WHO CREATED IRAQ?

There’s plenty of blame to go around for who created the mess in Iraq, but to blame a gang of addle-brained right wing Jews for that mess plays into the hands of the war’s true instigators.

As reported in the New York Sun, which I respect for its cultural coverage but not for its idiotic right-wing political perspective (in the interest of clarity, The Sun leaves free copies at my doorstep. I would never pay for it, but I do read it) a couple of Harvard professors have circulated a document blaming the war on the “all-powerful pro-Israel lobby.” This paper has been seized upon by every garden variety anti-semite imaginable as proof of a Jew Conspiracy to destroy the Arabs in the service of Israel.

Anti-semitism is a virus that lays dormant in every social organism, waiting for that organ to weaken, then, like a disease, it attacks the organ. That it now sees an opportunity to do its ugly damage demonstrates the extent to which the destructive folly of the Iraq war has weakened this country’s social stability just as I predicted it would since before the war even started.

Iraq is not in a state of civil war – it is in a state of free-for-all chaos that was to be expected in the wake of the American invasion, but it precedes even that. Saddam Hussein, who is a moron, understood that and his repressive brutality kept the lid on it. The fact that he is an animal, and the progeny of actual Nazis (the uncle who raised him was an activist in the Muslim Brotherhood, which was formed by one of Hitler’s most trusted advisors) should not be overlooked.

Clinton had the right concept for Iraq: keep in under embargo and control it from the skies. Clinton, who had a lot more Jewish representation in his cabined and his circle of advisors than Bush has ever had, was a lot more even-handed in his middle east policy than the current administration. That right there blows apart the theory of the Jews pushing Cheney and Rumsfeld around to do their nefarious bidding.

The real impetus for this war is the Halliburtons and General Dynamics gang, people we never heard of. In any imperialist adventure, only a small clique ever benefits, like the British East India Company in India, or the Dutch monopolies in Indonesia. The rest of the imperial entity just pays the taxes and runs the errands for the fat-cat interests who take none of the risks, pay none of the expenses, and just rake it in.

That is what we have here now – same all same all – an imperial adventure run for the benefit of a small group of highly-placed economic interests represented and spearheaded by Bush, who is one of their own and whose family is also raking it in through their private capital entities like Carlyle Group. Only in this case, these big-shots have found the perfect patsies to deflect blame for the war – a group of dim-witted strivers who flatter themselves that they are formulating policy, when what they really are is a lightening rod set up to take the blame.

Are Jewish people smart? Sometimes. But the smartest ones are not always in political leadership. Israel could have avoided a lot of problems if their intellectual class had had an interest in running the country instead of leaving it up their political class, bozos like Yitzak Shamir, with his boneheaded concept of “Greater Israel,” which poured hundreds of billions in resources into the West Bank settlements, making it now impossible to abandon all that expensive infrastructure and withdraw to defensible borders.

Plenty of patriotic Israelis were against that madness, but they were too busy pursuing their business, scientific or artistic ambitions – or just living their lives – to go to the mat over it. Now the next generation has to keep formulating convoluted excuses why the country has maintain a state of permanent mobilization to keep places like Ariel, which are too expensive to abandon.

Americans will never develop the kind of emotional attachment that would motivate them to fight for possession over a period of decades or generations like the French did for Indochina or Algeria. They don’t have that kind of mentality, and Iraq doesn’t possess that kind of charm. But that doesn’t mean the deep thinkers in Washington are not designing contingency plans for just that eventuality – with all its attendant domestic scenarios for internal repression of dissent and non-conformity. Who’s to say that future pent-up expressions of frustration and anxiety that might erupt as a result of these contradictions will not target today’s designated patsies, the Jews?

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Posted on 3/20/2006 ( Permanent Link )
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