{"id":74593,"date":"2017-06-08T22:04:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74593"},"modified":"2017-06-08T22:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:20:57","slug":"why-americans-dont-understand-terrorism-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=74593","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans Don’t Understand Terrorism, At All"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Joe Giambrone
\nPolitical Film Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTheir message to us was \u2018We\u2019ve created this movement, and we can control it.\u2019 It\u2019s not that we don\u2019t want the Salafis to throw bombs; it\u2019s who they throw them at\u2014Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Iran, and at the Syrians, if they continue to work with Hezbollah and Iran.\u201d
\n<\/i><\/span>-Seymour Hersh,\u00a0<\/span>The Redirection<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span>, 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We live in an invisible empire, and so the mechanics of the empire are never openly discussed with the rabble. Americans don\u2019t comprehend how power actually works across the planet that their country seeks to control. They live from momentary headline to headline without any honest, in-depth analysis of why events like the Manchester bombing occur and keep occurring.<\/p>\n

When it comes to terrorism it is dire, urgent, and desperate that the public understand, if anything is to change. But it certainly appears that Americans never will. Perhaps Britons may, and then lead the effort to stop it.<\/p>\n

In the United States, a bigoted faction demonizes all Muslims. That faction calls for more weapons and for their own wanton terror to be perpetrated everywhere. An opposing faction absolves all Muslims and calls for peace and reconciliation\u2026\u00a0<\/span>with suicide bombers?<\/i><\/span>\u00a0The two sides mindlessly shout clich<\/span>\u00e9s back and forth at one another in a cacophony, and they drown out the larger global issues that have transpired for many years. The public is thus rendered impotent, irrelevant and ignored: divided and conquered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gross historical ignorance leads to this inability to see what should be glaringly obvious: the deep state\u2014<\/span>covert intelligence agencies operating in secret<\/i><\/span>\u2014play a \u201c<\/span>double game<\/a>.\u201d They are in bed with terrorists, whom they see as useful proxies. The terrorists do their dirty work for them in places like Libya, Syria,\u00a0Chechnya\u00a0and Dagestan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans are largely incapable of comprehending what a proxy is. It\u2019s one level too abstract. Ask people on the street about such matters, and the results would be akin to the<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>64% who cannot even find North Korea on a map<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span>. Korea\u2019s location is in no way a secret, and the government doesn\u2019t officially deny its existence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The corporate media has been criminal in distracting the public from the role of western allied intelligence agencies in these terror games. Despite the decade-long Afghanistan Jihad against the Soviets, the similarities of multiple current conflicts do not make it onto the evening news shows. This default censorship extends into so-called \u201calternative\u201d media too. There is an unspoken air of collusion with intelligence in the United States. Some matters, for\u00a0example\u00a0<\/span>Operation Gladio<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span>,<\/i><\/span>\u00a0are simply never, ever brought up. That chapter has been tossed down Orwell\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Memory Hole.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Just what is a \u201cproxy\u201d and \u201cproxy war?\u201d<\/h3>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>Cambridge Dictionary<\/i><\/span>\u00a0says:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201ca war fought between groups or smaller countries that each\u00a0represent\u00a0the interests of other larger powers, and may have help and support from these.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Al Qaeda has been a proxy for\u00a0US, Saudi and Pakistani interests since at least\u00a01979,\u00a0when Jimmy Carter\u2019s CIA began aiding them and setting up the largest logistical support network in its history:\u00a0<\/span>Operation Cyclone<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span>. While official government claims mislead the public into assuming that the relationship ended in the late 1980s, it did not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Al Qaeda maintains relationships with US allies, notably\u00a0<\/span>Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/u><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Pakistan<\/a><\/u><\/span>\u00a0(where\u00a0bin\u00a0Laden lived for a decade and Ayman Zawahiri is assumed to be right now). Other states in the Persian Gulf region such as Qatar,\u00a0Kuwait\u00a0and Turkey are also implicated. These nations receive US arms and US protection. Although they are repeatedly exposed for aiding and abetting Al Qaeda and associated groups operating under various names, these countries are tolerated and\u00a0<\/span>rewarded by US administrations<\/a><\/u><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>other Western powers<\/a><\/u><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This absurdity can only continue because of the gross ignorance and the distractibility of western populations.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaudis Bankroll Taliban, Even as King Officially Supports Afghan Government\u201d<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>-NY Times, Dec.\u00a06\u00a02016<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Manchester bombing produced some uncharacteristically revealing news reports in the UK, but these are censored to US audiences. US media is more tightly controlled, apparently, when it comes to the shenanigans of western intelligence services protecting terrorists.<\/p>\n

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Here is what we learned about Manchester:<\/h3>\n