As expected, the racist and murderous policies of the US inevitably, continuously spark outrage from Morocco to Indonesia. Violence in these struggles is almost all one sided, and it arises from decades of US criminality, including genocide in Iraq and mass murder across north Africa and South Asia. There’s a clear pattern from US support for zionist ethnic cleansing to Clinton’s mass murder of children to Bush’s genocide in Iraq and the mass murder of civilians and GI’s in Afghanistan due to Obama’s policies.
Many Egyptians and Libyans carefully point out that working people, feminists, students, farmers, and the GLBT communities in their countries are enemies of the US government, but not the enemies of working people in the US. The Egyptian and Libyans governments are led by Quisling, neo-colonial clients of the United States and are the enemy of Egyptian and Libyan working people, feminists, students, farmers, and the GLBT communities.
Defensive actions in opposition to US attacks are entirely justified. Most such actions are political, not military in nature. Sometimes theytake a religious form and often they mix politics and islamist cultism. The vast bulk of the violence in the region is the direct and sole fault of US governments under Democrats and Republicans, with a little help from the zionist ethnic cleansers. So was the inexcusable anti-worker terrorism of 9-11.
One example of defensive violence is that attack on the Embassy in Benghazi. These were an armed militia, not islamist rioters. “CAIRO — The attack Tuesday on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was the climax to weeks of rising insecurity in Libya that saw assassination attempts against government officials, standoffs between militias, car bombings in the capital and threats against diplomats, including Americans. The increasing instability caused the U.S. State Department in late August to warn Americans against all but essential travel to Libya. It’s unclear whether that warning led to any change, at least outwardly, in the security procedures at the consulate, which was as much the seat of the U.S. diplomatic presence in that country as the embassy in Tripoli.” KC Star 09 12 2012
Far from being innocent, neutral bystanders, US Embassy personnel have as their primary duty the organization of operations to undermine the democratic impulses of the workers movement misnamed the ‘Arab Spring’ and to deflect attacks against the zionist bunkerstadt. They’re paid agents and enablers of Murder Inc, i.e., the Obama administration.
What happened in Cairo and Egypt is spreading like a prairie fire and the cause is well known. A Gallup poll taken in May this year showed “At least a plurality in all nine Arab countries surveyed and the region of Somaliland opposed NATO intervention in Libya. Residents in several North African countries, including Morocco (12%), Egypt (13%), and Algeria (14%) were the least likely to say they were in favor of NATO intervention. In Tunisia, where the region’s first successful revolution was publicly denounced by the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, attitudes were significantly more mixed (33% in favor vs. 40% opposed).” Obama and his NATO and zionist subordinates will never be able to put out the fires ignited by genocide in Iraq and mass murder in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Bahrain, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere.
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A well pulled together overview Bill… covers the terrain that needs covering and does it succinctly.I think you get it right too.
Recommended.
American Empire 120 years ago was just finishing up with the final stages of having wiped out the First Americans across all of North America that WashingtonDC surveyed as being God given US territory.
Mexico had been given a good taste of American Empire policy and policy practices. The Canadians were luckier. Canada being a part of British Empire was not a easy to kick the door in imperial mark.
American Empire did get chummy with the BE post 1905 in view of the lashing the Russians had just taken from Japan. The Europeans and Americans were taken back that Japan was able to do so and it then became the new thinking that Japan was going to be a problem for both European empires and the new and coming American Empire in East Asia/western reaches of the Pacific. France,Netherlands and Britain were where the Japanese Empire wanted to be. Americans were running the Philippines and had taken over middle Pacific Hawaiian Islands. Japan was a problem that found its solution during WW2. For awhile anyway. The East Asia colonies of Europe broke free. The USA found out Vietnam was not Japan. Americans did not like finding that out.
Lots of history takes place between 1905 and 1925 and lots more takes place yet again between 1925 and 1945.Post 1945 it has indeed become the USA One Percent vs. The World. Vietnam was surely part of this and what followed the collapse of Soviet Union since 1990 is directly due to this USA vs. The World being the driver of it.
Can USA do another First Americans wipe out scaled up to global operation? Against the Arabs,Persians,Afghans,Pakistanis and North Africa? Sure. Of course. Obama WH Kill Them All policy already in place and being done. Where is the endpoint of this policy? What is the endpoint of/to this policy?
American Global Militarism is now creating problems as much as it in theory is solving problems of post WW2/post 1990/post 2001.
The Germans found out the very hard way during The Great War that the success of the Franco-Prussian War was not so easily repeated. 1919 did not bring what Berlin thought it was going to bring. The USA it would appears wants to fight WW2 over and over and fight the 1991 Gulf War over and over. Events as shown in Iraq post 2003 are not going that way– working out that way.
Just this week…see Libya,Egypt and Yemen. What is WashingtonDC going to do? Wipe them all out?
Iran will not knuckle under to WashingtonDC? Going to wipe them out?
See Iraq post 2003 for a clear example of USA arrogance/ignorance and indifference and the consequences these bring on.
POTUS Obama and SoS Clinton are on the edge of a cliff to be sure here in 2012 and this is not the Fiscal Cliff. It is a War Cliff.
A deep fall now only a few steps — perhaps just one step away.
Great piece. Recommended.
From Mauritania to Malaysia, Muslim communities the world over know what the US Government has in mind for them. After all, they’ve lived it. They know what Saddam and Gaddafi and Mubarak did with US support, and what happened to them when they committed the sin of disobedience or outlived their usefulness. They remember the Shah and SAVAK. They’re aware of what Siad Barre did in Somalia, what Zia ul-Haq did in Pakistan, and what Suharto did in Indonesia under American supervision. They fully realize that what is happening in Gaza and Bahrain and Yemen and Afghanistan today mirrors the traditional methods the US has employed in dealing with dozens of nations, from Angola to El Salvador, from Mozambique to Chile, from Nicaragua to Vietnam. They recognize that in none of these nations did the US ever give credence to a single word voiced by the general population. They know America mocks their desires, concerns, and calls for justice. They know the price of resisting US intervention and illegal US military aggression; they and their families will be hunted down and killed and called “terrorists”, “insurgents”, and “extremists” for attempting to defend their own countries. They know the meaning of American benevolence; it means the slaughter of anyone who gets in the way: students, intellectuals, teachers, artists, religious leaders, peace advocates, farmers, urban workers, the elderly, the disabled, infants, it doesn’t matter. And as long as they remain compliant and exhibit the required degree of enthusiastic obedience, America will keep doling out cash and weapons to dictators, warlords, military juntas, local oligarchs, organized crime syndicates and sociopathic despots as they wage campaigns of intimidation, extortion, and murder against their own people.
Like HS Thompson said: the US has become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the world.
Well said. Thanks.
Our days of easy empire may be numbered.
Austerity measures, for the benefit of a bloated military, won’t go over well here or in Europe. The government might have to, either moderate their fanatical geopolitical goals, or else face growing discontentment on the streets.
Also, decreasing credibility and growing anti-Americanism means more resistance to western domination.
Regardless, the Neocons and the multinational corporations will buy “our” politicians so that we continue paying the price for their control.
Powerful analysis, Bill Purdue, but I confess it’s hard hearing it all laid out with such economy of language.
Crossed Crocodiles writes about R2P in Libya,
My guess is that the bare majority of the African Union nations that signed off on R2P were not listening to their citizens, either, but were mainly corrupt leader for whom the US/NATO carrots were very attractive.
When I clicked your Al Jazeera link, featured was the ‘US/Egypt shaky relations’ one. OBomba and Clinton seemed so unaware of their hypocrisy, and the State Dept. official who tried to walk this back was just not even close. (I’d seen it yesterday in print), in a major WTF? moment:
Official: ‘He only meant ‘ally’ in the formal military sense. Sure. The $1.8 billion is the carrot; he put Morsi on notice about the stick.
Vijay Prashad writing at Counterpunch has another take, not altogether different from yours, but working to thread a few needles. Didn’t understand ‘political Islam’, as I said on my yesterday post, so commenter Ludwig went and dug up the Marxist version for me.
Rec’d and a half. Whooosh.
Thanks Wendy. I use an ‘economy of language’ when there’s a lot to say.
One thing this latest uprising did was show the ineptitude, even from a ruling class perspective, of Obama and H. Clinton. They were caught in the contradictions of their policies and bickered in public. That arises from the fact that they have no options. Everything they do makes them more and more unpopular.
I don’t have any big differences with the Counterpunch article and in fact I was going to quote it’s reference to the history of political instability in Libya but it more or less duplicated the AP material that appeared in the KS Star.
My only difference is one of emphasis. Islamist cultism does play a big role in the upsurges but as a rule, they play a backward role. The new islamist regime in Egypt rules but only with the sufferance of the US owned military and police. They’re already cooperating with the zionists by cutting off supplies to Gaza and attacking unions.
I think that as working people see their role they’ll reject them but I have no clear idea how long that will take or how it’ll play out. Nevertheless it’s inevitable. Look at the demonstrations against the islamist ayatollahs in Iran. There’s a powerful working class potential in Iran, Egypt and industrializing states that will topple islamists.
Labour Start (UK) has a number of articles and action campaigns going on to protect or support workers from Morocco to Pakistan.
http://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=1570
http://www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaign.cgi?c=1564&src=ericlee
I could use your brand of self-editing, dear. ;o)
Morsi’s slow and deliberate tactics are interesting (a friend here and off-line synopsized Al Amin’s long piece about this at Counterpunch for me, and it’s no surprise to hear you say that he is still .
But this: ‘They’re already cooperating with the zionists by cutting off supplies to Gaza and attacking unions’ I didn’t know, and regret, since it is such a change from the early days of their revolution. I guess the chess board pieces are shifting a lot now, and it’s hard to keep up with.
As so many others here, you use the language of your field of interest and passion, and very fluidly and fluently, I might add. Trying to learn all these new languages to learn from you and others is pretty interesting, as the verbiage is so often full of meanings and…mmmm…understanding through experience over time.
I look forward to reading the links; my crap eyes have had it for tonight…as have I. Sleep well, and thanks again.
@ mojada and shootthatarrow: good stuff, also.
Workers movements on fire will turn some large keys, yes. We hope it may be so soon in the US. ;o)
Bill Perdue–
Incisive analysis, excellent diary. Thank you.
Highly recommended.
Blue
I appreciate it Blue.