Author: Tym Parsons
Publication: Capitalism Magazine.Com
Date: October 7, 2002
URL: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1951
Summary: Saudi Arabia is indisputably
terrorism's biggest bankroller, even if Iran is its largest sponsor overall.
The Saudis persistently stonewall efforts to cut off terrorist funding,
and they'll never reliably change in that regard- too many powerful Saudis
are fanatical terrorist sympathizers, due to their Wahabite fundamentalism.
Recent intelligence reports indicate
that our desultory efforts abroad so far-and our fortress "homeland defense"
mentality-will fail to prevent further horrendous attacks on the US. We're
losing because Bush has defaulted on the "Bush Doctrine"-the idea that
you're either with us, or for the terrorists. And he has defaulted most
egregiously in continuing to treat the Saudis as allies, when they're really
against us.
Saudi Arabia is indisputably terrorism's
biggest bankroller, even if Iran is its largest sponsor overall. The Saudis
persistently stonewall efforts to cut off terrorist funding, and they'll
never reliably change in that regard- too many powerful Saudis are fanatical
terrorist sympathizers, due to their Wahabite fundamentalism. They actively
hate us and everything that Western civilization stands for-e.g. separation
of religion and state. Why do we go on tolerating the Saudis, even as it
results in our own destruction? The answer is that multiculturalism is
fundamentally to blame.
Multiculturalism says that all cultures
are equally valid, no matter how anti-life and irrational they may be.
In this view, Middle Eastern culture, say, is just as good as American
culture. In other words, a culture characterized by:
Fatalistic mindless submission to
deity-death- worshipping martyrs-fantastical conspiracy- mongering and
ignorance-"honor" killings of young women-the burqa-centuries of tyranny,
torture, bribery, teeming slums, choking pollution, and disease-
Is supposedly equal to one with:
Science-the Bill of Rights-sanitation-a
middle-class that takes computers, cell phones, and MRIs for granted -Costco
and Target- millions of people desperately trying to get in- and millions
more around the globe clamoring for Marilyn Monroe and "The Titanic."
We ought to conclude that multiculturalism
is dishonest on its face. Even so, "multiculturalism" has always been implicit
in our policy toward the Saudis- even before it became a buzzword.
In the beginning, we let the Saudis
help themselves to oilfields created by Western capitalists from unused
desert. Oil in the ground is useless; the capitalists did all of the work-prospecting,
pumping, and refining the oil-that made it an indispensable value to the
modern industrial world. Under the Western notion of private property,
that means the oilfields belong to them, not the House of Saud.
The Saudis are parasites, having
produced nothing themselves. They're just thugs running a neighborhood
protection racket. But that's a part of their tribalistic culture; multiculturalists
therefore insist that we have to respect their "right" to the oilfields.
Over the ensuing decades, Saudis
have used their illicit oil wealth to fund steadily escalating terrorist
attacks on US targets. And we have done nothing beyond giving them timorous
reproofs, mindful that they have a foot on the world's oil jugular-courtesy
our acquiescence to their scam.
And now they're holding our critically-needed
campaign against Iraq hostage to the creation of a Palestinian state. Such
a move threatens the existence of our ally Israel-the only outpost of Western
civilization in the region. The Palestinians-like their Saudi patrons-are
mired in a culture of tyranny and corruption. Many if not most Palestinians
want to drive Israel into the sea, and giving them their own state would
only further that aim. The Saudis would just love that.
Add to all of this that the Saudis
have contributed heavily to Pakistani terrorism against our ally India-
which in turn could trigger a horrendous nuclear holocaust in South Asia-and
the prescription is clear: We have to take over Saudi Arabia.
The multiculturalists will naturally
be horrified at this violation of Saudi "sovereignty," which supposedly
we must respect at all costs. But the Saudis are pointing a gun at us-which
we gave them. We have a right to defend ourselves by taking that gun away
from them.
Accordingly we are justified in
seizing whatever we need from the Saudis in order to control the country,
as well as bring the war to Iraq and Iran with all due dispatch. This includes
seizing state-of-the-art Prince Sultan airbase that we so "generously"
built and staffed for them, which use they have denied us for any campaign
in the region. We should also:
* Seize the oilfields and restore
them to the Western companies that made them possible, or let someone else
responsibly operate them, under US commercial and military protection.
* Freeze Saudi assets and cut the
umbilical to terrorist religious schools, mosques, "charities," and Palestinian
suicide bombers.
* Force the Saudis to hand over
known key terrorist enablers in their country, for trial in US military
courts.
* End the Saudis' relentless pro-terrorist
propaganda campaign, which spreads lies about the West and Israel across
the Middle East.
All of this may necessitate deposing
the despotic House of Saud altogether, confiscating its ill-gotten wealth,
and instituting a government more conducive to individual rights-just as
the US successfully did in Germany and Japan post-WWII. That policy includes
such Western "biases" as emancipating women, separating religion and state-and
for similar reasons -separating state and economy.
We're fighting for our lives. We
can win against the terrorists and their enablers, if there is a huge public
outcry for Bush to consistently act on his professed principles. Seizing
control of Saudi Arabia inevitably follows from that. Then we must press
on to Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and other places to finish the job.
