Everybody Knows Nothing
(Tout le monde sait rien)
The 9/11 Terror and the present and future economic situations in the world seem to be linked together inevitably, since the level of intelligence of US elites and super-rich Americans counts in both the cases...
The Bush Administration is promoting use of corns and resultant ethanol for car fuels, causing a kind of food shortage panics in the world.
The key concepts must include the expected depletion of crude oil, the control of oil producing countries, and the huge oil dollars being spent in some Arab countries prosperous with a strong tie with the U.S. even without a fear of attacks by AlQaeda.
But, we had better review the 9/11 Terror so as not to be influenced by political hubris, often found in journalists and politicians here and there.
SECTION I: A Japanese Politician since 1977
There is an ex-politician in Japan who first became a member of the Diet, Japanese Parliament, in 1977 after putting an end to his career in the Japanese Government he had served since 1964, that is, coincidentally one year after the JFK Assassination in the U.S.
Until 2003, that is, two years after the 9/11 Terror, he was an active lawmaker in Tokyo, becoming a Cabinet minister a few times and playing a major role in politics especially during 1990’s when the incumbent ruling party LDP was in unstable conditions, having lost its ruling position for a year or so but gained it back again to sustain it to this day.
In the general election in 2003, he failed to be elected and was replaced by a younger ex-diplomat conservative candidate who however lost an election in 2005 by a margin to be replaced by a female ex-executive of the Ministry of Finance of the Japanese Government.
In Japan, it is said that a monkey is still a monkey if he accidentally falls from a tree, though a politician who has failed in an election is just a plain human being on the street if not so sadly.
But, it must be a big chance to start to live as a human being decent and pious.
(That is why Mr. Carter and Mr. Gore can be respected more than in their days in the White House as long as they are playing their roles as leaders in the American society.)
Indeed, if somebody had been in politics since 1977, you would surely think he must have various reliable information sources, so that he must know every truth behind the scene domestically and internationally.
But, the case is the opposite.
Mr. Hiroshi Kumagaya, a Japanese ex-lawmaker, reads the Economist and the notable book “Imperial Hubris” to understand the world and the U.S., which cannot be however a shame, since the world is so complicated with a myriad of systems, schemes, and people and their activities while not being totally managed by anybody but history itself.
( http://www.kumagai.ne.jp/column/entry.php?entry_pkey=835 )
SECTION II: Imperial Hubris
To our surprise if we are not brainwashed by the Era, the US troops are still engaged in combats in Afghanistan and Iraq while Mr. Osama bin Laden is still at large and Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are so impressively competing in the Primary.
And nobody is yet to explain exactly why and how what happened and is going on since the 9/11 Terror Incident.
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Ediorial Reviews
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One essential point of agreement: al Qaeda specifically and radical Islamism in general are stirred by a hatred of modernity. Or as President George W. Bush has articulated repeatedly, they hate freedom. Nonsense, responds the nameless author of this work…
Indeed, he grimly and methodically discards common wisdom throughout this scathing and compelling take on counterterrorism. Imperial Hubris is not a book that will cheer Americans, regardless of their perspectives on the post-9/11 environment. We are, the author notes, losing the war on terror….
Imperial Hubris clearly wasn't written to win friends, though the author believes it's essential that his words influence people at the top…
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"Anonymous" has certainly accomplished his stated goal of contributing to a debate in the U.S. over foreign policy. He was the head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit in the late '90s, was interviewed as "Mike" in Coll's book GHOST WARS (see my 4/14/04 review), and is still a CIA analyst. Most of us by now have figured out that he is Mike Scheuer.
Sun Tzu said "know yourself, know your enemy," and Scheuer's main goal in IMPERIAL HUBRIS is to share what he knows about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, arguing that the official view is totally and dangerously wrong. It seems to me that Scheuer is for the most part right on target with his critique. There is one major problem with his proposal for what to do about it, which I will address below.
Here is a list of Scheuer's main points:
1) ...
2) Al Qaeda is not a terrorist organization, but is rather part of and attempting to lead a global Muslim insurgency.
3) …
4) The doctrine that informs OBL/Al Qaeda is that of DEFENSIVE JIHAD -- they see the Muslim world under attack by the U.S., ...
5) OBL has repeatedly stated five demands for changes in U.S. foreign policy: i) end all aid to Israel, ii) withdraw military forces from the Arabian Peninsula and all Muslim territory, …A sixth point is to replace U.S.-backed regimes in the Muslim world with Islamic regimes, but that is really a demand on the Muslim population.
6) The war in Afghanistan was a failure from the beginning, because OBL & the other leaders were allowed to escape at the beginning, ...
http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Hubris-West-Losing-Terror/dp/1574888498
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SECTION III: Richard Clarke
Mr. Richard A. Clarke, so far the most and only reliable source who worked in the White House on Sept. 11, 2001, commented on IMPERIAL HUBRIS in 2004.
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Anonymous has painted a detailed picture of that enemy -- and, despite the administration's ubiquitous phrase, it is not "terrorism," faceless and abstract.
Terrorism is a tactic. The enemy is "an Islamic insurgency," a multinational movement to replace governments in the Islamic world with fundamentalist theocracies.
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Like President Bush, Anonymous argues that we have made the mistake in the past of thinking about these enemies as criminals. But unlike Bush, Anonymous argues that having thus isolated the threat as an Islamic insurgency, the appropriate response is to fight not just with bullets and warrants, but also with ideas -- politically and socially.…
Anonymous is bitterly critical of the leadership of the CIA, but the most remarkable thing about this book is that the director of Central Intelligence allowed it to be published. Since Imperial Hubris is an important contribution to a necessary debate, we should be grateful to the agency for that clearance -- and for its anonymous author's considerable courage and insight.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3989-2004Jun24?language=printer
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SECTION III: Tora Bora in 2001
Probably, the most breathtaking moment in these six years and more of the War on Terror is surely the battle at Tora Bora in 2001, since Mr. Osama bin Laden might have been killed there actually by US air raids, though he could manage to escape if wounded.
Mr. Clarke recalled the days:
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KOPPEL: Do you think we'll capture bin Laden?
CLARKE: I think we'll get him eventually. We could've gotten him in 2001 with the operations at Tora Bora. I know there's a controversy about that, but I was in the [Bush] government then and I know what went down. We let him get away. And now we're paying the price.
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/10/30/clarke/
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It looks like the great story, say, “The 9/11 Terror and AlQaeda,” came to a pause forever since the battle at Tora Bora.
The issue is, of course, whether Mr. Osama bin Laden’s escape was a conspiracy or a mere mistake, if not ordered by the President himself as the President is the supreme commander in cheif.
The fact may be that the elite Americans and super-rich Americans are not so smart and thus they failed at Tora Bora.
It also means that they have no smartness to carry out the 9/11 Terror Conspiracy, though they may be smart enough to launch the 9/11 Terror Conspiracy Theory.
Anyway, a future history textbook may read:
"When looking back from today, everything was over when Mr. Osama bin Laden ran away in one piece from Tora Bora in late 2001; and the rest has remained mystery forever..."
SECTION IV: LESSONS
As I presented above, one of the most experienced and educated ex-politician in Japan needs to rely on information offered by Imperial Hubris.
And, one of the most reliable person concerned with the War on Terror praises Imperial Hubris.
And, the author of Imperial Hubris wrote that Mr. Osama bin Laden’s aim was to replace U.S.-backed regimes in the Muslim world with Islamic regimes, which however is really a demand on the Muslim population.
Put simply, AlQaeda and Mr. Osama bin Laden had no intention to invade and occupy America more than the Empire of Japan in WWII. It must be from the beginning beyond their imagination.
They are not even a non-nonsense enemy of America, as AlQaeda has only tens of thousands of followers while the U.S. has 300 million population and strong military that can topple one regime in any country, including Iraq.
Then, what was the 9/11 Terror and the War on Terror?
However, at least as the consequence, American people are now going to choose an African-American President or a female President, which was a matter of madness before 2001.
Indeed, history is always a master of mankind.
(Without doubt, the history is God or Allah in the coolest form though still mankind-connected...)
Truly, leaving Mr. Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora forever, history is going to have Americans enter the new era with an African-American President or a female President who is faced with the weakened dollar, the subprime-loan triggered slump, the surge of prices of oil, and an ever increasing number of non-European-Americans among the US population.
So be humble to history to understand all the facets of the 9/11 Terror and the War on Terror, no matter if you are a well experienced and educated politician or a reliable ex-insider in the White House or the Office of Prime Minister, if not real or Jewish American Princess or Her Majesty.
(There is one Japanese book I have not been able to find in any book stores.
But each time I went out to find it, I discovered other interesting ones.
Today, too, I may find it or something else, such as the King James Version of the Bible.
Arrogant journalists who were drinking with a kind of prostitutes while poor women were desperately doing a hunger strike before a Government building in a cold night rain had better go and buy it. )
“Do not give what is holy to the dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces” (Matthew 7:6).”