6 Painful Truths About the War on Terrorism
If
you were 4 years old when 9/11 occurred in 2001, then you’re now old
enough to enlist and fight in the war on terror. Recent geo-political events
suggest that this conflict may endure for some generations to come, so,
regretfully, your children may also get to participate. The war on terrorism
is apparently part of our culture and part of our lives now.
“The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for peace in our time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are at war now — with somebody — and we will stay at war with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.” – Hunter S. Thompson
By no means a prophet, Hunter S. Thompson was just an
eccentric observer with a knack for connecting the dots between political
events and the ongoing mainstream media narrative that supports and manufactures
consent for the oligarchy. When taken at
face value, the terror script is indeed a rather convincing and motivating
story, but when you dismantle the official fiction and bring the hidden pieces
into the picture, the truth about the war on terror is just too heavy for
conscious people to ignore any longer.
As
it persists, international terrorism is guaranteed to increase, and as
time goes by, we learn more and more about the real reasons why we’ve been
forced into this apocalyptic conflict. After nearly 15 years of kicking down
doors, drone bombing villagers, shattering societies, and mourning our own
senselessly dead, here are 6 things we now know for sure about the war on
terrorism.
“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” – Hiram W. Johnson
1.) The war on terror was never about
ensuring the security of Americans at home or abroad, nor was the current
situation the result of foreign policy blunders.
The conflict was engineered
from the onset to break up, destroy and destabilize
most of the oil-producing countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The war on terrorism is
about control
of oil, about conquering
national economies and turning them over to ‘foreign investors,’ about demonizing
Muslim nations, about creating a lawless
territory in which to develop Western controlled
mercenary armies like ISIS, about protecting
Israel’s interests in the region, aboutdestabilizing
Europe, about opening
access to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, and
about punishing those nations which dared to defy the international banking
cartel by moving to avert the petro-dollar.
The war on terrorism is also about radically altering
the legal framework of Western governments to allow for greater surveillance, control and the
militarization of once free societies. The aim
is to continually broaden
the definition of terrorism so that any
act of defiance against the state or the corporate
oligarchy, whether advocating for human rights, the
environment, or any other issue of popular
concern, can be persecuted without due process. The war on terror will be used
to target
American citizens who support the idea of limited government and strive to maintain the protections afforded by
the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United States of America.
Additionally, the war on terror is about creating new
markets for the security industry and opening steady income streams for war
profiteers and arms manufacturers, so that a
relative minority can profit heavily from the continuance of the war and the waste, swindling and destruction involved.
2.) The war on terror doesn’t stop
terror, because it is terror.
The Western nations most heavily invested in the war on
terror are also the nations most heavily involved in global arms trading,
which gives advanced weaponry to any despotic tin
pot dictator with an oilfield. And France
just happens to be the
world’s number one exporter of arms per capita.The
Western ‘coalition’ regularly kills civilians in
other nations directly and indirectly, which is in and of itself a very real
type of terrorism.
“You cannot have freedom or peace in a country whose government is engaged in the global wholesale of advanced military arms and weaponry to national governments.”–Stefan Molyneux
Regional
arms sales by the UK.
3.) Our worst terrorist enemies are the
products of government, the military industrial complex and Western
intelligence agencies.
The
Mujahideen was originally organized, funded, trained and supplied by the CIA to oppose the Soviet Union. The Mujahideen became
Al Qaeda with the
assistance of Saudi Arabia and American training, arms and financial aid. Al Qaeda has morphed into, or been replaced with
ISIS, who is the creation of the
military industrial complex, the US, Israel,
the UK and France, and is supported by
some 40 other nations who knowingly trade
and deal with ISIS.
“They tax you in order to create weapons to sell to foreigners to attack you.” –Stefan Molyneux
ISIS, the new Islamic Caliphate as they call it, is the
most barbaric, cruel and inhumane social movement to come about in some number
of centuries, perhaps even a millenia or more. ISIS was given birth and
nurtured into being by the West, and
now, primarily
Muslim people are suffering horribly in their own homelands while the war
intensifies and extends
into Europe in acts of urban terrorism.
Video from November 2015 of an ISIS fighter in Syria using an
American TOW missile to waste an American Humvee.
4.) The mainstream media plays a crucial
in perpetuating the war on terrorism.
The primary role of the corporate-owned
and government-controlled mainstream media is
to transform selected acts of terror into enduring symbols that can be used
again and again to reinforce the war on terror narrative. Their secondary role
is to keep
the level of tension and stress as high as possible by ceaselessly over-reacting to non-events and over-reporting
on non-issues, thereby keeping the public captivated and hypnotized by an
ongoing drama so that when a major event does occur it has the greatest
possible psychological impact.
Reporting on global terrorism is duplicitous and
hypocritical because certain events have more franchise than others in
influencing public support for government policy changes and military actions.
In the practical world of marketing, French flags pictured draped over
national monuments at night-time will go much further in promoting the
war on terror than Kenyan flags draped over
African monuments.
The
media uses shock and awe in a war of psychological attrition against the
public. The objective is to incapacitate and sideline people from
participating in dissent, while scaring people into acquiescence to any
imposed government authority or security measures.
There is a tremendous continual international effort
underway to expose the true facts behind each new terror attack, terror plot,
and major government lie. The alternative
media is growing in reach and
effectiveness, however, the reality is that the Hegelian
dialectic of problem, reaction,
solution still works on a shell-shocked public.
6.) Suicide is more deadly to our
soldiers than any terrorist organization.
The war on terrorism represents the first time in US
history that suicide
has been the leading cause of death of US soldiers.
The psychological impact of this type of conflict is unique and the suicide
rate of returning soldiers may be our best evidence that the war is
unwinnable.
Final
Thoughts
The goal of the war on terror is transform people into
willing participants in chaos, mayhem and murder, or to turn them into
collateral damage. Nobody is born a
terrorist, and we are all being set up
as dispensable pawns in an orchestrated clash of civilizations.
The
truth is out there. When you cut through the propaganda, emotional
triggers, and the divisive nature of discourse today, what’s left is the truth
that the war on terror is something that we must end. The rise in global
consciousness and our willingness to speak out may be our only hope.
Read
more articles from Dylan Charles.
About
the Author
Dylan Charles is a student
and teacher of Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi and Qi Gong, a practitioner of Yoga
and Taoist arts, and an activist and idealist passionately engaged in the
struggle for a more sustainable and just world for future generations. He is
the editor of WakingTimes.com, the proprietor of OffgridOutpost.com, a grateful father and a man who seeks to enlighten
others with the power of inspiring information and action. He may be contacted
at wakingtimes@gmail.com.
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