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Paul Craig Roberts (archive)
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September 25, 2002
Are your ready for WW IV?
Neoconservatives are preparing the groundwork for far-reaching and
interminable U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Neoconservative leader
Norman Podhoretz makes the case in the current issue of Commentary, the
influential magazine of the American Jewish Committee, that it is not enough
for the United States to attack only Afghanistan and Iraq. Podhoretz argues
that "changes of regime are the sine qua non throughout the region."
The challenge that President Bush faces, says Podhoretz, is "to fight World
War IV -- the war against militant Islam." He identifies the enemies: "The
regimes that richly deserve to be overthrown and replaced are not confined
to the three singled-out members of the axis of evil" (Iraq, Iran, North
Korea). At a minimum, the axis should extend to Syria and Lebanon and Libya,
as well as 'friends' of America like the Saudi royal family and Egypt's
Hosni Mubarak, along with the Palestinian Authority."
Unlike the Bush administration, Podhoretz realizes that to overthrow the
Taliban and Saddam Hussein is merely to stir a hornets' nest, while leaving
in place multitudes of anti-Israeli and anti-American militants. Bush must
own up to the true task, says Podhoretz, and find "the stomach to impose a
new political culture on the defeated" Middle East, just as we did
unapologetically to Germany and Japan.
There is logic to Podhoretz's argument. But do Bush and the American people
understand that the imposition of secular democracy on Afghanistan and Iraq
are merely beginning steps in the forceful political reconstruction of the
entire Middle East by U.S. might?
Americans are indebted to Podhoretz for making it clear that a U.S. invasion
of Iraq is the beginning of World War IV. President Bush and his strategic
thinkers should ponder this carefully and be upfront with the American
people. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein will not solve the Israeli-American
conflict with militant Islam. On the contrary, it will widen the conflict.
How many sons, husbands, fathers, brothers, grandsons, uncles, cousins and
friends are Americans willing to give to a war, the object of which is the
social and political reconstruction of the Middle East?
Are the American people prepared to bear the tax and economic burden of such
a prodigious undertaking? Indeed, with significant portions of its
manufacturing and high-tech capability now located offshore, can the U.S.
economy bear the burden?
Would such a struggle leave us exhausted, unable to confront the rising
power of an ambitious China?
A more critical question is whether open borders have turned "the American
people" into an abstraction. The Washington Post has always favored massive
immigration because it builds Democratic voting rolls. But on Sept. 15, the
newspaper called the United States a "Tower of Babel" whose sense of
community has been shattered by the rise of ethnic media.
The Post reports that the penetration of what we are accustomed to call the
major media is down to 43 percent of the U.S. population and dropping.
Increasingly, "people in key metropolitan areas now get their news from
ethnic newspaper and broadcast outlets."
California has 500 ethnic newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, and
online publications. The Post reports that there are "15 Thai-language
newspapers in Los Angeles, several 24-hour radio stations for Pashto and
Dari Speakers." Orange County has 30 Vietnamese publications, and California
has 7 major ethnic dailies and flourishing Spanish-language TV networks.
The Post asks: "If you can't understand what your fellow subway rider is
reading, if you can't follow the opinions he or she listens to each night,
how can you hope to hold a discussion about national politics? Aren't our
opinions and national discourse likely to become ever more Balkanized?"
Bush should ponder this question before he undertakes to reconstruct the
Middle East. He must face the fact that his own country has been
reconstructed by massive immigration from the Third World. Are these legions
of hyphenated-Americans in sympathy with the neoconservative goals that
control U.S. foreign policy?
Before the United Staets finds itself embroiled in a Middle East conflict
for which it lacks both economic means and popular support, I propose a
different solution: Terminate the Middle Eastern conflict by inviting the 5
million Jews in Israel to settle in the United States.
The entire population of Israel amounts to no more than two years of illegal
Mexican immigration. The Jews can function here, if they wish, as an
autonomous ethnic enclave just like all the other enclaves created by our
short-sighted immigration policy.
Despite extreme measures, Israel is unable to defend itself from Palestinian
terrorists. The United States will not be able to defend Israel or itself
from one billion Muslims.
Trying to create a small Jewish state in a sea of Muslims was a 20th century
mistake. Trying to reconstruct the Middle East would be a bigger mistake.
Why not recognize the mistake, evacuate the Jews, leave the Muslims to
themselves and focus on saving our own country?
©2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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