Gilad Atzmon on Mumbai

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Gilad Atzmon - Mumbai Massacres as the Defeat of Counter-terrorism

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By
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Atzmon • Nov 28th, 2008 at 21:55 • Category:
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Counter-terrorism, No thanks!,

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At the time I am writing these notes it is far from being clear what
really happened in Mumbai. The questions I ask myself are the same ones
most everyone else is asking: Who were the attackers? Who was behind them
and what did they try to achieve? However one thing is evident. The 
“War on Terror” is a total disaster. The so-called ‘terrorists’, whoever
they are, have won.  America and its allies have been defeated.

But it doesn’t stop there, throughout this war America has lost its
primacy as a super power. It is now financially ruined. Its leadership is
regarded by most people around the world as a solid core of evil. It
doesn’t take a genius to gather that this enormous defeat is an outcome
of a chain of events that started with a single orchestrated attack that
took place in September 2001. To those who fail to remember, the 18
terrorists who devastated the world on 9/11 didn’t carry a nuclear bomb,
they weren’t equipped with some advanced weaponry. All they carried was
knifes. As bizarre as it may sound, all it took to bring the American
empire down was a dozen and a half highly motivated people armed with
knifes. 

Unfortunately, America and Britain, on their way down, have managed to
get themselves involved in some war crimes of colossal magnitude. 
Two million Iraqis and Afghans are dead. Many more millions are gravely
wounded, millions of others are refugees. Each of these victims is a
direct outcome of an illegal war launched by the Anglo American
democracies. 

In spite of the carnage these Anglo American colonial wars have left
already, they are far from being over. For weeks we are reading about
American airplanes dropping bombs on Pakistani villagers. We learn about
the so-called allies targeting ‘alleged terrorist suspects’ in rural
Pakistan. Evidently our elected democratic leaders see innocent Muslim
civilians and villagers as disposable soft targets. Hence, it shouldn’t
really take us by surprise that some people out there in the East see us
as equally, subject to terror. They see us as potential soft targets.
Yet, while British and American crimes are committed in our behalf, in
the name of democracy, by leaders we ourselves put in power, the crimes
that were committed yesterday in Mumbai were committed by an unknown body
and not an elected one. The crimes in Mumbai were committed solely in the
name of those who commit them. The Anglo American crimes in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria are committed by elected governments on
behalf of the British and the American people.

Terror is a message written on the wall but for some reason most
Westerners fail to read it.  Our enthusiasm to bring Coca-Cola to
the Muslim world must be curbed immediately. We should keep our liberal
democratic fantasy to ourselves, especially now when it had been proven
as a faulty concept. Our insistence upon making Arabs and Muslims as
stupid as us is not going to work.  We must let people live their
lives according to their beliefs and cultural heritage.  

The British foreign minister Miliband along other politicians announced
yesterday that the attack in Mumbai is an attack against Western
democracy. I think that we better face it, as long as the Western
democracies treat Muslims as soft targets the Western subject may be as
well subject to retaliation and terror. 

I would suggest Miliband and his colleagues stop immediately trying to
democratise the world. Doing so would simply make this world a far safer
place and by far nicer to live in.