Post by UniverseSeven on May 22, 2005 12:49:28 GMT -5
AMERICAN
REVOLUTIONARY
VANGUARD
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
-Thomas Jefferson
REVOLUTION IN OUR TIME
Populist-Anarchism Against the New World Order!
www.attackthesystem.com/
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Keith Preston, 2004
See, I Told You So: Thoughts on the Iraqi Resistance
It has now become common knowledge that the critics of the Iraq war were correct in many, if not most, of their presumptions and predictions. Informed opinion, from the right, left and elsewhere, insisted that the Bush administration's hysterical assertions concerning the Hussein regime's weapons capabilities were just that: hysterical assertions and, we now know, outright lies in many instances. George W. Bush and his cronies were wrong and the United Nations, the nations of "Old Europe" (to employ Donald Rumfeld's alleged epithet), Scott Ritter, John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Eric Margolis, Charley Reese, Justin Raimondo, the millions of protesters around the world and, apparently, Saddam Hussein himself, were correct. Thanks to the efforts of dissenters in the State Department, Pentagon and national security apparatus, we know that those who accused the administration of possessing ulterior motives in its zeal for invading Iraq were telling the truth.
Objective students of history can easily recognize the ills of imperialism. The practice of imperialism has a corrupting effect on its participants (as the example of the Roman empire of antiquity indicates) and a stifling, stagnating effects on its subjects (as we see in the case of the African continent). The competence and integrity of those handling the machinery of state are typically among the earliest casualties of imperialism. Thus far, the administration's flunkies have lied and cheated their way into war, dragging a reluctant citizenry along with them, only to find themselves bogged down into a military and political quagmire from which the ordinary mechanics of politics will allow no easy escape. Israel has the occupied territories. Now, America has Iraq along with Afghanistan. The world has moved another step towards the "clash of civilizations", the showdown between the liberal imperialists of the West (and their Zionist accomplices) and the Islamic nations, predicted by Samuel Huntington.
It is a conflict that Islam will win. Obviously, the Islamic world will never match the West in military or economic might. The very idea of an Islamic military conquest of the First World is laughable. Instead, Islam will simply move in once the West succeeds in burning its own house down. The aggression of the Anglo-American-Zionist axis against the Islamic nations will inflame the passions of Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia. As with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan a quarter century ago, Muslims from across the globe will run to join the ranks of the resistance. Whatever its military or technological capabilities, whatever level of wealth it may possess, the imperial axis lacks the most crucial component of any sort of battle to the death: namely, the spirit of jihad, a manifestation of the warrior ethics glorified by Friedrich Nietzsche, that the world's Islamic population possesses in abundance.
The health, wealth and happiness oriented consumer societies of the West simply do not have the stamina for holy war. There will be no volunteers for suicide missions on behalf of cheap oil, gay marriage and the globalization of Britney Spears. Thirty-five years ago, Lawrence Dennis predicted that the West would eventually fall to the Third World as the spirit of revolutionary nationalism (manifested in the "national liberation" struggles of the twentieth century) was on the rise on the periphery in the face of the decay to be found at the center. Does the West have the will to survive? No. Thus far, the Western nations, in the grip of the ideology of multiculturalism, have failed to even recognize, much less counter, the Third World invasion going on in their midst. As an Islamic cleric remarked to Turkey's Archbishop Giuseppe Bernardini:
"Thanks to your democratic laws, we will invade you. Thanks to our religious laws, we will dominate you." (1)
The utter incompetence of the imperialists is nowhere demonstrated more clearly than in the efforts to impose liberal democratic institutions upon the various peoples of Iraq. Whatever else could be said about the Romans, they at least practiced an imperialism that was free of pretentious piety. The Romans conquered for the sake of conquest. Territory, resources and power was what it was all about. This fact was recognized by the conquerors and the conquered alike. Consequently, Roman imperialism, however degenerate, still maintain a sense of realism. Subjugated peoples were generally allowed to keep their local customs and cultures and colonial puppet governments were largely a caricature of indigenous political traditions. So long as the tribute payments were coming in on time all was well and good. However, modern liberal imperialism, true to the tradition of post-Enlightenment utopian humanism, seeks not to simply maintain power but to revolutionize entire societies. "Creative destruction" is the order of the day. What can be said regarding a supposed ultra-conservative military hardliner like Paul Wolfowitz who insists that "a role for women" in a conservative, fundamentalist, patriarchal society is among his foremost priorities? It is tempting to dismiss such a claim as cynical pandering to liberal cultural elites, yet the proposed "democratic" constitution for Iraq contains provisions even more liberal than those of the social democracies of Scandanavia.
The peoples of Iraq will have none of it. The nature of the current rebellion indicates that the diverse cultures of Iraq recognize a common enemy in the imperialist occupiers. Sunnis and Shiites, rival tribes and clans, Baathists and Islamists are apparently putting their differences aside in order to slay the intruding would-be Leviathan. They will be successful. Just as early Christianity, the "abominable superstition" so reviled by Tacticus, was nature's vengeance upon the diseased Roman imperialists, so is revolutionary Islam nature's vengeance upon the diseased imperialists of modernity. Does the West deserve to survive? No. The stagnant must give way to the vibrant. Perhaps the meeting of Islam and liberal Europe and the absorption of the latter by the former will at long last bring the Islamic world into its Enlightenment phase. Perhaps the next Renaissance will be in the East. Meanwhile, the diseased body of the Empire, the soon to be rotting corpse of the System, needs all of our help with regards to the matter of its funeral and proper burial. To paraphrase Gueverra: "Two, three, many Iraqs." The future is ours. Death to the New World Order.
(1) Michael S. Rose, "Christendom, Awake", American Conservative, December 15, 2003.
www.attackthesystem.com/thoughts.html
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The Coming Resistance -
No Organization, No Leaders
By Alan Stang
5-19-5
www.rense.com/general65/orgg.htm
REVOLUTIONARY
VANGUARD
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
-Thomas Jefferson
REVOLUTION IN OUR TIME
Populist-Anarchism Against the New World Order!
www.attackthesystem.com/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Keith Preston, 2004
See, I Told You So: Thoughts on the Iraqi Resistance
It has now become common knowledge that the critics of the Iraq war were correct in many, if not most, of their presumptions and predictions. Informed opinion, from the right, left and elsewhere, insisted that the Bush administration's hysterical assertions concerning the Hussein regime's weapons capabilities were just that: hysterical assertions and, we now know, outright lies in many instances. George W. Bush and his cronies were wrong and the United Nations, the nations of "Old Europe" (to employ Donald Rumfeld's alleged epithet), Scott Ritter, John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky, Eric Margolis, Charley Reese, Justin Raimondo, the millions of protesters around the world and, apparently, Saddam Hussein himself, were correct. Thanks to the efforts of dissenters in the State Department, Pentagon and national security apparatus, we know that those who accused the administration of possessing ulterior motives in its zeal for invading Iraq were telling the truth.
Objective students of history can easily recognize the ills of imperialism. The practice of imperialism has a corrupting effect on its participants (as the example of the Roman empire of antiquity indicates) and a stifling, stagnating effects on its subjects (as we see in the case of the African continent). The competence and integrity of those handling the machinery of state are typically among the earliest casualties of imperialism. Thus far, the administration's flunkies have lied and cheated their way into war, dragging a reluctant citizenry along with them, only to find themselves bogged down into a military and political quagmire from which the ordinary mechanics of politics will allow no easy escape. Israel has the occupied territories. Now, America has Iraq along with Afghanistan. The world has moved another step towards the "clash of civilizations", the showdown between the liberal imperialists of the West (and their Zionist accomplices) and the Islamic nations, predicted by Samuel Huntington.
It is a conflict that Islam will win. Obviously, the Islamic world will never match the West in military or economic might. The very idea of an Islamic military conquest of the First World is laughable. Instead, Islam will simply move in once the West succeeds in burning its own house down. The aggression of the Anglo-American-Zionist axis against the Islamic nations will inflame the passions of Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia. As with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan a quarter century ago, Muslims from across the globe will run to join the ranks of the resistance. Whatever its military or technological capabilities, whatever level of wealth it may possess, the imperial axis lacks the most crucial component of any sort of battle to the death: namely, the spirit of jihad, a manifestation of the warrior ethics glorified by Friedrich Nietzsche, that the world's Islamic population possesses in abundance.
The health, wealth and happiness oriented consumer societies of the West simply do not have the stamina for holy war. There will be no volunteers for suicide missions on behalf of cheap oil, gay marriage and the globalization of Britney Spears. Thirty-five years ago, Lawrence Dennis predicted that the West would eventually fall to the Third World as the spirit of revolutionary nationalism (manifested in the "national liberation" struggles of the twentieth century) was on the rise on the periphery in the face of the decay to be found at the center. Does the West have the will to survive? No. Thus far, the Western nations, in the grip of the ideology of multiculturalism, have failed to even recognize, much less counter, the Third World invasion going on in their midst. As an Islamic cleric remarked to Turkey's Archbishop Giuseppe Bernardini:
"Thanks to your democratic laws, we will invade you. Thanks to our religious laws, we will dominate you." (1)
The utter incompetence of the imperialists is nowhere demonstrated more clearly than in the efforts to impose liberal democratic institutions upon the various peoples of Iraq. Whatever else could be said about the Romans, they at least practiced an imperialism that was free of pretentious piety. The Romans conquered for the sake of conquest. Territory, resources and power was what it was all about. This fact was recognized by the conquerors and the conquered alike. Consequently, Roman imperialism, however degenerate, still maintain a sense of realism. Subjugated peoples were generally allowed to keep their local customs and cultures and colonial puppet governments were largely a caricature of indigenous political traditions. So long as the tribute payments were coming in on time all was well and good. However, modern liberal imperialism, true to the tradition of post-Enlightenment utopian humanism, seeks not to simply maintain power but to revolutionize entire societies. "Creative destruction" is the order of the day. What can be said regarding a supposed ultra-conservative military hardliner like Paul Wolfowitz who insists that "a role for women" in a conservative, fundamentalist, patriarchal society is among his foremost priorities? It is tempting to dismiss such a claim as cynical pandering to liberal cultural elites, yet the proposed "democratic" constitution for Iraq contains provisions even more liberal than those of the social democracies of Scandanavia.
The peoples of Iraq will have none of it. The nature of the current rebellion indicates that the diverse cultures of Iraq recognize a common enemy in the imperialist occupiers. Sunnis and Shiites, rival tribes and clans, Baathists and Islamists are apparently putting their differences aside in order to slay the intruding would-be Leviathan. They will be successful. Just as early Christianity, the "abominable superstition" so reviled by Tacticus, was nature's vengeance upon the diseased Roman imperialists, so is revolutionary Islam nature's vengeance upon the diseased imperialists of modernity. Does the West deserve to survive? No. The stagnant must give way to the vibrant. Perhaps the meeting of Islam and liberal Europe and the absorption of the latter by the former will at long last bring the Islamic world into its Enlightenment phase. Perhaps the next Renaissance will be in the East. Meanwhile, the diseased body of the Empire, the soon to be rotting corpse of the System, needs all of our help with regards to the matter of its funeral and proper burial. To paraphrase Gueverra: "Two, three, many Iraqs." The future is ours. Death to the New World Order.
(1) Michael S. Rose, "Christendom, Awake", American Conservative, December 15, 2003.
www.attackthesystem.com/thoughts.html
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The Coming Resistance -
No Organization, No Leaders
By Alan Stang
5-19-5
www.rense.com/general65/orgg.htm
