Here comes the next forever war

Notes on Gaza and escalation to Iran

Following the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023, I wrote this background briefing on the geopolitical players and thinking that got us into seemingly endless wars with the Muslim world.

I haven’t updated the document since October 2023 since it primarily describes U.S. policy documents from the late 1980s. Also, I am not following what is going on in the region and don’t know who is guilty of what in the current round of escalation.

We will now be brutally propagandised in order to get us to support, the next round of escalation with Iran. This note might help to inoculate readers against that propaganda and to split fact from fiction.

(I continue to work on U.S. election results and quantifying the mind-blowing size of the 2020 steal.)

Some important context on Gaza

October 2023

Since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on 7^th October 2023, we have been subject to a barrage of propaganda which seeks to incense people over the cruelty of Hamas’ actions (both substantiated and unsubstantiated) and therefore to justify every Israeli response, no matter how harsh.  In addition, politicians and media talking heads are attempting to expand the geographic scope of the conflict by tying in Hamas’ terrorism with Iran and using this as a pretext to call for U.S. military action against Iran.  The ring leader for the war mongers is yet again Senator Lindsay Graham, who said that Israel should “level the place”¹ presumably referring to Gaza.

Recently, I found a 2007 video where U.S. Four-star General Wesley Clark, recounts a conversation that he had with neo-Con Paul Wolfowitz in 1991.  At that time Wolfowitz was U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, shortly after that conservation Wolfowitz drafted an aggressive military plan for 1994 to 1999 which was leaked to the press and subsequently labelled the Wolfowitz Doctrine.  Rather than pick apart the leaked plan, I would strongly encourage readers to listen to General Wesley Clark recount his conversation with Wolfowitz from 1991.

As a miliary leader, it clearly came as something of shock to General Clark to find out that “the purpose of the military is to start wars and change governments”.  His terminology describing the neo-con takeover of policy setting as a “coup” also appears to be appropriate.  It is important to note that Wolfowitz identified Iraq, Syria and Iran in 1991 solely on the basis of their previous relations with the defunct Soviet Union, there was no suggestion that any of these countries were a threat to the U.S. nor that changing their governments was demanded by their respective populations.

Another important element in Deep State thinking is the little known 1986 book which compiles a series of around 40 essays from various foreign policy players.  The essays were compiled and edited by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (then Israeli ambassador to the U.N.).  The book is called “Terrorism:  How the West Can Win”.

An excellent review of the book by Professor Edward Said of Columbia University is available on JSTOR².  The key theme of the book is the introduction of the idea that a “war on terror” can be a reasonable casus belli (cause for war) for invading another country.  In addition, the book ties in Islamic countries with terrorism thereby making several countries targets for this proposed war on terror.  The idea of a “war on terror” very significantly lowers the bar for military action, which under the U.N. Charter is justified for “self-defence if an armed attack occurs ”³.  With the benefit of hindsight we now know that many of the countries identified in the book were subsequently attacked by the U.S. and its allies.    

The trigger for attacking the countries identified by Paul Wolfowitz in 1991 and launching the war on terror outlined by Benjamin Netanyahu in 1985 was of course the attacks of 9 September 2001.  The new doctrines allowed American politicians to subsequently attack; Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria over the following twenty years, even where there was no link between those countries and 9/11.  It is sobering to remember that nineteen terrorists committed the 9/11 attacks, but as a result of the subsequent wars over 650,000 civilians were killed.  I am prepared to bet that pretty well none of those dead civilians had anything to do with 9/11.

This brings us back to the attack on Israel.  It seems clear that the mainstream media and political complex is seeking to use carefully chosen language and images in order to inflame emotions and in this state of moral outrage, people will be prepared to tolerate a disproportionate response by Israel and/or miliary action by the United States against Iran.  Israel’s response already appears to cover two war crimes, one being the denial of water to the civilian population and the second being bombings which fail to differentiate between military and civilian targets.

Once again, there are few reasonable voices calling for the Hamas terrorists to be captured and tried, whilst protecting the lives of civilians in Gaza and preventing further escalation.  The only choice on offer by the System is that you “stand with Israel”, otherwise you de facto support Hamas terrorism and the decapitation of babies.  My limited Twitter poll indicates that the majority of people (over 75%) actually condemn both Hamas’ terrorism and Israel’s indiscriminate bombing.

I am instinctively nervous when every politician and mainstream media outlet is screaming at you to be angry and to respond in one pre-defined way by “standing with Israel” (whatever that means).  In addition, the media complex is pushing a long-standing Deep State agenda item, namely taking military action against Iran, something which Paul Wolfowitz wanted all the way back in 1991.  The great Harold Lasswell observed that “so great are the psychological resistances to war in moder nations that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing, murderous aggressor.  There must be no ambiguity about who the public is to hate”.   

I suspect that the more we learn about how the Deep State really operates the less trusting we are likely to be.  It goes without saying that Hamas terrorists should be caught and tried, but it is also vital to avoiding triggering the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians as a result of the actions of terrorists and to avoid repeating the post 9/11 injustices.

“An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind”.

1. https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1711928827318866331?s=20

2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41857908.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A6cbacd76ae7e5736fbf4ca0f8a84c0fc&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1

3. https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text#:~:text=Article%2051,maintain%20international%20peace%20and%20security.