“Today
Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to
restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true
if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real
or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all
peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from
this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented
with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished
for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world
government.”
-Henry Kissinger, 1992, Evian, France [alleged]
Problem:
The Mumbai Massacre is finally declared over, after attacks at multiple
locations, including a nearly 60 hour siege at a hotel, took at least
195 lives and wounded hundreds in another tragic event blamed on a
‘militant Islamic group’ – which one yet, remains to be seen.
Reaction:
The media are already busy analyzing and throwing around the language
to set the tone and state the “real” issue. India’s PM called the
coordinated attacks “well-planned and well-orchestrated” with likely “external links.” Maharashtra Director General of Police A.N. Roy said they were “very well planned and very well executed”,
an “operation done with great precision and training.” Major General RK
Hooda, the senior Indian commander said, “It’s a motivated, well planned terrorist attack.”
From the International Herald Tribune,
“Indian commandos involved in the fighting in the hotels said the
attackers were well-trained and remorseless, with one attacker carrying
a backpack packed with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and they
seemed to know the hotel layout better than the security forces,
indicating a high degree of preparation and sophistication.”
The
mainstream media made sure the world was good and horrified by this
sophisticated, well-orchestrated, coordinated attack, which involved
multiple targets, was highly planned with military precision, by people
who know what they’re doing…which “they” certainly did, to the loss of
too many innocent lives. In the less mainstream, I read things like Mumbai Attacks Look Like A Western Intel Operation.
Solution:
The media has already quickly pointed out that the Indian
counter-terrorism capabilities are inadequate, understaffed, lack
resources and coordination, are unprepared, India being a weak target,
totally unable to handle simultaneous attacks in multiple locations –
and on some networks, it is suggested India needs the equivalent of our
Patriot Act to handle these types of situations. Indian papers flail intelligence failures in Mumbai attacks. Already, an “unprecedented intelligence cooperation” between India, the US, the UK and Israel have converged there to investigate.
India
is managing a fine balancing act, with economic and industrial ties to
the western world increasing at the same time they are buying arms from
Israel and being wooed by China and Russia on
the world stage. Perhaps they are being forced to choose sides. Or
maybe they are playing the scapegoat for the new world police order,
just in time to join its brother, the new world financial order.
The
bad guys allegedly arrived in the coastal city by boat. I have heard
some media questioning the safety of the world’s seas. Certainly the
recent bold pirate news doesn’t bode well for that subject. “Something must be done.”
At the moment rumors are flying
about a-Q being involved again, or perhaps the “external links” to this
well-crafted plan must have involved Pakistan, giving the next
administration reason to…well, let’s not go there yet. Remember, India and Pakistan already suffer strained relations, and both have nuclear weapons. Wars, and rumors of wars.
Is
this what all those recent warnings from our world leaders have been
about? I wrote these paragraphs last week but never posted them:
Joe Biden and Colin Powell
were both noted to have publicly discussed some unknown future trouble
on its way, in terms of Obama’s incoming administration. Biden said,
“…Watch. We’re going to have an international crisis, a generated
crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” A generated crisis? Like when
Kissinger said “promulgated”? The Council of Foreign Relations president predicts coups, genocide and terrorism to test Obama. Here’s another article warning Obama to expect a ‘huge threat’ from a-Q. From News from Jerusalem,
warnings from six world leaders all within 72 hours, including Biden,
Madeleine Albright, the UK PM Brown’s adviser Lord West, French Foreign
Minister Bernard Kouchner, and Australian PM Kevin Rudd, who warned, “The
devastation that could be wreaked by one major nuclear weapons incident
alone puts 9/11 and almost everything else [in] to the category of the
insignificant.” Great. Recently Reuters reported that a-Q has voiced more threats along with a racial slur.
Our favorite baddie, Zbigniew Brzezinski, said in a recent interview with Deutsche Welle
that Obama was likely to be tested by terrorists early in his
presidency, as both Clinton and GW were. A big ‘hm’ on that loosely
veiled threat.
Is Mumbai it? Or could there be more? Security Stepped Up on New York Subways After FBI Warning of Possible Terror Plot.
Would they really do something as devastating as a nuclear bomb? Are we
scared enough already to grovel for “protection”? Maybe the earth will
stand still one day, and “UFOs” will land on the White House lawn to
“teach” us unenlightened masses about “peace” and the “true religion”.
Sorry for the sarcasm. I have a bad taste in my mouth.
Those who try to control,
who use force to protect their power,
Go against the direction of the Tao.
-Tao Te Ching #77
