[Dean's World] Mary Madigan: The grand strategy of the headless chicken

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
The grand strategy of the headless chicken
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1146587793.shtml


   In Winds of Change, [1]David Blue discusses the West's grand strategy
   for fighting terrorism:

     What we do about this, basically, is seek (or seek to manufacture)
     allies in the Muslim world. These allies by and large are still
     committed to our subjugation, but they believe in tactics that in
     the short term are less offensive to us. As Charles Krauthammer
     said, their line is: cartoons of Muhammed are unacceptable, as is,
     in the long run, the violation of any taboo Islam imposes on us -
     but in the meantime, please don't burn that embassy. "Our" Muslims
     uphold the principle that Muslim domination must be maintained by
     fear and by high costs imposed on those who want to convert out of
     Islam - but they are politically flexible enough to allow one
     particular Christian convert in a very high profile case to escape
     with his life. And so on. So these are the people we try to make
     win...

     ..That means we agree to the grinding down of polytheists of all
     stripes, most obviously Animists in Africa and Hindus in India and
     globally. We agree to the grinding down of Christians everywhere
     the shadow of Islam falls, in Indonesia, in Egypt, in other parts
     of Africa, in other parts of the world. We accept the bloody
     scourging and diplomatic slow grinding down of Israel, and of Jews
     in general. In short, the swift or slow subjugation and destruction
     of everything that could compete for turf with Islam happens with
     our tacit consent.

     ..We haven't asked ourselves how often empowering your enemies in
     the hope that they will then voluntarily reform themselves so as
     not to beat you and so as not to continue successfully to extract
     concessions from you works, historically.

   The average five year old would realize that this is a stupid
   strategy. As a matter of fact, the stupidity of this 'strategy' is
   unmatched in history. We're reasonably educated, we're intelligent
   enough to feed and clothe ourselves - so, why are we doing this? It
   can't all be blamed on political correctness.

   This 'grand strategy' was originally called the 'Green Belt Strategy'
   - and it was the reason for Carter's lame response to the hostage
   crisis in Iran. [2]Amir Taheri tells us how and why Carter screwed
   everything up:

     Carter had decided to support Khomeini in the context of the
     so-called "Green Belt" strategy developed by National Security
     Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. That strategy was based on the
     assumption that the United States and its allies were unable to
     contain the Soviet Union, then expanding its zone of influence into
     Africa, the Indian Ocean region and, through left-leaning regimes,
     in Latin America. To counter that expanding threat, Brzezinski
     envisaged the creation of a string of Islamic allies that, for
     religious and political reasons, would prefer the United States
     against the "godless" Soviet empire...

     ...The second stage in Brzezinski's grand strategy was to incite
     the Muslim peoples of the Soviet Union to revolt against Moscow and
     thus frustrate its global schemes.The second stage in Brzezinski's
     grand strategy was to incite the Muslim peoples of the Soviet Union
     to revolt against Moscow and thus frustrate its global schemes.

   Khomeini called Brzezinski's grand strategy 'behaving like a headless
   chicken'. But Brzezinski's plan worked against the Soviets in
   Afghanistan; supposedly, our Wahhabi allies in Saudi Arabia helped us
   defeat the Soviets. As a result, we're still using the
   [3]Carter/Brzezinski strategy, even after 9/11.

   We're still supporting Islamist allies in the hope that we can use
   them to intimidate the commies. The realpolitikers think we're
   manipulating the Islamists, but they're wrong; the Islamists are using
   us. They've learned our divide-and-conquer routine pretty well, and
   they're using it against us. Whenever we annoy the Saudis, they go
   running to the Russians or the Chinese. Our Sudanese allies in the war
   against terrorism use the Chinese as a threat. Iran uses Russia. Like
   us, Russia and China are happy to be used.

   Brzezinski's grand strategy has allowed a bunch of zealots,
   terrorist/extortionists and second-rate crooks to gain more money and
   power than they ever dreamed. There is no reason to tolerate these
   militarily weak enemies or their paramilitary terrorist forces. The
   world needs oil, but no one needs these zealots and crooks.

   By the way, why are we still fighting commies? Did the Red Menace
   slaughter Americans on American soil in an unprovoked act of war? No,
   our Saudi allies did. Did Russia pay for the attacks? No, our allies
   in the UAE and Saudi Arabia did. And the Iranians did too. But if we
   strike at Iran, we'll make the Russians mad. Divide and conquer.

   We tolerate the Islamists because we think we need them to 'protect'
   us from the commies and the terrorists. We fail to realize that
   they're inciting our feud with Russia and China. They're also
   supporting the terrorists. Without everyone's Islamist 'allies'
   terrorism wouldn't thrive, it would wither.

References

   1. http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/008537.php
   2. http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/8781
   3. http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1133883881.shtml