THE REAL DANGER OF TERRORISM

Incompetence or Conspiracy Theory

In the aftermath of the 9/11 commission, the Senate Report and the Butler Report in Britain, one wonders how the British could have ruled the world? Such a dramatic  degeneration of genes in the past 100 years surely has long term problems for the world?

Three years afterward we are aghast. We find out that the CIA and a MI6 that had no clue about an imploding USSR, was totally incapacitated in stopping India and Pakistan from acquiring of Nuclear Weapons, was totally wrong about the Iraqi impotence with reference to weapons of mass destruction; and was unable to predict or halt 9/11 and other Al-Qaida activities in the world. Now we find out that the information Iran was also false and invorrect.

This brings us to our current predicament. We have to possibilities, one of them scarier than the other. Do have incompetence run amuck or is there is conspiracy? After creating the greatly inefficient huge government bureaucracy called Homeland Security, do we really understand our enemy? Are we running after the right one this time!

If we are to believe Bush, no one in the Western world knew the truth about Iraq and the fact that it did not have WMDs. If we are to believe Bush and Blair then the combined Western IQ and this administration couldn’t even connect the dots to know the threat from Al-Qaida. We went to the wrong war and this administration was totally unprepared and unable to predict the depth of the Iraqi insurgency. How can it claim to have all the answers today? How do we know that the neocons have the expertise in fighting terrorism and its causes? The ideologs can never find the right solutions, because they are mired in dogma and hatred. The media controlled by a few companies generates “groupthink” not different than what we had in the USSR and Europe. In my opinion the neocons have the wrong answers, because they ask the wrong questions, and come up with the wrong root-causes. The result are self-evident most Americans are ashamed at what is going on and cannot comprehend the malaise that we find ourselves in. Future dreams of nirvana in the Middleast do not seem to be happening and we are the laughing stock of the world.

If they were not incompetent then there is another possibility. The other possibility is the Conspiracy theory. And Michael Moore is not the only one with conspiracy theories.  The other are mentioned by Sy Hersh and written about by Robert Fisk in major British papers and popular in and Europe. In fact the major British journalists on America channels chided Moore for not mentioning the other theories. One such theory decries the fact that the IQ of the entire Western intelligence and Western leadership was 11 and espouses the fact that they knew everything. The Administration with the help of Israel knew it all and deliberately wants to erase Iraq from the map “to make the region safer”. In that case, we fought a proxy war and our kids are dieing for others.

The Democrats, Michael Moore and Mr. Blix may not have any winning strategies for fighting terrorism, but this much is certain the neocon controlled Bush Administration has fewer answers. Can we trust our future in these hands. If Blair and Bush could have been so wrong so far, how do we know if they re right about anything?…Iran, Pakistan…