By Paul Craig Roberts
Information Clearinghouse
December 05, 2008
“In a government of law, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
– Justice Louis Brandeis
Is Pakistan responsible for the Mumbai attack in India? No.
Is India’s repression of its Muslim minority responsible? No.
Is the United States government responsible? Yes.
The attack on Mumbai required radicalized Muslims. Radicalized Muslims resulted from the US overthrowing the elected government in Iran and imposed the Shah; from the US stationing troops in Saudi Arabia; from the US invading and attempting to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, bombing weddings, funerals, and children’s soccer games; from the US violating international and US law by torturing its Muslim victims; from the US enlisting Pakistan in its war against the Taliban; from the US violating Pakistan’s sovereignty by conducting military operations on Pakistani territory, killing Pakistani civilians; from the US government supporting a half century of Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their lands, towns and villages; from the assault of American culture on Muslim values; from the US purchasing the government of Egypt to act as its puppet; from US arrogance that America is the supreme arbiter of morality.
As Justice Brandeis said, crime is contagious. Government teaches by example, and America’s example is lawlessness. America’s brutal crimes against the Muslim world have invited every Muslim to become a law unto himself–a revolutionary. It is not terror that Washington confronts but revolution.
By illegal, uncivilized and undiplomatic behavior, the US has stirred Muslim peoples from their long slumber as serfs of Western colonial powers. Some Muslims have had all that they can take, and their fury drives them to rouse a billion of their fellows to throw off the yoke of foreign hegemony.
The arrogant incompetence of American governments brought this conflict to the American people and inflicted it upon the world. By destabilizing Pakistan, the US lost a puppet and created an opportunity for Muslim revolutionaries to exploit. By enraging India against Pakistan, the Mumbai attack has created new problems for Pakistan that will focus that government’s attention away from combating Taliban sanctuaries on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan. If the US picks up the slack, it will have invaded yet another country and become trapped in a larger quagmire.
Having fomented terrorism, the American government now pretends to be the innocent victim, just as Israelis, having brought about terrorism by driving Palestinians from their homes and villages, pretend to be innocent victims.
Today European members of NATO, an outdated organization formed to defend Western Europe against Soviet invasion, are sacrificing the lives of their soldiers fighting the American Empire’s war in Afghanistan. If America continues to have its way, Europeans will soon be dying in Ukraine, Georgia, and Iran.
The American government, which preaches “freedom and democracy” has in the 21st century gone to great extremes to stamp out the US Constitution and the civil liberties that it guarantees. The US government has repudiated the Geneva Conventions and the prohibitions in US statutory law against torture. The US government has set aside habeas corpus, the ancient legal principle guaranteed by the US Constitution that prohibits governments from holding people in prisons without presenting charges. The US government has broken the laws of other nations by kidnapping foreign citizens and transporting them to other lands to be tortured.
These massive crimes have been justified in the name of the “war on terror.” In truth, America’s crimes foment revolution.
It was the US government that created the “war on terror,” which has been used to murder and dispossess millions of Iraqis and Afghans, to imprison US citizens as if they were medieval serfs, and to squander three trillion dollars for the sole purpose of enriching Halliburton and the military-security complex.
Investigative journalist John Pilger has shown that the so-called “moral superiority of the West” is a hoax designed to shield from view the self-seeking West’s crimes against humanity.
Obama promised change from this destructive behavior, but how does change arise when the most arrogant woman on earth is appointed Secretary of State and the rest of the new government is staffed with tried and true Likudniks and servants of the military-security complex?
The change over which Obama will preside will have no American victories. The change will come from America as a failed state, from the dollar dethroned as reserve currency, from America repudiated by its allies and paid puppets, from massive unemployment for which there is no solution, from hyperinflation that produces anarchy.
The day might arrive when Washington is faced with revolution at home as well as abroad.
see
Rebuttal to Paul Craig Roberts’: ‘Washington Arrogance has Fomented a Muslim Revolution’
Beware The Obama Hype What “Change” In America Really Means By John Pilger
Afghanistan, Another Untold Story by Michael Parenti
The Mumbai Attacks: More Than Meets the Eye By Jeremy R. Hammond
US Interrogator in Iraq Says Torture Policy Has Led to Deaths of Thousands of American Soldiers
Mumbai India Terrorist Attacks November 26 2008
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I am confused, though I understand, by the responses to Dr. Roberts article. Dr. Roberts is describing the root cause of a diseases, the responses are describing how to deal with symptoms, while ignoring the underlying disease. This is typical of Western medicine and US foreign policy.
The quote from Justice Brandais is a pro pos.
America is the background puppet master of the Mumbai attack. But those muslims who committed the attacks are also culprits because they killed innocent people for something those dead people were not responsible for. I hate to call them muslims and they truly can’t be the muslims that Islam wants. Islam is for peace, not for killing civilians waiting at train stations or in hotels. If Muslims should stand against America they must understand the peacefulness of Islam and stand united under Islam. For all this Muslims need a supreme leader. Terrorism and attacks will do no good but tarnish the true face of Islam. Muslims first should get themselves as much educated they can become and spread themselves around the globe spreading Islam and placing themselves in important posts of nations to over power them.
Hi,
The only response I can give to this article is the letter appended below. Do you mind, Mr. Paul Craig Roberts, if you stopped blaming Muslims for all the black-ops’ false-flag operations on the planet: “The attack on Mumbai required radicalized Muslims”? Thanks.
Zahir Ebrahim
An ordinary Muslim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/12/letter-to-pakalert-press-dec052008.html
The Real Terrorists: Letter to Pak Alert Press December 05, 2008.
Project Humanbeingsfirst said:
Thank you for compiling these references in this analysis “THE NARIMAN HOUSE STORY” ( http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/the-nariman-house-story-must-read/ ). The following astute observation made in the article still begs the forensic question who and why:
“This terrorist incident will most likely lead to much greater bloodshed unless the true culprits are found and convicted in a court of law. Some analysts say that this event could lead to a new world war.”
Red Herring: ‘a smelly fish that a fugitive drags across the path in order to put the pursuing dogs off the trail’
Lest some very good peoples remain on the treadmill of red herrings, Project Humanbeingsfirst issued the following letter as comment for this excellent website Pak Alert Press. It is reproduced below.
The Real Terrorists – by Zahir Ebrahim
The atrocity in Mumbai last week, and the bizarre data that is emerging, will make more sense if one stops viewing this heinous terrorist act from the traditional Indian-Pakistan lens. It is urgent that people in both nations begin to appreciate what’s at stake so that each may initiate proper self-defense against accurately identified hidden dangers from the overt ‘katputli tamashas’.
The following News Flash is Project Humanbeingsfirst’s position on this manufactured terror. To appreciate it, please study the methods of Rand Corporation, CFR, Zbigniew Brzezinski, et. al., and acquire an understanding of the notion of world-government. Political science runs the world, and the children of Machiavelli are deeply rooted in waging war by way of deception – a game of conquest “as old as mankind”. From the East India Company to Free Trade to the War on Terror – all enablers of pretexts for “imperial mobilization” and “full spectrum dominance”. In the West, typically, the smartest students study humanities and social sciences, and the think-tanks as well as the Pentagon are populated with scores of PhDs in political science and history. What do you think they do there? What do you think they do at the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and the Carnegie Endowment for Peace? How about at CFR and RIIA? They are united in one common global agenda – world government. And they get there by shrewdly employing the overarching political science concept articulated by David Ben Gurion “what is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times”!
Therefore, please don’t blame the Hindus or ISI or Jihadis – patsies and mercenaries come in all stripes, ethnic origin, and social class. And the best recruits for patsies are always those who have grievances or are disgruntled. The best recruits for mercenaries are the ruling-elite, politicians, and military men. In both cases they know very little, in fact often zero, and are merely the ‘trigger pullers’ of average intelligence. Instead, look for those ‘ubermensch’ who employ them. To do so, one has to understand the agendas, and what scheme of things is really being enacted on the world-stage. That, according to the forensic reports of Project Humanbeingsfirst (available on its website), points to an entirely different motivation-space and entirely different criminals from the ‘katputli tamashas’ being enacted for public consumption.
News Flash:
Terrorist rampage in Mumbai, India – Watch for “Hindustan Patriot Act” being enabled shortly! The last bastion of democracy, the largest in the world, had to be converted into a police state as “World government could only be kept in being by force”. This isn’t an isolated event. The monetary collapse, the Obama government, predictions of first year of horrible terrorist acts worldwide to be blamed on the manufactured ‘Militant Islamists’ – enablers of endgame. Stop blaming either the Indians, or the Pakistanis. This has been a mil-ops all the way – no different than the Marriott Hotel terrorist act in Islamabad. See Press Release WHAT’S TO BE DONE – Massive Bomb Blast in Islamabad Marriott September 20, 2008. The same applies to Mumbai.
http://pressreleases-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/09/pr-whats-to-be-done-pakistan-sept222008.html
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Thanks, Zahir. You may want to go to the original post on ICH and leave a comment there, as Mr. Roberts won’t be reading this here.
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