Not only are they no longer there; but to the extent they were there, they were provided by the United States, by Britain, and by Israel, to further this perpetual war.
The next phase of the same war, was the Afghanistan war [against the Soviet Union], another part of the Bernard Lewis Plan. It began in '79 under Brzezinski's direction, and continued for more than a decade. During the course of that war, tens of thousands of young, desperately poor men-really boys-from throughout the Muslim world-North Africa, the Middle East, parts of Asia, the Philippines, Brooklyn, you name it-were recruited to be cannon-fodder in the mujahideen operation that was financed by the United States, Britain, and Israel, building up a massive opium and heroin trade coming out of Afghanistan and the extended area.
The policy was a succession of wars that were never to end. And if you look at the situation in Afghanistan today, that's precisely what's going on. This is not a winnable war.
Lewis' First 'Clash of Civilizations' Call
So this is the war that we are dealing with. Now, al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and the so-called Muslim fundamentalist threat, as another rationale for the war that people within and around the Bush Administration are promoting to start against Iraq. Israel wanted it to start last Spring; there are people pushing for it to start tomorrow morning, and it could very well happen.
But the argument is as false as the argument about other kinds of justifications for genocide that come out of the mouths of these people.
The fact of the matter is that the Clash of Civilizations war, which is being promoted right now, was first called for by Dr. Bernard Lewis in 1990, in an article in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "The Roots of Muslim Rage." Three years later, Huntington wrote his article in Foreign Affairs calling for a war against Islam and against the Confucian world as well. So Huntington calls for war against 1.4 billion Muslims, and about 1.5 billion Chinese, at the same time. You get the idea that these people are out of their minds.
So it was 1990 that that call for the Clash of Civilizations war was put out. Back in 1990, Osama bin Laden was widely known, in British and American intelligence circles, as the "Tom Marriott of Peshawar." He was working for us, and he was basically running a hospitality suite for all of the recruits-the 15- and 16-year-old kids who were being recruited around the world, and sent into Afghanistan for this perpetual war there -- on our payroll, basically using his family's money.
A year later, in 1991, we had the Persian Gulf war; and, Bernard Lewis comes out, in early 1992, in an article in Foreign Affairs, and says that the main purpose of the Persian Gulf war, was to bring an end, once and for all, to any concept of nation-state and nationhood and nationalism in the Arab and Muslim world.
We manipulated Syria, and other Arab countries to go to war in alliance with the United States, against Iraq. Arab nationalism is dead. The only thing left is a virulent form of fundamentalism coming out of these people streaming home from the American-, British-, and Israeli-sponsored war in Afghanistan, to set up operations to destabilize the governments in their own countries.
So out of Afghanistan, we had the spreading of this perpetual war policy into North Africa, the Philippines, and into every country in the Middle East.
We've now reached the point where, particularly following the 1997-98 breakout of disintegration in the post-Bretton Woods international monetary system, we're moving into the new phase of the war.
The new phase is motivated by two things. Number one: After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, at the point that Bernard Lewis made his initial announcement about the launching of the Clash of Civilizations, there was no longer a competing empire capable of challenging the Anglo-American empire for total world domination. During the Cold War, it was more difficult to move full steam ahead to implement National Security Study Memorandum 200.
So since 1990, we've had the succession of wars in the region, and now the preparations to launch a far more deadly "Thirty Years' War" type phenomenon in the region, to finish the process of crushing the nation-state. Or, as Henry Kissinger said in a book published last year, to bring a permanent end to the Treaty of Westphalia system; the system of nation-states
An Unqualified U.S. President
This is the war that we're up against. It's got nothing to do with Saddam Hussein. It's got nothing to do with Iraq; it has everything to do with the fact that a bunch of lunatics in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere, are out to provoke this Clash of Civilizations.
They do not fail to see that, particularly in the period since 1997-98, there has been substantial progress towards organizing leading political circles throughout Eurasia, into endorsing and moving to implement parts of Lyndon LaRouche's call for the Eurasian Land- Bridge.
The war drive was made all the more urgent in late '98, when then-Prime Minister of Russia, Yevgeni Primakov went to New Delhi and announced that he was supporting the idea of a strategic partnership among Russia, China, and India.
So this area of the world, even more emphatically, had to be targetted for total destruction through perpetual war
The other thing made clear to the people promoting this Clash of Civilizations policy, was that they had to ensure, in the 2000 Presidential elections in the United States, first, that none of these ideas were actually brought to the American people to be debated; and second, that the next President of the United States would be distinct in only one way - totally unqualified for the job.
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