Terrorism Is a Cost of Empire
Here's something the pro-war, any war crowd doesn't want to face up to: The Empire is an enemy of both American security and American freedom. Regarding the recent failed attempt to blow up a plane over Detroit, Jacob Hornberger writes:
No one can deny that if the guy on that international flight to Detroit had succeeded in blowing up the plane, the Big Government advocates would be using that as an argument for having the federal government crack down even more on civil liberties.
And isn’t it interesting that the massive post-9/11 crackdown on civil liberties didn’t prevent the guy from apparently almost bringing down the plane.
(Which didn't stop the TSA from dreaming up even more draconian regulations for air travelers!)
Hornberger goes on to discuss how the "flypaper" theory underlying the War on Terror remains a dismal failure:
Not surprisingly, the pro-empire crowd is using the incident to show why it is more urgent than ever to continue the brutal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and to expand killing the “bad guys” to Pakistan, Yemen, and who knows where else. The idea is that the government needs to keep killing those “bad guys” over there before they come here and kill us.
But as I’ve pointed out for years, the U.S. Empire has become the world’s biggest terrorist-producing machine. The more people it kills over there, the more the ranks of those who wish to retaliate against Americans are swelled.
In other words, the pro-empire advocates say, “We’re over there to kill them before they come over here and kill us.” But what’s actually happening is this: They’re coming over here to kill us because the Empire is over there killing them.
Very valid points. But Horberger (a left-libertarian) then adds this:
Even the anti-immigrant crowd is left empty-handed. It turns out that the guy apparently was entering the country legally, confirming what I’ve been saying ever since 9/11: That if people really want to keep out terrorists, they’ve got to put a total ban on foreign tourism to the United States. They’ve got to hermetically seal the United States, just like North Korea does.
But that's not the whole story. In fact, uncontrolled immigration is clearly a major reason Islamic terrorism is a growing problem here.
First there's the militancy of Islam itself. As Samuel Huntington wrote in his classic, "The Clash of Civilizations":
... the relations between Muslims and peoples of other civilizations -- Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Hindu, Chinese, Buddhist, Jewish -- have been generally antagonistic; most of these relations have been violent at some point in the past; many have been violent in the 1990s. Wherever one looks along the perimeter of Islam, Muslims have problems living peaceably with their neighbors. Muslims make up about one-fifth of the world's population but in the 19990s they have been far more involved in intergroup violence than the people of any other civilization. p. 256.
While Islamic immigration in America hasn't (yet!) created regions sufficiently populous to wage open war, it has made domestic terror more than just a threat. The 9/11 terrorists were able to blend in and prepare for their attacks because they had Islamic colonies within the United States to blend into. And non-Islamic immigration assisted their efforts -- two of the terrorists received material aid from illegal Latino immigrants who knew how to counterfeit the necessary documents to hide here until they were ready to spring their plot.
More significantly, DC's imperial agenda is what placed America on the path to becoming a multi-cultural empire to begin with. To counter the Soviet Union's post-World-War-II appeal as a universal, anti-colonial force, the United States government began reconstructing itself into a multi-cultural empire in the 1950s, and instituted its Open Borders policy in the 1960s. The idea was to make the US more multi-cultural and universal than the Soviet Union.
Empire and Open Borders are two sides of the same coin. Both are the enemies of peace and freedom.
posted by Old Rebel @ Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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I am basically a Libertarian, but I have no problem at all with stopping all third worlders from coming to America. But then I realize that our liberty comes from our culture. Letting the Muslims from the Old World or the Peons from the New World flood our nation will only lead to our freedoms being trashed.
Superb post, Old Rebel.
I'll echo Snaggle-Tooth's at-a-boy, Mike. But then, you have always done a superb job with this blog.
To Cracker Americanus, all I can say is that you have succinctly expressed the yankee mentality - that Faustian desire to make everthing and everyone exactly like them (yankees). I don't know if the writer(s) of Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam war movie 'Full Metal Jacket' did it on purpose, but he/they crafted a scene that displays that mentality brilliantly.
Joker, played by Matthew Modine, is at the scene of a mass grave outside Hue during the Tet Offensive. He has, 'Born to Kill' written on his helmet, but wears a peace symbol button on his body armor. A colonel with a decidedly New England accent proceeds to chew his ass over the apparent contradiction. He exhorts Joker to get his head and his ass wired together and to come on in with the team for the big win. He closes by saying, 'We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook, there's an American trying to get out!' Hardly anything better encapsulates the imperial yankee worldview than this little gem.
This entire attitude is so replete with hypocrisy, non sequiturs, oxymorons, and fantasy that it would take much more room than I should rightfully take here to begin to debunk it. The damned yankee talks much of 'diversity', but what he really means by that is that everyone should be JUST LIKE HIM. As Richard Weaver so elloquently put it, the yankee idea of tolerance is really indifference and contempt unitl such time as other ways of thinking and living can be brought into conformance with his own.
Reconstruction marches on, and not just in Dixie, but around the globe as well.
As for the Mohammedan problem, open borders are allowing them to covertly conquer Christendom today in a way they could never do overtly during the middle ages. Back then, Christedom was thoroughly united against the threat of Islam, raised armies to meet them at the gates of Vienna, and drive their pagan hides back into the middle east.
Where are Ferdinand and Isabella when we need them? Until those in government finds the balls to round up and deport every mohammedan from our shores (I think the majority of regular folks are already itching for just that) and close our borders, then we are doomed. But those in the u.s. government will never do that, because they think what's going on with unmitigated immigration serves their purposes. Like the French revolutionaries who were sent to the guillotine by some of their cohorts, the yankees will be terribly surprised when their muslim 'friends' put their heads on the chopping block after they take over and establish an islamic theocracy. Those unintended consequences will bite you in the ass every time.
This is why Southern secession and independence are the only answer to this problem, and a host of other problems that we face today.
May God grant that 2010 will be the year of our liberation! May He save and preserve the South!
Mark,
I am a Marine, and I do feel the South is the best blueprint for the world. If we cannot bring everybody into our culture why do we bother destroying their government and rebuilding their country. If we do not feel our government and culture are the best why bother?
Chris Mallory,
Every nation has the right to maintain its civilization, which means the right to be left alone and the right to control its borders.
And we claim the same right.
Cracker Americanus,
I think a truly healthy society focuses on honoring its heroes, its values, and way of life, rather than conquering its neighbors.
The right to be left alone is reciprocal.
Snaggle-Tooth Jones,
Thank you, old friend!
Mark Thomey,
Thanks for that!
And you're right, that scene did sum up the Yankee mentality perfectly.
It's a joke of cosmic proportion that it's we Southerners who're fighting to enforce that poisonous mindset.
Cracker:
I appreciate your recognition of the fact that the Southern worldview and its inherent principles are the best hope that fallen men have available to establish and maintain their liberty. However, your apparent enthusiasm for wanting to FORCE it on others is antithetical to the worldview and principles you claim to admire.
At the risk of blasphemy, allow me an analogy. We should spread the good news and promise of liberty offered by our Southern way of life in the way Christ asked us to spread Christianity - through love, gentle persuasion, and good example. When you read the works of the Southern founding fathers, what I expressed, above, is what they hoped for - that America would be an example for other people around the world, that they might emulate us and gain freedom by pursuing our principles for themselves, in their own way, under their own circumstances, in their own homelands. They did not comtemplate a forceful crusade to make the world over in our image. They would wish others well in gaining their liberty, but they would be the defenders of only our own. This is why we shouldn't bother. It's counterproductive. It only enflames animosity where there was none and engenders hatred where there could have been cordial relations.
Southerners are classical men, that is, we appreciate an established order of things in which we may enjoy the blessing of liberty. We are NOT Faustians, that is, restless world improvers who can't leave anything or anyone alone. The latter is the psychology of the yankee.
Perhaps this is why the yankees and the mohammedans are so at odds with one another. They both believe that everyone should be just like them, and that the use of force to obtain that goal is not only justifiable but laudable.
Let's be ourselves.
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