The rush to violence
by craig on September 25, 2014 1:22 pm
Between 4 and 20 August the Saudi Arabian government beheaded 19 people.
Saudi Arabia, which has funded and armed ISIS from inception (initially with
CIA support), is now bombing alongside the USA in Iraq and Syria.
Forget the war technology porn regularly being broadcast by western media,
with those spectacular photos of missiles erupting from ships into the night
sky. Those missiles and bombs eviscerate and maim innocents as well as
combatants, children as well as terrorists. The West always first denies,
then regrets, collateral damage. The propaganda can be laughable. During
the invasion of Iraq I remember a news propaganda item about how a cruise
missile can enter a specific window, being followed by the next item the
US had apologised to Syria for two missiles aimed at Iraq which had hit
Syria by accident.
If we can accidentally bomb the Chinese Embassy in Serbia, we can and do
hit civilian homes near the proposed target. Being eviscerated by a piece of
flying shrapnel is no less terrible than being beheaded by a jihadist. Let
us not pretend that our violence is somehow nicer. Children will be dying
under our bombs soon.
Other than the two extraordinary crazed Nigerians, there have been no recent
Islamic motivated terrorist attacks in the UK and even a slowdown in the
propaganda of phoney attacks. This was a threat to the major financial
interests of the security industry, in both its governmental and private
branches.
There can be no greater nonsense than the idea that the Caliphate poses a
direct threat to the UK. This is even more crazy than the claim that Saddam
Hussein posed a threat to the UK. But by seeking to join in the bombing
campaign, and initiating a new round of fake anti-terror arrests in
London, the British government is doing everything it possibly can do to try
to provoke terrorist violence on British streets. The interests of the
security state are therefore secured. I am longing for somebody to explain
to me the precise mechanism by which our bombing Islamic countries helps
prevent terrorist incidents in the UK. The way it can provoke such incidents
seems to me too obvious to need stating. Indeed it says a great deal for the
wisdom and tolerance of Britains Muslim communities that it has not
provoked more. They could teach government a great deal about the good sense
of not resorting to violence to gratify passions and earn short term
acclaim.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko"
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