dala sir taki citire ! le zice bine: The Bush doctrine of creating democracy in the Middle East with bombs will go down in history as the cruelest and craziest ever.
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September 11, 2006 Issue
Copyright © 2006 The American Conservative
Not So Clean Break
by Taki
Israel bombed southern Lebanon on July 12 in response to the capture of
two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah fighters. But the Israelis were said
to have planned a military campaign weeks before the soldiers were
kidnapped. According to Dr. John Pike, head of the Washington-based
think tank Global Strategies, and my friend Arnaud de Borchgrave,
editor at large of the Washington Times and UPI, Israel had briefed
Washington about its concerns, and the U.S. had given Israel a green
light to attack Hezbollah and push its troops into southern Lebanon.
There was an agreement between Israel and Uncle Sam that Iranian
nuclear plants would eventually have to be bombed. Once this was done,
Iran would most likely order Hezbollah to attack Israel. Thus the U.S.
and Israel agreed in secret that at some point before the attack on
Iran, Hezbollah would have to be disarmed and that as soon as a pretext
became available, Israel should use force.
Elementary, my dear Watson. As everyone who does not live in a cave
knows, whenever there is a glimmer of stability in the region, the
state of Israel orders a targeted assassination. (Just before the
Hezbollah kidnapping, there were targeted assassinations in Gaza.) On
June 17, the former Israeli prime minister and chief hawk, Benjamin
Netanyahu, and Likud Knesset member Natan Sharansky met with Vice
President Dick Cheney. Speaking to the London Spectator recently,
Netanyahu suggested that President Bush had assured him Iran will be
prevented from going nuclear. I take him at his word. Netanyahu seems
to be the main mover in America's official adoption of the 1996 white
paper "A Clean Break," authored by him and American fellow neocons,
which aimed to aggressively remake the strategic environments of Iraq,
Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. As they say in boxing circles,
three down, two to go.
The trouble, of course, is that the three are not down. The
U.S.-sponsored assault on Lebanon is looking a lot like the ill-fated
Iraq invasion. In both cases we were told smart bombs would accomplish
miracles. Not so. Stiff resistance on the ground and outrage throughout
the world is the result. The Bush doctrine of creating democracy in the
Middle East with bombs will go down in history as the cruelest and
craziest ever. A war on terror, as Bush calls everything he doesn't
agree with, cannot be won by a democratically elected government acting
like a terrorist organization. Killing civilians, especially children,
is wrong. As Talleyrand cynically pointed out, "It is worse than a
crime, it's a mistake."
The truth is that even friends of Israel-and there are many-do not
believe for a moment that Hezbollah, Syria, or Iran really threaten
Israel's existence. Only a propagandist like John Podhoretz-"we
should have killed many more Sunnis age 15 to 35"-and his
bloodthirsty ilk of neocons believe such rubbish, and being a betting
man I'd bet the farm that even they don't. Normal, decent,
sophisticated countries that claim the moral high ground, as Israel
does, do not kill thousands of civilians and destroy the infrastructure
of their neighbors because three soldiers were kidnapped. It was a
set-up from day one.
Both sides, needless to say, claim victimhood. The U.S. and its allies
invoke 9/11, Madrid, and London. The Arabs underline 1967, 1982, 2003,
not to mention Der Yassin in 1948 and last month's bombing of Qana.
Yet we have three Arab territories today where American bombs and
policies have played a major role in promoting chaos and mass death:
Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon. Now we hear that the neocons want Syria
and Iran to disintegrate next. Is there no one with any brains left in
the White House? Don't any of them understand that if any means were
acceptable to fight one's enemies, then the people who have bombed
children in Israel and killed innocents at the World Trade Center would
have been right? Not only were they morally wrong, we are doubly wrong
to follow their example.
And speaking of lack of brainpower, isolating the Syrian ambassador to
Washington cannot be the smartest thing to do. 18,000 Lebanese lost
their lives when Israel attacked that miserable country in 1982, but
Americans wonder why there are so many people who would spend six years
building tunnels or sending suicide bombers. "We do not talk with
terrorists" is the Bush mantra. He keeps repeating it like those
mechanical monkeys who say "Howdy" one buys for children at a zoo.
The collective punishment dealt out by Israel against innocents in
Lebanon is bound to have repercussions. Netanyahu was and always will
be a thug. The neocons ditto. The global loathing for the United States
and Britain has helped corrupt the minds of a generation of young
Muslims. Nightly scenes of slaughter and devastation on their
television screens rouse them to blind bitterness against those they
hold responsible-Uncle Sam and Israel. Is there no one to knock some
sense into the morons who have turned us all into pariahs? This is
America's nadir.
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