Posted on 03/29/2005 2:50:05 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
To paraphrase Ray Bradbury, something most ominous this way comes, and frankly I’m worried. Not since Russia tried to put missiles in Cuba have I seen an international crisis as potentially dangerous to America. World Communism has pushed a big pile of chips onto the table of the Great Game, and neither the mainstream media nor conservative commentators have caught the significance of what has happened.
However, if one views political science like a jigsaw puzzle, then when a significant piece falls into place, it is relatively easy to see the Big Picture, in this case the Baran-Wallerstein theory (B-W), which I have been warning about for some three years. To recap: Communism never gave up its goal of world conquest; however, the fat-cat “workers of the world” of the industrialized nations now have no interest in revolution. They’ve got it made. But Communism’s goal remains the same, the destruction of capitalistic America: Deemed by B-W an “Eminent Evil,” and the cause of Third World “immiseration.” Fortuitously, the means to the end of destroying America appeared in the form of Islamic jihad. Thus, Communist nations like Russia, North Korea and China are doing all they can to enable terrorists by training and surreptitious weapons supply. For example, missiles found in Libya were manufactured in North Korea, and Russia has—or promises to—provide Syria with ground-to-air missiles. As for Kerry’s so-called allies, Socialist nations like France and Germany (along with Russia and China), armed Saddam and opposed removing him by force. In effect, they were all bribed by Saddam through the U.N’s elaborate scam, Oil-for-Food.
The new piece of the Baran-Wallerstein puzzle that fell into place last week was the alliance of Syria and Iran. Syria’s premier, Assad, is of course Saddam’s Baathist cousin. I reported that just days before the Iraq invasion, convoys of trucks were detected by satellite moving into Syria from the border town of al-Qaim. Undoubtedly these were WMDs going west. [UPDATE: On 3/13/05 The N.Y.Times basically confirmed that Saddam Hussein possessed "stockpiles of monitored chemicals and materials," as well as sophisticated equipment to manufacture nuclear and biological weapons, which were removed to "a neighboring state" before the U.S. could secure the weapons sites.] Assad already had a substantial arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, but now he also has Saddam’s weapons, and will not hesitate to use them if Iran is attacked by Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear capability, just as Israel had done in Iraq. The U.S. probably would respond by attacking Syria, which would probably cause Russia to enter the war against us. After all, why would Russia give Syria ground-to-air missiles if not to attack Israeli or American planes?!
I also reported that Russian special-ops teams were in Iraq advising Saddam on defenses up to hours before the invasion. Indeed, this was confirmed when Iran awarded medals to two Russian generals for their services who, when queried, replied that they had not gone to Iraq “for a cup of coffee.” Now another ominous piece of the Big Picture fell into place this week when Putin declared, “The latest steps taken by Iran have convinced us that Iran does not intend to produce nuclear arms.” He added that Russia would continue to supply Iran with nuclear technology and weapons! And because most media people are not cognizant of the Baran-Wallerstein Big Picture, the significance of Putin’s words were utterly lost on them, and thus to the American public.
The significance of Putin’s statement as an indication of Russian policy is proof positive of B-W: The Iranian part of the “Axis-of-Evil” will not only be nuclear-enabled by Russia, but also defended. Once again, as in the Carter-North Korean nuke fiasco, an American president is being asked to trust a Communist’s word that Iran will not build nuclear weapons. I say thank God for Bush. Had Kerry been elected, he undoubtedly would have been led down that primrose path again. Moreover, a new Pentagon report cited in U.S. News & World Report (2/21/05), reveals that hundreds of American soldiers from WWII and the Korean War were imprisoned in Soviet forced-labor camps where they eventually died. In the report is testimony of a woman who “said that in the 1950s, her father was in a Siberian gulag with an American named Stanley Warner,” who in fact was a Michigan Navy reservist listed as missing in WWII.
Back in March of 2004, hosting a visit by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami President Putin reaffirmed that Russia would pursue new arms sales to Iran and complete construction of a nuclear power plant at Bushehr. Then, early last November, the Kremlin notified the United States that on December 1 Russia would withdraw from a June 1995 agreement to end arms sales to Iran. Russia had not strictly adhered to the agreement, selling an estimated $200 million in weapons to Iran between 1996 and 1999.
So, even then, the seeds were being sown to disrupt peace in the Middle-East. Putin, who met at the Kremlin with Iran's security chief Hasan Rowhani on Friday, said he would visit Iran soon, Interfax reported.
Not Bradbury -- it's from the Scottish play...
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
Russia still has the nukes, and nukes could thoroughly mess up the country. Whoever starts will also be messed up.
Who says Kerry isn't one of them, trying to bring down American capitalism?
Historically, he has been a whole lot friendlier to his subversive socialist buddies than he has to America.
pingsky
I suppose like China they are going to take over the World? If that happens then they will have to share the world with China? It's all very clear to me now.
I suppose Macbeth qualifies as a 'Scottish play' :)
Here's another quote:
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interests."
--Winston Churchill
The article is somewhat alarmist, however, I agree
with the author that Russia and China are not
to be trusted.
Cool it with the baboons blood, will ya?
Acutally, "Something Wicked This Way Comes " was the title of a novella written by Bradbury.
Russia and China - former Cold War foes - will hold an unprecedented military exercise in the second half of 2005.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4128337.stm
...tick tock...
Theatrical folks can be a superstitious lot. Freepers, too?????
The title of which he borrowed from a line from "THE PLAY" written by Shakespeare. Which is just fine, of course. The Bard would be honored no doubt!!
Now ya gone and done it -- it's bad luck to mention the play by name...
We should have let Patton take his Third Army all the way to Moscow.
We should have started WW3 a few days after the end of WW2. We would have won. We had the nukes, they didn't. It's harsh. But it's true. We could have knocked down the USSR, then gone on to help CKS knock out Mao. Imagine how the world would be today, had we bit the bullet, back in the second half of the 1940s.
You are correct. FDR did some things well, but many things poorly. His performance, overall, from 1943 - 45 was dreadful. Truman was screwed - the hole had already been dug. We should not uncritically accept the official FDR-lovers' version of history. Major caveat - I don't abide by the "FDR brought on Pearl Harbor and was therefore a traitor" thing - but I am very critical regarding two things:
1. His blindness from the begining of his first term until his death, regarding the Evil of Stalin.
2. His general lack of good sense in terms of grand geopolitics - he was pretty good with tactics in reaction to WW2 but quite frankly, he sucked at long term strategy.
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