- "The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in
the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use
of weapons of mass destruction." --Five Western military leaders.
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- I read the statement three times trying to figure out
the typo. Then it hit me, the West has now out-Orwelled Orwell: The West
must nuke other countries in order to prevent the use of weapons of mass
destruction! In Westernspeak, the West nuking other countries does not
qualify as the use of weapons of mass destruction.
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- The astounding statement comes from a paper prepared
for a NATO summit in April by five top military leaders an American,
a German, a Dutchman, a Frenchman, and a Brit.
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- The paper, prepared by men regarded as distinguished
leaders and not as escapees from insane asylums, argues that "the
West's values and way of life are under threat, but the West is struggling
to summon the will to defend them." The leaders find that the UN
is in the way of the West's will, as is the European Union which is obstructing
NATO and "NATO's credibility is at stake in Afghanistan."
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- And that's a serious matter. If NATO loses its credibility
in Afghanistan, Western civilization will collapse just like the Soviet
Union. The West just doesn't realize how weak it is. To strengthen itself,
it needs to drop more and larger bombs.
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- The German military leader blames the Merkel government
for contributing to the West's inability to defend its values by standing
in the way of a revival of German militarism. How can Germany be "a
reliable partner" for America, he asks, if the German government
insists on "special rules" limiting the combat use of its forces
in Afghanistan?
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- Ron Asmus, head of the German Marshall Fund and a former
US State Department official, welcomed the paper as "a wake-up call."
Asmus means a call to wake-up to the threats from the brutal world, not
to the lunacy of Western leaders.
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- Who, what is threatening the West's values and way of
life? Political fanaticism, religious fundamentalism, and the imminent
spread of nuclear weapons, answer the five asylum escapees.
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- By political fanaticism, do they mean the neoconservatives
who believe that the future of humanity depends on the US establishing
its hegemony over the world? By religious fundamentalism, do they mean
"rapture evangelicals" agitating for Armageddon or Christian
and Israeli Zionists demanding a nuclear attack on Iran? By spread of
nuclear weapons, do they mean Israel's undeclared and illegal possession
of several hundred nuclear weapons?
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- No. The paranoid military leaders see all the fanaticism,
religious and otherwise, and all the threats to humanity as residing outside
Western civilization (Israel is inside). The "increasingly brutal
world," of which the leaders warn, is "over there." Only
Muslims are fanatics. All us white guys are rational and sane.
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- There is nothing brutal about the US/NATO bombing of
Serbia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, or the Israeli bombing of Lebanon, or the
Israeli ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, or the genocide Israel hopes
to commit against Palestinians in Gaza.
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- All of this, as well as America's bombing of Somalia,
America's torture dungeons, show trials of "detainees," and
overthrow of elected governments and installation of puppet rulers, is
the West's necessary response to keep the brutal world at bay.
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- Brutal things happen in the "brutal world"
and are entirely the fault of those in the brutal world. None of this
would happen if the inhabitants of the brutal world would just do as they
are told. How can the civilized world with its monopoly on morality allow
people in the brutal world to behave independently? I mean, really! God
forbid, they might attack some innocent country.
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- The "brutal world" consists of those immoral
fanatics who object to being marginalized by the West and who reply to
mass bombings from the air and to the death and destruction inflicted
on them through myriad ways by strapping on a suicide bomb.
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- Unable to impose its will on countries it has invaded
with conventional arms, the West's military leaders are now prepared to
force compliance with the moral world's will by threatening to nuke those
who resist. You see, since the West has the monopoly on morality, truth,
and justice, those in the outside world are obviously evil, wicked and
brutal. Therefore, as President Bush tells us, it is a simple choice between
good and evil, and there's no better candidate than evil for being nuked.
The sooner we can get rid of the brutal world, the sooner we will have
"freedom and democracy" everywhere that's left.
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- Meanwhile, the United States, the great moral light unto
the world, has just prevented the United Nations from censuring Israel,
the world's other great moral light, for cutting off food supplies, medical
supplies, and electric power to Gaza. You see, Gaza is in the outside
world and is a home of the bad guys. Moreover, the wicked Palestinians
there tricked the US when the US allowed them to hold a free election.
Instead of electing the US candidate, the wicked voters elected a government
that would represent them. The US and Israel overturned the Palestinian
election in the West Bank, but those in Gaza clung to the government that
they had elected. Now they are going to suffer and die until they elect
the government that the US and Israel wants. I mean, how can we expect
people in the brutal world to know what's best for them?
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- The fact that the UN tried to stop Israel's just punishment
of the Gazans shows how right the five leaders' report is about the UN
being a threat to Western values and way of life. The UN is really against
us. This puts the UN in the outside world and makes it a candidate for
being nuked if not an outright terrorist organization. As our president
said, "you are with us or against us."
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- The US and Israel need a puppet government in Palestine
so that a ghettoized remnant of Palestine can be turned into a "two
state solution." The two states will be Israel incorporating the
stolen West Bank and a Palestinian ghetto without an economy, water, or
contiguous borders.
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- This is necessary in order to protect Israel from the
brutal outside world.
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- Inhabitants of the brutal world are confused about the
"self- determination" advocated by Western leaders. It doesn't
mean that those outside Western civilization and Israel should decide
for themselves. "Self" means American. The term, so familiar
to us, means "American-determination." The US determines and
others obey.
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- It is the brutal world that causes all the trouble by
not obeying.
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- January 24, 2008
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- Paul Craig Roberts [send him mail] wrote the Kemp-Roth
bill and was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration.
He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and
Contributing Editor of National Review. He is author or coauthor of eight
books, including The Supply-Side Revolution (Harvard University Press).
He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon
Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Stanford University. He has contributed to numerous scholarly journals
and testified before Congress on 30 occasions. He has been awarded the
U.S. Treasury's Meritorious Service Award and the French Legion of Honor.
He was a reviewer for the Journal of Political Economy under editor Robert
Mundell. He is the co-author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He is
also coauthor with Karen Araujo of Chile: Dos Visiones La Era Allende-Pinochet
(Santiago: Universidad Andres Bello, 2000).
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