America’s Magnificent Failure

By: Peter Chamberlin

"The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over, and then expecting different results." Attributed to Albert Einstein.

By this definition, the foreign policy of the United States in 2008 is clinically insane. The plan that has lately come into play, to persuade our allies into asking for US forces to come in and wage total war on their borders, would require that our allies also act in an insane manner, inviting massive destruction upon themselves, in order to further American goals.

After his pal Iraqi President Maliki refused Bush’s request to invite the US to fight a war with Iran upon his border (based on false evidence) his best buddy Ehud Olmert then refused to pick another fight with Hezbollah in Lebanon (even though the war would be fought for Israel, the cost extracted by 600 missiles/per day raining down upon Israelis would have been too high). It is complete idiocy on Bush’s part to think that either Karzai or Musharref will act any differently as he pushes them to respond forcefully to the recent provocative “false flag” attacks in their respective countries.

After the recent prison break at Sarposa prison in Kandahar, President Karzai, acting as America’s spokesman, forcefully threatened to send US forces into Pakistan. He blamed the attack upon the Pakistani Taliban, naming Baitullah Mehsud, leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), as one of the key cross-border raiders, even though his base in Waziristan is hundreds of miles from Kandahar. This is keeping with America’s disinformation M.O. of taking two divergent themes and merging them into one PSYOP. Mehsud is being set-up as Bush’s “patsy,” the alleged figurehead (bin Laden-type) to be targeted for total war by American/NATO forces.

After Karzai’s threat, Bush tried to sound like the sane statesman, saying,

“It is in no one’s interests that extremists have a safe haven from which to operate. Obviously, it’s a testy situation there. We can help calm the situation down.”

For the sake of the long-suffering Pashtun people of both Pakistan and Afghanistan, Karzai had better figure-out that when Bush offers to “calm” the situation, he is referring to military pacification, on a scale not seen since World War II.

It seems as though the Afghan Taliban may have been allowed to seize the prison from under the noses of 2500 Canadian troops, who were less than twenty miles away at the airport (several hundred of them within five miles at Camp Nathan Smith). http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/gmaps/afghanistan/ After starting the attack with a massive truck bomb that blew-out windows up to 1.7 miles from the prison (and was visible in the night sky for miles) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7454021.stm the Taliban met no outside resistance from either Canadian or American troops, as they set-off more bombs and fought a half hour gun battle with the guards, taking up to “several hours” (according to CNN’s account) to empty at least 1,000 prisoners from their cells. In an act of military incompetence not seen since the hours-long failure to muster air support on 9/11, fifteen Afghan guards died, in the process of releasing several hundred key Taliban cell leaders and would-be suicide bombers and nobody seemed to notice until it was all over. This operation has “false flag” written all over it!

Sarposa prison, June 15

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Sarposa prison, June 15

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Pakistani President Musharref is having his own political problems, arising from US and other suspicious attacks, many of them are probably staged “false flag” attacks, as well. Unauthorized American policies in his destabilized Western Provinces have so stirred things up against him that he dare not appear to side with further US attacks, especially after American bombers killed 11 Pakistani troops at a border post in the mountainous Gora Prai region in Mohmand,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=quikyCHD_Uo

a Predator attack that killed another Pashtun in South Waziristan (trying to kill Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud), http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\06\15\story_15-6-2008_pg7_5

while unknown assailants staged bomb attacks against Shiite mosques in Hangu and Dera Ismail Khan, killing four worshippers in each attack.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=60359&sectionid=351020401

Tehreek-e-Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar told the BBC after the attack on the government frontier outpost in Mohmand:

"The Afghan army and the US troops there were trying to set up a checkpost on the border...So we launched an attack on them from several sides and caused serious harm - and then the US and Nato forces began a series of air strikes." http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/7447608.stm

So here we have public enemy number one, Baitullah Mehsud as our new focus, the rebel leader who reported that Bin Laden is dead, and denied the charge that he killed Benazir Bhutto, being targeted under “Plan B” by American forces in cross border raids. This is Washington’s go-it-alone revised version of its previously failed “Plan A,” which was attempted in partnership with Pakistan’s secret services (ISI). That plan involved pay-offs and intrigues centering on Mehsud’s rival Waziri clan leader Maulvi Nazir. Nazir was instrumental in staging the alleged Taliban split, where he formed a 900 man Taliban posse to eliminate Uzbek Islamists who were identified as “al Qaida,” in the process attempting to run Mehsud’s forces out of Waziristan. The Uzbeks were supposedly al Qaida remnants, who fled from the American assault in Afghanistan, taking up refuge in Waziristan, thanks to Muslim hospitality laws.

Nazir’s purpose was to undermine the peace deal that Mehsud had signed with the Pakistani authorities at Sara Rogha in February 2005, which ceded authority in the area to the Taliban. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/01/the_pakistani_taliba.php

It is unclear to this writer whether Nazir was working for both the Americans and the ISI to undermine Pakistani attempts at diplomacy, or if he answered directly to the CIA, just as it is still unclear to me, writing here 7500 miles from the war zone, whether the foreign fighters who are playing the role of “al Qaida” these days are linked to Nazir or to Mehsud, or both. But I can make three observations about “al Qaida” with near certainty:

1) Al Qaida is a CIA/Mossad/ISI creation. 2) Terrorist groups “linked to al Qaida” by the Western media are key CIA tools for implementing American foreign policy. 3) Al Qaida attacks to force adherence to Sharia Law upon fellow Muslims (in Iraq and Pakistan) have always backfired, alienating the masses from terrorist enforcers.

In keeping with the theme of the three observations, it is apparent that some of these Muslim forces are American proxies who are attempting to open another war front for us, against the government and the people of Pakistan. Musharref really has his hands full, trying to pleasure both Bush and Cheney, while not igniting a revolution in his own country. According to researcher Hassan Abbas, http://www.ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/CTCSentinel-Vol1Iss2.pdf

Nazir’s entire anti-Uzbeki fight was commissioned by ISI, much like a previous shadowy attempt On October 23, 2006 to create a false copy of Tehrik-i-Taliban, before the real group had even announced its own existence:

“A credible newspaper in Pakistan disclosed that five militant groups joined hands to set up an organization named Tehrik-i-Taliban in Mohmand Agency with a goal ‘to flush out gangs carrying out criminal activities in the name of Taliban’.”

This policy of creating false “Taliban” fronts surfaced recently in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province (which is only about seventy-five miles from the prison break under suspicious circumstances in Kandahar), where a secret British MI6 operation to create a false Taliban front was exposed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/30/wafghan130.xml

“Two European diplomats accused of holding secret talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan were thrown out of the country following a complaint by the US, intelligence officials in Kabul have told The Sunday Telegraph... The source claimed that the US alerted Afghan authorities after learning that the diplomats were providing direct financial and other support - including mobile phone cards - to the Taliban commanders, in the hope of persuading them to swap sides... These claims will reinforce perceptions of a rift between the US and its international partners in Afghanistan, including Britain.”

So here we have action to create a false Taliban in an area of Afghanistan under British control, next door to a Canadian controlled area, experiencing a spectacular attack, which will very likely provide the needed justification for an invasion of Pakistan. NATO is proving to be just another tool for fulfilling American imperial ambitions. This follows on the heels of other similar reports about a MI6 operation (or part of the same one) in creating a false Balochi group in Pakistan, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA). http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7705

Balochistan is home base for the also “al Qaida-related” Jundullah terrorist organization, which has been implicated in many cross-border raids into Iran, as well as sabotage attacks upon pipelines in Pakistan that will become part of the planned India/Pakistan/Iran pipelines. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/14/iran.roberttait Pakistan’s recent turnover of four Jundallah terrorists to Iran who had fled there after staging bomb attacks is probably the last straw for Bush and Cheney. http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/June08/15/12.htm

Subtlety will no longer apply in America’s abuse of Pakistan; it’s time to kick down the door in this important “back door” into Iran. In the aftermath of Israel’s disappointing failure to trust Bush enough to turn Tel Aviv into the front line in a rocket war with Iranian client Hezbollah for him, Bush has to find a way to honor his commitment to God and Israel to eliminate Iran, without bringing ruination upon the Holy Land.

Bush’s insanity is caught-up in his messianic vision of fulfilling God’s vision for Israel. He has expressed his belief that he alone has the will to solve the Iranian problem, future presidents cannot be relied upon to carry this heavy load. It is no small thing to know that you are prepared to eliminate several million innocent souls to carry-out your divine mission. This is the source of his stubborn refusal to face reality about what he has done so far to millions of innocent people, and what he stands ready to do to millions more. This should serve as a warning to all those who keep prematurely celebrating the end of the threat to attack Iran, Bush is going to find a way to explode this war before he hands the entire mess off.

This insane denial of reality is contagious, having infected everyone in the Republican Party and most of the Democrats. In the delusional alternate reality, the “surge” has pacified Iraq, the Taliban are becoming desperate and in retreat, and we are winning the war of terror. Both presidential candidates share this infection, as reflected by Obama’s call for attacking within Pakistan and McCain’s likely running mate, Joe Lieberman’s castigating Obama for telling the truth, that Israel is in danger today because of American foreign policy. http://www.wmnf.org/news_stories/5652

In truth, all of us are in danger today because America’s foreign policy has failed so miserably. Our magnificent failure has come about because Israel’s foreign policy (that of manipulating our policies to use US troops to attack the enemies of Israel) has been so successful. In a circular logic that is unfathomable to normal minds, our trusted leaders are seeking to make our friends in Israel safe by bringing destruction down upon their heads, just as we are seeking to do to the same to all of our friends in the neighborhood, from Beirut to Islamabad.

In the biggest logic loop of all, we think that we can save the world by destroying it. For once, some American leader has to come along with enough balls to say, we intend to help the world by actually helping it, for a change.

I used to think that Ron Paul might be that leader, then I hoped that Obama could learn to be that guy. Now I know that such exceptional leadership must come from ordinary folks like you and me. It is up to all of us to become leaders and take a common stand together, as one united people. If we want to save this world, then we have no other choice than to do whatever it takes, to stop the insanity of George Bush.

Contact author: peter.chamberlin@yahoo.com