Well,
another horrific terrorist attack.
And, really, is anyone surprised? It also didn’t take long for the celebrities
to use this attack to draw attention to themselves.
Okay,
first, this isn’t about YOU, celebrities! Real people died. They weren’t
playing victims in a movie. Must everything turn into a mourn-fest with
crocodile tears from the stars? Yes, I get it, you’re sad. But this only adds
publicity to this attack which is one goal of terrorist attacks. Enough
about that.
The West
still seems at a loss to understand why this is happening. Well, guys, here’s
why: You need to get out of the Middle East and stay out. It really is that
simple. And you guys have been told that repeatedly for decades. But the real
reason Western governments refuse to listen is because they’re pretty much safe
against suffering the consequences of Western government Middle East meddling.
It’s the public that pays the price, not the politicians.
When
Western governments are protected by air defense corridors enforced by fighter
aircraft and surface-to-air missile batteries, they can afford to meddle. When
Western governments are protected by thousands of heavily-armed troops, tanks,
and armored personnel carriers they can hustle up in the snap of a finger, they
can afford to meddle. When they have bunkers that can withstand a hit from a
thermonuclear weapon, they are more than safe. Therefore, the terrorists will
attack the targets they can hit: The unprotected, unwary public who don’t have
the threat assessments telling them not to go to thus-and-so place today like
the politicians do.
What’s
more, when the public suffers from terrorist attacks, these politicians can
then use those attacks to justify more Middle East meddling. Which, of course,
provokes more terrorist attacks. Which causes more retaliation. And more
attacks as a result. On and on it goes, this unending wheel of karma being
rolled along by the politicians. Make no mistake, a government cannot solve a
problem using the same methods which led up to the problem to begin with.
The
United States thinks that because it uses “fire to fight fire” in forest fires,
it can apply this logic to fighting terrorism. Two things are wrong with that.
First, this is not a forest fire where you can light a “backfire” and cause the
fire to burn out. Second, it has been proven that the U.S. Forest Service
policy of fighting every forest fire in the United States has led up to
catastrophic forest fires even worse than before. Why? Because routine fires
burn away the underbrush that accumulates. A healthy forest needs regular
fires. And these fires burn themselves out over time and the forest remains
intact.
What this
means is: When a thing happens in the Middle East, you leave it alone. Let it
burn itself out. But if you go in there to “fight” that “fire”, you are only
assuring there will one day be a catastrophic forest fire that will consume
everything in it’s path. That’s where we’re at today, having fought countless
fires in the Middle East only for the fires to get bigger and bigger over time.
Terrorism is the catastrophic forest fire that has jumped the fire line and the
firefighters are reluctant to tell everyone that, hey, we can’t save your homes
after boasting that we’d beat this fire. Sorry.
Make no
mistake, this is only the beginning. ISIS is a non-state entity which has shown
remarkable capabilities to infiltrate, adapt, and carry out attacks anywhere in
the world. How will the West win a war against such an entity? The usual route
the United States takes to exit a war since 1945 is via a cease-fire. With whom
will the United States sign a cease-fire or approach for one? This isn’t a
government. Thus, it goes without saying they cannot be forced to surrender,
either. Has al-Qaida surrendered or signed a cease-fire? No.
Why are
Britain and France getting hit? Well, if the United States cannot be goaded
into a self-defeating war, then attack U.S. allies in NATO who might invoke the
NATO defense promise to come to the aid of any member nation under attack. I
can’t see why else they keep hitting Britain and France repeatedly. ISIS wants
to get the United States into another tar-baby quagmire in the Middle East so
it can be bloodied again.
The goals
of these attacks are also twofold. The first goal is to launch audacious, bold,
innovative attacks that garner a lot of press. As I pointed out, when the
celebrities throw in their two cents, they’re giving the terrorists a bonus.
That being, what amounts to an unintentional celebrity endorsement.
Everyone in marketing knows even bad press is good press when it comes to
celebrities talking about your product. The second goal is to keep nailing the
West until the West departs the Middle East. This has always been the goal.
Look, I’ve
said here before that one mass shooting leads to another when the next would-be
mass shooter sees all the publicity the previous guy got. It is the same with
terrorism. When they see all the press they get, it only encourages the next
attack. If I had to guess, I’d say there’s another, maybe two or three more
attacks on the way. Because they are not going to abandon their sworn goal of
forcing the West to depart the Middle East once and for all. And they don’t
care how long it takes or what they’ve got to do to accomplish that goal.
Jack Perry [send him mail]
is a writer, journalist, and the author of "Regime Change You Can Believe In".
He lives with his wife in the Sonoran Desert where he writes, reads, walks the
desert, and abstains from political party participation. When the government is
speaking or acting, Jack observes his own Rule Number One: Always Assume It's A
Scam. A perennial desert rat, wayfarer, and path pilgrim, Jack also enjoys
silence---especially from the government. Follow him on Twitter:
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