Indeed, the French terrorists who
just murdered the cartoonists in Paris
apparently
just returned from
waging war against the Syrian
government, where they may –
directly or indirectly – have
obtained U.S. weapons or training.
The Saudis have
backed ISIS and many other brutal
terrorist groups. According to sworn
declarations from a 9/11 Commissioner
and the Co-Chair of the Congressional
Inquiry Into 9/11, the Saudi government
backed the 9/11 hijackers (see
section VII for details).
And yet the U.S. has been supporting
the Saudis militarily, with
NSA intelligence and in every other
way possible for 70 years.
In addition, top American terrorism
experts say that U.S. support for brutal
and tyrannical countries in the Middle
east – like Saudi Arabia – is
one of the top motivators for
Arab terrorists.
So if we stop supporting the House of
Saud and other Arab tyrannies, we’ll get
a two-fold reduction in terror:
(1) We’ll undermine the main
terrorism
supporters
And …
(2) We’ll take away one of
the main
motivations
driving terrorists: our support for
the most repressive, brutal Arab
tyrannies
A senior officer on the Joint
Staff told State Department
counter-terrorism director Sheehan
he had heard terrorist strikes
characterized more than once by
colleagues as a “small price to pay
for being a superpower”.
Security experts – including both
conservatives and liberals – agree that
waging war in the Middle East
weakens national security and
increases terrorism. See
this,
this,
this,
this,
this,
this,
this and
this.
For example, James K. Feldman –
former professor of decision analysis
and economics at the Air Force Institute
of Technology and the School of Advanced
Airpower Studies – and other experts say
that foreign occupation is the main
cause of terrorism. University of
Chicago professor Robert A. Pape – who
specializes in international security
affairs –
agrees.
Once again, we have a very current
example: Paris terrorist Cherif Kouchi
told a court in 2005 that he wasn’t
radical until he learned about
U.S. torture at Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq.
If we want to stop creating new
terrorists, we have to stop torturing …
permanently.
VI. Stop
Mass Surveillance
Top security experts agree that mass
surveillance makes us
MORE
vulnerable to terrorists. Stop it.
Because 9/11 was the largest terror
attack on the U.S. in history – and all
of our national security strategies are
based on 9/11 – we can’t stop terror
until we get to the bottom of what
really happened, and which state was
behind it.
The Co-Chair of the congressional
investigation into 9/11 – Bob Graham –
and 9/11 Commissioner and former Senator
Bob Kerrey are calling for either a “permanent
9/11 commission” or a
new 9/11 investigation to get to the
bottom of it.
The Co-Chair of the Congressional
Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the
Senate Intelligence Committee (Bob
Graham) said that the Paris terror
attack, ISIS, and other terrorist
developments are a result of failing to
stand up to Saudi Arabia and declassify
the 9/11 investigation’s report about
Saudi involvement in 9/11:
Supporting
the most radical Muslim leaders is about
oil and power
… “a small price to pay” to try to
dominate the world.
A leading
advisor to the U.S. military – the Rand
Corporation – released a study in 2008
called “How
Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for
Countering al Qa’ida“.
The report confirms what experts have
been saying for years: the war on terror
is actually weakening national
security (see
this,
this
and
this).
“Terrorists should be perceived and
described as criminals, not holy
warriors, and our analysis suggests
that there is no battlefield
solution to terrorism.”
We, the People, have to stand up and
demand that our power-hungry leaders
stop doing the things which give
them more power … but are
guaranteed to increase
terrorism against us, the civilian
population.
This article was first published at
WashingtonsBlog
- January 10, 2015
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