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   From: al92653@xyz.com   
      
   Washington Arrogance has Fomented a Muslim Revolution   
      
   By Paul Craig Roberts   
      
         "In a government of law, the existence of the government will be   
   imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the   
   potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole   
   people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a   
   lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a   
   law unto himself; it invites anarchy."   
         Justice Louis Brandeis   
      
   December 05, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" --- Is Pakistan responsible   
   for the Mumbai attack in India? No.   
      
   Is India's repression of its Muslim minority responsible? No.   
      
   Is the United States government responsible? Yes.   
      
   The attack on Mumbai required radicalized Muslims. Radicalized Muslims   
   resulted from the US overthrowing the elected government in Iran and imposed   
   the Shah; from the US stationing troops in Saudi Arabia; from the US   
   invading and attempting to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, bombing weddings,   
   funerals, and children's soccer games; from the US violating international   
   and US law by torturing its Muslim victims; from the US enlisting Pakistan   
   in its war against the Taliban; from the US violating Pakistan's sovereignty   
   by conducting military operations on Pakistani territory, killing Pakistani   
   civilians; from the US government supporting a half century of Israeli   
   ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their lands, towns and villages; from   
   the assault of American culture on Muslim values; from the US purchasing the   
   government of Egypt to act as its puppet; from US arrogance that America is   
   the supreme arbiter of morality.   
      
   As Justice Brandeis said, crime is contagious. Government teaches by   
   example, and America's example is lawlessness. America's brutal crimes   
   against the Muslim world have invited every Muslim to become a law unto   
   himself--a revolutionary. It is not terror that Washington confronts but   
   revolution.   
      
   By illegal, uncivilized and undiplomatic behavior, the US has stirred Muslim   
   peoples from their long slumber as serfs of Western colonial powers. Some   
   Muslims have had all that they can take, and their fury drives them to rouse   
   a billion of their fellows to throw off the yoke of foreign hegemony.   
      
   The arrogant incompetence of American governments brought this conflict to   
   the American people and inflicted it upon the world. By destabilizing   
   Pakistan, the US lost a puppet and created an opportunity for Muslim   
   revolutionaries to exploit. By enraging India against Pakistan, the Mumbai   
   attack has created new problems for Pakistan that will focus that government's   
   attention away from combating Taliban sanctuaries on Pakistan's border with   
   Afghanistan. If the US picks up the slack, it will have invaded yet another   
   country and become trapped in a larger quagmire.   
      
   Having fomented terrorism, the American government now pretends to be the   
   innocent victim, just as Israelis, having brought about terrorism by driving   
   Palestinians from their homes and villages, pretend to be innocent victims.   
      
   Today European members of NATO, an outdated organization formed to defend   
   Western Europe against Soviet invasion, are sacrificing the lives of their   
   soldiers fighting the American Empire's war in Afghanistan. If America   
   continues to have its way, Europeans will soon be dying in Ukraine, Georgia,   
   and Iran.   
      
   The American government, which preaches "freedom and democracy" has in the   
   21st century gone to great extremes to stamp out the US Constitution and the   
   civil liberties that it guarantees. The US government has repudiated the   
   Geneva Conventions and the prohibitions in US statutory law against torture.   
   The US government has set aside habeas corpus, the ancient legal principle   
   guaranteed by the US Constitution that prohibits governments from holding   
   people in prisons without presenting charges. The US government has broken   
   the laws of other nations by kidnapping foreign citizens and transporting   
   them to other lands to be tortured.   
      
   These massive crimes have been justified in the name of the "war on terror."   
   In truth, America's crimes foment revolution.   
      
   It was the US government that created the "war on terror," which has been   
   used to murder and dispossess millions of Iraqis and Afghans, to imprison US   
   citizens as if they were medieval serfs, and to squander three trillion   
   dollars for the sole purpose of enriching Halliburton and the   
   military-security complex.   
      
   Investigative journalist John Pilger has shown that the so-called "moral   
   superiority of the West" is a hoax designed to shield from view the   
   self-seeking West's crimes against humanity.   
      
   Obama promised change from this destructive behavior, but how does change   
   arise when the most arrogant woman on earth is appointed Secretary of State   
   and the rest of the new government is staffed with tried and true Likudniks   
   and servants of the militar-security complex?   
      
   The change over which Obama will preside will have no American victories.   
   The change will come from America as a failed state, from the dollar   
   dethroned as reserve currency, from America repudiated by its allies and   
   paid puppets, from massive unemployment for which there is no solution, from   
   hyperinflation that produces anarchy.   
      
   The day might arrive when Washington is faced with revolution at home as   
   well as abroad.   
      
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