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STOPPING A WAR THAT'S ALREADY STARTED
Posted By: somtum
Date: Saturday, 28 September 2002, 3:19 p.m.
The war that has already begun; it is not about Iraq; it's not about Saddam Hussein. So forget everything that's being talked about in any of the media, whether it's pro- or anti-war. It's irrelevant to the issue, as we have to understand it.
You could say that it began in 1974. A number of things happened that year, that were indispensable towards launching the ongoing, the "perpetual" war that has hit the entire Middle East region and beyond for more than 25 years.
1974 was the year that Henry Kissinger promulgated National Security Study Memorandum 200, which was signed a year later by President Gerald Ford, and has been the underlying national security doctrine of the United States ever since. The basic thrust of NSSM- 200 is that economic development and population growth in the developing world is a national security threat to the United States, and must be stopped at all costs.
The argument was, simply, that the entire strategic raw-material resources of the entire planet are urgently required on behalf of the national security interests of the United States. This was during the Cold War, and was couched in terms of the struggle between the West and the Soviet empire.
But basically, Kissinger's concept- classic Malthusian, genocidal idea-was that the United States and its English-speaking allies must control all of the strategic raw-material wealth of Africa; all the strategic raw-material wealth of Ibero-America; all the strategic petroleum and natural-gas reserves of the Persian Gulf; and at all costs, no modern nation-states could be allowed to come into existence, or continue to exist, in any of these areas of the world.
The Middle East was particularly important for two reasons: Number one, the petroleum wealth of the region, which is a very particular, vital raw material for the energy supply for the world economy.
Second, the Middle East is a major crossroad between Europe and Asia, and between Eurasia and Africa; and therefore, creating a perpetual war in that part of the world, assures that there can be no effective economic development throughout Eurasia and Africa.
The second thing that happened in 1974, is that the British oligarchy deployed one of its senior Arab Bureau intelligence officers- Bernard Lewis-to the United States to run the policy; basically to administer, as a kind of colonial gauleiter, the national security policies of the United States.
Remember, that years later, in 1982, at a conference in London, Henry Kissinger would boast that everything he did, he did on behalf of the British monarchy and British intelligence, and that he was never loyal to anything about the United States-particularly, not to the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt. He promulgated a policy that goes back to the days of the East India Company; and the senior British Arabist, Dr. Bernard Lewis, was sent to the United States, set up shop in Princeton, New Jersey, and became the principal foreign policy and national security adviser to the Zbigniew Brzezinski government, when it came into power in 1977.
The 'Crescent of Crisis'
Lewis developed a policy that came to be known, in the late 1970s, as the Bernard Lewis Plan, which was otherwise memorialized on the cover of Time magazine in January 1979, as the "Crescent of Crisis."
What Bernard Lewis basically said, is that we are going to destabilize the entire Muslim world, the entire Persian Gulf region, because it borders along the south of the Soviet Union. We are going to create an Islamic mess, a chaos, insurgency of wars, along the southern tier of the Soviet Union; and this is how we're going to destroy the Soviet Union.
The first American ally who was turned upon, overthrown and betrayed, in 1979, was the Shah of Iran. The net effect of that was that the stage was set for an eight-year war in the Persian Gulf.
The Khomeini regime came into power in Tehran; and within months, Iran and Iraq were engaged in a war that would go on for eight years.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, in a private discussion with the Shah of Iran, shortly before or after he was removed from power, presented NSSM- 200 in a very candid fashion. He simply said to the Shah, "There will be no new Japans in the Persian Gulf, and there will no new Japans south of the Rio Grande River." The policy was very clear: perpetual war, chaos, destruction.
As part of the eight-year war that was manipulated between Iran and Iraq, we're told that there was a standing committee inside the U.S. government, that basically modulated the supplies of weapons to both sides, to make sure that the war was perpetuated as long as possible; and particularly, that Iraq, which was a country that had already emerged as a nation with a modern industrial economy, a highly skilled labor force, a top-flight education system, and with the ability to disprove the Kissinger-Brzezinski thesis about no new Japans in the Arab world or the Persian Gulf, was decimated.
The purpose of this eight-year war was to decimate Iraq and Iran. We had the famous Ollie North Iran-Contra arms pipeline, and all sorts of other things.
The purpose of that war was to wreak genocide and havoc on the entire region.
It happened that Iraq had a very substantial disadvantage in the war, in that Iran had a far larger population. So, among the things that were done by the United States, Britain, and Israel, in order to "level the playing field" to keep the war going as long as possible, was that Saddam Hussein was provided with chemical and biological weapons, by the United States; by successive U.S. administrations
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