[R-G] [BillTottenWeblog] Doublespeak on North Korea

[Bill Totten]

Who Will Stand Up to America and Israel?

by Paul Craig Roberts

CounterPunch (May 27 2009)


"Obama Calls on World to 'Stand Up To' North Korea" read the headline.
The United States, Obama said, was determined to protect "the peace and
security of the world".

Shades of doublespeak, doublethink, 1984.

North Korea is a small place. China alone could snuff it out in a few
minutes. Yet, the president of the US thinks that nothing less than the
entire world is a match for North Korea.

We are witnessing the Washington gangsters construct yet another threat
like Slobodan Milosevic, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, John Walker
Lindh, Hamdi, Padilla, Sami Al-Arian, Hamas, Mahkmoud Ahmadinejad, and
the hapless detainees demonized by the US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld
as "the 700 most dangerous terrorists on the face of the earth", who
were tortured for six years at Gitmo only to be quietly released. Just
another mistake, sorry.

The military/security complex that rules America, together with the
Israel Lobby and the financial banksters, needs a long list of dangerous
enemies to keep the taxpayers' money flowing into its coffers.

The Homeland Security lobby is dependent on endless threats to convince
Americans that they must forego civil liberty in order to be safe and
secure.

The real question is who is going to stand up to the American and
Israeli governments?

Who is going to protect Americans' and Israelis' civil liberties,
especially those of Israeli dissenters and Israel's Arab citizens?

Who is going to protect Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Lebanese,
Iranians, and Syrians from Americans and Israelis?

Not Obama, and not the right-wing brownshirts that today rule Israel.

Obama's notion that it takes the entire world to stand up to North Korea
is mind-boggling, but this mind-boggling idea pales in comparison to
Obama's guarantee that America will protect "the peace and security of
the world".

Is this the same America that bombed Serbia, including Chinese
diplomatic offices and civilian passenger trains, and pried Kosovo loose
from Serbia and gave it to a gang of Muslim drug lords, lending them
NATO troops to protect their operation?

Is this the same America that is responsible for approximately one
million dead Iraqis, leaving orphans and widows everywhere and making
refugees out of one-fifth of the Iraqi population?

Is this the same America that blocked the rest of the world from
condemning Israel for its murderous attack on Lebanese civilians in 2006
and on Gazans most recently, the same America that has covered up for
Israel's theft of Palestine over the past sixty years, a theft that has
produced four million Palestinian refugees driven by Israeli violence
and terror from their homes and villages?

Is this the same America that is conducting military exercises in former
constituent parts of Russia and ringing Russia with missile bases?

Is this the same America that has bombed Afghanistan into rubble with
massive civilian casualties?

Is this the same America that has started a horrific new war in
Pakistan, a war that in its first few days has produced one million
refugees?

"The peace and security of the world"? Whose world?

On his return from his consultation with Obama in Washington, the
brownshirted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that it
was Israel's responsibility to "eliminate" the "nuclear threat" from Iran.

What nuclear threat? The US intelligence agencies are unanimous in their
conclusion that Iran has had no nuclear weapons program since 2003. The
inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency report that there
is no sign of a nuclear weapons program in Iran.

Who is Iran bombing? How many refugees is Iran sending fleeing for their
lives?

Who is North Korea bombing?

The two great murderous, refugee-producing countries are the US and
Israel. Between them, they have murdered and dislocated millions of
people who were a threat to no one.

No countries on earth rival the US and Israel for barbaric murderous
violence.

But Obama gives assurances that the US will protect "the peace and
security of the world". And the brownshirt Netanyahu assures the world
that Israel will save it from the "Iranian threat".

Where is the media?

Why aren't people laughing their heads off?

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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions (2008).
He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts at yahoo.com

http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts05272009.html

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