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Posted on 03/17/2003 9:14:39 PM PST by Greg Swann
Cain's world: Shock and awe--from here to China...by Greg Swann |
Take note of this from London's Daily Telegraph: British military sources confirmed yesterday that 10 per cent of all major buildings in Iraq are possible targets.Ten percent of all major buildings. It's a decimation worthy of Marcus Licinius Crassus! A few days ago I wrote: The United States intends to demonstrate in the demolition of Iraq that it can do more damage with conventional weapons than any potential enemies can do with the nukes they don't dare use. Visualize every dam in China crumbling all at the same instant. The Chinese will, when they see the mushroom cloud of dust over Baghdad.I think I am dead right about The Cain Doctrine, and so, here, on the very Eve of Destruction, I commend you to it: War with Iraq:If I am right, the Bush administration is poised the make the world a safer place for centuries. Not necessarily more free, mind you, but amazingly less perilous. |
And the 'official' arguments for this war are equally false. We are not going to war to strip Iraq of 'weapons of mass destruction.' Nor to effect 'regime change.' Nor even to rid the world of an evil dictator and liberate, after a fashion, a decent people too long oppressed. All those things will happen as a result of this war, but they are not the reason for it.Why are we having this war?
In order to scare the hell out of the world, generally, and Islam in particular.
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, this war will be fast, clean and decisive. Very telegenic and very, very televised. A 'war on terror,' if we were having one, would be a job for policemen--sifting through clues, tracking down criminals, frog-marching them to justice. But we're not having a war on terror. We're having a war on anti-Americanism. Not anti-Americanism in the thoughts or feelings or opinions of people overseas, but in their actions. The Bush Doctrine, which will never be enunciated except by explosion, is this: "We will hurt you a lot worse than you can ever hurt us. We don't need to use our police to catch your terrorists, because you are going to catch them yourselves, to avoid being the sequel to this made-for-TV war."
Iraq is just the whipping-boy in all this. Whatever peril it poses to the U.S., that peril is nothing compared to that posed by Iran, by North Korea, by a re-Islamified Pakistan, recouped and regrouped, and, most especially by China. Iraq is to be punished far in excess of her transgressions so that she might serve as an example to others. Principled protesters can surely find cause to object to this injustice--provided they are willing to reject the exact same premises as they are applied to domestic criminal prosecution.
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