Masopher's Mind

I was listening to a lecture by Gilles Kepler and it really brought back to me just how instrumental London is in creating radical Islam.  Almost none of what I am about to say was mentioned by Kepler by the way, but here’s what I think.

English guy (T.E. Lawrence) goes riding through Arabia inciting Anti Ottoman and Anti German sentiment. This leads to the defeat of two empires one in the Middle East and the other a bit later in North Africa. The Middle East and Africa is divvied up between the French and English. In a similar fashion, later Germany and Europe is divvied up between the USA and Russia.

England decides to break up Indiostan into Muslim and a Hindu countries, making one country that has two parts and another much larger one dividing it and leaving a large plot of land unallocated. The two new countries, India and Pakistan-Bangladesh fall into fighting and civil war as Muslims and Hindus become displaced and soon one set of Muslims(The Bengalis) decide not to be part of the other set (The Pakistanis). Both countries soon acquire nuclear weapons, Allah/Vishnu know where from, and proceed to start not only racing to destruction but proliferating weapons of mass destruction to every rag head, bearded prophet and wild eyed dictator that can fork over oil money.

Along with the lovely Muslim and Hindu countries, England “loses control” of its large Jewish population and by lose control I mean encourages and assists;  to grab a large swathe of land which displaces a Muslim population and creates a contentious Jewish country.

Later, England loses control of the Persian population and by loses control I mean the puppet that was exploiting his people and allowing BP to plunder the oil was thrown out in a revolution that put a serious dent in global wealth via the crash of 1979 and creates a serious enemy of the West in the form of Khomeini and his Iranian successors.

One massive country with oil slips away but thanks to billions of dollars worth of planes in the Al Yamamah agreements another is held tightly as a friend. Over the years the Saudi government with its Yemeni refugees proves to be an invaluable source of information, insurgents and energy.

England has also been inviting uneducated unfamiliar populations from India, Pakistan and dozens of Arab and North African countries into England to essentially graft themselves onto the UK population. They can become “British” but they can never be “English”. England is a country of Caucasians that was known for sending several crusades into these same countries and with much foreign office meddling (see above for Lawrence of Arabia or various “Chatham House Version” incursions).  The British are the populations that pay taxes do the menial jobs and get used and sponsored in efforts to bring down the governments of the countries that they left behind.

Sooner or later the Muslims start talking. Yes they are helping the Muslim brotherhood fight Egypt, Syria and Libya, and yes they are helping the Mujahideen fight the Soviets but they also start trading stories about Palestine, and the fact that most of the apostate Governments and “near enemies” are actually part sponsored by English and Western taxes.

The story can get confusing because there is so much happening all at once but the Muslims eventually seem to get the point that England and its set of Western colonies(The states of America) are the real (far)enemy. Even young Nigerians bear a taint of London schooling as they board American flights on Christmas day with the intent of setting their crotch on fire to the demise of people heading home to eat figgy pudding and some honey roasted ham with their loved ones.

The English threat is very obvious to the Arab, North African, Persian and South Asian populations, its not a threat of direct force but a threat of machination. But the double talking double dealing lessons have been learned by the target populations along with a sense of cynicism and paranoia. India, Pakistan, Iran Israel and Saudi Arabia exchange pleasantries one day and threaten each other existentially the very next. What once threatened Spain, Germany and France in one form two centuries ago now threatens the future of humanity in this one. It’s not England but it’s unmistakably English.

The great red bear died suddenly in 1991 and since then, Europe and the United States have struggled to tear off strips of the carcass before it can resurrect itself in some other more malignant form. Georgia, the Ukraine, Poland, the Adriatic countries. Nato and the EU bloated themselves by snapping up and supporting newly independent regimes before Russian hegemony crept back into play. And this is the nature of the struggle in the Balkans and black sea areas: Russian backed breakaways versus European and American backed breakaways. But without ideology to hide behind or blame, there cannot be a cold war. It seems sleight of hand that Russia becomes an open market while maintaining military threat upon the world. The bear isn’t red and it’s a little smaller but it’s leaner, meaner and smarter than before, more of a threat not less. Europe under France unified Germany and two timing Britain has also carved out a niche for itself. From de Gaulle to Schroder and Blair, Europe has finally reestablished itself as a Europe capable of invading countries and interfering with internal affairs rather than being pawns of the US and USSR. China has come to the fore as well implementing its own successful chimera of communism and free market economy. The fifth creature is India that uses Russian weapons but also American consumerism. The world has gone from a great eagle and a great bear to a great number of bear-eagle chimerical creatures each singing different words but with a curiously familiar tune.
Will soviet tanks be rolling into our front yard? Not likely but we must remember that it’s not necessary. Once the bank repossesses your land tanks aren’t needed. You don’t need to be conscripted into the army either. A few months of poverty makes army career seem attractive. Unlike during the cold war, Russia has a firm grip on the global economy. Russia doesn’t need to quote Marx to sell weapons. The world is in state where people are willing to buy weapons from anyone because there is no religion, no ideology, no real definition of friends or foes. There is still a lot of rhetoric and some of that rhetoric may involve religious or ideological themes but it’s just excuses and obvious misquoting. The FARC in South America don’t know communism, Al Qaeda don’t know Islam. Its all just greed and power mongering. Bellum omnium contra omnes is imminent reality with only the global class of wealthy elites benefiting in harmony from the discord and poverty of the plebian underclass.

People with money were never the enemy, in fact they are for the most part good. Rich people dont fight wars, they dont force people to be unhappy, poor, niggardly to each other. You are our own worst enemy, you the poor are the ones who fight in the war, you are the ones that refuse to take part in democracy, you are the ones that steal from and decieve one another. You snipe at each other and ridicule each others ideas despite having none of your own.

In many ways you deserve to be terrorized and set against one another by these factions.

Something truly is rotten in the state of this world.

British Prime minister Gordon Brown has announced after 6 years of Afghan combat to “talk to the Taliban”. The concept is so ridiculous that News pundits can only parrot his declaration.

Before the events of 2001 the Taliban with great assistance from their Al Qaeda and Arab allies had successfully decimated the Soviet Empire and had driven out the Afghan Communist government. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan implementing archaic Muslim based laws and a regime that was sited by observers as being repressive to women and non-muslims. This regime was legitimized by American and British trade and politics until the events of 2001 when the Taliban’s high profile “guest” was named as prime suspect in the September 11 hijacking and attacks.

While the large American Army began Operation Iraqi Freedom, smaller forces from the UK and UN embarked upon Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan wresting control of the major “city” and government from the Taliban. The history of Afghanistan is one that speaks of the death and defeat of empires for millennia. The original British Empire, the Roman and even Persian and Macedonian empires could not conquer these desert dwellers. They know nothing but strife and aside from goat herding and poppy cultivating, their children are raised to regard war in the same way that they regard the sun during the seasons.

The Taliban will not “talk” until the British, Americans, French and United Nations leave. They will keep killing every fatigue dressed individual that has not been explicitly invited into their domain. This is what any analyst will tell you. They had no talks with the British in early 20th Century they had no talks with the soviets in the middle 20th Century, no talks with the Americans in the end of the 20th century and will not have talks with the British in this new 21st Century. There is a funny quote about the Taliban version of Diplomacy but it is safe to say that Gordon Brown has embarked upon either a fruitless task or a phenomenal campaign of misinformation and hot air politics.

The “recapture” of a town is heralded as a victory by the press because in the desolate wastes of Helmland, victories are scarce. The Taliban will return again and again to the town and any town left behind by heavily armed forces, implementing their rule on the citizens who apparently don’t mind them being there. Every time a western troop has to retake a town by bombing, shooting and otherwise causing collateral casualties they not only spend their own lives but the lives of those they believe they are liberating.

What is becoming clear about the British invasion of Afghanistan is the lack of agenda. The initial task of the Operation was securing fuel lines, locating and incapacitating Bin Laden, installing the Karzai Government and preventing it from being again overwhelmed by the Talibs. The British forces now seem to be charged only with fighting “Disparate” tribesmen. Aside from the poppy fields which supply over 70% of British Opium and Opium by-products there isn’t really anything in Afghanistan to fight for or against. For the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Arab mercenaries however, until Nato and American forces leave the country there is plenty to fight for and plenty to fight against.

Reference:

Brown ‘plans to talk to Taliban’- Louise Radnofsky, Guardian Unlimited 12/12/07