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The need for terrorists
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the US was faced with a situation where the precepts of the cold war were no longer valid; there was a danger that global peace would break out, with the resultant loss of profits for its arms industry, the most powerful and influential of all US [and UK] business. This could not be allowed to happen. Without a constant threat from outside, the powerful arms and military lobby had to find another powerful enemy against which it would protect 'the public'. They have some deep thinkers, and since during the cold war the US had funded and armed Islamist extremists including Bib Laden to oppose the Russians in Afghanistan, and after the Russians left, they had grown to a point where they were recruiting and training for Jihad. Then the attack against the World Trade Centre was planned, and the US secret service, which obviously knew about it, had to decide; act to counter the threat or let some Americans die in order to create an atmosphere of fear in which no one would oppose any expansion of the military or foreign wars. They decided to let it go ahead for the greater good. This resulted in 9/11, and explains Bush's reaction when 'told' about it. He already knew it was going to happen, even if the full scale of the destruction and loss of life was unguessed. It may be that the buildings were 'helped' to collapse with some carefully placed demolition charges. The US government was thus unopposed when it planned its attack first on Afghanistan which had training camps, and on Iraq which was uninvolved with the 9/11 attacks, although the majority of Americans were incapable of understanding that; the most unlikely people, who should have known better, were sucked into supporting an act of unprovoked aggression [Hilary Clinton was all for it at the time]. What was thought by some to be a quick military campaign of overwhelming might [shock and awe] became another Vietnam, with massive casualties, including many US troops. There seems no resolution in sight of either bloody conflict. All we've heard for the last several years is 'war on terror', it's a mantra the US government repeats over and over to make sure the message is absorbed; so far a substantial percentage of the American public believe that terrorism is the biggest threat they face, and will agree to any antidemocratic measure claimed to aid the 'war on terror' including invasion of privacy, body searches at airports, telephone and email tapping and a new fascism not seen since Senator McCarthy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy] bullied everyone and anyone with a slight liberal outlook back in the fifties under the banner of combating 'communists'. Despite this campaign to convince we are all under threat from terrorists, there have been remarkably few acts of terror [if one discounts the US bombardment of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq], but there have been many depletions of civil liberties, and the arms manufacturers have shown massive profits. The illusory threat has hardly materialised; a few deluded UK Asians killed a few people on the underground, and another, even more amateur, group were caught with bombs that failed to go off, and a few students who downloaded some Islamist literature have just been released on appeal. Not a lot to justify this 'war on terror' propaganda we've been subjected to. It makes sense though to anyone who's read Report from Iron Mountain, According to the report, a 15-member panel, called the Special Study Group, was set up in 1963 to examine what problems might result if the U.S. entered a state of lasting peace. They met at an underground nuclear bunker called Iron Mountain for the next two years. A member of the panel, a professor at a college in the Midwest, decided to release the report to the public. The heavily footnoted report concluded that peace was not in the interests of a stable society, that even if lasting peace could be achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of society to achieve it. War was a part of the economy. Therefore, it was necessary to conceive a state of war for a stable economy. The government, the group theorized, could not exist without war, and nation states existed in order to wage war. War also served a vital function of diverting collective aggression. The report is widely thought to be a hoax, but interestingly, it is totally logical and rational, and fits in perfectly with events and attitudes, so a cleverly conceived hoax that was very close to reality. It's premise seems to underlie US government thinking. In many ways this situation is better than the old cold war which contained the danger that we could actually have started a nuclear war. This one relies on vague shadowy figures, who have no means of denying allegations, and mostly glory in the notoriety their global reputation gives them. Young Muslim idealists are drawn to the image, and some volunteer and go for training. This is all good stuff from the government's point of view, and now and then an outrage is needed to keep up public confidence in the scenario. But are we all in imminent danger of being blown up? I think not. In fact I would guess that the 'worldwide Islamist terror threat' is very small, although it boxes above its weight. They have websites which expound hatred for the dissolute, un-Islamic west, they have a few training camps and some guns, but are mostly hiding in caves, even their mobile phone conversations recorded by the CIA, which is probably still supplying them with weapons. Civil liberties have been eroded masively and people have accepted these measures because they are scared. The Patriot Act makes sure all comply or face imprisonment. So liberal democracy is replaced by right wing manipulation and surveillance, and most are too scared to say anything against it. Freedom of speech is anathema to both American fascists and the Islamofascists who are supposedly their sworn enemies.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report_from_Iron_Mountain
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