A Firestorm On The Eastern Horizon

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Brandon Smith
Alt-Market

The Middle East is and always has been an incredible waste of time, energy, capital, and of course, human lives. Every civilization that has attempted to tame and corral the region has met with resounding frustration and defeat. Every empire that moves to extend its borders around its existing cultures has withered under the strain of constant war and revolution. Long before petroleum became a sought after commodity and long after its free flow was established, the Middle East has been used as a fulcrum point for turning nations and worlds inside out. One might begin to wonder where the West’s mindless obsession with the place actually comes from...

From crusades for the holy land, to crusades for oil, to crusades for “WMD’s” and the “downtrodden masses”; we have been regaled for centuries by governments and elitists with elaborate rationalizations for indefinite war within the cradle of civilization. Our government in particular has seen fit to topple dictatorships, install new dictatorships, embroil our troops in the quagmire of nation building, instigate social instability and civil unrest, fund terrorist organizations, elevate madmen, and then brandish them like weapons to frighten the American public into relinquishing their civil liberties. Every decade, and every new layer of conflict, brings the U.S. closer to the breaking point, and closer to bankruptcy.

It seems insane. By every logical political, social, financial, historical, and tactical standard, our increasing presence in the Middle East is a ludicrous venture in cartoonland led by a bumbling cadre of buffoon politicians and mustache twirling corporate contractors. There is no purpose to it. No meaning. Unless, that is, you look at it from the standpoint of globalization…

If you are a globalist, or a group that promotes the ascendancy of the globalist philosophy, then you are not concerned with the survival of any one particular nation state, even if it’s the U.S. Instead, you are highly concerned and perhaps even addicted to the idea of “centralization”; the process of dissolving borders and cultures and placing them under the control of a single economic system and a single governing body. As a globalist, you have no sense of loyalty to any country, nor any body of law, nor any Constitution. You will sacrifice anything and anyone to achieve full spectrum dominance. Motivations vary, but trying to understand the vicious tendencies of a dedicated globalist is like trying to understand the vicious tendencies of a serial killer; you’re never going to get an answer that fully untwists their warped intentions into something that “satisfies” our need for truth and closure. That said, there is a method to the madness of globalization, and it is quite clearly present in the Middle East.

The two most stubborn and immovable obstacles to total globalism today are; the American people, many of whom have been spoiled, intellectually lobotomized, and politically castrated. However, our heritage of freedom and revolution in the face of tremendous adversity still carries on, and our will to fight back against an “invincible” opponent has not disappeared, but only fallen into dormancy. In fact, we sometimes crave such a fight. We have put down the forces of centralization before, and we would love to do it again Heritage is a very powerful thing, and the Founding Fathers left us with a spectacular foundation on which to rely. On top of this, we are one of the few countries that still promote an armed population.

Second, are the cultures of the Middle East, specifically Muslims, who are religiously bound to reject all forms of what they call “Usury” (lending and debt as the basis for a business model or economy). This does not necessarily stop predominantly Muslim countries from participating in usury, many do. But, the idea of an entire country becoming indebted and thus controlled by an unaccountable corporate body like the IMF is highly distasteful to Islamic Fundamentalists, and would no doubt lead to all out war, even against their own governments (which is in some cases occurring today). Globalism is entirely dependent on the generation of debt as an instrument for social control. The majority of Muslims will simply not go along peacefully, and as in America, the Middle East is awash in armaments.

So, if you are a corporate banking globalist with visions of Utopia dancing in your head, what do you do? You can try to confront the American people and Islamic culture separately, or, you can pit your two biggest frustrations against each other in a brutal deathmatch while you lounge in your wicker easy chair and sip tropical drinks.

I think Sun Tzu would choose the latter strategy...

This is not to say that Muslim nations are without shocking injustice and social disparity, or that there are not legitimate reasons to use force in certain cases. There are extremists in every belief system. Dictators supplant reason and liberty in every culture at one time or another. Do despots in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, or Syria need to be overthrown and served to the angry mobs of those they abused? Absolutely (it would help if we stopped installing despots in the first place)! Though, not at the expense of a crumbling America, and not for the benefit of elitists at large. Tiny tyrants can wait. It is the global tyrants we should be most worried about.

Expanded military action in Libya is almost a certainty. Discussion amongst U.S. troops of deployment to Libya this autumn is running high, though some skeptics might dismiss this as “idle chatter”. The likelihood of ground invasion has become most visible though through the language and actions of NATO and the U.S. government itself.

Army General Carter Ham admitted to the possibility during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in April:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/07/501364/main20051760.shtml

Apache attack helicopters are being sent into the fray by the French and the UK, which is a sign of escalation, but also a possible sign of ground invasion:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/23/apache-helicopters-libya-britain

Attack helicopters most often act as support for ground troops able to assess possible targets and call in strike points. Helicopters are very vulnerable to rocket fire without ample ground troops to provide support (which was made very clear in Mogadishu in 1993). In a modern military, these two arms are supposed to act in tandem. They are rarely separated from each other completely.

The largest military drill of its kind ever held on the East Coast of the U.S., “Exercise Mailed Fist” is currently underway, stretching from Quantico, Virginia to the Pinecastle Bombing Rand in Florida, just as information surfaces suggesting that a ground invasion of Libya is already planned:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/17/marine.corps.exercise/index.html?&hpt=hp_c2

In the video below, CBS news basically attempts to sell the idea of ground invasion to the American public using interviews with members of the Council on Foreign Relations as “experts” (yes, hilarious), and at the same time admitting they have “no idea” who the rebels in Libya really are, or what kind of government they are actually fighting for. Any reasonable person without an agenda would be hard pressed to see this as anything but a recipe for disaster:



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