ETERNAL VIGILANCE

Who Wants Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace?

Some 50 years ago an American seer saw the inevitable consequences of global imperialism by the United States and the dangers of futile wars in the name of “democracy.” Lawrence Dennis made an appeal to reason that has even more relevance to the future survival of mankind today than it did then.

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by Lawrence Dennis

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The day of profitable exploitation by the white man of Africa and Asia is now over. From here on profitable cooperation only is a rational and practical objective.

The American people were sold two world wars on a general theory that a war to end war and the world rule of law could enforce peace with justice. As we have so often repeated, the craziest phrase or idea of the 20th Century was that of a war to end war.

The big U.S. idea [is that] the world must be unified by force: ours or theirs. This idea is factually and logically all wrong. But is now accepted as a 100 percent American idea. If you want to be a conformist and not a non-conformist, a dissenter or a subversive security risk, you must subscribe to this wrong idea.

We are prepared to join with fellow Americans in the defense of this country against any foreign invasion by foreigners in search of living space.

But we are indisposed to fight or have Americans fight to protect any other area or people from similar wars or attacks. For such wars, our advice is that we should keep out of them, try to keep them localized and limited, try to avert or end them by the use of good offices and negotiation with both sides.

WE want no part of wars to liberate other peoples. Let them liberate themselves. We want no part of wars to defend the status quo in other areas. The dynamics of hate and fear have run the West in two wars.

Whipping up mass hate and fear is the easiest and surest way for a political leader in the western world to come to power and to wield power. It is now the approved way to get a country into a war or to keep it in a state of permanent war as we are in right now.

No political leader in Africa or Asia can have a better asset than to be disliked or denounced by Americans.

The dynamics of hate and fear can, in the long run, only prove fatal for the minority. The white west, or the haves, are the minority.

Permanent Mid-East crisis has great headline news value for policy. How could our power elite in Washington get from $40 billion to $50 billion a year for spending on foreign aid if they did not have war crisis headlines from the Mid-East and other areas in our newspapers most of the time. It is wonderful having a “colored world Hitler” (Saddam, bin Laden, etc. – Ed.) who is nowhere near so powerful and dangerous as was Adolf.

The end result is certain. Time, numbers and space are with the colored world. They are with the Muslim nationalists and against the Israeli nationalists. What the colored world has lacked has been unity and dynamism for war on the whites.

Well, Israel, like America’s big soap operas in the Pacific, is contributing to the unification and activation of the colored world for war against the colonial and other outsiders. The white colonial powers and the Israelis, certainly, can never achieve ultimate and decisive force superiority over the colored world and the vast areas it populates.

The western world, however, if it were guided by operational rationalism and calculation instead of mystical legalism, moralism and traditionalism, could easily formulate and work out propositions or deals with the colored world that are mutually advantageous to both or to all concerned. This is our “constructive” word.

Only a return to neutrality, as counseled in Washington’s Farewell Address, could really insure against our government starting and fighting a third world war against overwhelming numerical odds.

The American people, of course, will not be told that American troops must be sent to the Mid-East to protect the oil stakes. They will be told American intervention in that area is necessary to defend America.

The more natives the American or foreign troops kill, the better for the long run interests of native nationalisms now on the warpath against outsiders.

Hollywood couldn’t have picked a more fitting war stage than Palestine. In this century (20th) we have gone forward to nuclear war and backward to holy war. This is the century of religious wars. For the opening of the third great religious war of one lifetime, no area could be more appropriate than the Holy Land. The staging and casting are superb and logical.

It is the chosen land of the chosen people. It is under the special personal care of God, or rather Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Now Uncle Sam has taken over. Of course, Allah, the God of the Muslims, is in the other camp, that of the Arabs. Yahweh helped the children of Israel take over the Promised Land more than once in the past 4,000 years. But he never stopped their several expulsions and dispersions. This is what Uncle Sam must do in the future.

For reasons which we, like the theologians, are unable to give, Yahweh allowed the Chosen People to be driven out of the Holy Land more than once. But Uncle Sam cannot permit anything like that to happen to the new Israel. Uncle Sam is no defeatist. He does not put up with war, sin or aggression. He fights wars to end war. He is a perfectionist.

The believers in the great religions with a messianic promise used to wait and pray for the coming of the Messiah and the dawn of the Millennium; they must fare forth and fight for it – all over the planet … This is the new internationalism.

God never stopped war or evil in all history as Uncle Sam now must do. We do know that Uncle Sam is committed to not allowing war or aggression to happen without getting in to stop war. He cannot allow the Chosen People to be driven out of Israel as they were, more than once, in the past. How fitting to have World War III start in the Holy Land.

What will be the nature, the extent, the duration and the end results of America’s third war in one lifetime to end war and to stop evil? Well, it is going to be interesting to watch the American casualties pile up in the Mid-East as Uncle Sam tries to stop what Yahweh did not stop in the distant past. And it is going to be even more interesting to follow American mass reactions to the killed and wounded from the Crusade in the Holy Land.

Now that Uncle Sam has taken over and is trying to do a job that Yahweh never did, Uncle Sam can never admit any imputation of sin or evil against one of his allies or protégés. On has to get security clearance. The other has to be branded as subversive. It won’t be long now until Judaism and Mohammedanism will be up for security rating in the permanent war.

There is just one devil – that against Uncle Sam or not with him.

Well, if man’s know-how cannot end war or sin, it can now end the human race. WE now have an infinite potential for annihilation. How long can our idealists hold in check their impulse to do good by pulling the global annihilation trigger?

The new religious war rationalization is to call it law enforcement. Attempts at an unattainable world rule of one law insure permanent religious war, inflation and socialism.

About the only subject of general agreement among the shapers of American opinion and policy today, so far as war and power politics – inter or intra national – are concerned, is that there must be no return to neutralism.

The biggest crime of the 20th Century may turn out to be an eventual extinction of the human race by nuclear radiation (or chemical, biological – Ed.) in a war fought with the weapons which we, peace-loving, good Americans are now having our scientists perfect.

We are developing these weapons to end war, communism and sin on this planet and thereby ushering in the Millennium.