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Formula for U.S. Wars On Islam

Comment by Larry Ross, December 1, 2005

Drefuss's article (follows) is the best I have read yet which reveals how the U.S. foments wars and makes enemies under cover of "spreading Democracy In The Middle East".

The U.S. is practising Machiavellian tactics (a hallmark of Bush's neoconservative administration) at home and abroad and using Orwellian techniques to befuddle, terrorise and ultimately sell it to the American public.

I think it's a few steps beyond "playing with right-wing theocrats in Iraq" as claimed by Drefuss. I think the Bush Administration carefully calculated the various right-wing fundamentalist forces there and is using them to promote civil war in Iraq, as it is trying to do in other M.E. nations. I think this strategy is used to help build the U.S. empire.

In these other nations they are boosting radical religious right forces and presenting it to the U.S. public as "spreading Democracy" etc. Unfortunately this form of psychological warfare against the American people seems to work, although less effectively today as Bush's popularity plummets. People are gradually and painfully learning U.S. psywar formulas. They are slowly learning that whatever Bush says or claims, the opposite is more likely to be Bush's real objectives. Another 9/11 attack would again boost Bush's popularity, facilitate further steps in the neocon plan and silence the critics.

Naturally people may ask, how can this strategy possibly advance U.S. interests and objectives?
I suggest people read Machiavelli's "The Prince" to see how this type of strategy was applied in the medieval ages.
A few benefits of this strategy to the Bush Administration are as follows:

1. Creating new enemies and wars generates enormous profits for the U.S. military/industrial/political complex.
2. This in turn, means large donations to republican/democratic election campaigns
3. This strategy weakens and divides Islam and helps engulf them in civil wars which the Bush Administration can sell as "spreading Democracy".
4. Creating new enemies adds flesh, substance and meaning to Bush's "war on terrorism". Although this leads to self-fulfilling prophecies, the public has a very short attention span and don't usually connect the dots. They believe whatever Bush and his controlled mass media tell them - particularly if they feel threatened.
5. Threatening new enemies and new "terrorist" incidents, are vital to suppressing American dissent and enabling new 'patriot-type' laws to be passed.
6. U.S. promoted chaos and wars in the middle east provides the opportunity to allow U.S. companies to control M.E. oil resources.
7. Civil wars with the U.S. backing one side (as in Iraq), provides the excuse for keeping U.S. forces in Iraq
   or other countries.
8. These methods facilitate building the American Empire and eventually, global domination.
9. "Endless wars" as Bush promised, lead to endless profits for the chosen few, helps continue the Republican Party in power and by various means including mass media help, gains the obedience of the U.S. public.

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Dreyfuss on Bush's Deadly Dance with Islamic Theocrats

Compiled and Edited by Tom Engelhardt, November 30, 2005

During his embattled summer vacation in Crawford, Texas, George Bush managed to launch a new promotional ditty for his war in Iraq: "As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down." Since then there has been much commentary from the administration, from military officials, and from the media on the question of how successfully the Iraqi military is actually "standing up." (Not especially successfully is the usual answer.) There has, however, been scarcely any serious discussion about what that new Iraqi army, heavily infiltrated by Shiite and Kurdish militiamen from the ruling parties in the Iraqi government, is actually going to stand up for. And yet this is an important question.

Only recently, for instance, American forces uncovered some striking evidence of what our new Iraq has increasingly come to look like. In a bunker in Baghdad they discovered a detention and torture center run by the Interior Ministry, itself headed by Bayan Jabr, a senior member of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. SCIRI is the main Shiite religious party in the government and has a 20,000-man strong militia, the Badr Organization. While the bunker's discovery caused an uproar here (and in Iraq), it is but the tip of the iceberg. In some sense, it is not even a new story.

For well over a year now, Human Rights Watch has been cataloguing Interior Ministry abuses and warning about a human rights catastrophe unraveling in "our" Iraq. Last July, Peter Beaumont of the British Observer revealed that the Shiite religious/political powers-that-be had set up not one detention-and-torture center but a whole "ghost network" of them -- in some cases, he gave locations – in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, partly financed by British and American funds originally intended for the rebuilding of the police force. In these centers, torture methods "resurrected from the time of Saddam" were being used; and the centers, in turn, were connected to paramilitary commando units (and police units) -- basically kidnapping and death squads -- being run by the Interior Ministry as well as by the Shiite religious parties. Such units are increasingly engaged in a war of revenge with Sunni insurgents and in an ever growing campaign of assassinations, summary executions, and disappearances in Sunni neighborhoods which months ago reached "epidemic levels." Human rights organizations in the country have hundreds of cases of disappearances on their lists -- as well as assassinations, torture of every sort, and an endless raft of human rights violations.

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