December 19, 2005
One of the mysteries of the recent American history is how a small
group of Jewish intellectuals took over the American government and
forced it to enter into a trillion dollar war that has hurt the
interests of the United States. Even better, after all the lies told
for the first war were revealed in all their awful detail, the same
group are well on their way to starting another trillion dollar war
against Syria using almost the same methods (lies and piggybacking on
the United Nations). This is so bizarre and incomprehensible that we
are forced to look to conspiracy theories to try to explain it. Here is Rigorous Intuition: "The
neocons are the Lone Gunmen of Iraq. They're the patsies who'll
eventually take the fall for its failure, which will actually mean
success to the real players who've allowed them the liberty to play
their hand. Like Oswald, these patsies aren't innocents, but neither
should perfect blame be laid at their feet. And like Oswald, when their
heads are offered to the public the public will be expected to sigh
with relief that the beast has been slain and all is right again in the
land."
In other words, the original Powers That Be, presumably
the Eastern Establishment or some such plutocrat group, staffed the
Bush White House with Jews so when the shit for the plutocrats' war hit
the fan, the whole thing could be blamed on the Jews. But surely Paul
and Scooter aren't Lee and James Earl? Patsies don't know what is going
on, and are set up to take the blame for what the conspirators did.
Paul and Scooter know exactly what is going on. Patsies get very little
benefit out of their peripheral involvement in the conspiracy, but Paul
and Scooter got exactly what they wanted. They wanted a trillion dollar
war in a series of trillion dollar wars, all of which would only
benefit Israel, but which Israel could never hope to pay for. The
United States can't afford them either, but at least can (still) borrow
the money. If the neocons are patsies, they are the first patsies who
knew exactly what was going on and got exactly what they intended to
get.
Hitler's Revenge is that a lot of Jewish people are completely obsessed
by the Holocaust and the specter of the return of violent
anti-Semitism. Scooter Libby and Judith Miller seem to have this joint
fantasy that they were holed up in a barn in the equivalent of 1942
Nazi Germany, and that the fate of the Jewish people rested entirely on
their ability to lie and trick their way to start a war to destroy the
new Hitler known as Saddam Hussein (for Scooter's paranoia, see here and here).
The fact that Saddam in fact posed absolutely no threat to either
Israel or the Jewish people (or, for that matter, the United States) is
irrelevant if you live in a world which is defined by your perception
of ubiquitous anti-Semitism. Since every major political decision in
the world is based on covert hatred of the Jews, the Jews have to fight
back by defending Israel in every way possible. Since Israel is going
to have to house all the world's Jews once the anti-Semitism becomes
unbearable (e. g., France), and is not defensible in its current size
and configuration, it is necessary to do everything possible to create
Greater Israel. The alternative is Holocaust II, so there are no moral
restrictions on what you can do. War on a non-threatening sovereign
state? Kill 100,000 or so civilians? Do it over and over again across
the Middle East (Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt)? No problemo. Once you
accept the insane premise - the last gift of Hitler - that all the
world turns on destruction of the Jews, all the consequences make
perfect sense. As does the fact that Israel can be the only state
allowed to discriminate against its own citizens, the only state
allowed to have no defined borders, the only state allowed to fail to
have a constitution, the only state - besides the United States! -
allowed to torture, the only state allowed to consistently break
international law, the only state allowed to occupy its neighbor's land
and brutally oppress another people, the only state allowed to conspire
to remove the government of another sovereign state (but even
mentioning that there might be questions about the legitimacy of Israel
is a mortal sin), the only state in the Middle East allowed to possess
nuclear weapons, etc, etc. If you don't find a way to allow Israel to
do all these things, the Holocaust will surely follow.
Of
course, the other side of this is that everybody hates you anyway just
because you are a Jew. Therefore, you lose nothing when people hate you
for starting a war for Israel. It's just more anti-Semitism. The neocon
deal is an excellent one: it's a trade of your reputation, which you
don't really have as everybody hates you anyway, for a trillion dollar
war Israel could never pay for. The worst that could happen is that a
few covert agents for Israel might have to go to jail, a small price to
pay to avoid the Holocaust (you also have to put up with American
blowhards complaining that 'Happy Holidays' is a Jewish plot to destroy
Christmas!). The Project of Greater Israel is greater than any one man
or any one time, and it is the greatest honor one can have to fall on
one's sword to prevent Holocaust II. Besides, we all know no one is
going to jail and Scooter and Judith are going to end up very rich as a
result of all this conspiring.
It's probably also time for
conspiracy theorists to reconsider the idea that the American
plutocracy always gets everything it wants, and is ultimately behind
every conspiracy. Sometimes wealth leads to laziness and lack of
attention to detail. The oil companies didn't want this war. The
plutocrats are making out like bandits on it, but they always make out
like bandits. Sometimes a concerted conspiracy by a small group of
completely dedicated people can, at least for a time, control the
agenda. I'm now thinking about the conspiracy to reposition the
Republican Party over the last thirty years, a conspiracy that started
in Israel.
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