This is Part II of an analysis by J. B. Campbell, based on a book review
of Buechner's "The Avengers." Where I substituted words, I put
those words in brackets:
"Enough of us have this deadly combination of ignorance, arrogance,
cowardice and cruelty which leads us inevitably to atrocities, from Atlanta
to Dresden to Hiroshima to My Lai to Panama City to Baghdad to Waco to Oklahoma
City.
This is not to say that we are all ignorant, or arrogant, or cowardly, or
cruel. But the ones who always do the dirty work against our latest enemy
are found on our military bases.
By their very youthful nature they are ignorant. They often become quite
arrogant when given power over others. They are not brave enough to say
"no" when ordered to attack civilian targets or slaughter unarmed
prisoners of war. Their natural cruelty is easily exploited by psycho-specialists
who can quickly condition them to hate and kill strangers en masse with
simple propaganda and big lies.
And then there are our non-aggression pacts and actual military partnership
with the Soviet Union. This last item is something from which America will
never recover. Our little military arrangement with Israel is an obscenity
but our partnership with the Soviets was so horrific that it may never become
possible for future Americans to come to terms with it.
Our military partnership with the Soviet Communists from 1942 to 1945 was
the watershed event in human history. It was during this four-year period
that the New World Order, as we know and fear it, became established.
Following our mutual destruction of Germany and most of Europe, we encouraged
our partners to subject hundreds of millions of people, from East Germany
to China, to the gory delights of insatiable fiends known as commissars.
Millions were slaughtered or sent to slave labor camps and psychiatric prisons.
The rest have lived in abject terror of sharing the victims' fates.
Our government made this happen. For example, our government in 1945 ordered
our wonderful boys in Austria and Italy to round up millions of anti-communist
Russians and East Europeans at gunpoint, process them and force them at
bayonet point into box cars to be shipped to Stalin for execution in what
the army called "Operation Keelhaul." The Soviets couldn't have
gotten their hands on these people without our help.
Our government pretended to be shocked at Soviet "excesses" while
it continued to support its partner with military and financial aid, all
conducted profitably through the warlords' New York banks, to the present
day.
This included the forty-five year period of the phoney "Cold War."
The fact that both the Capitalist and Communist systems are controlled is
known or suspected by many of our people. Many of those who know feel that
it would be impolite to mention this fact. They have been conditioned to
feel this way. It is incumbent on those of us who know this fact to re-condition
them to speak freely. It is incumbent on all of us to make (the perpetrators)
feel uncomfortable in our knowledge of their activities.
The high death rate in Germany toward the end of the war was the result
of our wonderful boys in their fighter planes flying around at will, blasting
things on the ground to smithereens. Anything that moved was destroyed.
Chuck Yeager brags that he strafed farmers on their tractors. Trains were
favorite targets--they loved to hit the steam engines and watch them explode.
Trucks carrying food--well, forget them!
All of Germany was starving and those in the camps starved right along with
them. Those who cannot quite comprehend this sort of thing today must only
look back to 1991 when our wonderful boys completely destroyed life as it
was known in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities and towns. (Special interests)
had demanded that Iraq be destroyed by us and within a few short months
it was so."
And is it over yet? Here is what is still happening, according to the latest
issue (Jan/Feb.'97) of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs:
"Commendable U.S. government and media concern for relieving famine
in Zaire and Rwanda stand in sharp contrast to the continuing major famine
which the United States has caused in Iran.
"What the Iraqi people have been suffering is a continuing hell on
earth the dimensions of which are staggering. Carol Bellamy, who heads the
United Nations Relief Fund, estimates that in Iraq 'approximately 4.500
children under the age of five die every month from hunger and disease.'
. . .
"Add to that those who died during the 100-hour ground war, when a
bomb a minute was dropped. . . .
"Today, almost six years after the end of the Gulf War, as many as
100,000 Iraqis may still be dying every year for lack of food and medicine."
(p. 17)
Thought for the Day:
"Why should martial law not be proclaimed continuously against baseness and profiteering?"
(Houston Stewart Chamberlain in "Political Ideals")