Planted Poison
“Western Fastidiousness Doomed Iraq Mission:
Liberal democracies reluctant to engage in ruthless tactics needed to put down insurgencies”
That’s the headline of yet another poisonous article by McGill Professor of Economics William Watson in the Gazoo on the American mishandling of the Iraqi insurgency.
The Romans knew how to crush popular insurgencies,Professor Watson writes,they simply terrorized the governing elite of the insurgent nations responsible into terrorizing their own population into submission
“The Nazis also”he says ”had relatively little trouble with national undergrounds in the countries they occupied during World War Two.Those thought to harbour resistors were sent to concentration camps or shot outright.Saddam Hussein himself was very good at counter-insurgency.Defy my rule?I will gas you or drain the marshes that provide your food”
Professor Watson goes further to write that of course democracies like the US can’t contemplate such tactics,however tempting,because it would violate their democratic principles.
But didn’t the American ruling elite apply similar tactics around the world against insurgents in Chili,Indonesia,El Salvador,Somalia,the Congo and Vietnam?
Didn’t the American ruling elite supported General Pinochet in Chili during the 70’s when hundreds of thousands of progressive people were shot down,imprisoned and forced into exile?
Wasn’t it the same American ruling elite that financed Saddam Hussein for ten years during the time when he was slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Iraqis?
And wasn’t Doctor Henry Kissinger charged and condemned as a war criminal for the illegal and unconstitutional carpet bombing of Cambodia?
It isn’t fastidiousness that’s stopping Washington from acting like Saddam Hussein,it’s the fear that there will be wide spread protests,strikes and riots not only in the Middle East but also in the US of A,should Washington unlease the same kind of weaponry in Iraq that killed millions of civilians in Vietnam.
It was the American people that shut down the Vietnam War and all signs seem to indicate that they are getting ready to shut down the Iraqi War too,despite attempts by neo-conservatives like Professor Watson to put forward the question of unlimited military aggression,as if it was a legitimate option.
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Liberal democracies reluctant to engage in ruthless tactics needed to put down insurgencies”
That’s the headline of yet another poisonous article by McGill Professor of Economics William Watson in the Gazoo on the American mishandling of the Iraqi insurgency.
The Romans knew how to crush popular insurgencies,Professor Watson writes,they simply terrorized the governing elite of the insurgent nations responsible into terrorizing their own population into submission
“The Nazis also”he says ”had relatively little trouble with national undergrounds in the countries they occupied during World War Two.Those thought to harbour resistors were sent to concentration camps or shot outright.Saddam Hussein himself was very good at counter-insurgency.Defy my rule?I will gas you or drain the marshes that provide your food”
Professor Watson goes further to write that of course democracies like the US can’t contemplate such tactics,however tempting,because it would violate their democratic principles.
But didn’t the American ruling elite apply similar tactics around the world against insurgents in Chili,Indonesia,El Salvador,Somalia,the Congo and Vietnam?
Didn’t the American ruling elite supported General Pinochet in Chili during the 70’s when hundreds of thousands of progressive people were shot down,imprisoned and forced into exile?
Wasn’t it the same American ruling elite that financed Saddam Hussein for ten years during the time when he was slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Iraqis?
And wasn’t Doctor Henry Kissinger charged and condemned as a war criminal for the illegal and unconstitutional carpet bombing of Cambodia?
It isn’t fastidiousness that’s stopping Washington from acting like Saddam Hussein,it’s the fear that there will be wide spread protests,strikes and riots not only in the Middle East but also in the US of A,should Washington unlease the same kind of weaponry in Iraq that killed millions of civilians in Vietnam.
It was the American people that shut down the Vietnam War and all signs seem to indicate that they are getting ready to shut down the Iraqi War too,despite attempts by neo-conservatives like Professor Watson to put forward the question of unlimited military aggression,as if it was a legitimate option.
No Blood For Oil
Books not Bombs
Troops out Now
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