that's just a self-evident fact.
As an intelligence and Western asset, groomed by Gen. Hamid Gul et.
al., Imran Khan may yet deliver the worst nightmare to simpleton
Pakistanis, far beyond the measure of personal pecuniary gain and
fiscal mal feasance that occupied the labors of his predecessors.
Some of his plans, or rather strawman ideas (expressed for the 2013
elections), are outright scams that would only feed the fresh crop of
plunderers on his team from the gravy-train of state treasury. His
energy plan or his socialized education plan for instance? After HEC
under Atta-ur-Rahman and Sohail Naqvi for a decade squandered
billions in hare-brained crappy projects, Imran Khan is proposing to
spend trillions, 2.5 trillion in fact, to replace one crap with
another crap. He wants to make English compulsory and the principal
medium of instruction after 8th grade in Urdu medium and
public schools, to bring them at parity with English medium schools;
and teach everyone in Pakistan the same standardized curriculum.
Everyone will now be equally mediocre! What is that mother? Even
India which is ahead of us in all metrics of mass education, does not
have such an insane policy. Yet they have IITs which surpass the best
IVYs in America in terms of competition to get in. The son of Infosys
president couldn't get into IIT so he went to Cornell – as a
safety school!
We don't have one decent university in Pakistan where I would love to
send my own children and this moron now wants to spend 2.5 trillion
rupees in another boondoggle? Increasing literacy rate is great goal
for any nation – it cannot be carried out in a slave state with
no economy to absorb them. You take people away from their natural
habitat, and you provide them no ability to survive in the new
habitat, and you only end up raising a generation of mal contents.
The development of a nation cannot happen overnight – only its
rape and theft in the name of doing speciously sounding great things
can happen overnight. It took the West hundreds of years. Lee Kuan
Yew, the late Prime Minister of Singapore who governed that tiny
nation of industrious Chinese, Malay, and people of Indian origin,
for over thirty years, said he did not have 200 years like the West
to develop his country, and succeeded in uniquely bettering that
recipe. As did South Korea. Pakistan however is a nation of 211
million plus mostly illiterate peoples the majority of whom are
unemployed, or employed in menial jobs, and in agriculture sector as
serfs to a handful of landlords. Copying other nations blindly with
good intentions is like a moron transplanting a foreign tree in a
local soil that cannot sustain it. Just like Atta-ur-Rahman did, and
no one could challenge that mother for his hare-brained schemes that
turned Pakistan's higher education universities into diploma mills
for third-rate and often plagiarized work (see my report:
Masterpiece of Plagiarism in Pakistan,
http://tinyurl.com/Masterpiece-of-Plagiarism-pdf
, sent to the Supreme Court of Pakistan inviting their suo moto
action on the scale of the systemic problem—but also
ignored by them). I shed tears of anger every time I think about what
well-intentioned fools have done to us, often as child's putty in the
hands of Machiavelli.
As for Imran Khan's energy policy? You think anyone in Pakistan has
the balls to go against the WB-IMF tag team which has
neo-liberalized, i.e., privatized, our economy under enormous debt
burden? See what Thomas Friedman says about protecting and recovering
American investments and values abroad: “The hidden hand of
the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot
flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the
hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's
technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and
Marine Corps.” (A Manifesto For a Fast World, Thomas L.
Friedman, March 28, 1999, New York Times)
Imran Khan is just offering more scams and only fools and simpletons
will go for them---that is our Pakistani genius. The jury is still
out however whether he is only an overzealous useful idiot or
something more pernicious. Watch him and his confrere, the
flag-bearer of “moderate Islam”, Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri,
partake at the massa's table in the 2011 World Economic Forum.
Invited there to ensure that the brown-nosing horses run in the
future electoral races will all be compliant to the white man's
burden! These two-bit house niggers, groomed into power in
Pakistan the same way Benazir
Bhutto was, have the balls to stand up to the massa? With
what? The Pakistan military works for the same massa, are paid from
the same coffers, as does the entire bureaucracy, the media, public
and private institutions, and what is now almost a fashion to be
considered avant-garde, to call oneself a think-tank, and all echo
the same core axioms of the massa, live off of its largesse of aid,
and occasionally play controlled
dissent as WWF
(http://tinyurl.com/The-House-Niggers-of-Pakistan).
I say, enough of being fcking simpletons!
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Footnotes
[1] Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)
[2] Lashkre-e-Taayba (LeT)
[3] Lashker-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) or (LJ)
[4] Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
[5] Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat Pakistan (ASWJ).
[6] Jammat-u-Dawa (JuD)
[7] Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM)
Epilogue: 10th Anniversary of
Benazir Bhutto's Assassination 370/370 Pakistan on the chopping block in 2018?