The Washington Post editorial board: "The United States now faces a naked act of armed
aggression in the center of Europe by a Russian regime that is signaling its
intent to steamroller this U.S. president and his allies. MR. OBAMA MUST
DEMONSTRATE THAT CAN’T BE DONE."
Bullshit. It’s not armed aggression against the U.S. There is no reason
that Obama must do anything at all, other than give the madman Putin a
telephone call and try to reason with the embodiment of twisted, tyrannical
reasoning beast of a human being. Yeah, I get that Putin is a diluted monster,
but the world has been and is full of them, still is. Let’s keep in mind that
the Ukraine has been ruled by such people before the invasion. And that Obama has killed more people with his
pet predator drones than Putin has in the Ukraine: more than 2,400 dead as
Obama’s drone campaign marks five years, a lot more drone notches that demented
Bush has. And as of now there are 6000 Russian troop is the Ukraine and as far
as I know there are still about 34,000 US
troops in Afghanistan after ten years of war. And the Russians are the bad
guys! J
Yeah, shit happens, but it’s none of our affair just because we have a
big military. This is nothing more than a political chest-beating contest. Why
should Americans care about Ukrainians? They are not our friends. As far as I
know they have never done anything for us. It’s up to them to deal with the
problem.
If Russians want to occupy the Ukraine then the Ukrainians can fight
back just as the Afghan warriors fought back against the Russian occupation of their
country and presently against the American occupation. Of course, the Soviets,
as they were known at the time, had their Marxist agenda for rebuilding and
managing the country. The U.S. has its own agenda as well. But neither has the
right to impose its notion of the ideal nation upon another nation. Yeah, the
Muslim Taliban are a strange and savage bunch, but that’s Islam. Actually, it’s
any of the Abrahamic religions. The ancient Jews passed to the world a diabolical
and vicious religion. Unfortunately, the New Testament came with the old, the
new god with the old tyrannical Yahweh, the one who flooded the world.
Instead of the morons in Washington, along with the Bible-belt morons longing
for Armageddon, getting us into World War III, let the Ukrainians do what the
Vietnamese, Afghan, and Iraqi warriors did against bully America, fight, fight,
fight. Make occupation a costly game for Pukin… ah Putin. Let them become a
thorn (many actually) in his and the
Russian people’s side as the Chechens are. But the Chechens are terrorists.
Yes, of course they are. What do you expect them to do against the Red Army… I
mean Putin’s army? The ancient Jews were perhaps the first real terrorists. Their assassins made life miserable for Roman occupiers and for Hebrew
collaborators. Modern Jews used terrorism against the British and Palestinians
(still do for that matter but now they’re the occupying tyrants).
There are two important lessons that can be learned from the Jews's use of terrorism. The first is that terrorism is justified only against a powerful invading force occupying one’s homeland—such as in the case of the Romans occupying Judaea the ancient homeland of the Jews. The second is that terrorism is never justified to defend, promote, or impose an idea or ideology. Ideas being ideas should always be a matter of choice. Using violence or the threat of violence to impose an idea is a violent invasion of a person’s mental space, just as Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is an invasion of the homeland of the Ukrainian people—the land where they live their lives, the land where their dead are buried, the land in which their culture is rooted. Ideas don’t bleed, don’t suffer, don’t die, thus need not be imposed or defended violently, only rationally.
However, the Maccabean Jews did use a weird form of violence as a means to impose their religious ideology on others. In his book The Harvest of Hellenism, F.E. Peters states that the Maccabean leader John Hyrcanus engaged in forced conversion of Idumaeans to Judaism. The process involved compulsory circumcision. Later on, Hyrcanus’ son Judah offered the inhabitants of Galilee the choice of being circumcised or emigrating to a more religiously tolerant community among the pagans (286-287 & 291). Circumcision is a crude form of imposing an identity. It’s like branding cattle.
The most subtle Jewish terrorist was Apostle Paul and perhaps even Jesus though probably not since Paul and the Gospel writers corrupted Jesus and his message. Paul didn’t use the physical threats of terrorism to get the pagans of the Roman Empire to convert to the new Judaism—Judeo-Christianity. He used the threat of burning in the fires of hell for an eternity. That’s a form of terrorism that terrifies the mind. Once the pagans became Judeo-Christians they would use both physical and psychological terror to convert remaining pagans to Judeo-Christianity. The Catholic Church would use both forms of terror. Ditto for Muhammad and Judeo-Islam.
What was the origin of using terrorism to get people believe a certain set of ideas (i.e., an ideology) and then to behave according to those ideas? The origin is the Jewish God Yahweh. He was the first to terrorize his chosen people to believe in only his religion (an ideology) and in no other religion. In the story of the Golden Calf he terrorizes Jews for worshiping a calf of their own making. So, it was assumed that if God can use terrorism to enforce his big idea, then people can do the same. But that means that the Jewish God was not omnibenevolent but omnimalevolent. Ergo, the use of terrorism against an invading or occupying oppressor such as Putin’s army is justified, but using terrorism to enforce the acceptance of an idea is immoral because ideas don’t bleed, suffer, or die but people do.
Terrorism is exactly what the Ukrainian freedom fighters must resort to
if their military can’t protect their country, which it can’t. American Indians
used terrorism to discourage Europeans and later Americans invading and
occupying their homeland. Yeah, they killed men, women, and children, just as
the long knives did. In other words, terrorism is a necessary evil. Who would
gainsay that Ukrainians would be wrong to blow up a Russian theater filled with
Russian men, women, and children if the Russian military occupies the Ukrainian
homeland? I’m sorry, when a nation threatens your homeland and your own people,
there are no rules. You do whatever you need to to destroy or dissuade the
threat. Many American commentators have suggested dropping atomic bombs on
Russia. Obviously, such an act would be an act of terror, and not very
understandable because it’s not their call. It really is amazing how American
nut cases believe they can speak on the behave of the rest of the world. Maybe
the Ukrainians would rather do without a nuclear war on their behalf.
The U.S. used similar, though less destructive, acts during the Vietnam
War and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. During World War II it did dropped
atomic bombs on civilian targets to terrorize the Japanese people. Americans
make a big deal of condemning terrorism but America has used terrorism (on an infinitely
larger scale than used by al-Qaeda) since the beginning of the nation, which
also began a very long period of Indian extermination. Serial killer Obama’s
uses of predator drones are acts of terror. If an attack terrifies civilians,
then it’s a terrorist act. Don’t give me this bullshit that it isn’t because
terror wasn’t its intention.
Getting back to the Ukrainians, I think that we have to accept that they
are going to have to pull their own weight in this situation, just as the
Syrian rebels have against Putin’s monster friend al-Assad. That’s what they
need to do. Yeah, if that means blowing up theaters and shopping mall, then so
be it. Really, would anyone have objected to nuking Berlin, totally destroying
it, if doing so would have prevented World War II and the Holocaust. The answer
is no. Anyone who says otherwise is either a liar or too much a coward to admit
the truth.
As much as the hypocritical U.S. Government condemns terrorism, even
declaring war against it, it has used terrorism repeatedly and has to accept
that the Ukrainian have the right to use terrorism against Russians as long as
the Russian military is occupying their homeland. Terrorism is always an evil,
but sometimes it’s a necessary evil. Wake up America, that’s the truth your
actions have always shown but your self-serving rhetoric continues to deny.
