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May 26th, 2008, 08:09 AM
Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
By Prof. James Petras
Global Research, May 25, 2008
Wars in an imperialist democracy cannot simply be dictated by executive fiat, they require the consent of highly motivated masses who will make the human and material sacrifices. Imperialist leaders have to create a visible and highly charged emotional sense of injustice and righteousness to secure national cohesion and overcome the natural opposition to early death, destruction and disruption of civilian life and to the brutal regimentation that goes with submission to absolutist rule by the military.
The need to invent a cause is especially the case with imperialist countries because their national territory is not under threat. There is no visible occupation army oppressing the mass of the people in their everyday life. The ‘enemy’ does not disrupt everyday normal life – as forced conscription would and does. Under normal peaceful time, who would be willing to sacrifice their constitutional rights and their participation in civil society to subject themselves to martial rule that precludes the exercise of all their civil freedoms?
Professor Zelikow – Where do we go from here?The key figure in and around the Bush Administration who actively promoted a ‘new Pearl Harbor ’ and was at least in part responsible for the policy of complicity with the 9/11 terrorists was Philip Zelikow. Zelikow, a prominent Israel-Firster, is a government academic, whose expertise was in the nebulous area of ‘catastrophic terrorism’ – events which enabled US political leaders to concentrate executive powers and violate constitutional freedoms in pursuit of offensive imperial wars and in developing the ‘public myth’. Philip Shenon’s book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation pinpoints Zelikow’s strategic role in the Bush Administration in the lead up to 9/11, the period of ‘complicit neglect’, in its aftermath, the offensive global war period, and in the government’s cover-up of its complicity in the terror attack.
Prior to 9/11 Zelikow provided a‘blueprint’ for the process of an executive seizing extreme power for global warfare. He outlined a sequence in which a ‘catastrophic terrorist event’ could facilitate the absolute concentration of power, followed by the launching of offensive wars for Israel (as he publicly admitted). In the run-up to 9/11 and the multiple wars, he served as a member of National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice’s National Security Council transition team (2000-2001), which had intimate knowledge of terrorist plans to seize US commercial flights, as Rice herself publicly admitted (‘conventional hijackings’ was her term). Zelikow was instrumental in demoting and disabling the counter-terrorism expert Richard Clark from the National Security Council, the one agency tracking the terrorist operation. Between 2001-2003, Zelikow was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. This was the agency, which had failed to follow-up and failed to pursue the key intelligence reports identifying terrorist plans. Zelikow, after playing a major role in undermining intelligence efforts to prevent the terrorist attack, became the principle author of the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, which prescribed Bush’s policy of military invasion of Iraq and targeted Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and other independent Arab and Muslim countries and political entities. Zelikow’s ‘National Security Strategy’ paper was the most influential directive shaping the global state terrorist policies of the Bush regime. It also brought US war policies in the closest alignment with the regional military aspirations of the Israeli state since the founding of Israel . Indeed, this was why the former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated at Bar Ilan University that the 9/11 attack and the US invasion of Iraq were ‘good for Israel ’ (see Haaretz, April 16, 200
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Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
By Prof. James Petras
Global Research, May 25, 2008
Wars in an imperialist democracy cannot simply be dictated by executive fiat, they require the consent of highly motivated masses who will make the human and material sacrifices. Imperialist leaders have to create a visible and highly charged emotional sense of injustice and righteousness to secure national cohesion and overcome the natural opposition to early death, destruction and disruption of civilian life and to the brutal regimentation that goes with submission to absolutist rule by the military.
The need to invent a cause is especially the case with imperialist countries because their national territory is not under threat. There is no visible occupation army oppressing the mass of the people in their everyday life. The ‘enemy’ does not disrupt everyday normal life – as forced conscription would and does. Under normal peaceful time, who would be willing to sacrifice their constitutional rights and their participation in civil society to subject themselves to martial rule that precludes the exercise of all their civil freedoms?
Professor Zelikow – Where do we go from here?The key figure in and around the Bush Administration who actively promoted a ‘new Pearl Harbor ’ and was at least in part responsible for the policy of complicity with the 9/11 terrorists was Philip Zelikow. Zelikow, a prominent Israel-Firster, is a government academic, whose expertise was in the nebulous area of ‘catastrophic terrorism’ – events which enabled US political leaders to concentrate executive powers and violate constitutional freedoms in pursuit of offensive imperial wars and in developing the ‘public myth’. Philip Shenon’s book, The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation pinpoints Zelikow’s strategic role in the Bush Administration in the lead up to 9/11, the period of ‘complicit neglect’, in its aftermath, the offensive global war period, and in the government’s cover-up of its complicity in the terror attack.
Prior to 9/11 Zelikow provided a‘blueprint’ for the process of an executive seizing extreme power for global warfare. He outlined a sequence in which a ‘catastrophic terrorist event’ could facilitate the absolute concentration of power, followed by the launching of offensive wars for Israel (as he publicly admitted). In the run-up to 9/11 and the multiple wars, he served as a member of National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice’s National Security Council transition team (2000-2001), which had intimate knowledge of terrorist plans to seize US commercial flights, as Rice herself publicly admitted (‘conventional hijackings’ was her term). Zelikow was instrumental in demoting and disabling the counter-terrorism expert Richard Clark from the National Security Council, the one agency tracking the terrorist operation. Between 2001-2003, Zelikow was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. This was the agency, which had failed to follow-up and failed to pursue the key intelligence reports identifying terrorist plans. Zelikow, after playing a major role in undermining intelligence efforts to prevent the terrorist attack, became the principle author of the 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, which prescribed Bush’s policy of military invasion of Iraq and targeted Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and other independent Arab and Muslim countries and political entities. Zelikow’s ‘National Security Strategy’ paper was the most influential directive shaping the global state terrorist policies of the Bush regime. It also brought US war policies in the closest alignment with the regional military aspirations of the Israeli state since the founding of Israel . Indeed, this was why the former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated at Bar Ilan University that the 9/11 attack and the US invasion of Iraq were ‘good for Israel ’ (see Haaretz, April 16, 200
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May 26th, 2008, 08:52 AM
Since nothing really happens after these types of events are made known is this a way out for 'the masses' to participate in those wars (Gulf of Tonkin is another example) and claim innocence after the fact by saying something like, 'Yes we did kill millions and yes a few got very rich, but since it was based on a lie we (the masses) are innocent of any wrong doing." Usually somebody should be punished (if the lie made war possible many people should face the piper), since none ever have been there is certainly no incentive to not do the same thing again and again. Pearl Harbor should have brought down the whole Fed Gov plus most of the top military brass.
Since nothing really happens after these types of events are made known is this a way out for 'the masses' to participate in those wars (Gulf of Tonkin is another example) and claim innocence after the fact by saying something like, 'Yes we did kill millions and yes a few got very rich, but since it was based on a lie we (the masses) are innocent of any wrong doing." Usually somebody should be punished (if the lie made war possible many people should face the piper), since none ever have been there is certainly no incentive to not do the same thing again and again. Pearl Harbor should have brought down the whole Fed Gov plus most of the top military brass.
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May 26th, 2008, 09:27 AM
Fortunately we have some participants here at Canadian Content who harbour no doubts of any kind when it comes to claiming "knowledge" of how the political and even the human dynamic as a whole came to be the way it is! These fine folk will tell you that your opinions and perspectives are absurd and nonsensical although they will choose to insult and denegrate you as part of that strategy. The world and the social organizing principles that contribute to the dynamic as a whole didn't arise spontaneously from a single person (in most cases), but are the interrelationships of many diverse elements within the larger gestalt.
Luckily...these folk view the world through a simple lens that offers them an unobsured and unquestionably "correct" view of everything ....just ask them!
People who choose to regard the interplay of human political and just about every other dynamic that influences the future stripped of the component element of self-interest and subtle machinations that go on behind the scenes in achieveing a frequently hidden agenda of some kind or other...are easy to placate and fool. It takes decades for the truth to burble to the surface and errors in judgment and behavior can take several life-times to be acknowledged. But these fine fellows have their finger on the pulse of every event and every dynamic that has occurred and will occur for the rest of time.....
We're so lucky to have these folk here at CC!
Fortunately we have some participants here at Canadian Content who harbour no doubts of any kind when it comes to claiming "knowledge" of how the political and even the human dynamic as a whole came to be the way it is! These fine folk will tell you that your opinions and perspectives are absurd and nonsensical although they will choose to insult and denegrate you as part of that strategy. The world and the social organizing principles that contribute to the dynamic as a whole didn't arise spontaneously from a single person (in most cases), but are the interrelationships of many diverse elements within the larger gestalt.
Luckily...these folk view the world through a simple lens that offers them an unobsured and unquestionably "correct" view of everything ....just ask them!
People who choose to regard the interplay of human political and just about every other dynamic that influences the future stripped of the component element of self-interest and subtle machinations that go on behind the scenes in achieveing a frequently hidden agenda of some kind or other...are easy to placate and fool. It takes decades for the truth to burble to the surface and errors in judgment and behavior can take several life-times to be acknowledged. But these fine fellows have their finger on the pulse of every event and every dynamic that has occurred and will occur for the rest of time.....
We're so lucky to have these folk here at CC!
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May 26th, 2008, 10:18 AM
Pearl Harbour once exposed should have precipitated mass revolt, but it did not, this fact alone speaks to the powerfull stranglehold of the corporate mass media and the destructive nature of capitalism as we know it today.
We will be punished but most of us will not even be aware of the crime. The reward for stupid is death. Without removal the wealthy class system we cannot progress socially beyond how we exist today.
Quoting MHz
We the masses have been rewarded for our silent complicity, we have been kept fat and happy by the fast junk pop culture of the west. Our progress has been measured in aquisition of disposable consummer goods, our entire reason for existing is to serve the machine no matter what the crimes to humanity entail. We will, as the history of the last decade indicate, continue to persue gratification through the junk market no matter what the crime, though millions die we continue to be absorbed by the construct of modern western culture in it's degenerate form.
Since nothing really happens after these types of events are made known is this a way out for 'the masses' to participate in those wars (Gulf of Tonkin is another example) and claim innocence after the fact by saying something like, 'Yes we did kill millions and yes a few got very rich, but since it was based on a lie we (the masses) are innocent of any wrong doing." Usually somebody should be punished (if the lie made war possible many people should face the piper), since none ever have been there is certainly no incentive to not do the same thing again and again. Pearl Harbor should have brought down the whole Fed Gov plus most of the top military brass.
Pearl Harbour once exposed should have precipitated mass revolt, but it did not, this fact alone speaks to the powerfull stranglehold of the corporate mass media and the destructive nature of capitalism as we know it today.
We will be punished but most of us will not even be aware of the crime. The reward for stupid is death. Without removal the wealthy class system we cannot progress socially beyond how we exist today.
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May 26th, 2008, 10:21 AM
Hey Beve...
Do you really think any American gives a sheet about the fact that the exercise of their bellicose fanaticism in Iraq will have long term effects on not only their "domestic prosperity" but their "standing" in the global community?
Of course they don't!
As long as you're a society ruled by violence and the threat of violence....
Hey Beve...
Do you really think any American gives a sheet about the fact that the exercise of their bellicose fanaticism in Iraq will have long term effects on not only their "domestic prosperity" but their "standing" in the global community?
Of course they don't!
As long as you're a society ruled by violence and the threat of violence....
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May 26th, 2008, 10:59 AM
Quoting darkbeaver
Nice summation, sad but true.
We the masses have been rewarded for our silent complicity, we have been kept fat and happy by the fast junk pop culture of the west. Our progress has been measured in aquisition of disposable consummer goods, our entire reason for existing is to serve the machine no matter what the crimes to humanity entail. We will, as the history of the last decade indicate, continue to persue gratification through the junk market no matter what the crime, though millions die we continue to be absorbed by the construct of modern western culture in it's degenerate form.
Pearl Harbour once exposed should have precipitated mass revolt, but it did not, this fact alone speaks to the powerfull stranglehold of the corporate mass media and the destructive nature of capitalism as we know it today.
We will be punished but most of us will not even be aware of the crime. The reward for stupid is death. Without removal the wealthy class system we cannot progress socially beyond how we exist today.
Pearl Harbour once exposed should have precipitated mass revolt, but it did not, this fact alone speaks to the powerfull stranglehold of the corporate mass media and the destructive nature of capitalism as we know it today.
We will be punished but most of us will not even be aware of the crime. The reward for stupid is death. Without removal the wealthy class system we cannot progress socially beyond how we exist today.
Hawkings former plumber
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May 26th, 2008, 11:41 AM
Quoting MikeyDB
Well we can see about twenty per-cent of Americans and wannabe Americans do give a sheet and that number grows at about one per-cent per decade so sometime after the middle of this century there will be a groundswell of usefull indignation.
Hey Beve...
Do you really think any American gives a sheet about the fact that the exercise of their bellicose fanaticism in Iraq will have long term effects on not only their "domestic prosperity" but their "standing" in the global community?
Of course they don't!
As long as you're a society ruled by violence and the threat of violence....
Do you really think any American gives a sheet about the fact that the exercise of their bellicose fanaticism in Iraq will have long term effects on not only their "domestic prosperity" but their "standing" in the global community?
Of course they don't!
As long as you're a society ruled by violence and the threat of violence....
