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Re: Tariq Ali: What we can learn from Terrorists
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, November 12 2011, 16:50:24 (UTC)
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I got as far as the questions from the audience and bowed out when someone asked Ali if he believed 9/11 was an inside job. Ali's response ended my interest. I don't believe Bush flew the airplanes himself, and frankly I'm surprised every time someone poses this question that no one else steps forward to say, "we don;t mean Bush flew the airplanes, we mean did the United States help set this thing up, and then turn a blind eye while it waited to reap the rewards". In fact I'm beginning to think that the audience members who ask this question are CIA plants. Well, not really, but there does seem to be a kind of moronic obsession with framing this question in its most idiotic form just so people can laugh good and hard...and sure enough, Ali treated it with contempt and quickly moved on.

I find this odd from someone who is otherwise quick to condemn the lengths to which the US has gone to preserve its position....he even said at one point that Condolezi Rice was quoted as saying that the US must "use" 9/11 to get its way in the world...and Tony Blair too expressed the same sentiment in a recent book.

Another thing that troubled me was his refusal to say, directly, that war is good business. I mean we know that warmongers have always managed to profit from war...but increasingly the very same business people who profit also sit in government....certainly generals go on to work in this industry.

It isn't only communism that failed...capitalism too is failing...as we can see. There aren't enough trees left one earth to make coffee tables for everyone on earth...so now what? Well, financial games, ponzi schemes and a casino on Wall Street can carry you a little further, but not much. The only great and grand Gold Rush left is war...but a war of the wealthy against the poor and defenseless, with the loot coming from the Treasuries of those wealthy countries....we are raiding our own piggy banks to make Grand Prizes for the few...that's all that's left of "success" by capitalist means...even oil must end someday, but poor people we can terrorize are forever.

The new Radical has to admit, out front, that wars are business, and not just another business but increasingly THE business.

Manufacturers try to create a need and then fill it...we know that from advertising...for years writers and social commentators have told us this, have told us that commerce is not about just filling our needs but creating those needs...and that means creating fear for which they can manufacture a solution...even as they manufacture the problem. We have created Terrorists as marketing tool...they are the "problem" and solving this problem becomes the "need"....the product that will satisfy this need, solve this problem, is war...especially robots and drones because then our "heroes" won;t have to risk anything....the guy pushing the button will be transformed into a hero for the modern age.



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