Soleimani, another perspective -- was Re: Oddly silent
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Wed Jan 8 04:18:46 PST 2020
Even more insight, this time from Ramin Mazaheri via the Saker:
Anti-terror hero Soleimani a ‘terrorist’? US ‘false-life syndrome’
normal since 2003
http://thesaker.is/anti-terror-hero-soleimani-a-terrorist-us-false-life-syndrome-normal-since-2003/
...
However, if Vietnam resulted in the average American’s open and
persistent refusal to believe their government – which was an
important historical first for the US – the Iraq War will prove
to have been when the average American retained this same correct
skepticism but became unable to publicly admit their disbelief.
The Iraq War ushered in a new culture of lying for America, where
Americans knew they were peddling total falsehoods, and knew that
their listeners knew their claims were falsehoods, but there was
a collective agreement to keep spreading these falsehoods anyway.
This is how we get to the point where somebody like Soleimani –
who had bravely and unequivocally been an anti-terrorist hero –
is publicly accused of being a “terrorist” by American
leadership.
Because Washington’s goals are so imperialist, so rabidly
capitalist and so fueled by feudal realpolitik, instead of
acknowledging how Soleimani’s leading of the fight against ISIL
saved many innocent European and American lives (and even the
lives of the mercenary “contractors” from these nations), US
Vice-President Mike Pence now absurdly says Soleimani was a part
of 9/11. Trump says he is justified to plan bombings of “cultural
sites”, even though everyone knows he means mosques. Secretary of
State Pompeo says the mob hit was “protecting American
interests”, even though the only Americans truly pleased are also
Israeli Zionists.
In the Vietnam era Americans said en masse that they don’t
believe nonsense like this, but the Iraq War has changed American
democracy – now many Americans feel compelled to say they believe
it… but they actually don’t.
To believe that Americans truly believe the endless lies of their
post-2003 governments is to assume that Americans are either
deluded or mentally disabled, and neither are true: Americans
know they are poorly governed but now feel powerless to resist
the injustice of their own leaders.
Therefore, just as they were marched to war in 2003 even though
it was clearly based on the lie of WMDs, the Pentagon and US Deep
State are hoping they can start a war with Iran based on more
preposterous lies, such as the murder of anti-terror hero
Soleimani being justified because he was a “terrorist”.
...
Trump himself is certainly not crazy but he is undoubtedly a
liar. Pompeo himself openly revealed the sad degeneration of
American dishonesty: “… when I was a cadet – what’s the cadet
motto at West Point? (West Point is the number one military prep
school in the US) ‘You will not lie, cheat or steal or tolerate
those who do.’ I was the CIA director – we lied, we cheated, we
stole. That’s – it was like – we had entire training courses.”
Bush I was a former CIA director, so it’s not as if Pompeo really
represents a new development in US neo-fascism (it is “neo”
because open US Apartheid is over), but my point here is that
prior to Vietnam such things were never openly admitted anywhere
in the US; during Vietnam the truth of the anti-democratic nature
of the US was hotly debated; during the Iraq War the US
government’s foundation of criminality is openly admitted at the
very top… and no one cares.
In an era when every American is tracked – from credit scores, to
the location of their cell phone, to what they wrote on the
internet 15 years ago – and people can be droned at will, the
average American has no choice to but to pretend that they are
going along with it all. It is not all Trump and Pompeo – the
executive powers, which reduce the American system to investing a
dictator’s powers in the presidency, were installed by Bush II
and increased by Barack “Dronebama” Obama.
The system has spread to their neo-imperial allies, as proven by
France’s 2-year state of emergency, the “French Patriot Act”, and
current President Emmanuel “Rubber Bullet President” Macron, who
forces through sweeping American-style economic changes via
executive order. “False life syndrome” is thus a Western
phenomenon, and not only that of their American leader.
The epidemic expansion of “false life syndrome” which began in
2003 is also behind the pathetic, woefully unfair reason
Soleimani is now dead:
The Democratic Party elite refused to admit the real reasons for
their democratic unpopularity, so they concocted a diversionary
Russophobia campaign as well as a campaign to impeach Trump
(i.e., to undemocratically reverse the election). In 2020, to
distract from this month’s expected impeachment vote Trump killed
Soleimani. It’s more “false life” syndrome, because everyone
knows the impeachment is the emptiest of politics as Trump is
certain to be acquitted. “Think of the contrast,” top House
Republican Kevin McCarthy wrote on Twitter. “While Democrats are
trying to remove President Trump from office, the President is
focused on removing terrorists from the face of the earth.” In an
election year Trump needed another WMD-like falsity to
perpetuate, knowing full well that it would be publicly promoted
by many, and he so he murdered Soleimani.
What a crying injustice that an anti-terror hero died in large
part because of immoral, domestically despised, primary
school-level US domestic politics!
Soleimani was killed to preserve US capitalism-imperialist
domination of the Muslim World above all, but the dishonest,
unreflective political farce which has reigned since 2003 in
America is the leading secondary factor.
Everybody in the world knows this modern truth: Washington
defines a terrorist as “someone who disagrees with Washington and
Wall Street”. Be you Iranian, Iraqi, a journalist like Julian
Assange or an average American – oppose US neo-imperialism and
neoliberalism and you will be treated as a terrorist.
I am certain that the average American realizes this obvious
subtext to these slanderous, absurdly false claims against
anti-terror hero Soleimani, but it is 2020 and not 1970 – it
seems you can’t expect the truth from a huge number of Americans
anymore?
Maybe we can after the US finally leaves Iraq?
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 02:10:56PM +1100, Zigga da Bigga Trigga N.gga wrote:
> Soleimani - another perspective:
>
> Arch Terrorist or Ally? Three Times Soleimani Saved American Lives
> https://sputniknews.com/world/202001061077960305-arch-terrorist-or-inadvertent-ally-three-times-soleimani-saved-american-lives/
>
> ...
> Soleimani is 2015 fighting along American soldiers in Iraq to
> kill ISIS fighters.. now killed by Trump on all sorts of
> fabrications. Our foreign policy is psychotic
> https://pic.twitter.com/iTHppkwhdU
>
> ...
> In late 2001, after a group of 19 Saudi, Emirati, Lebanese and
> Egyptian hijackers slammed commercial airliners into the World
> Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 Americans, US
> officials quietly met with Iranian diplomats coordinated by
> Soleimani in Geneva. Iran, a long-time enemy of al-Qaeda and its
> leader, Osama bin Laden, agreed to provide the United States with
> valuable intelligence on the terrorist group, including the
> locations of suspected al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.
> Iran was also eager to assist the US in its campaign against the
> Taliban, since the radical fundamentalist movement was known for
> its harsh treatment of Afghanistan’s Shia minority, and had
> attacked and killed 11 Iranian diplomats at the consulate in
> Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998.
>
> In November 2001, Quds Force special forces and US Army Rangers
> and Delta Force units entered the city of Herat, northwestern
> Afghanistan, igniting an anti-terrorist insurrection led by
> Northern Alliance. The unprecedented operation led to the
> collapse of Taliban control of Herat, and soon the group was
> toppled from power across the rest of Afghanistan. The Quds Force
> was known to have provided material support to Ahmad Shah
> Massoud, leader of the US-allied Northern Alliance, going back to
> at least the mid-1990s. Iranian intelligence services continued
> to provide the US with intelligence until January 2002, when US
> President George W Bush added Iran to his ‘Axis of Evil’ list of
> possible regime change targets during his State of the Union
> address.
>
> ...
> How did Soleimani’s efforts in the Syrian conflict save American
> lives? For one thing, they helped to tie down tens of thousands
> of radicals from Daesh (ISIS),* al-Qaeda, and a host of other
> terrorist groups which could have otherwise scattered to Western
> countries to conduct Paris or Brussels-style terror attacks.
> Furthermore, they allowed the US to limit its anti-Daesh
> operations in Syria to aerial support and limited on-the-ground
> assistance to Kurdish militias, meaning fewer US service members’
> lives put at risk.
>
> ...
> Whether against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, or
> against Daesh and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, Gen.
> Soleimani and the Quds Force have consistently fought the same
> Sunni Islamist Wahhabi fundamentalist forces which have targeted
> US forces across the Middle East and around the world, and which
> have vowed to destroy the West and America through acts of
> terror.
>
> By approving Soleimani’s assassination, President Trump has
> not only dealt a blow to the forces fighting Daesh and
> al-Qaeda, but put an irreversible end to the informal, often
> begrudging, highly unlikely but hugely successful partnership
> between Iran and the US in the fight against terrorism, and
> that may put American lives at risk.
>
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