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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn ("In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."). --HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

The stars hath turned in the heavens once more: Mighty Cthulhu stirs. His dreams reacheth forth, communing with those with ears to hear. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! His thoughts trample down along the pathways of thy mind; thou knowest His footprints, each of which is a wound...

Monday, September 20, 2004



Manufacturing Terrorists, One Attrocity at a Time

William Rivers Pitt has torn back the veil to expose a horrid, naked truth: Osama bin Laden didn't just spring up from the muck, and neo-conservative foreign policy is working overtime to manufacture more of him as quickly as possible:
Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he is not unique, not singular, not an invention of the universe. He becomes truly scary when the realization comes that there are millions of people who have seen what he has seen, who feel what he feels, and why. He becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he is a creation of the last fifty years of American foreign and economic policy, and that he has an army behind him created by the same influences. Simply, Osama bin Laden becomes truly scary when the realization comes that he can be, and has been, and continues to be, replicated.

I'm never going to come close to the clarity and poignancy of an internationally best-selling author (and Managing Editor and Senior Writer for truthout.org), so I'm going to strongly encourage you to go over and read this work for yourself.

But his point is easy and clear: When a man witnesses American military might being used to accomplish this...

...it's a pretty sure bet that he's going to have a problem with Americans for the rest of his life. He may even be inclined to do something about it.
Osama bin Laden is a damned murderer of innocents, with thousands of notches in his belt. His actions are indefensible by any measure. Yet to dismiss him as something other than the creation of his experiences, to categorize him as some unique freak whose motivations are beyond comprehension, is to deny the most important dilemma that faces our world. Monsters are not born. They are made.

When an Iraqi sees his neighbors, friends, his very own family treated like this...

...do you really think that he's thinking "Oh, it's just a few bad apples blowing off some steam.".

Or do you think he might be a bit more inclined to view these actions as the violence of an oppressive invader.

I don't blame America first, dispite what that pill-popping hypocrite Limbaugh says. America didn't do this; a fanatical fascist element of neo-conservatism framed a foreign policy that made this possible. Unfortunately, I don't think this man knows the difference, or cares...


The freepers and neo-clowns will happily claim that each and every one of these people deserved their fate, that they were terrorists or insurgents or criminals. But what you need to realize is that the only opinion that matters is that of the man deciding whether or not he wants to do something about this...

We accused Saddam Hussein of collaborating with bin Laden, and of being involved in 9/11, despite the fact that bin Laden has wanted Hussein dead for years. We killed over 10,000 Iraqi civilians. We raped and tortured Iraqi men, women and children in the dungeons of Abu Ghraib. All of our poor history in the region has been distilled into that one nation, a place that now manufactures bin Laden allies by the truckload.
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