The Chinese did it, the Americans can too.
First They Came for the Iraqis
In March 2003, the peoples of the ancient city of Baghdad, many of them Catholic, crouched together in terror in their homes and breathlessly counted down the seconds until the deadline set by the United States came into effect.
Saddam Hussein had been given 48 hours to leave Iraq by US President George W. Bush. The conditions were academic, Bush was ready to strike regardless, having ensured the cooperation of a vast array of characters including the New York Times and Joe Biden, to create the blatant lie that Iraq had been readied to unleash Weapons of Mass Destruction. Outside of the States, Fabian Society member Tony Blair rowed in behind Bush’s lies. Blindsided, most of the West was left powerless to oppose those who were exploiting the terror elicited by the sight of those planes crashing into the Twin Towers in 2001, apart from France’s Jacques Chirac.
At 2.30 on the morning of March 20th, the first explosions could be heard inside the historic city. A ‘bunker’ believed to have contained Saddam Hussein was amongst the targets heavily bombed by the jets, a ‘bunker’ which it was later revealed to have been entirely fictitious.
Journalist Robert Fisk detailed these attacks from within Iraq:
It was an outrage, an obscenity. The severed hand on the metal door, the swamp of blood and mud across the road, the human brains inside a garage, the incinerated, skeletal remains of an Iraqi mother and her three small children in their still-smouldering car.
It’s a dirt-poor neighbourhood, of mostly Shia Muslims, the same people whom Messrs Bush and Blair still fondly hope will rise up against President Saddam Hussein, a place of oil-sodden car-repair shops, overcrowded apartments and cheap cafes. Everyone I spoke to heard the plane. One man, so shocked by the headless corpses he had just seen, could only say two words. “Roar, flash,” he kept saying and then closed his eyes so tight that the muscles rippled between them.
How should one record so terrible an event? Perhaps a medical report would be more appropriate. But the final death toll is expected to be near to 30 and Iraqis are now witnessing these awful things each day; so there is no reason why the truth, all the truth, of what they see should not be told.
For another question occurred to me as I walked through this place of massacre yesterday. If this is what we are seeing in Baghdad, what is happening in Basra and Nassiriyah and Kerbala? How many civilians are dying there too, anonymously, indeed unrecorded, because there are no reporters to be witness to their suffering?
Ironically dubbed ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’, what happened in the days, weeks and years ahead would be comically removed from that title were it not so tragic.
As the deaths racked up, journalists were covertly fed fake intel and encouraged to spread fake news stories about ‘chemical attacks’ being planned by the Iraqis, to justify the increasingly criminal military action that was unfolding.
In the middle of all of this, one ‘prolife’ voice piped up to celebrate the intentional killings of civilians. Ben Shapiro, who some Catholics hold up as a model of conservativism, wrote a repulsive article wherein he stated that ‘We’re not in Mogadishu anymore’, implying that the United States overcoming a 90s aversion to wiping out innocent civilians was a development to be celebrated. A far cry from the realism of Fisk, for Shapiro, these indiscriminate killings of innocent Iraqi civilians were part of a wider shift of what he saw as a battle between Judeo-Christian West vs. Islamic Middle East, with human beings to be regarded as military units even when they were civilians (unless they are American or Israeli):
With the U.S. military and the Bush administration conquering the Mogadishu syndrome, the next step is to allow our allies against Islamic terror to do the same thing.
The Israeli version of the "Mogadishu syndrome" is the "Jenin syndrome." Israel's consistent attempts to minimize civilian casualties have been overlooked by most of the world, including the U.S. government, which has often condemned Israel for its anti-terror operations. In an eerily similar situation to the anti-Saddam air strike, Israeli F-16s bombed an apartment complex housing Hamas terrorist leader Salah Shehade on July 23, 2002, killing Shehade as well as 14 civilians. The U.S. government condemned the attack, with White House press secretary Ari Fleischer calling the attack "heavy-handed." Now that the U.S. military has faced a similar enemy and dealt with it in the same way, U.S. policy toward Israeli anti-terror must change.
The United States has achieved an important step in the war against terror: overcoming our own aversion to civilian casualties in order to achieve victory. The attacks on Saddam and the Iraqi snipers push our military policy in a new direction, away from Mogadishu. For the United States to win the global war on terror, it must let our allies overcome their own .
Shapiro has neither apologised or retracted this, in fact he has doubled down in recent years on his support of this event.
One could attribute what happened in Iraq to a mistake, to faulty intelligence, to a desire for revenge for 9/11. Perhaps for ordinary Americans, or for the soldiers who signed up, but not for those who orchestrated it and fabricated the false stories necessary to make it happen.
To make a mistake is one thing, to continue it is another. After Shock and Awe came ISIS, enabled by the Obama Administration (with a hands on role from Joe Biden). Subsequent to this came the destabilisation of Libya, Syria and Egypt, putting power into the hands of radical Islamists and plunging Europe into a migration crisis as a consequence, with violent terrorism arriving in previously peaceful European cities. This led to European Catholic priests and faithful being decapitated at Mass, as well as regular arson attacks on French churches.
What is especially disconcerting about the Iraq War is that it is by any objective measure the seminal event of our century, moreso than even 9/11 (not to compare tragedies, but political and cultural events). Yet it finds itself overshadowed in public discourse by other less immediate events, particularly World War II. In testament to the ubiquity of World War II’s hold on our imaginations, Communist and Fascist remain as the terms that are hurled by people in Western nations (we’re guilty of this too), instead of say Globalist and Nationalist or Traditionalist and Modernist, which may be more apt. Better again might be Believer vs Atheist or Christian vs Nihilist. It appears as though many in the US media have tried to get ahead on this, by trying to paint Globalist as a term of endearment.
Perhaps the Iraq War has to be eradicated from popular memory and discourse because it serves as a reminder that scientists lie, politicians lie and journalists lie, sometimes in cahoots with one another. It also reminds people that when the superpowers of the world turn their minds towards destroying something, there is very little that we can do to stop them, especially when they see themselves as having authority in borders that are not their own, which is easy to do when you don’t believe in borders. The only films that Hollywood has produced about the Iraq War, far from being something moving like Schindler’s List, have been watered down action films like Green Zone and comedies that tried to rehabilitate those who profited from the conflict like Dogs of War.
It is no doubt a form of consolation to Westerners to know that Iraq’s distance could assuage our collective guilt, out of sight out of mind. Their pain is not something that we have to think about on a daily basis, if we do, we can just take Ben Shapiro’s line of thought that the ‘known unknowns’ somehow justifies what happened.
With news that 25,000 troops have rolled in to Washington DC to stop their own people from protesting this week’s events, perhaps Americans are finally realising that if the Globalists who run their country could send their own troops to die for a pointless war in such huge numbers, then there is no domestic behaviour that they would regard as too authoritarian or too heavy handed. They have already turned these tools on their own people, with TSA flight restriction protocols and the Patriot Act post 9/11. Authorities water boarded and tortured innocent people, distributed images of brutal abuse of people in Abu Ghraib prison, it is hard to imagine them drawing a distinction between other people and their own if they don’t draw a distinction between innocent and guilty.
To now watch this same military then be used to brazenly lead the installation of a new regime is surreal, but only if you regard us in the West as untouchable from the repercussions of the monsters that we have created and tolerated. This seemingly surreal scenario is made all the more unsettling by virtue of the fact that this regime is looking to expand abortion, sue nuns and install people like this guy as Health Secretary.
When the Globalists did come first for the Iraqis, many across the world, including our own Pope John Paul II, spoke up and told them not to. But these sincere pleas fell on deaf ears. When Saddam Hussein was hung, Pope Benedict XVI decried the ‘barbaric rapidity’ of the execution, stating that it prevented the Vatican from intervening properly.
In recent months, there has been a barbaric rapidity once again. The extremist elements amongst the Globalists such as Samantha Power, have made foreboding noises that contained veiled threats about treating Poland and Hungary as they once did Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi.
If you want an insight into what could potentially be on the horizon, you simply need to observe the hyenas speaking about their fellow Americans in the same breath as they once spoke about the Iraqis, they are even now drawing parallels so as to justify the two of them.
Sounding like a domestic abuser, Wolf Blitzer and others in the media are justifying this craziness by sticking to the line of ‘you made us do this, it’s for your own good’.
More than ever before, the United States needs our prayers and it needs the order of Christ.
Unfortunately, those in authority have now chosen to pursue a path that prefers disorder.
Most in the United States are very patriotic and pleasant people and some will see this as an attack on the United States way of life, but they need to understand that for 20 years now the Globalists have changed the perception American beyond recognition, harming both Americans and people abroad. This is why it’s necessary to say that old dialectics simply do not cut it anymore.
In 2009, Lawrence Wilkinson, a former chief of staff to Colin Powell during George W. Bush’s Presidency, claimed that most people who ended up imprisoned Guantanamo during the ‘War on Terror’ were actually innocent. That means innocent people being waterboarded, tortured and brutalised with a compliant public remaining relatively silent about it out of fear. These people were unpersoned and dehumanised because they were obstacles to the Globalists. As an obstacle to the Globalists yourself, you are no more important to them just because you are not a Muslim or an Arab.
We would like our pessimism on this to be misguided, but this censorship inclined and heavily militarised fourth incarnation of the Clinton/Bush/Obama dynasty has already made it clear that it is well founded. The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread.
In his famous Harvard address in 1978, Gulag survivor and Soviet dissident Alexandr Solzhenitsyn warned of the steep decline that we are now witnessing. He warned that the United States of America was headed the way of other failed civilisations before it. There are many great things about the USA and its young traditions, many great people with its literature, science and arts to be admired, but the USSR had those too. The dark premonition of Solzhenitsyn has started to look more real each day, with every child drag show and every threat to withhold assistance to countries that did not imitate the United States in social policies (under Obama, this was abortion and even under Trump it was Same Sex Marriage).
Like the people of Baghdad in 2003, we all seem to be counting our breaths until the Globalists arrive looking for us.
But should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours. Through intense suffering our country has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. Even those characteristics of your life which I have just mentioned are extremely saddening.
A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.
Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. It is true, no doubt, that a society cannot remain in an abyss of lawlessness, as is the case in our country. But it is also demeaning for it to elect such mechanical legalistic smoothness as you have. After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.
There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.
But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their offensive; you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?