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Neocon Nuttery See other Neocon Nuttery Articles Title: Student Op-Editorialist Can't See the Forest for the Trees Buddy Hanson, in an op-ed for the Northern Star published at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, worries about becoming a conscription slave in a future neocon war, that is to say high-tech act of terrorism directed against the next target on the neocon list, namely Iran.
According to rhetoric from Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), Iran is the next neo-conservative target. Should the invasion occur, there is the possibility that a national draft will follow suit, writes Hanson. According to Paul, the neo-conservatives are pushing for an invasion of Iran without considering the potentially disastrous effects of such an ill-conceived military action.
According to my dictionary, the primary definition of 'rhetoric' is the undue use of exaggeration bombast. Mr. Paul, however, is not exaggerating, as should be obvious to anybody who has even cursorily read the news. Beyond a superficial reading of the news, it should be obvious by now the neocons plan to reduce Iraq, Iran, Syria, even Saudi Arabia and Egypt the latter two more or less compliant with U.S. interests over the years to Neolithic failed states.
As for the potentially disastrous effects of such an ill-conceived military action, it should be realized this is precisely what the neocons want, not only in the Middle East but at home as well. For the neocons, chaos results in order, and the order imagined is a fascist society dictated by Straussian Machiavellianism, otherwise known as Straussian realism, a society ruled by a philosophic elite, that is to say the neocons. The elite must, in a word, lie to the masses; the elite must manipulate them arguably for their own good, write Catherine and Michael Zuckert, although it remains to be seen how feeding Mr. Hanson and thousands, potentially millions of others into a Middle East war would be for their own good. Employing the concept of the noble lie, as described by Plato in The Republic, the Straussian neocons have managed to trick even intelligent people into believing the war on terrorism is for their own good, as the writing of Buddy Hanson eludes.
Politicians could not, however, initiate offensive military action against Iraq without at least some degree of public support. Then, 9/11 occurred, catalyzing public opinion, Hanson continues. At this point in time, the neo-conservatives do not have the excuse or support they need to invade Iran. They are in the same situation they were in before 9/17. So what happens now?
This should be fairly easy to ascertain;the neocons will attack, not invade, Iran, as the idea is not to overrun or capture territory but rather employ a modification of the Fabian strategy, combined with a scorched earth policy, an updated and high-tech version of the Roman vastatio, as Iran is to be utterly destroyed, as Iraq before it, in much the same way Carthage was destroyed during the Third Punic War, when buildings were torn down, their stones scattered so not even rubble remained, and the fields were burned, even salted. For the neocons, depleted uranium replaces salt rather nicely.
Shortly after listening to Ron Paul's interview, writes Buddy Hanson, I tried to imagine the effects of yet another meaningless war: Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, and now, possibly, Iran. Here we are, once again, faced with yet another potentially disastrous string of political events.
Again, a failure to understand, as all wars have their purpose beyond the usual facile reasons dispensed to the dumbed-down public. As should be readily apparent, Vietnam was invaded not only to provide a windfall for military-industrial corporations feeding at the public largess trough, but as part of the effort to standardize and domesticate Southeast Asia, an effort apparent in the fact Vietnam is now a communist labor gulag cranking out promotional toys for the likes of McDonalds and Disney, the workers, in effect slaves (or worse than slaves), laboring 70 hour weeks and earning just 60 cents after a 10 hour shift. Call it the China Plan on steroids.
In fact, the so-called Persian Gulf War, launched by the current commander and decider guy's daddy, was the beginning of the current war against the people of Iraq, a decade and a half long campaign (so far,the neocons promise we will be there for a hundred or more years) with a brutal medieval siege inserted in the middle by NWO historian Carroll Quigley's favored student, Bill Clinton, a concerted effort so far claiming the lives of well over two million people, more than half a million of them children who died horrible deaths due to engineered malnutrition, starvation, and disease. Once upon a time, we called such war crimes, now we call it beneficently spreading democracy around the world, as every era has its agitprop, no matter how vacuous and transparent.
Indeed, there will be another potentially disastrous string of political events for us, mind you, not our rulers. For the Machiavellian neocons, and their neoliberal relatives, disastrous political events are part and parcel of a Hegelian dialectic, the thesis-antithesis-synthesis process, all of it blueprinted well in advance for specific result. Of course, reading the liberal New York Times or the CIA's favorite rag, the Washington Post, we get the idea all of this is happenstance, even the bumbling of myopic neocons, pencil-necked academics cloistered in thank-tanks, eggheads who know not what they are stumbling into. Horse feathers.
When Paul discussed the possibilities of a national draft, it did not take me long to consider the fact that, if Paul is indeed correct, I could very well be swept up by the U.S. Selective Service and dropped off in Iran, Hanson concludes. I doubt that an invasion of Iran or a military draft is, at this time, among the interests of the American public.
None of this is among the interests of the American public, as should be painfully obvious. But Mr. Hanson need not worry, at least when it comes to slogging it out in Iran, because ground troops will not be sent, even if the neocon philosopher kings had a few hundred thousand to spare. Of course, this is not to say some form of national service, i.e., slave labor, will not be required, as our rulers love the idea of servitude, for they believe it is the duty of serfs to serve the corporate aristocracy. GI boots on the ground are not necessary this time around, as the idea is to break Iran down along its ethnic, religious, and tribal lines by way of bunker busters and even tactical nukes, thus rendering by fire compliant vassal states, as envisioned by Obama's advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Rockefeller water boy.
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