the credibility of all American
politicians now requires acknowledging
that America is engaged in a great war
for survival the war against Islam dot
fear of radical Islamic terrorists
requires our undivided attention we read
to believe that the ugly and vicious
violence of a very small percentage of
the 1.7 billion Muslims around the world
without an army navy or Air Force is on
the verge of engulfing America and
Western civilization the claim is that
the Western concept of Christianity
liberty and free markets is threatened
if this is so it speaks more about a
week support for these values than for
the strength of a small group claiming
to speak for all of Islam it may not
make much sense but it provokes the fear
required for war mongering the popular
belief that a gigantic clash of
civilizations explains today s
conditions fits well into the propaganda
efforts of the neocon inspired American
Empire one cannot deny that a group
exists that associates itself with Islam
and preaches violence in combination
with extreme religious beliefs al Qaeda
and Isis do exist claiming that they
alone are responsible for the great
clash is purposely misleading that
misunderstanding is required by Western
propagandists to gain public support for
their wars in the Middle East and for a
continuation of the American Empire
unfortunately so far it has worked
pretty well fear is the tool used to
galvanize the people into supporting war
while sacrificing Liberty exaggerations
and propping up groups who falsely claim
to represent 99% of Muslims serves the
interests of those in the West who want
the clash of civilizations for their own
selfish purposes current US and Western
support for Isis in Syria even though it
s tonight is designed to remove Assad
this policy is in the tradition of our
foreign policy of recent decades
aligning ourselves with the creation of
harm ours and the Mujahedin Taliban is
well documented the emphasis on
clash of civilizations is more about
ruthless pragmatism than it is of a
great battle of two civilizations
promoters of war must first find or
create an enemy to demonize in order to
gain the people s support for stupid and
illegal pre-emptive Wars the Iraq war
was built on lies and fear-mongering us
leaders prodded by the neoconservatives
continued to propagandize for a crusade
against Islam in order to justify
rearranging the Middle East according to
their desires disregarding all previous
failures in this effort is not a problem
if the people can be convinced that the
enemy is grotesque and threatening our
way of life it s strange but 130 people
killed in Paris has served the purpose
of throwing reason to the wind and the
majority of Americans have become
anxious for a showdown with Islam no
matter how many lies have to be told and
people killed if what is said by the
neoconservatives about Islam is true
nuking Indonesia would seem logical 203
million Muslims could be wiped out
rather quickly what many fail to admit
is that Isis deliberately manipulates
Islam to inspire violence by some which
helps them gain recruits for their cause
this is not a reflection of the 1.6
billion Muslims around the world it s
like claiming that the KKK represents
sound Christian theology many
evangelical christians support
preemptive war in the Middle East but
that dosent II mean that Christians must
give up the notion that as Jesus said
blessed are the peacemakers dot both
sides of this huge so-called clash of
two civilizations benefit from allowing
fringe elements of both religious
cultures to support the hypothesis both
sides need the fear associated with a
clash of civilizations to motivate the
masses to fight a war that Western
leaders have initiated it may be a hoax
but such a war is still very dangerous
and can easily spin out of control the
death of 4 million Muslims in the Middle
East over the last 14 years since
Western foreigners moved
has rearranged the political power
structure of the region this cannot be
ignored the deliberate killing of
innocent civilians and retaliation lays
claim to the reality of a clash of
civilizations rhetoric the u.s. can t be
serious in this clash of civilizations
which is used to radicalize both sides
our ally Turkey playing games with Isis
hardly convinces us that Isis will bring
our civilization to its knees and
destroy our way of life the United
States is a loyal supporter of Saudi
Arabia a nation noted for its ruthless
enforcement of Sharia law this hardly
suggests our political leaders are at
war with Islam the neoconservatives
perpetrators of the clash of
civilizations rhetoric and the war
against Islam aren t advocating bombing
Saudi Arabia even with evidence of their
involvement in 911 and the recent
shootings in California our foreign
policy makers both Republicans and
Democrats remain obsessed with
overthrowing another secular Muslim
country Syria that policy did not work
out well in Iraq and elsewhere and so
far it has only made them at least an
ever more dangerous place the harder we
work at remaking the Middle East the
worse the conditions become with an ever
stronger and more dangerous al-qaeda and
Isis the more violent our military
responses to Isis the easier it is for
more jihadists to be recruited to its
cause and the greater the violence and
political demagoguery the more gullible
Americans join the ranks of supporters
for expanding this so-called holy war
Republicans have a knee-jerk explanation
for the violence in the Middle East
which is now spreading into Europe it s
simply Obama's fault dot he hasn't he
killed enough Muslims fast enough it may
not be the clash of civilizations that
many describe but Islamic terrorism
confronts the Western crusade against
Islam inspired by radical minorities on
each side neocon radicals are the
greatest domestic threat to Liberty here
at home not foreign invaders
many Americans fervently believe that
our policies represent American
exceptionalism democracy freedom
generosity and a willingness to
sacrifice for the benefit of mankind
they accept the notion that we have a
responsibility as the world s policeman
to thwart evil the recipients of our
largesse and interventions don t see it
that way they understand exactly what
encroachment of empire means to them it
is understood that our presence has
nothing to do with spreading
humanitarian American goodness and
values instead the people of the region
see us as invaders stealing their oil
while corrupting and bribing puppet
dictators to serve our interests the
response should never surprise us
blowback and unintended consequences
should be easily understood and
anticipated the answer we get from those
most angry with our plunder and killing
comes in the form of inspired radical
Islam as that pretends it speaks for all
of Islam the radicals of neither side
really speak for a civilization dot the
influence and profiteering of the
military industrial complex is never
criticized by the neo-cons never do we
hear an honest debate by the politicians
regarding the immorality of the bush
cheney doctrine of pre-emptive war that
was soundly repudiated in the 2008
election memories are short and
demagoguery is a team sport by
politicians transparency and a little
history should convince the people that
the clash of civilizations rhetoric is
only war propaganda the idea of the
clash of civilizations is not new or
unique Samuel Huntington responded to
Francis Fukuyama s 1992 book the end of
history comma and addressed this issue
Huntington was allied with
neoconservative guru Bernard Lewis and
the American Enterprise Institute the
origin of this recent use of the term
should tip one off as to the motivation
for popularizing the idea of the clash
of civilizations dot Huntington in his
1996 book the clash of civilizations
encourages the notion that Western
Christian civilization is destined to be
in conflict with the Muslim world of the
Middle East almost at the same time in
1997 the neo-cons released their plan
for a new American Century dot
philosophical support for the war
between the East and the West was
especially helpful to the neo-cons after
911 it served to deflect any
consideration of blowback being a
contributing factor to the attack on the
US on September eleventh-hour
instigators the war and Empire have
worked diligently to place the blame for
the violence in the Middle East on Islam
itself with which we are now said to be
at war to suggest anything else today is
blasphemous to the concept of American
exceptionalism dot Huntington s thesis
is that ideology and economic conditions
are no longer important in world
conflicts that age he claims has ended
the world is now moving back according
to Huntington to a more normal state of
cultural and religious conflicts and
away from state versus state and
conventional war but it s not quite so
simple diminishing the importance of the
state should always be helpful since
less big wars and central powers would
result but that s not their plan world
government is what the neo-cons and many
other world leaders seek espousing
correct ideology and real economic
understanding are the only answers to
unwise cultural and religious clashes or
clashes between various governments my
sense is that although most wars have
many components to them economic
conditions are always important a
healthy economy usually results from a
decent respect for economic Liberty and
establishing conditions that encourage
peace over war international trade
diminishes prospects for war as well
inflation and hunger encourages civil
strife and violent overthrow of
incompetent governments the argument
that cultural and religious wars occur
when there is an absence of an ideology
and economic policy is not a reasonable
explanation it s my opinion that ideas
and Dec
conditions override cultural and
religious differences when economic
conditions deteriorate and cultural
differences arise religious beliefs are
used to mobilize people to hate and
start killing each other economic ideas
that encourage empire building and
resentment are what hurts the economy
and encourages war instead of
understanding how free markets sound
money property rights and civil
liberties lead to prosperity and peace
the explanation is that the ensuing wars
are explained by a clash of
civilizations stirred up by racial
tensions and religious differences this
is something that always ends badly here
is the sequence first it s the powerful
financial interests that initiate empire
building and control of natural
resources second the people s response
is to resist and the occupying force is
compensate by establishing puppet
dictators to keep the peace by force
third when resistance builds pre-emptive
war is used to circumvent national and
international restraints on initiating
Wars fourth both sides develop
reactionary groups motivated by anger
cultural and religious differences and a
desire to expel the foreign groups that
occupied their land today in the Middle
East it s the various uprisings over
economic conditions plus other concerns
that prompt a struggle to push
governments to reflect the people
desires rather than the dictates of
foreign occupiers and their Stooges
witness the growth of al Qaeda Isis and
other terrorist groups that currently
saturate the entire Middle East in the
United States the clash of civilizations
is manifested by a contrived anger
directed toward Islam immigrants and a
worsening of wealth inequality the
latter results from a flawed economic
policy and an ideology of entitlements
nearly everyone senses that there is
grave danger on the horizon this leads
to an aggressive populism with an appeal
to a broad spectrum of society
note that numerous black ministers now
claim they support billionaire Donald
Trump s promise of making everything
right with America delivered with an
authoritarian confidence that the people
welcome a bit unusual for a Republican
candidate for president this is a
perfect setup for a clash between Isis
inspired by a group of radical Islamists
and a tough and energetic populism
promoted by Donald drum the ideology
that encourages the use of force is
engulfing the world and many are anxious
to bring on the clash of civilizations
for their own selfish purposes rough
days are ahead but ending an era of bad
economic policy and lack of respect for
Liberty opens the door for the growing
interest and understanding of Liberty by
a new generation volunteerism is far
superior to the authoritarianism offered
to the world today what seems to be
support for constant escalating Wars can
all be reduced by replacing the bad
policies of statism with a simple and
easily understood philosophical
principle the rejection of all
aggression as a method for individuals
or governments to alter society dot in
spite of the chaos the world is now
facing the solution is not complex as
the state entities continue to fail a
little common sense could go a long way
in advancing the cause of Liberty he