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Never Mind Osama, Let's Conquer The World Instead

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Never Mind Osama, Let's Conquer
The World Instead

By Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com
2-3-2


President Bush's State of the Union speech confirms what we have long
maintained on this website: the "war on terrorism" is not a defensive
operation, but a war of conquest.  In the wake of 9/11, we endorsed a
limited police action narrowly aimed at getting the perpetrators and
bringing them to justice: the title of my column, "Kill 'Em - and Get
Out!" pretty much summed up our editorial position. It is clear, after
listening to the President threaten the so-called Axis of Evil, that the
US is no longer fighting a just war, if it ever was. After all the
railing and ranting against Osama bin Laden, Bush did not mention his
name once, and only alluded to the Evil One indirectly when he gloated
over how the terrorist leaders are "on the run." It looks like the US
government has pretty much lost sight of OBL - and they're hoping the
American people will do the same.
        THE GREAT DIVERSION
It's instructive - and not surprising to libertarians - that the one
legitimate goal of this war, getting Osama and wiping out Al Qaeda - has
been thoroughly botched. Everything but that has been accomplished: we
have overthrown the Taliban, brought Pakistan and India to the brink of
thermonuclear meltdown, and alienated our oldest allies in the region,
the Saudis. Kites are once again flying in Kabul - but where's Osama?
The US government couldn't care less: instead of capturing or killing
this monster (and bringing America's holy crusade to a premature end)
they are much more concerned with widening the war to include the
oil-rich regions of the Middle East.
        TWO THUMBS DOWN
                Despite the huzzahs from the President's amen corner -
which now include Democrats as well as Republicans when it comes
to foreign policy - as propaganda Bush's speech was remarkably
dull and unconvincing. He started out touting our glorious
victory, celebrating the ignominious defeat of a bunch of
bedraggled half-civilized tribesmen by the mightiest army on
earth: we not only "rallied a great coalition," he declared, but
also
"Captured, arrested and rid the world of thousands of terrorists,
destroyed Afghanistan's terrorist training camps, saved a people from
starvation and freed a country from brutal oppression."
                As if the outcome was ever in doubt - and the warlords
hadn't already started shooting at each other. Never has there
been so much chest-pounding bravado and triumphalist hysteria
over so little. When Caesar subdued the Gauls, he didn't make
half as much noise about it. Okay, then, so we won: mission
accomplished, over and out. Ah, but not so fast
        WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN
We are told that thousands of terrorists - Bush says as many as 100,000
- are roaming the earth, with but one thought in mind: to target
America:
"What we have found in Afghanistan confirms that, far from ending there,
our war against terror is only beginning. Most of the 19 men who
hijacked planes on September the 11th were trained in Afghanistan's
camps. And so were tens of thousands of others. Thousands of dangerous
killers, schooled in the methods of murder, often supported by outlaw
regimes, are now spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs,
set to go off without warning."
        BUSH'S BLANK CHECK
Bush wants a blank check, and, unfortunately, Americans have been
frightened into giving it to him - a decision we will all live to
regret. The idea that we discovered all these secret terrorist plans,
just laying around right out in the open, strains credulity, but then
Americans are not inclined these days to examine the evidence too
closely, even if it were readily available. Given the alleged scale of
the danger we face - a horde of 100,000 barbarians, all clamoring to get
into the imperial metropolis - how is it that we've just now started
examining all airline luggage? Where are the checkpoints, the armed
guards, the tanks in the streets? If Bush's numbers are even remotely
true, then calling for a moratorium on all immigration would be the
least he could do. Yet it hasn't happened.
        DOWN THE MEMORY HOLE
There's something awfully phony about a "war on terrorism" where the
terrorist-in-chief, Osama bin Laden, is dropped down the Memory Hole and
new hate objects - Iraq, Iran, North Korea, aka The Axis of Evil -
suddenly loom large. It's bad enough that the nation with the biggest
and deadliest war arsenal is now inveighing against "weapons of mass
destruction," but to top it off Bush points an accusing finger at the
pitiful and near-collapsing regime of North Korea, where the half-mad
son of the late Great Leader presides over a nation of bark-eating
concentration camp victims. If Osama is hiding out in Pyongyang, he's
going to get plenty of roughage.
        NO ONE IS SAFE
No evidence links Iraq, or Iran for that matter, to the events of 9/11.
To say nothing of North Korea. But anyone who thinks this war is about
9/11 any longer isn't paying attention.
It's a power grab, pure and simple, a war in which not even our
allies in the region are safe. The other day, Bush's conservative
fan club over at National Review came out in an editorial for the
conquest of the Saudi oil fields. Complaining that the Saudis may
be asking us to quit our bases their, the editors of NR opine
that this would be such a "stinging blow to American prestige"
and provide the terrorists with such "vindication," that
therefore,
"The House of Saud will have sided with the militants, and America will
therefore have to do all it can to overthrow it.  For years, the U.S.
has maintained a presence in Saudi Arabia to prevent the massive oil
fields there from being taken over by a hostile power. Too late."
        THE GRABBERS
It is a stunning feature of post-9/11 irrationalism that such a
statement could be seriously made by the editors of a reputable
periodical, conservative or liberal, without much explication, and still
be considered in the "mainstream." To define the Saudis as a "hostile
power" having "taken over" their own country is typical of our nutty
neo-imperialist mindset: what's frightening is that, with this State of
the Union speech, the brazen grabbiness of the War Party has shaped the
contours of US foreign policy.
        LIVING IN THE FREE WORLD
The President welcomed "the distinguished interim leader of a liberated
Afghanistan, Chairman Hamid Karzai" - the fashion-plate President of the
freest country in the world, where even pederasty is legal. This cute
touch is no doubt what inspired Bill Kristol to note that our true enemy
"goes beyond terror":
"It is a war against dangerous tyrannies seeking weapons of mass
destruction... In fact, since 'no nation is exempt' from the 'true and
unchanging' principles of liberty and justice, American foreign policy
can be said to be at war with tyranny in general."
And he isn't talking about Rwanda. According to the Kristolian
interpretation of the Bush Doctrine, "our task, in this 'decisive decade
in the history of liberty,' is to promote the principles of liberty and
justice around the world - including in the Islamic world."
Read: especially in the Islamic world. The conceit that we're going to
create "democracy" at gunpoint in a region of the world where both
history and current events militates against it is one not meant to be
taken seriously. As Ariel Sharon's generals move to create a "Greater
Israel," and disenfranchise Israeli Arabs, the depth of the US
commitment to "democracy" and liberalism is measured by our silence -
and our subsidies.
        A BALD-FACED LIE
The hypocritical cant that characterizes this administration was really
brought home in some of the small touches, such as the appeal to women.
"The last time we met in this chamber, the mothers and daughters of
Afghanistan were captives in their own homes, forbidden from working or
going to school. Today women are free, and are part of Afghanistan's new
government. And we welcome the new minister of women's affairs, Dr. Sima
Samar."
Good luck to Dr. Samar in talking the Afghanis out of customs firmly
rooted in culture and generously nurtured by religion. Meanwhile, to say
that "today women are free" in Afghanistan is to utter a bald-faced lie.
The mothers and daughters of that ravaged land are still captives in
their own homes, imprisoned by accident of birth and hidden behind their
veils. And there isn't a thing Dr. Simar or President Bush can - or
should - do about it.
        LEST WE FORGET
The War Party keeps saying that we must never forget 9/11 and yet their
rationale for a wider conflict is by now so attenuated from that event
that they are the ones who seem to have forgotten. As the pundits
weighed in on the question of whether Bush hit a triple or a home run,
and the editor of National Review contemplated relaunching the Crusades,
Howard Fineman, reporting in Newsweek, noted that certain aspects of the
investigation into 9/11 seem to be stalled:
"Dick Cheney was on the line, and it wasn't to chitchat. The vice
president rarely calls the Senate leader - a Democrat he dismisses as an
'obstructionist' - so Tom Daschle knew the topic was important when he
hurried into his Capitol office. What he heard was a plea, and a
warning. The Senate will soon launch hearings on why we weren't prepared
for, and warned about, September 11. The intelligence committee will
study the matter, but mostly behind closed doors. Cheney was calling to
preemptively protest public hearings by other committees. If the
Democrats insisted, Bush administration officials might say they're too
busy running the war on terrorism to show up. Press the issue, Cheney
implied, and you risk being accused of interfering with the mission."
        THE 9/11 COVER-UP
The last thing this administration wants is an investigation into the
circumstances surrounding 9/11 - what we knew, what we didn't know, and
who may have had advance knowledge. After conceding that "people need to
know what happened," Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle was reportedly
"noncommittal" - meaning that the Democrats have as much interest as the
Republicans in keeping this thing under wraps. After all, the 9/11
attacks were years in the making, and if anyone is going to receive the
lion's share of the blame, then surely it is the Clinton administration.
Which raises the question: then why aren't the Republicans pressing for
a fully public investigation? It's mighty odd passing up a chance to
score political points in an election year - unless, of course, this
administration has something to hide.
        CONGRESS MUST INVESTIGATE
What's needed is a full and completely open congressional investigation
into how Al Qaeda managed to operate right under our noses for years
without anyone knowing it.  Billions were spent in the name of "fighting
terrorism"; task forces were convened, legislation was passed, special
programs were set up - all, apparently, to no avail. What's up with
that?  Inquiring minds want to know.
Oh, but that would interfere with "the mission," says Cheney. This is
true only if "the mission" is an attempted cover-up of some of the worst
criminal incompetence in the history of intelligence-gathering. Good
lord, what is wrong with the American people? When are they going to
snap out of their TV-induced stupor and start asking some questions? The
smoke had barely cleared from the air over Pearl Harbor before the
Republicans of 1941 started questioning the Official Story - even if it
did take some 50 years to vindicate them. This time around, both parties
have an interest in covering up the truth.
        NEVER FORGET - EXCEPT SOMETIMES
Ah yes, we must never forget 9/11 - except we have to forget about ever
knowing why and how it happened. If a national movement calling on
Congress to investigate the events surrounding 9/11 does not rise up and
demand a full accounting, then this country is brain-dead and not worth
saving.

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Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com. He is also the
author of Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the
Conservative Movement (with an Introduction by Patrick J. Buchanan),
(1993), and Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against US Intervention
in the Balkans (1996). He is an Adjunct Scholar with the Ludwig von
Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama, a Senior Fellow at the Center for
Libertarian Studies, and writes frequently for Chronicles: A Magazine of
American Culture. He is the author of An Enemy of the State: The Life of
Murray N. Rothbard.
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