Bombing for Peace...?
David Balaban
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No. 124 March 29, 1999
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Michael A. Hoffman II, Editor
Published by the The Campaign for Radical Truth in History
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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Bombing for
Peace
Lately Americaąs message has been that violence can be used to achieve
peace
as long as the targets of the violence are out-groups like Iraqi Arabs and
Serbian Slavs.
Bombing for peace is like having coitus for virginity. Something like that
aphorism was circulated in a more vulgar form during the Vietnam era, but
Klinton and broad segments of the Woodstock Generation now running the
Democrat Party seem to have forgotten it or, more likely, sent it down the
already vastly crowded memory hole of George Orwell.
On Sunday March 28 one of the major networks headlined its coverage of
NATOąs aerial bombardment of the Serbs, łWar for Peace.˛ I had to rub my
eyes to be certain I really was reading those words on the newsieąs TV
screen and that this wasnąt actually a commercial for Saturday Night Live
or
some other comedy show. But the network was in earnest. This is the
Orwellian name they are giving to their news coverage of NATOąs onslaught.
In Orwelląs prophetic novel, ł1984,˛ one of the slogans of the militaristic
Big Brother tyranny which takes command of one half of the world is, łWar
is
Peace.˛ It appears that Orwelląs dystopia is here, operating out of the
Rockefeller Center media hub in New York City even as the New York-based
media sneer at Belgrade television as łstate propaganda.˛ But what could be
more propagandistic than imagining war is peace or that one may bomb
civilians to achieve peace?
Klinton has attempted to sell the American people on the idea of the
instant
war and the quick fix, a strategy that might work well in a war on
Disneyland, but is a pathetic joke in relation to a still intact nation of
proud Serbian people whose ancestors fought Ottoman-Turks for five
centuries
and whose saints, patriarchs and ikons are steeped in the lore of
resistance
and martyrdom.
If Klinton and Co. had really wanted to pacify Yugoslavia they should have
done it the more traditional American way, by infusing fiber optic cables
full of video porn, creating a stock market, marketing junk food and
importing millions of unassimiable łminorities˛ from Asia, Africa and Latin
America. Perhaps then the Serbs might, in a few decades, deteriorate to the
level of contemporary Americans.
But to expect that terror-bombing apartment blocs will win the age-old
battle for hearts and minds is the kind of ham-handed łmaster strategy˛
practiced by the Israeli Likud of Shamir, Sharon and Netanyahu and their
ass-kissiną cousins in the White House Kosher Nostra--Cohen, Berger and
Madeline Halfbright.
The NATO bombardment of Belgrade, the first European capital to be attacked
by air since World War Two, is all about pushing the envelope and
establishing precedent for American emperor-presidents to use US taxpayer
billions to establish the One World imperium, even as schools, highways,
bridges, mass transit systems and medical care in America crumble.
Recently I had lunch with a prominent local patriot who is a friend of
Idahoąs Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth.This patriot had recently spoken with
Chenoweth about the Panama Canal and about alleged Chinese missile
emplacements nearby. Along with recent conservative Republican talk of a
łmissile gap˛ comes this idea that US forces need to łdefend˛ against Red
Chinese incursions in Central America.
These outdated Cold War concepts get recycled more often than aluminum cans
at the county dump station. Uncle Samąs missiles are already under the
virtual control of agents of the Chinese Communists, who George C. Marshal
helped put into power, who Harry Truman kept in power and who Richard Nixon
rewarded while in power.
The agents of the U.S. government have only one motive: commerce. Their
souls, their children and their future are all willingly proffered on the
auction block of mammon. Duty, loyalty and honor, the old virtues, no
longer apply.
Vietnam Vets of my acquaintance first taught me that harsh fact, in
particular Louis Beam, who flew two tours for Uncle Shmuel in Indochina,
hanging out the door of a medivac helicopter with a .50 machine gun, for
which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He then returned home and
gave speeches excoriating Henry Kissinger for selling Vietnam vets out.
Beam
was then charged with łsedition,˛ placed on the FBIąs Ten Most Wanted List
and hunted by the Feds as the most dangerous man in America.
Uncle Samąs whorehouse has a permanent motto, łWhat have you done for me
lately?˛ Even erstwhile U.S. hero George Armstrong Custer was sold down the
river when his memory and that of the other 262 troopers of the 7th Cavalry
was removed from the former Custer Battlefield National Monument in
Montana.
Out of deference to the Indians who killed Custer, the Federal government
excised his name from the national parkąs title.
So it is with the Serbs who, during the Second World War ,were the apple of
the Alliesą eye as they held off 20 Axis divisions of one of the greatest
armies that ever marched. But with the death of the Yugoslav Communist
dictator Josip Broz łTito˛ and the New World Order he enforced, some of the
shine has gone off that apple as Serbs have become the paradigm of
nationalism on ethnic-religious lines.
However, ethnic-religious solidarity and patriotism are reserved for the
Israelis alone. Only they are entitled to the prerogatives of nationalism.
Every other nation must hop into the łmelting pot˛ and succumb to the
deracinated culture of the Shylockąs empire of usury: baseball, Budweiser
and the boob-tube.
So while the American sports networks broadcast warm, fuzzy images of
Communist dictator Fidel Castro at the olą ballgame, letąs not get sucked
into the conservativesą misplaced concerns about łmissile gaps˛ or łChinese
Reds near Panama.˛
Aliens who are deadly enemies of the American Republic our Forefathers
founded have a stranglehold on the U.S. military right now, as the tragic,
łbombing for peace˛ farce in Kosovo amply demonstrates. The U.S.
governmentąs war on the Serbs is just a prelude to the war they yearn to
get
going right here in America against our own people; a war Louis Freeh,
Janet
Reno and Bill Lann Lee have already initiated on a łlow intensity˛ basis
against anti-abortion activists, white separatists, Christian Identity
adherents and Arab-Americans.
Missile gap? I hope so. I hope every weapon in the U.S. governmentąs
arsenal
will disappear. Perhaps then we can begin to shut down Uncle Samąs
whorehouse for good.
In the slums of the West Bank and Gaza in occupied Palestine, and in
Londonderry in northern Ireland, the bomb makers of Hamas and the IRA
observe the rhetoric from the White House and the łstate-run˛ New York
media, preaching the łmoral imperative˛ of łbombing for peace.˛ But the IRA
and Hamas are not deceived. They know that terror bombs are just that,
whether delivered by them in a car or a suitcase or by NATO in an F-115.
The aggrieved little boys in Americaąs school yards, the ones taught by
Hollywood that violence is sexy, the ones who have been opening fire on
their classmates lately--they too grok the Klintonoidsą Orwellian
rationale-- that bombs save lives, that war is peace. For them, the CNN and
MSNBC newscasts of the NATO carnage are mere video games, flight simulators
flashing collateral damage as so many blips on a telescreen, rendering
violence a schoolyard game and guaranteeing more of the same.
Orwelląs message was that the culture of death would build its empire with
the rhetoric of life. Nowhere is this practiced to more deadly effect than
in Jerusalem-on-the-Potomac, that giant brothel whose head pimp has once
again used łweapons of mass distraction,˛ in the words of Christopher
Hitchens, to move world attention away from his latest rape charge, the
better to implement the rape of Christian Serbia by the rootless denizens
of
the U.S. Disneyland, łland of the fee, home of the buck.˛
--Michael A. Hoffman
II
[Hoffman is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated
Press and the editor of łRevisionist History,˛ a bimonthly, hardcopy
newsletter]
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