Authored by Scott Horton via The Libertarian Institute,
…so wise up!
With terrorism, as with all asymmetric political action, “the action is in the reaction of the opposition,” as Saul Alinsky, the leftist activist, put it in his book Rules for Radicals.
This isn’t conspiracy stuff, nor impossible “4th dimensional chess”—it’s just plain, old 2-dimentional chess. That’s all.
Hamas, al Qaeda, and similar groups slaughter civilians—beheaded babies or not, they certainly murdered hundreds and hundreds of innocent, civilian Israeli non-combatants in this one (including an extended family member of mine) just as they slaughtered thousands on September 11—for a reason, not simply because they are angry or devils. It’s a tactic. They are trying to provoke a reaction.
They are trying to make you angry, to make you hate, even drive you crazy. Yes—yes—for the purpose of making the more powerful force (i.e. the United States, Israel) do even worse to their own people, such as getting the U.S. to invade Afghanistan and getting Israel to bomb the Gaza strip. Not that al Qaeda was from Afghanistan, but that’s where they were and that’s who they knew were gonna get it. (Also, by the way, U.S. support for Israel’s crimes in Palestine and Lebanon was a huge part of the motive for al Qaeda’s war against the United States in the first place, including for some of the most important pilot hijackers and organizers of the plot.)
This is then meant to provoke still further counter-reactions. It “heightens the contradictions” as the commies used to say. It forces leaders of Muslim states and armed groups everywhere to take a stand. It destroys stability and negotiations and progress, radicalizes new groups and forces everyone back into the fight on one side or the other. It makes every sock-puppet princeling of the Gulf take a stand in support like the Ayatollah or sell out in silence in the most embarrassing way, like Crown Prince bin Salman, etc.
It’s the same reason Bosnian Muslim forces butchered Serbs and Chechen Muslim forces butchered Russians and ISIS slaughtered Shi’ites: to provoke a worse crisis for everyone in the hopes that the overall situation changes to their advantage.
I would note that terrorism is usually as stupid as it is evil; see Bosnia, where they got less and less; Chechnya, Syria and Iraq Wars II and III where they lost outright. Osama’s nemesis, the Saudi monarchy, still stands, and with as degenerate a self-worshiper in the Crown Prince position as he could have ever feared. Hamas may very well not survive this.
But for Israel to completely destroy them would require a level of violence that the civilian population of the Gaza strip, one half of them under 18 years old—all of them trapped with no where to go—simply cannot withstand. Hundreds have already been killed.
Ramzy Baroud argues that a land invasion of the strip will be a catastrophe for Israel too.
The longer this goes on, the greater the danger to the Israeli hostages as well.
By widening the war into a full-scale invasion of Gaza, the Israelis risk spreading the war to a full-scale uprising on the West Bank, a fight with Hezbollah in Lebanon or even northern Israel, which could then lead to things going sideways in Iraq—where George W. Bush installed a very Iran- and Hezbollah-friendly Shi’ite theocracy in power—and who-knows what.
Powerful Muslim states who are friendly to Israel, such as Turkey and Egypt, must be allowed to step in and play a negotiating role here.
Stop reacting. And stop posturing like a bunch of little girls on TikTok. Pull the brakes before it’s too late.
I know calling your congressmen feels like pissing in the wind. But do what you can to make your voice heard and call for cease-fire and talks as soon as possible.
Ultimately the Palestinians must have independence or citizenship. Otherwise, as Ariel Sharon’s man, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said, they’re left with an untenable apartheid state.
And the United States should stop sharing in the responsibility for this shame immediately by ending all aid and military support for the occupation – and for that matter in all cases, everywhere.
Also, USS Gerald Ford: watch your six.
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Hamas, al Qaeda, and similar groups didn’t slaughter anyone on 9/11.
By way of deception, thou shalt do war.
no that was the jews
This scripted “war” seems to me to be an attempt to draw in Hezbollah and / or Syria, which of course will elicit an autopilot war by the United States against both Iran and Syria. And with Russian troops fighting in Syria, well we all know the inevitable outcome there.
The current Jewish administration of the USA will build the 3rd temple with American blood just as the Ukraine war was an attempt to build Greater Khazaria with the blood of the Orthodox gentile.
Open your eyes and there is no other conclusion. Our “greatest ally” is in reality our greatest enemy.
Since God destroyed the temple and temple sacrifice along with the Jewish religion in 70 AD, there will never be a “third” temple.
I wondered why Israel was bombing Damascus. Thanks for clearing it up.
Everything I learned about the politics of war I learned from watching F Troop. Funny how you can’t find that show anywhere anymore.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058800/episodes/?ref_=tt_ov_epl
I’ll have to bookmark that.
Oh Americans the plight. In Australia a bloke takes on a kangaroo who was holding his dog underwater. Christ what has this world become when even kangaroo’s f with your dog. Anyway lucky he did the video thing you know for likes. Taking on a kangaroo with one hand while holding a mobile phone in the other what a champ.
“. . . just as they slaughtered thousands on September 11—for a reason, not simply because they are angry or devils.”
For some reason libertarians seem to be even more gullible than the average NPC sheeple when it comes to believing the official government narrative of events like 9/11, which is paradoxical since libertarians should be the most likely to distrust anything the government says. But even though they distrust the government on most issues, when it comes to obvious false flag attacks they can’t validate the government narrative fast enough. Even Ron Paul twisted himself into a pretzel proclaiming that he didn’t believe any “conspiracy theories” about what happened on 9/11. That is the main reason that I don’t pay much attention to Ron Paul anymore.
Over the years or decades even, that I have hung out and conversed with libertarians, I have come to the conclusion that most of them aren’t the sharpest and have a serious lack of imagination. Most of them are so limited that it would cause a paradigm shift if they thought outside the small mental box they keep their simplest dogmatic view of the world.
I like Paul, but yes he spouts the gov’t line on 911. Baffles the mind!
Israel is a nation of fucking pigs. Anyone who supports Israel is a fucking pig.
SAME as the u.s.?
The ‘leadership/Mgmt./Owners’ SAME as the people who live here?
No, in the US there is actually a small percentage of good people, in Israel, the percentage is too small to even measure….
Not thinking as the ” In Crowd ” does will get you 10 demerit points.
Anyone who doesn’t want to see the Jews massacre Arab men women and children is an anti Jesus satanist.
It’s a real bitch when they get short circuited by us not giving a flying fuck.