Dr. Eowyn posted: "Both the Left and the Right are in a
foaming-at-the-mouth uproar over an essay written by Georgetown University
adjunct professor Michael Scheuer. Scheuer is critical of the Middle East
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Both the Left and the Right are in a foaming-at-the-mouth uproar over an
essay written by Georgetown University adjunct professor Michael Scheuer.
Scheuer is critical of the Middle East policy of Obama (and UK prime
minister David Cameron) and seems to advocate political assassination when
Scheuer advises the two men to pay heed to the writings of 17th century
English republican Algernon Sidney, who had called for the execution of
tyrants and glorification of their assassins.
>From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scheuer>:
*Michael F. Scheuer (born 1952) is a former CIA intelligence officer,
American blogger, historian, foreign policy critic, and political analyst.
He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for
Peace and Security Studies. In his 22-year career, he served as the Chief
of the Bin Laden Issue Station (aka "Alec Station"), from 1996 to 1999,
the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorist Center. He then
worked again as Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden unit from
September 2001 to November 2004.*
*Scheuer became a public figure after being outed as the anonymous author
of the 2004 book *Imperial
Hubris<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Hubris>*, in
which he criticized many of the United States' assumptions
about Islamist insurgencies and particularly Osama bin Laden. He depicts
bin Laden as a rational actor who was fighting to weaken the United States
by weakening its economy, rather than merely combating and killing
Americans. He challenges the common assumption that terrorism is the threat
that the United States is facing in the modern era, arguing rather that
Islamist insurgency (and not "terrorism")[2] is the core of the conflict
between the U.S. and Islamist forces, who in places such
as Kashmir, Xinjiang, and Chechnya are "struggling not just for
independence but against institutionalized barbarism." Osama bin Laden
acknowledged the book in a 2007 statement, suggesting that it revealed "the
reasons for your losing the war against us"*
*In February 2009, Scheuer was terminated from his position as a senior
fellow of The Jamestown Foundation. Scheuer has written that he was fired
by the organization for stating that "the current state of the U.S.-Israel
relationship undermined U.S. national security.*
This is the essay in its entirety which Scheuer published on December 23,
2013, on his blog Michael Scheuer's
Non-Intervention.com<http://non-intervention.com/1146/the-desperate-u-s-uk-relationship-barack-obama-david-cameron-and-the-nsagchq-issue/>.
I've added the red color to highlight his words at the end which some have
interpreted as advocating assassination.
[image: Michael
Scheuer]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/michael-scheuer.jpg>*Michael
Scheuer*
The desperate U.S.-UK relationship: Barack Obama, David Cameron, and the
NSA/GCHQ
issue<http://non-intervention.com/1146/the-desperate-u-s-uk-relationship-barack-obama-david-cameron-and-the-nsagchq-issue/>
By MIKE <http://non-intervention.com/author/mike/> | Published: DECEMBER
23, 2013
*“We can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure
them.” Titus Livy*
Over the past months, media commentary on the massive and aggressively
intrusive electronic collection effort being mounted by the U.S. National
Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart, GCHQ, has focused on the
constitutional issues raised by the two governments’ wanton violation of
the personal privacy rights of hundreds of millions of their citizens. And
this surely is an important aspect of the problem, although the Obama
administration clearly has no use for the U.S. Constitution in any venue,
preferring to simply enforce the laws it likes and let the rest molder,
while simultaneously shredding the 4th Amendment and attacking the 1st and
the 2nd Amendments. That Eric Holder and Barack Obama have not been
impeached, moreover, suggests that the impeachment provisions of the
Constitution are a dead letter; that they apply only to individuals named
Nixon; or that they do not apply to Black Americans supported by such
towering giants of fatuousness as Oprah, Chris Matthews, Fareed Zakaria,
Piers Morgan, and Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and their band of
American-killing Viragos.
But there is an equally important dimension of the NSA-GCHQ issue that has
been discussed not at all either by the media or by the politicians in all
U.S. and UK parties that abet the lies of President Obama and Prime
Minister Cameron. Leaving aside the illegality of the collection for a
moment, let us focus on the most basic motivation for the on-going,
vacuum-like collection operation; namely, the UTTER DESPERATION engendered
in Obama and Cameron by their being aware that much of the Muslim world is
now either at war or supporting war against the West, and that the Islamist
enemy is beyond their ability to control or contain, let alone destroy.
Obama and Cameron have followed the lie-strewn path toward the West’s
destruction first blazed by Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Tony Blair.
Obama and Cameron greatly exaggerate the supposedly disastrous impact of
Bin Laden’s death on al-Qaeda and the Islamist movement, while, like their
predecessors, maintaining that fountain of falsehood that spews forth
nonsense about the motivation of the mujahedin being their hatred for
liberty, Budweiser, freedom, and Iowa’s primaries. As this deceit flows,
the Islamists and their war on the West have become much more popular in
the Muslim world, as witnessed by their astounding geographical expansion
and manpower growth since 2001, as well as by their easy defeat of the U.S.
and British militaries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama and Cameron also know that their unquenchable thirst to intervene in
the Muslim world has yielded lethal results for their own people. Foregoing
an adult-like silence, they, like mindless adolescents, cheered on the
“freedom-loving democrats” in Tahrir Square, promoting and deepening the
chaos that led to the Islamists’ stripping Egypt’s arsenals of modern
weaponry and freeing thousands of veteran and talented mujahedin who were
incarcerated in Mubarak’s prisons. Those men and weapons are now in active
service from Algeria to Afghanistan to Nigeria to Syria.
The Western World’s self-proclaimed leaders next joined with France’s
Nicholas Sarkozy to intervene in Libya to bring freedom to the tens of
millions of Libyan democrats, only to find that there were no democrats and
that they had again augmented the Islamist movement’s weapons inventory and
manpower, while leaving Libya on the edge of becoming an Islamic state.
Ever blind to the costs of unwarranted intervention in the Muslim world,
Obama and Cameron backed the amateurish French invasion of Mali — which
will further spread the Islamists’ war in Africa — and then acquiesced,
with silent joy, as the Egyptian military overthrew the Islamist Morsi
government after its victory in a free and fair election, thereby forever
ending any possibility that the West can convince the Islamic world that it
will allow Muslim self-determination. The West-approved Egyptian military
coup revalidated al-Qaeda’s leader al-Zawahiri’s 2005 advice that
self-determination for Muslims and the reinvigoration of their faith can
only come out of an AK-47‘s muzzle.
Most recently, Obama and Cameron have shown Muslims that, for the West,
Israel always has carte blanche to steal Palestinian land, as Netanyahu
rapidly expands settlement building. And they have again demonstrated their
willingness to condemn Americans and Britons to endless war by deciding to
arm the Islamist insurgency that will eventually rule Syria. This
self-defeating arming occurred because Islamist leaders there were smart
enough to push forward a few Syrians who chirped some nifty phrases about
the glories of democracy. As always, the U.S. president and the British
prime minister took the bait, they remain — like Bush, Clinton, and Blair
before them — the Islamists only indispensable allies.
The foregoing can only be called a world of trouble, one in which the
Islamists’ war on America and its allies is gaining strength and
geographical reach, and is brimming with confidence in Allah’s beneficence
after He allowed the mujahedin to easily defeat the U.S. superpower in
Afghanistan and Iraq. To confront this growing religious war, Obama and
Cameron have decided not to use their militaries effectively — too much
bloodshed for such effete, worldly wise sophisticates — but to rely on the
basically defensive capabilities of their intelligence communities, such as
electronic intercepts and the drone and Special Forces attacks they
facilitate. Sadly, these tools are no more than irksome if lethal pinpricks
to the growing Islamist movement, and do nothing to slow, let alone halt
its growth.
For America, the UK, and their NATO allies a day of reckoning is meandering
toward them; its approach is slow and steady because of the extraordinary
patience bred in Islamists and Muslims generally by both the tenets of
their faith and reliable Anglo-American military failure. Obama, Bush,
Clinton, Cameron, and Blair, have eased the Islamists’ way by refusing to
kill enough of the mujahedin and — as important — of their civilian
supporters to persuade them that their game of religious war is not worth
the candle. And, in any event, once NATO leaves Afghanistan, is not at all
clear where Western military power can in the near term be brought to bear
to deliver the requisite slaughter. (NB: Over the longer term, this will
not be a question. The U.S. and British militaries eventually will be
deployed to destroy the mujahedin operating inside the United States and
the UK as a consequence of the non-enforcement of existing immigration and
border-control laws, laws which, in America, Obama is now trying eliminate
altogether.)
Thus, in the name of championing such Islamist-favoring concepts as human
rights, interventionist foreign policies, politically correct speech, the
war-prolonging proportionality of Just War theory; and the absurd goal of
zero civilian casualties, Obama and Cameron know they are losing the war
the Islamists are waging against their countries, and in their desperation
they have few weapons to use save the above-cited ones, weapons that now
and again kill a few mujahedin, and others — especially the universal
electronic surveillance of citizens — that will inconvenience the Islamists
but gradually destroy the civil liberties of Americans and Britons.
In their palpable desperation, Obama and Cameron will expand the use of
those weapons and, by doing so, they will protect the growing power and
durability of our Islamist enemies, while undermining the constitutional
structure, the rule of law, and the civil liberties which, since England’s
Glorious Revolution (1688-89), Anglo-Americans have built and defended
against the despotic drift of their rulers with argument, protest, and — if
at last needed — violence.
*As they head further down the road of losing wars and wrecking
Anglo-American liberties, Messrs Obama and Cameron and their supporters in
all parties would do well to read the words of the great 17th century
English republican Algernon Sidney*, a man who was revered on both sides of
the Atlantic, who greatly influenced America’s founders, and *who was
executed by the British Crown for what it described as sedition. “There
must therefore be a right,” Sidney wrote,*
* “of proceeding judicially or extra-judicially against all persons who
transgress the laws; or else those laws, and the societies that should
subsist by them, cannot stand; and the ends for which governments are
constituted, together with the governments themselves, must be overthrown.
… If he [a political leader] be justly accounted an enemy of all, who
injures all; he above all must be the publick enemy of a nation, who by
usurping power over them, does the greatest and most publick injury that a
people can suffer. For which reason, by an established law among the most
virtuous nations, every man might kill a tyrant; and no names are recorded
in history with more honor, than of those who did it. … They [the people]
know how to preserve their liberty, or to vindicate the violation of it;
and the more patient they have been, the more inflexible they are when they
resolve to be so no longer. Those who are so foolish to put them upon such
courses, do to their cost find that there is a difference between lions and
asses; and he is a fool who knows not that swords were given to men, that
none might be slaves….”**
*Thomas G. West (ed), Algernon Sidney. *Discourses Concerning Government*.
Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1996, pp. 221, 227, and 434.
************
Mallika Sen reports for Georgetown U's newspaper *The
Hoya*<http://www.thehoya.com/media-cite-scheuer-for-assassination-endorsement-1.3129499#.UtgsuNJdW8A>,
that Scheuer's essay has provoked outcry and condemnation from both left
and right. As an example, the Daily Beast’s David Frum called
Scheuer’s comments “advocacy of murder,” in a column entitled
“Michael Scheuer’s Meltdown.” Frum is a former speechwriter for George W.
Bush, whose administration’s war policy is a frequent Scheuer target.
To their credit, Georgetown University's administration is standing behind
Scheuer in the interest of the university's commitment to the freedom of
speech and expression. University spokeswoman Stacy Kerr wrote this email
to *The Hoya*:
"Being committed to the free and open exchange of ideas does not mean that
we approve of or endorses each and every statement made by members of our
faculty. The views of every faculty member are their own and do not
necessarily represent the views of the University. The answer to speech
that one finds disagreeable or controversial is not censorship but more
speech and more dialogue. As such, we welcome everyone's right to disagree
and to express their opinions openly."
H/t FOTM' s josephbc69
*~Eowyn*
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