The
Ziocon Zugswang Zeitgeist
By Ingmar Lee
19 September, 2006
Countercurrents.org
"Let me just first
tell you that I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made
are the right decisions. I firmly believe — I'm oftentimes asked
about, well, you're stubborn and all this. If you believe in a strategy,
in Washington, D.C. you've got to stick to that strategy, see? People
want you to change. It's tactics that shift, but the strategic vision
has not, and will not, shift." GWB recently
What
exactly is Bush's stubborn strategic vision, one might ask, as it's
doubtful that he actually understands the word. A strategy, of course,
is a long-range policy designed for a purpose, and the carrying out
of that plan in a skillful way. The Decider's strategy, as he claims
ad nauseum, is to wield "one of the strongest weapons in our arsenal
which is the power of freedom" in the "decisive ideological
struggle of the 21st century." According to Bush, "terrorists
fear freedom as much as they do our firepower." But in analyzing
the context, it becomes clear that freedom is just another word for
nothing left to lose.
After five years of failure
in the feckless foisting of freedom on Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon,
Bush claims that this is still "the early hours of the struggle
between tyranny and freedom," and that "we [sic] are in a
war that will set the course for this new century -- and will determine
the destiny of millions across the world." Dubya's decisive ideological
error reduces strategy to a divisive idiot's logic of "freedom"
vs. "terror." This is an ambiguous, vacuous, rhetorical chimera,
-not a strategy. Bush is said to enjoy grossing people out with his
gruesome farts. Perhaps that flatulent miasma has fueled the fatuous
ignis fatuus which influences his farcical fantasy. Nevertheless, there
is a strategic programme which is driving USraeli aggression across
the Middle East and Central Asia, whether Bush understands it or not.
Ziocon ~ a conflation of
"Zionist"
and "Neocon."
There's a distinction here that I'd like to make, -there may be Zionists
who are not Neocons, and there may be Neocons who are not Zionists.
I believe that the people who drew up this horrific programme are both.
The 'Project for a New American
Century" (PNAC) pact was designed by a secretive cabal of Ziocon
zealots and is the most supremely hateful globe-encompassing ideology
ever devised by a diabolical mind-meld of men. The PNAC central tenet
is that America shall seize its opportunity as the sole global hyperpower
to achieve full-spectrum dominance over all the affairs of the Earth.
And the PNAC strategy is to do this by force.
The PNAC
manifesto is a miserable, sordid and shocking read, ~a
gloating supremecist claptrap of wanton warmongering and ghastly greed.
Many of the Ziocons who wrote it are now firmly entrenched at the pinnacles
of USraeli power. Amongst its chief architects and ideologues is the
ambulance-towing, shrivel-hearted rogue, Dick Cheney. This freakish
puppetmaster runs the American empire and pulls the strings of his straw-brained
figurehead marionette, whose second rate rote-spoken role is reduced
to repeating the PNAC diktat to the masses. No sooner had America's
Dieboldian democracy allowed the non-elected ascension of Bush and establishment
of the Ziocon regime at power Grand Central, the PNAC train left the
station. The Decider was handed the script and the Ziocons set out on
the track to take down the world.
The Ziocons require a tightly
coordinated henchclaque of stenographers which craft and disseminate
the inconceivably bizarre PNAC propaganda to a global monopoly of quisling
corporate media. The spinmeisters job is to jingo this doctrine of repetitive,
unending pre-emptive war, which features resurrected nuclear weapons
testing, upgrades and attacks, microbial warfare, space-based weaponry,
control of cyberspace, and a new plethora of forward bases to enforce
an expanding security perimeter to guard "American interests".
Above all, the PNAC scheme lays out a vision for a vastly expanded American
military dictatorship for the stated Orwellian purpose of forcing an
"American peace" on the world.
Priority #1 on the PNAC agenda
is to secure all of the world's oil assets, by force. American pre-eminence
in the world cannot be maintained without total control of world's dwindling
oil supplies. All of the largest oil fields have already been discovered
and are being produced, and production is past its peak in its most
prolific pools. In 2002, the world used four times as much oil as was
newly found. In the first quarter of 2005, world oil use was estimated
at 83 million barrels per day, and the United States, with 4.6% of the
global population, burnt a quarter of that. Of the 20 million barrels
a day that fuels the American economy, 25 per cent is burned up on the
roads. Americans must fuel their SUV's, and no American administration
can allow a hitch in that flow.To the PNACers nothing, absolutely nothing
can stand between them and that oil, and they are prepared to use any
of the horrific cataclysmic options to secure it.
That more than 60 per
cent of the world's proved oil reserves are in the Middle East, a region
wracked by conflict, is a constant source of anxiety for nations that
rely on Gulf supplies. In spite of stated efforts to reduce its reliance
on Middle East oil, the US has been driven to repeated interventions
and support for autocratic regimes to ensure stable energy supplies.
-- Financial Times, July 5, 2006, p. 8
.If you were to spin
the globe and look for real estate critical to building an American
Empire, your first stop would have to be the Persian Gulf. The desert
sands of this region hold two of every three barrels of oil in the world
-- Iraq's reserves alone are equal, by some estimates, to those of Russia,
the United States, China and Mexico combined. -- Robert Dreyfuss, Mother
Jones. March-April 2003
The magic number is 112
billion. That's how many barrels of oil experts say is oozing through
Iraq's geology -- the second largest proven reserves of oil on the planet,
just behind Saudi Arabias. -- New York Times -- Nov. 3, 2002
That the Ziocons have deeply
infiltrated into all levels across the political spectrum of the American
power hierarchy has been made abundantly clear by Professor's John Mearsheimer
and Stephen Walt's carefully researched March 2006 exposé, "The
Israel Lobby." Although US Democrats are also heavily influenced
and financed by the Israel
Lobby, the authors emphasize that "...The situation
is even more pronounced in the Bush administration, whose ranks have
included such fervent advocates of the Israeli cause as Elliot Abrams,
John Bolton, Douglas Feith, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Richard Perle,
Paul Wolfowitz and David Wurmser [all PNACers -Ingmar]. As we shall
see, these officials have consistently pushed for policies favoured
by Israel and backed by organisations in the Lobby..."
Mearsheimer and Walt go on
to describe the Israel Lobby's deep infiltration into the American media:
"...The Lobby's
perspective prevails in the mainstream media: the debate among Middle
East pundits, the journalist Eric Alterman writes, is 'dominated by
people who cannot imagine criticising Israel'. He lists 61 'columnists
and commentators who can be counted on to support Israel reflexively
and without qualification'. Conversely, he found just five pundits who
consistently criticise Israeli actions or endorse Arab positions..."
In the April/May 2004 issue
of Adbusters Magazine, the courageous and unflinchingly ethical editor,
Kalle Lasn, took the exposé of the Israel Lobby's deep infiltration
much farther:
"To have 50% of
the most powerful intellectual [sic] group in the world, for half of
them to be Jewish, is something we need to look in the face and debate
and ask, 'What does this mean?' It means that American foreign policy
is distorted in some way that I don't think is necessarily democratic."
Lasn lists off the world's
most prominent Neocons, and marks the names of predominant Jewish presence
amongst the horde, and for his trouble was immediately branded with
the boringly predictable label of "anti-semite," a stigma
which has now become de riguer for any self-respecting progressive writer.
Directly commensurate with Israel's sordid massacres in Lebanon and
Palestine, the "anti-semite" stigmatization for its critics
has now become utterly impotent as a Ziocon weapon of intimidation,
as peace-loving people now speak out freely about Israel's countless
atrocities. Lasn writes:
"..Here at Adbusters,
we decided to tackle the issue head on and came up with a carefully
researched list of who appear to be the 50 most influential neocons
in the US. Deciding who exactly is a neocon is difficult since some
neocons reject the term, while others embrace it. Some shape policy
from within the White House, while others are more peripheral, exacting
influence as journalists, academics, and think tank policy wonks. What
they all share is the view that the US is a benevolent hyper power that
must protect itself by reshaping the world into its morally superior
image. And half of them are Jewish..."
Here's Lasn's list:
*Norman Podhoretz, *Irving
Kristoll, *Midge Decter, Jean Kirkpatrick, *Paul Wolfowitz, *Douglas
Feith, Peter Rodman, Stephen Cambone, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney,
*I. Lewis Libby, *Elliot Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, *Dov
Zakheim, *Robert B. Zoellick, Richard Perle, R. James Woolsey, *Eliot
Cohen, Robert W. Tucker, Francis Fukuyama, *William Kristoll, *Robert
Kagan, Gary Schmidt, Ellen Bork, *David Wurmser, *Joshua Muravchik,
Reuel Mark Gerecht, Michael Novak, Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus, *Meyrav Wurmser,
*Irwin Stelzer, Rupert Murdoch, Richard Mellon Scaife, Thomas Donnelly,
Owen Harries, *Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney, Max Boot, Gary Bauer,
William Bennett, *Daniel Pipes, *Lawrence Kaplan, *Marty Peretz, *Charles
Krauthammer, *David Brooks, Fred Barnes, *John Podhoretz, *Neal Kozodoy,
*Jonah Goldberg
If the PNAC manifesto is
the Ziocon vision for USraeli world domination, its message dovetails
with an overtly rascist and vicious predecessor, "The Protocols
of the Learned
Elders of Zion," which first appeared back in 1890.
Whether or not the Protocols are a "forgery" the hideous similarites
of vision are unmistakeable.That Zionists have long supported the American
attacks, invasions and massacres of Afghanistan and Iraq is clear. That
Zionists have long been lusting for the imminent attack on Syria and
Iran is clear. The brutal oppression and subjugation of the Palestinian
people, and the recent destruction of Lebanon in a grossly disproportionate
reaction to the capture of two IDF soldiers has sent a clear signal
to the world that the Zionists will not be bound by any humanitarian
constraints in the next leg of the project. Such appalling displays
of wanton cruelty and depravity can only be seen as a precursor to what's
next. Given the complexity and diversity of the stated objective, it
is clear that the Zionist attack on Iran will require the use of nuclear
weapons. At the outset of Bush's second term, Dick Cheney described
in no uncertain terms, that Iran was "right at the top of the list"
of the rogue enemies of America, and that Israel would, so to speak,
"be doing the bombing for us." Here's Cheney in an MSNBC Interview
in Jan 2005:
"One of the concerns
people have is that Israel might do it without being asked... Given
the fact that Iran has a stated policy that their objective is the destruction
of Israel, the Israelis might well decide to act first, and let the
rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards"
N.B. Iranian President
Ahmedinejad did not call for the destruction of Israel, -he called for
the destruction of the Israeli zionist regime. see Jonathan Steel: Lost
in Translation
Zugswang
~ n. Chess an obligation to move in one's turn even when this must be
disadvantageous. [German from Zug move + Zwang compulsion] -The Canadian
Oxford Dictionary
The PNAC-Ziocon cabal is
dominated by oil-men who have quite rightly recognized the writing on
the wall: that without total domination of the world's largest oil-fields,
America as we know it is toast. The Project for a New American Century
is therefore a risk-all, no holds barred desperation mission to perpetuate
the American status quo. America must control the Caspian oil basin
and pipeline routes across Afghanistan, and it must secure the oil basins
of Iraq and Iran to have the slightest chance of survival. The mission
is unswervable; it's do or die. I suspect that most of America's Democrat
politicians currently in power also understand this, which explains
their ongoing support for Bush's warmongering. No American politician
can accept the imminent collapse of the American economy on their watch,
so there will be no political way out of the violence.
When the Ziocons conquered
the White House in 2000, the U.S. surplus was approximately $5 trillion.That's
all gone now and the domestic deficit stands at somewhere around $500
billion. The outstanding American public debt as of 17 Sept., 2006,
stands at $8,532,302,172,960.05 ($8.5 trillion) and the American debt
is mushrooming by $1.7 billion a day. Foreigners hold 48 percent of
the U.S. Treasury bond market, 24 percent of the U.S. corporate bond
market and 20 percent of all U.S. corporations. The only thing that
backs up the teetering buck today is that it is the world's de facto
oil transaction currency. China has more than $800 billion reserved
in a giant stack of green, ink-smeared paper for the purpose of buying
oil. Should countries like Iran, Venezuela and others start selling
oil in euros, China alone could instantly destroy the US economy by
converting that stack of paper to euros and use real money to buy oil
instead. As the world's most bloated Brobdingnagian debtor nation, America
owes the world bigtime, and they have not the way, nor the will to pay.
Zeitgeist
~ n. 1 the spirit of the times. 2 the trend of thoughts and feelings
in a period. [German from Zeit time + Geist spirit]
The most prescient and ugly
PNAC statement of all is written in the section of the manifesto entitled,
"Rebuilding
America's Defences." It states that, " ...the
process of transformation, [towards the New American Century] even if
it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."
Many people have read into that statement a clear conspiracy by the
PNAC cabal to produce the pretext for their war plans by committing
the monumental crime of 9/11. Whether or not George Bush, Dick Cheney
or their Ziocon cabal organized and orchestrated the September 11th
events, nevertheless, who could argue that they are not sufficiently
desperate and devoid of conscience to be capable of such atrocity, and
that the technology and the means to pull it off were available to them?
Watching Cheney
and Rumsfeld
actually choking back crocodile
tears at the recent 5 year 9/11 anniversary memorial at
the Pentagon clarified the depths of depravity these monsters are capable
of.
As many as 250,000 Iraqi
and Afghan citizens have been murdered since the Ziocons got their pretext
and pre-emptively attacked those countries. A recent Scripps
Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that
36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the 9/11 attacks or
intentionally sat on its hands. If growing numbers of people around
the world don't buy the 'official' version of the 9/11 events, that
can only be a good thing. The 'official' version is as murky as the
'conspiracists' version. It is the twisted lies, slander and disinformation
campaigns of the PNAC cabal that have brought the world to this sorry
pass, so personally, I don't much care if the so-called 'conspiracy
nuts' are retaliating in kind. They are certainly doing some serious
damage to the most overarching lie.
Practically speaking, it's
not useful to ignore, stifle or censor such discussion, and in spite
of Alexander Cockburn's disdain, the excellent articles on the subject
posted on Counterpunch by Bill
Christison and Diana
Johnstone were perfectly rational and reasonable. The total
censorship of that discussion by America's busiest so-called progressive
Blog, Daily KOS is counterproductive and basically adds cred to dreadful
Ziocon ravers such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations resident
Bush lackey and war-propagandist, Rex Murphy, who in his recent article,
"Conspiracy
Mongering is a Vicious Instrument" wrote this:
"...The overarching
theory is that Bush and the neo-Cons, not bin Laden, not al-Qaeda, not
Mohammed Atta and his virgin-hungry suicide team, but slow-witted George
and his puppet masters, that they are the real villains, that the president
and his plotters murdered 3,000 of their own citizens. I do not know
why we give any oxygen to these extraordinary libels. Detestation for
George Bush may qualify a person for many things, but it is not a degree
of metallurgy, just as anti-Americanism is not a branch of physics.These
theories that suggest a sitting president and his advisors would murder
their own citizenry are a calumny, as lunatic as they are contemptible.
They come from the imagination of hate, the pernicious concoctions of
minds allergic to reality, and are beneath the dignity of reasoning
human beings..."
Here following are some further
Canadian contributions to the Ziocon Zugswang Zeitgeist which is currently
ramping up the drumbeat for a geno-suicidal attack on Iran.
"We
Should Nuke Iran" by the total wacko columnist Michael
Coren, appeared last week in the Toronto Sun. Coren starts his off his
schlock-shock screed with this:
"...It is surely
obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of history, politics
and the nature of fascism that something revolutionary has to be done
within months -- if not weeks -- if we are to preserve world peace.
Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran..."
Here's the way another Canadian
columnist, Mark Steyn
beats around the bush:
"...Once again, we face
a choice between bad and worse options. There can be no "surgical"
strike in any meaningful sense: Iran's clients on the ground will retaliate
in Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Europe. Nor should we put much stock in
the country's allegedly "pro-American" youth. This shouldn't
be a touchy-feely nation-building exercise: rehabilitation may be a
bonus, but the primary objective should be punishment--and incarceration.
It's up to the Iranian people how nutty a government they want to live
with, but extraterritorial nuttiness has to be shown not to pay. That
means swift, massive, devastating force that decapitates the regime--but
no occupation..."
And then there's the other
blood-lusting Canadian-bred Ziocon wingnut, Krauthammer
:
"...Which is one of
the reasons the Europeans are so mortified by the very thought of a
military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The problem is not
just that they are spread out and hardened, making them difficult to
find and to damage sufficiently to seriously set back Iran's program.
The problem that mortifies
the Europeans is what Iran might do after such an attack -- not just
cut off its oil exports but shut down the Strait of Hormuz by firing
missiles at tankers or scuttling its vessels to make the strait impassable.
It would require an international armada led by the United States to
break such a blockade.
Such consequences -- serious
economic disruption and possible naval action -- are something a cocooned,
aging, post-historic Europe cannot even contemplate. Which is why the
Europeans have had their heads in the sand for two years. And why they
will spend the little time remaining -- before a group of apocalyptic
madmen go nuclear -- putting their heads back in the sand. And congratulating
themselves on allied solidarity as they do so in unison..."
And here's Canada's most
repulsive Ziocon Repuglican, David Frum:
"...If Iran sees its
goals as strengthening Hezbollah, driving the U.S. out of Iraq, and
obtaining a nuclear bomb for itself, that list of priorities indicates
what the Western world's counter-priorities have to be: destroying Hezbollah,
securing Iraq, and halting the Iranian bomb program. The campaign to
achieve those counter-priorities begins in Lebanon. It cannot end there..."
These are inconceivably dangerous
times as the world's most fanatical, hateful ideologues struggle for
total global domination. American global supremecy was already collapsing,
even before the rise of the PNAC Ziocons. Zionist and Neocon collusion
is essential to forward the plan, although whether America or Israel
leads is unclear. The apocalyptic prophetic words of the idiot hair-trigger
Nucuelar Decider, that "this is a war that will set the course
for this new century -- and will determine the destiny of millions across
the world" paradoxically ring true. But 'freedom" vs. "terror"
is no strategy for Peace, and no phoenix of freedom will ever rise from
the ashes of the Arabian deserts.
Ingmar Lee
is a Canadian writer who is grateful to the many courageous Jewish writers
who have stepped forward to do the heavy-lifting in exposing the Ziocon
holocaust. Ingmar is also grateful to the CBC's rabid war-dog, Rex Murphy
for directing him to the appalling "Protocols of the Learned Elders
of Zion" document which is essential reading for those seeking
to understand how gruesome hate-mongering propaganda is spun. He can
be reached at [email protected]
or at his website, www.ingmarlee.com