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Posted September 12, 2001
National Tragedy
Given the scope of the national tragedy before us I turn to every news source possible to find information. When I turn to Antiwar.com I find a cute little "chickens have come home to roost" essay by Justin Raimondo ["Terror – The Price of Hegemony," September 11]. No words are spared for the victims, no thought given to the tragedy itself other than to recount in gleeful terms how the "hyperpower" got it's just desserts.
Raimondo, you sick f*cking bastard. A terrorist assault of unprecedented scale hits NYC and all you can do is bleat about your outdated, isolationist, anti-progressive worldview. I'm not a man given to physical violence, but if I could find you I would punch you in the mouth.
Antiwar my ass. Try anti-western. Condemnation of U.S. policy and exposing governmental corruption is laudable. Dismissing the destruction of the World Trade Center as "the price of hegemony" shows Raimondo to be a man so blinded by his belief in the malicious intent of the West that he has lost his ability to feel any form of empathy for his fellow human beings.
Humanity or politics Justin? Seems like your decision has already been made.
Justin Raimondo replies:
You wouldn't get anywhere near me with that punch, you self-righteous little twerp, because I would have long since easily kicked the butt of a puffed-up pompous ass like you. Bring it on, buddy: I'm ready for you.
Yeah,
it's a national tragedy, all right. It's a national tragedy that
jerks like you proliferate at times like this, when cold analysis
and not perfervid emotion is needed above all. My commentary did
not engage in emotionalistic pandering, nor did I bother to state
the obvious: that this was indeed a horrific and vicious act.
My only goal was to point to the causes of this terrorist act,
and a possible solution: i.e., an end to the interventionist foreign
policy that is not in our national interest. If this be treason,
then so be it.
European Union Global Hegemony
I wonder what it will take to arouse American patriotism? In the end, even the Kosovars or Albanians will discover that the entire NATO plan is a military occupation of the Balkans, so that the Balkans may be used to transport oil, and all of Europe will be united into one Socialist nation. The American part in this is to provide the necessary mercenaries so that the European Union will not have to be bloodied, because the average Brit, the average German, the average Frenchman really isn't interested in a bloody conquest of the Balkans. It would be bloody without the American Air Force.
How long will American citizens enjoy their status as the mercenary army for the same European Union whose member nations voted the United States off of three United Nations committee posts? When the last former republic of Yugoslavia is destroyed, does anyone doubt that the result will be incorporation of the entire Balkans into the European Union?
Never before has the world's greatest superpower battled so magnificently to undermine its own power by building at almost no cost a new rival empire. Instead of turning away from intervention and minding our own business, we have busily created an empire large enough to become our economic and military rival. Or as it has been nicknamed, "American global hegemony." Or should it be renamed, "European Union Global hegemony" accomplished by a subservient American military?
The "Backtalk" editor replies:
Since
the Balkans are in Europe, "European Union Global
hegemony" might not be the right term.
Right-wing/Left-wing
[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column of September 7, "Standing Up for Macedonia":]
Another muddled article from Raimondo. Comparing the NLA to the Sandinistas is bizarre because ... the Sandinistas were not armed and trained by the US/Germany/UK as the KLA/NLA have been. Instead the US trained and equipped the right-wing Contras.
Equally,
those supporters of the Sandinistas
such as (the disgusting) Bianca
Jagger were the greatest supporters of the bombing of Yugoslavia
and of Albanian ultra-nationalism. Their support is not based
on any kind of ideology or analysis or love for the group they
lionize, one could forgive them more if it were, but on sheer
vanity and egotism.
But the real point is that right-wing/left-wing has no meaning when it comes to analyzing the groups that the US/EU funds and trains and supports in order to dismantle countries – from the militant Islamic Taliban to the Communist Khmer Rouge (Mrs.Thatcher sent the SAS to continue training the Khmer Rouge when the US pulled out) to the fascist KLA/NLA. Anybody who spends 5 minutes comparing the different groups that the US has sent out to do its dirty work can see this.
I begin to wonder at Justin Raimondo's deliberate blindness and misinformation – come on Justin, own up, are you getting cheques from Mr. Soros? Or perhaps you are playing the role that Noam Chomsky plays for the left-wing, i.e. [you] object to the actions of the NWO whilst accepting the premise for those actions (i.e. we were wrong to bomb Yugoslavia even though the Serbs killed all those Albanians).
Justin Raimonodo replies:
Tara darling, I see you're your usual charming self. The world has changed since the Sandinistas were all the rage in your circles: now the US is arming and training the latter-day fans of the Stalinist Enver Hoxha, the late Albanian dictator who funded the core group that became the KLA. The Left, as you may have noticed, now loves NATO, and a whole crew of State Department socialists supported NATO's actions in Kosovo, and valorized the KLA.
It's reactionaries like me who constitute the real rank-and-file of the anti-interventionist movement: sorry, Tara, but that's the reality. Maybe you should save your bile for your fellow commies....
Total Moronization
[Regarding Christopher Deliso's column of September 5, "The Macedonian Phrasebook":]
The Western media, in Reuters news accounts and in the Independent (UK), argued that the destruction of the Orthodox Monastery was caused by the Macedonian government to implicate the UCK. This propaganda and spin control represents the nadir, the lowest point, in Western media coverage of the breakup of Yugoslavia that began in 1991. This is like saying German Jews orchestrated the Kristallnacht destruction of synagogues in 1938 to impugn the German government of Adolf Hitler.
In
the name of human rights, the Western media violates our basic
human rights, our dignity as human beings. Herbert
Marcuse said it best: "The real catastrophe is the prospect
of total moronization, dehumanization, and manipulation of man."
This is what our media, in the service of NATO governments, has
inflicted upon us: dehumanization, moronization, and manipulation.
Most people do not even perceive what is happening. Konrad Lorenz warned:
"We ostensibly free, Western, civilized people are no longer conscious of the extent to which we are being manipulated."
The destruction of the 13th century Lesok Monastery by the UCK was shocking and horrific. But what was even more shocking and horrific was the way the Western/US media reported on it.
~ Carl K. Savich, Serbianna.com
Boost Phase Intercept and Layered Defenses
[Regarding "Missile-shield fantasies threaten better defenses," by the staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, published on August 30 and featured on Antiwar.com:]
The
current faulty system of midcourse intercept would no doubt have
problems with intercepting incoming missiles under many different
scenarios.... Whether other technologies, involving boost phase
intercept and layered defenses, can resolve the problems mentioned
above, remains to be seen. Many more tests will need to be conducted
in the upcoming years without the constraints of the ABM
Treaty to fairly determine how effective a missile defense
system can be.
~ Tom Cheung