America's strategic suicide
America's strategic suicide
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Posted: May 28, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Vox Day
© 2007
We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first and hit us hard. Scarcely 50 miles from this place, we saw thousands of our fellow citizens murdered, and 16 acres of a great city turned to ashes. ... These are events we can never forget. And they are scenes the enemy would like to see played out in this country over and over again, on a larger and larger scale. Al-Qaida's leadership has said they have the right to "kill four million Americans, two million of them children, and to exile twice as many and to wound and cripple thousands." We know they are looking for ways of doing just that – by plotting in secret, by slipping into the country and exploiting any vulnerability they can find.
And that's why the president of the United States is encouraging both houses of Congress to pass an immigration amnesty that will grant them Z-visas and probationary U.S. citizen status, because if we can't beat them, we might as well let them join us.
– Dick Cheney's commencement address at West Point, May 26, 2007
OK, so I may have added that last bit.
Nevertheless, that's exactly what the president and the U.S. Senate are attempting to do with their hilarious new comedy titled "Immigration Amnesty II: 21 Years After." It won't work, of course. It's only going to lead to importing more holy warriors, even as we provide the global jihad with legitimate justification for attacking the U.S. civilian population by continuing to occupy land that isn't ours.
Sure, it's possible that Rudy Giuliani wasn't lying when he said, "I don't think I've heard that before, and I've heard thome pretty abthurd exthplanathionth for Theptember 11th." He wouldn't be the first candidate for president whose grasp of foreign affairs and military history was nonexistent, and considering how little New Yorkers know about the American heartland, one can't expect them to have any clue at all about the Middle East.
As Robert Pape has demonstrated in a study of 315 suicide terrorist attacks from 1980 to 2003, 95 percent of suicide bombers are exploding themselves in an attempt to force democratic militaries to withdraw from occupied land.
This is true regardless of whether the terrorist affiliation is religious or irreligious. In fact, 75 percent of the attacks in Lebanon were made by Communist or Socialist Arab groups not known for religious fundamentalism. The reason for these attacks is a very simple and entirely secular one: they work.
In "Dying to Win," Pape notes seven of the 13 historical suicide bombing campaigns resulted in forcing the withdrawal of the occupying democracy. Interestingly enough, there has been a sharp increase in the number of suicide bombings around the world since 2003; no doubt it is but a coincidence that the occupation of Iraq by a large, nominally democratic nation-state began at the same time.
And given that there are already rumors of a partial withdrawal from Iraq floating in the press, there is some reason to believe that the bombers' record of success will increase to 57 percent in the relatively near future.
The problem is occupation will no more end the jihad than amnesty will end the Mexican migration. Combining the two strategies is a recipe for disaster that will lead directly to civilian casualties within the United States, in the short term, and the destruction of American freedom and culture in the long term.
If Americans wish to preserve their freedom, economy and country, there are only two options that have historically proven successful. The first is to roll the dice with Roman-style occupations and establish hundreds of thousands of colonies in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, the French experience in Algeria argues that this option is less likely to succeed today. The second, much less risky, option is to withdraw the troops, repatriate the millions of criminal migrants to their homes and maintain a policy of friendly economic-only relations with the Middle East, Mexico and other nations of the world.
Globalization is far from inevitable. In fact, as mass-lethal weaponry becomes ever smaller and more affordable, techno-sociological history suggests that the nation-state will not be replaced with larger transnational government, as everyone believes, but by something more akin to the feudalism of the pre-modern era.
If America is looking increasingly unlikely to survive intact, thanks to the actions of her suicidal leaders, at least there is still some reason to believe that a number of the several states will be able to preserve many of the concepts that led to her original founding.
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Posted: May 28, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Vox Day
© 2007
We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first and hit us hard. Scarcely 50 miles from this place, we saw thousands of our fellow citizens murdered, and 16 acres of a great city turned to ashes. ... These are events we can never forget. And they are scenes the enemy would like to see played out in this country over and over again, on a larger and larger scale. Al-Qaida's leadership has said they have the right to "kill four million Americans, two million of them children, and to exile twice as many and to wound and cripple thousands." We know they are looking for ways of doing just that – by plotting in secret, by slipping into the country and exploiting any vulnerability they can find.
And that's why the president of the United States is encouraging both houses of Congress to pass an immigration amnesty that will grant them Z-visas and probationary U.S. citizen status, because if we can't beat them, we might as well let them join us.
– Dick Cheney's commencement address at West Point, May 26, 2007
OK, so I may have added that last bit.
Nevertheless, that's exactly what the president and the U.S. Senate are attempting to do with their hilarious new comedy titled "Immigration Amnesty II: 21 Years After." It won't work, of course. It's only going to lead to importing more holy warriors, even as we provide the global jihad with legitimate justification for attacking the U.S. civilian population by continuing to occupy land that isn't ours.
Sure, it's possible that Rudy Giuliani wasn't lying when he said, "I don't think I've heard that before, and I've heard thome pretty abthurd exthplanathionth for Theptember 11th." He wouldn't be the first candidate for president whose grasp of foreign affairs and military history was nonexistent, and considering how little New Yorkers know about the American heartland, one can't expect them to have any clue at all about the Middle East.
As Robert Pape has demonstrated in a study of 315 suicide terrorist attacks from 1980 to 2003, 95 percent of suicide bombers are exploding themselves in an attempt to force democratic militaries to withdraw from occupied land.
This is true regardless of whether the terrorist affiliation is religious or irreligious. In fact, 75 percent of the attacks in Lebanon were made by Communist or Socialist Arab groups not known for religious fundamentalism. The reason for these attacks is a very simple and entirely secular one: they work.
In "Dying to Win," Pape notes seven of the 13 historical suicide bombing campaigns resulted in forcing the withdrawal of the occupying democracy. Interestingly enough, there has been a sharp increase in the number of suicide bombings around the world since 2003; no doubt it is but a coincidence that the occupation of Iraq by a large, nominally democratic nation-state began at the same time.
And given that there are already rumors of a partial withdrawal from Iraq floating in the press, there is some reason to believe that the bombers' record of success will increase to 57 percent in the relatively near future.
The problem is occupation will no more end the jihad than amnesty will end the Mexican migration. Combining the two strategies is a recipe for disaster that will lead directly to civilian casualties within the United States, in the short term, and the destruction of American freedom and culture in the long term.
If Americans wish to preserve their freedom, economy and country, there are only two options that have historically proven successful. The first is to roll the dice with Roman-style occupations and establish hundreds of thousands of colonies in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, the French experience in Algeria argues that this option is less likely to succeed today. The second, much less risky, option is to withdraw the troops, repatriate the millions of criminal migrants to their homes and maintain a policy of friendly economic-only relations with the Middle East, Mexico and other nations of the world.
Globalization is far from inevitable. In fact, as mass-lethal weaponry becomes ever smaller and more affordable, techno-sociological history suggests that the nation-state will not be replaced with larger transnational government, as everyone believes, but by something more akin to the feudalism of the pre-modern era.
If America is looking increasingly unlikely to survive intact, thanks to the actions of her suicidal leaders, at least there is still some reason to believe that a number of the several states will be able to preserve many of the concepts that led to her original founding.
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