The Terrorism of War . The SubjuGation of Humanity- ver$ion* 2005.

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The Terrorism of War

By Ron Jacobs

04/06/05 - - Burlington, Vermont - -http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8477.htm

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~~~As has become quite apparent to those who aren't blinded by the rulers' propaganda, this war has very little to do with defeating terrorism and much to do with attempting to establish permanent US domination of the world and its resources.

~~~ and the attempt to politically isolate those in the US who oppose this policy by placing them with the enemy (McCarthy/HUAC hearings and COINTELPRO/the USA-PATRIOT Act and new crime of domestic terrorism.)

~~~There is another equally important element to the US Empire's need to dominate the world. That element is the creation of and access to consumer markets for goods made for US corporate profit. From movies and music to tennis shoes and cigarettes, the culture profiteers need to expand their reach. Interestingly enough, in another parallel to the Marxist-Leninist national liberation movements and governments of the cold war era

~~~Just as the communists saw the culture of capitalism to be a culture that emphasizes the dollar over content, the individual over the common good, and uses the objectification of women and the glorification of hedonism as the way to market a culture that would otherwise have little appeal since it has so little content, the Islamic fundamentalists frame their opposition in somewhat similar terms. The communist response to this culture was a hopeful attempt to provide meaning outside of the commercial realm.

~~~To put it succinctly, the US export of its capitalist culture is nothing but spreading propaganda for a way of life that requires greed, egocentrism, murder and war to thrive. In addition, the technical sophistication, pervasive marketing, and appeal to humanity's most elemental instincts used by the propagandists makes more conventional appeals to reason and history virtually irrelevant to much of the world's population who have neither the time nor the inclination to examine the alternative.

~~~Since the end of World War I, when the victors created new nations out of the desert to serve their individual desires, the Middle East and its oil has been one of the primary causes of imperial interest and the consequence of that interest-war. After World War II and the creation of Israel as a US-sponsored garrison outpost in the region-a creation which displaced millions of Palestinians already living there-the importance of the region only increased, as did the non-Israeli population's resentment of western meddling.

~~~~~What is the solution? I don't claim to have the answers, but here are some (rather obvious) commonsense thoughts that might prevent future attacks by terrorists. First and foremost, all troops, planes and warships in Afghanistan and Iraq must return to the United States. Secondly, the United States must sign on to the various mechanisms being designed to prosecute war crimes like the US use of cluster bombs and the training of death squads and other international actions against humanity like that of September 11th. Although these mechanisms have their shortcomings, they are still better than war and its accompanying terror and murder. It must be the ultimate goal of all nations and peoples to design a truly fair and representative mechanism for solving disputes between nations and peoples and for trying crimes against the human race.

In the long run, the US needs to change its foreign policy. It must consider the needs of all people in the developing world,

However, these changes are not going to come about by themselves. Indeed, the American people need to inform themselves and make a fairer foreign policy a key to getting elected in this country. Our foreign policy has been decided by oil companies, Wall Street, and the politicians who serve them, for too long. If the world is to survive, the US can no longer act as if the world is its real estate. It is essential that we put human needs before corporate desires. A fact that should be better understood than it is is that the drive for profit is not only bad for the earth's environment and its people, it puts the American people in real danger. Bombing and fighting wars against other countries (or groups within those countries) only makes the situation worse.

This essay originally appeared in a different form in the Alternative Press Review, Issue 16

Ron Jacobs is author of The Way the Wind Blew: a history of the Weather Underground, which is just republished by Verso. Jacobs' essay on Big Bill Broonzy is featured in CounterPunch's new collection on music, art and sex, Serpents in the Garden.

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she also said, couldn't find verbatim Insight
but (paraphrased) Governments that squash peaceful protests with violence make peaceful but necessary change impossible

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