Mayhem and the "Other"

Laughable if not for the mayhem commited against 'the other'
by Da Buffalo Amon... on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 11:39am

That's EVERYONE who opposes Western interests in the region, right?

‘I’m here to understand what you mean by Taliban’ --Arundhati Roy

"When we say we must fight the Taliban or must defeat them, what does it mean? I’m here to understand what you mean when you say Taliban. Do you mean a militant? Do you mean an ideology? Exactly what is it that is being fought? That needs to be clarified.

I think both needs to be fought. But if it’s an ideology it has to be fought differently, while if it’s a person with a gun then it has to be fought differently. We know from the history of the war on terror that a military strategy is only making matters worse all over the world. The war on terror has made the world a more dangerous place. In India, they have been fighting insurgencies military since 1947 and it has become a more dangerous place.

Swat and the Taliban boy

It is very important for me to understand what exactly is going in Swat. How did it start? A Taliban boy asked me why women can’t be like plastic bags and banned. The point is that the plastic bag was made in a factory but so was the boy. He was made in a factory that is producing this kind of mind(set). (The question is) who owns that factory, who funds it? Unless we deal with that factory, dealing with the boy doesn’t help us. "

http://tinyurl.com/q3b7kt

I want to deal with that factory too!

For me, That 'factory' is inherent in the attempt by the West to rape the extractive resources of Asia and the Middle East.

That's what creates 'terrorists'

"terrorists? Why, they're people lacking identity... They're trying to be noticed"

Marshall McLuhan said that a long long time ago, after the first couple of airline hijackings in the 60s.

I want to expand on that and state that "lacking identity" is putting it mildly now... it's been refined and employed as a tool... The people who become terrorist now have been raped and stripped of identity intentionally.

To wit:Pakistani Students: The militants destroyed Swat's economy, now the military is destroying the rest of the infrastructure

http://tinyurl.com/pocbox

...and for what it's worth, the Talib offered to use their influence on UBL after 9/11 (if they really had any over a NATO employed mercenary recruiter) and the US rejected that offer, opted for invasion.

My opinion? The only time UBL and friends (at least the AQ leadership) were anywhere near Afghanistan or Pakistan was when they were hiding out at Tora Bora... a facility built by either the US or NATO as a listening post spooking Russian Comms during the 'Cold War' and given to AQ as a hideout for them in our Proxy War on Russia in Afghanistan.

More likely to find these guys living in a Fairfax Va condo or hanging out waiting for their handler at the back gate of Langley now days.

I'm only half kidding on that last point. AQ gave the US an excuse, a rationale if you would, to run militarily amuck throughout that region and indeed the world, to the benefit of Bushboy's friends in the military-industrial-educational-journalistic complex and no one else seems to have benefited except for a few pet, cooperative 'strongmen' in the region.

I say "follow the money". The money emanates from the US treasury and Pentagon and trickles down to Lockheed, Loral, and the rest, including, indirectly to journalists like Tom Ricks.