Myths and Realities

Our leaders, having lost their way they continue squabbling unmindful that their mulish, self-serving and ultimately self-immolating devotion to their own betterment has brought the country to the brink of disaster.

There are many examples where nations have gone to war on the basis of lies, false flag operations, self-serving propaganda, etc. The Vietnam War, which was to cost the lives of 58,000 Americans, and a million Vietnamese, began in earnest after one such manufactured incident in the Gulf of Tonkin.

The myth that Japan had to be made to surrender unconditionally was responsible for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, subsequently released documents show Japan had offered to do just that provided the divine status of the Emperor was preserved. But, notwithstanding the objections of Eisenhower and MacArthur, President Truman rejected the offer. In other words, the inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had to endure the hell visited on them only because they sought the right to worship their Emperor in accordance with their traditional beliefs and practices. The request was subsequently conceded without any explanation being offered why it had been initially refused.

Another gargantuan lie was the US claim that America only entered the fray in Afghanistan AFTER the Soviet invasion in December 1979 when in fact, Washington had begun arming the mujahedeen in July 1979, that is, BEFORE the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan as part of Brzezinski’s plan to inveigle the USSR into Afghanistan to avenge Moscow’s support of North Vietnam.

This was revealed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s National Security Adviser in January, (15-21st) 1998, in an interview with the French weekly Nouvel Observateur.

In response to the question whether ‘it was correct that the CIA began to aid the mujahedeen in Afghanistan six months before the Soviet intervention,’ Brzezinsky replied:

‘Yes. According to the official version of history the CIA aid began during 1980 but the reality, secretly guarded until now is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3 when President Carter signed the directive for secret aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day I wrote’ to the president’. telling him that this was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.’

So we went around the world crying hoarse about how wicked the Soviets were for invading poor impoverished and defenceless Afghanistan; how recklessly Moscow had shattered the peace of our region; how dangerously exposed Pakistan had become and how much of a threat the Soviet ‘drive for the warm waters of the Indian Ocean’ posed to our security, although it was all bilge.

Having landed us in the war the Americans then abandoned us to our fate once the Soviets were defeated and, as if that was not bad enough, slapped sanctions on Pakistan for pursuing a nuclear weapons programme of which they had been aware for a decade or so.

Imagine how that war transformed Pakistan; how it changed our society infinitely for the worse; the drug and gun culture it bequeathed and the impact of the presence of five million Afghan refugees on the economy and society only so that America could avenge Moscow for supporting North Vietnam.

The other example, of course, is the invasion of Iraq by George Bush on the spurious pretext that Iraq had WMDs. George Bush was heeding Adolf Hitler’s advice that intelligent liars ‘know that a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.’ Alas, he seems to have got away with it, notwithstanding the millions of Iraqis killed, injured and displaced.

As if that was not enough, America now wants us to believe the present ‘war on terror’ is America’s response to what happened on 9/11 although the plan was adopted well before 9/11.

(Indirectly)  refuting this lie Brzezinski, while testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in February 2007, said:

‘A mythical historical narrative to justify the case for such a protracted and potentially expanding war is already being articulated. Initially justified by false claims about WMD’s in Iraq, the war is now being redefined as the ‘decisive ideological struggle’ of our time’ and 9/11 as the equivalent of the Pearl Harbour attack which precipitated America’s involvement in World War II.’

In other words, the ‘war on terror’ being waged today has little to do with 9/ 11 (because it predates 9/11). And we know this to be true because the plan to impose a Pax Americana had been elaborated, discussed and adopted by neo cons following the demise of the USSR well before Bush junior took office in January 2000. It was part of Bush senior’s New World Order which the younger Bush was bent on implementing.