The Perpetual War!
The war that has already begun; it is not about Iraq; it's not about Saddam
Hussein. So forget everything that's being talked about in any of the media,
whether it's pro- or anti-war. It's irrelevant to the issue, as we have to
understand it.
You could say that it began in 1974. A number of things happened that year,
that were indispensable towards launching the ongoing, the "perpetual" war
that has hit the entire Middle East region and beyond for more than 25 years.
1974 was the year that Henry Kissinger promulgated National Security Study
Memorandum 200, which was signed a year later by President Gerald Ford, and
has been the underlying national security doctrine of the United States ever
since. The basic thrust of NSSM-200 is that economic development and
population growth in the developing world is a national security threat to the
United States, and must be stopped at all costs.
The argument was, simply, that the entire strategic raw-material resources of
the entire planet are urgently required on behalf of the national security
interests of the United States. This was during the Cold War, and was couched
in terms of the struggle between the West and the Soviet empire.
But basically, Kissinger's concept� classic Malthusian, genocidal idea�was
that the United States and its English-speaking allies must control all of the
strategic raw-material wealth of Africa; all the strategic raw-material wealth
of Ibero-America; all the strategic petroleum and natural-gas reserves of the
Persian Gulf; and at all costs, no modern nation-states could be allowed to
come into existence, or continue to exist, in any of these areas of the world.
The Middle East was particularly important for two reasons: Number one, the
petroleum wealth of the region, which is a very particular, vital raw material
for the energy supply for the world economy.
Second, the Middle East is a major crossroad between Europe and Asia, and
between Eurasia and Africa; and therefore, creating a perpetual war in that
part of the world, assures that there can be no effective economic development
throughout Eurasia and Africa.
The second thing that happened in 1974, is that the British oligarchy deployed
one of its senior Arab Bureau intelligence officers�Bernard Lewis�to the
United States to run the policy; basically to administer, as a kind of
colonial gauleiter, the national security policies of the United States.
Remember, that years later, in 1982, at a conference in London, Henry
Kissinger would boast that everything he did, he did on behalf of the British
monarchy and British intelligence, and that he was never loyal to anything
about the United States�particularly, not to the tradition of Franklin
Roosevelt. He promulgated a policy that goes back to the days of the East
India Company; and the senior British Arabist, Dr. Bernard Lewis, was sent to
the United States, set up shop in Princeton, New Jersey, and became the
principal foreign policy and national security adviser to the Zbigniew
Brzezinski government, when it came into power in 1977.
The 'Crescent of Crisis'
Lewis developed a policy that came to be known, in the late 1970s, as the
Bernard Lewis Plan, which was otherwise memorialized on the cover of Time
magazine in January 1979, as the "Crescent of Crisis."
What Bernard Lewis basically said, is that we are going to destabilize the
entire Muslim world, the entire Persian Gulf region, because it borders along
the south of the Soviet Union. We are going to create an Islamic mess, a
chaos, insurgency of wars, along the southern tier of the Soviet Union; and
this is how we're going to destroy the Soviet Union.
The first American ally who was turned upon, overthrown and betrayed, in 1979,
was the Shah of Iran. The net effect of that was that the stage was set for an
eight-year war in the Persian Gulf.
The Khomeini regime came into power in Tehran; and within months, Iran and
Iraq were engaged in a war that would go on for eight years.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, in a private discussion with the Shah of Iran, shortly
before or after he was removed from power, presented NSSM-200 in a very candid
fashion. He simply said to the Shah, "There will be no new Japans in the
Persian Gulf, and there will no new Japans south of the Rio Grande River." The
policy was very clear: perpetual war, chaos, destruction.
As part of the eight-year war that was manipulated between Iran and Iraq,
we're told that there was a standing committee inside the U.S. government,
that basically modulated the supplies of weapons to both sides, to make sure
that the war was perpetuated as long as possible; and particularly, that Iraq,
which was a country that had already emerged as a nation with a modern
industrial economy, a highly skilled labor force, a top-flight education
system, and with the ability to disprove the Kissinger-Brzezinski thesis about
no new Japans in the Arab world or the Persian Gulf, was decimated.
The purpose of this eight-year war was to decimate Iraq and Iran. We had the
famous Ollie North Iran-Contra arms pipeline, and all sorts of other things.
The purpose of that war was to wreak genocide and havoc on the entire region.
It happened that Iraq had a very substantial disadvantage in the war, in that
Iran had a far larger population. So, among the things that were done by the
United States, Britain, and Israel, in order to "level the playing field" to
keep the war going as long as possible, was that Saddam Hussein was provided
with chemical and biological weapons, by the United States; by successive U.S.
administrations.
Now we see President Bush, and Vice President Cheney, stand up and say, "We
have a mandate to go to war against Iraq, because Iraq has chemical and
biological weapons." Where did they get them from?
Not only are they no longer there; but to the extent they were there, they
were provided by the United States, by Britain, and by Israel, to further this
perpetual war.
The next phase of the same war, was the Afghanistan war [against the Soviet
Union], another part of the Bernard Lewis Plan. It began in '79 under
Brzezinski's direction, and continued for more than a decade. During the
course of that war, tens of thousands of young, desperately poor men�really
boys�from throughout the Muslim world�North Africa, the Middle East, parts of
Asia, the Philippines, Brooklyn, you name it�were recruited to be
cannon-fodder in the mujahideen operation that was financed by the United
States, Britain, and Israel, building up a massive opium and heroin trade
coming out of Afghanistan and the extended area.
The policy was a succession of wars that were never to end. And if you look at
the situation in Afghanistan today, that's precisely what's going on. This is
not a winnable war.
Lewis' First 'Clash of Civilizations' Call
So this is the war that we are dealing with. Now, al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden,
and the so-called Muslim fundamentalist threat, as another rationale for the
war that people within and around the Bush Administration are promoting to
start against Iraq. Israel wanted it to start last Spring; there are people
pushing for it to start tomorrow morning, and it could very well happen.
But the argument is as false as the argument about other kinds of
justifications for genocide that come out of the mouths of these people.
The fact of the matter is that the Clash of Civilizations war, which is being
promoted right now, was first called for by Dr. Bernard Lewis in 1990, in an
article in the Atlantic Monthly entitled "The Roots of Muslim Rage." Three
years later, Huntington wrote his article in Foreign Affairs calling for a war
against Islam and against the Confucian world as well. So Huntington calls for
war against 1.4 billion Muslims, and about 1.5 billion Chinese, at the same
time. You get the idea that these people are out of their minds.
So it was 1990 that that call for the Clash of Civilizations war was put out.
Back in 1990, Osama bin Laden was widely known, in British and American
intelligence circles, as the "Tom Marriott of Peshawar." He was working for
us, and he was basically running a hospitality suite for all of the
recruits�the 15- and 16-year-old kids who were being recruited around the
world, and sent into Afghanistan for this perpetual war there -- on our
payroll, basically using his family's money.
A year later, in 1991, we had the Persian Gulf war; and, Bernard Lewis comes
out, in early 1992, in an article in Foreign Affairs, and says that the main
purpose of the Persian Gulf war, was to bring an end, once and for all, to any
concept of nation-state and nationhood and nationalism in the Arab and Muslim
world.
We manipulated Syria, and other Arab countries to go to war in alliance with
the United States, against Iraq. Arab nationalism is dead. The only thing left
is a virulent form of fundamentalism coming out of these people streaming home
from the American-, British-, and Israeli-sponsored war in Afghanistan, to set
up operations to destabilize the governments in their own countries.
So out of Afghanistan, we had the spreading of this perpetual war policy into
North Africa, the Philippines, and into every country in the Middle East.
We've now reached the point where, particularly following the 1997-98 breakout
of disintegration in the post-Bretton Woods international monetary system,
we're moving into the new phase of the war.
The new phase is motivated by two things. Number one: After the collapse of
the Soviet Union in 1990, at the point that Bernard Lewis made his initial
announcement about the launching of the Clash of Civilizations, there was no
longer a competing empire capable of challenging the Anglo-American empire for
total world domination. During the Cold War, it was more difficult to move
full steam ahead to implement National Security Study Memorandum 200.
So since 1990, we've had the succession of wars in the region, and now the
preparations to launch a far more deadly "Thirty Years' War" type phenomenon
in the region, to finish the process of crushing the nation-state. Or, as
Henry Kissinger said in a book published last year, to bring a permanent end
to the Treaty of Westphalia system; the system of nation-states.
An Unqualified U.S. President
This is the war that we're up against. It's got nothing to do with Saddam
Hussein. It's got nothing to do with Iraq; it has everything to do with the
fact that a bunch of lunatics in the United States, Britain, Australia, and
elsewhere, are out to provoke this Clash of Civilizations.
They do not fail to see that, particularly in the period since 1997-98, there
has been substantial progress towards organizing leading political circles
throughout Eurasia, into endorsing and moving to implement parts of Lyndon
LaRouche's call for the Eurasian Land-Bridge.
The war drive was made all the more urgent in late '98, when then-Prime
Minister of Russia, Yevgeni Primakov went to New Delhi and announced that he
was supporting the idea of a strategic partnership among Russia, China, and
India.
So this area of the world, even more emphatically, had to be targetted for
total destruction through perpetual war.