Perfectly backward thinking
The Council on Foreign Relations is one of the chief cheerleaders for endless, pointless war. Its primary communication medium, Foreign Affairs, features an article with the clever title, "Mind over Martyr: How to Deradicalize Islamist Extremists." Yes, I know it's just another agitprop piece designed to make the world safe for armament profits, but it lays bare the War Party's mindset: The problem is not US military intervention, the problem is with people who resent it.
See for yourself:
Is it possible to deradicalize terrorists and their potential recruits? Saudi Arabia, a pioneer in rehabilitation efforts, claims that it is. Since 2004, more than 4,000 militants have gone through Saudi Arabia's programs, and the graduates have been reintegrated into mainstream society much more successfully than ordinary criminals. Governments elsewhere in the Middle East and throughout Europe and Southeast Asia have launched similar programs for neo-Nazis, far-right militants, narcoterrorists, and Islamist terrorists, encouraging them to abandon their radical ideology or renounce their violent means or both.
That last paragraph listing the types of miscreants and no-accounts who oppose the projection of DC's power is especially revealing about how the ruling elite views those who resist big government and militarism.
It's that mindset that classified Ron Paul supporters and homeschoolers as domestic terror threats. The oh-so-subtle metamessage here is that if you're shaken by the near-disaster of the Detroit underwear bomber, you should view all of the government's enemies with the same disgust and fear with which government views them.
So how do we stop Islamist extremists? It's simple: We can deradicalize Islamist extremists by de-Neoconizing American foreign policy.
That means: Stop intervening in other people's affairs. Stop propping up dictators. And at home, we must reclaim control of our borders.
They're coming over here because we're over there bombing their people and occupying their countries. Pretty simple, really.
posted by Old Rebel @ Thursday, December 31, 2009
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Of course, to the CFR, war is not pointless. War is the way to continue to weaken the US and to continue subjugating our military to UN command. A great book on the CFR is: Shadows of Power, by James Perloff. It was written during the Reagan administration and shows how our foreign policy has been controlled by these people for decades. It is interesting to note that presidents on both sides of the aisle have either been CFR members, or their administrations have been filled with CFR members for a long time. Remember, David Rockefeller truly believes his grandchildren have some kind of divine right to rule over YOUR grandchildren.
By the way, Happy New Year to Ol' Reb and the rest of the folks at LOS. It's been a pleasure reading your blog and books. I've learned a lot about history and politics, showing that an old dog can indeed be taught new tricks. Let's hope the next decade comes out better for freedom than the last one.
Anonymous,
Hey, thank you for the kind words! That means a lot.
Let's hope the new year continues to amaze and inspire us as grass-roots opposition to the evil empire continues to grow in strength and confidence!
I absolutely agree with your view of the situation, Old Rebel. I'm just amazed that everyone doesn't come to the same conclusion about these stupid, counter-productive wars and occupations.
PalmettoPatriot,
It puzzles me, too, but look at how things are changing. People are turning against DC's plots to transfer wealth, fight useless wars, and roll out the red carpet to illegal immigrants.
There's always hope!
"The work of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient, the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble, the life of humanity is so long and that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope." General R E Lee.
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