Edit: long, worth it. I first used this statement in an essay here back in 2003 and it was and is, entirely predictable that the hysteria surrounding ‘extremist, fanatical Muslims’ that Blair’s Britain has created would finally result in the murder of an innocent man at the hands of Blair’s security state.
That the man the police shot in cold blood was a Brazilian, only reinforces the essentially racist nature of a system that needs a scapegoat that is in reality, based not on religion but on ‘race’, in order to justify its ‘war on terror’. A system that has over the past four years consistently pumped out the same message – albeit in a thinly disguised ‘code’ – it’s okay to make war on dark-skinned people. Sooner or later, the war would come home, it was as predictable as night following day. Hence the phrase used with such monotonous regularity by the state, ‘not if but when’ was a self-fulfilling prophecy, hard-wired if you like, into the system. A ‘rolling Reichstag fire’.
So when people talk of the ‘blowback’ caused by the occupation of Iraq, I have in mind something quite different. Yet again, I find myself pointing out to the ‘liberal, left’, that the ‘international terror network’ is capitalism’s Frankenstein monster let loose on the world, a monster created long before the invasion and occupation of Iraq. A monster that lies hidden under the veneer of ‘democracy’, waiting only for the ‘right’ conditions before being unleashed by the capitalist state.
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The ‘war on terror’ is part and parcel of the reality of the deliberate impoverishment of millions of people through the actions of the World Bank and the IMF and its hired guns, the armies and security services of the US/UK/Israel, the real and awful ‘Axis of Terror’. For not only have these Western institutions caused these mass migrations of people in search of a decent living, they have led directly to what the Western media describe as ‘failed states’ that has in turn, created a vast army of displaced people, who have been denied the right to a life in the country of their birth and so have turned to what they thought of as the ‘bastions of democracy’ for safety, only to be shunned, vilified, demonised, incarcerated and eventually ejected back out into a cold, hard world.
William Bowles
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