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The Making of the Enemy:
Part Two of Two -Part
One Here
The Myth of the Superhuman Enemy
By Manuel Valenzuela
12/21/05 "ICH" -- -- There is purpose behind having enemies, for
their existence is the backbone of the corporatists. Indeed, there
is a method behind their madness. Having enemies means having
control both of fear and hatred of the people, as well as having
control of the masses along with their animalistic emotions.
Psychology can be manipulated at the push of a few buttons; an
entire nation can be mobilized toward war in the time it takes two
skyscrapers to be imploded. Nationalism and xenophobia make blind
rational thought; ignorance makes deaf the sounds of wisdom.
The use of enemies distracts the minds of the people from their
daily lives and chains truth to the dungeons of corporatists and
neocons. The silhouette of the enemy helps supply the armies of
invasion and occupation, it assists in mobilizing the nation’s
economy into perpetual war readiness, and it distracts the people as
their treasure is pillaged, just as it demands patience of the
citizenry in the face of utter debacle.
The abstract illusion of the unseen enemy forces its disseminators
and marketers to put a human face on clandestine evildoers. It is a
technique used by the keepers at the gate to personify and insert a
sense of reality to a war of fiction, thereby granting human flesh
to illusion and cementing the idea of real struggle and real evil in
the eyes of the masses. The appearance must be made to exist that
the enemy is real, a human being whose evil ways must be stopped,
regardless of the consequences.
Yet while the faces are real, the deeds and actions of the enemy’s
masterminds are but the stuff of Hollywood legend, making of mere
mortals demons of unnatural superhuman strength and ability,
seemingly unable to be killed, leading their armies with the
intelligence of gods and the leadership of generals. Present in
multiple theatres of operation, these evildoers extraordinaire
always evade capture, appearing to escape death and injury, as
always inflicting damage upon our soldiers. Not even a $25 million
bounty on their heads is of benefit to America’s soldiers and
mercenaries.
The Osama’s and Zarqawi’s of the so-called war on terror are
elevated by the propagandists and marketers to realms beyond mere
mortality. It is as if these terrorists have had their fates decided
by the scripts written by Hollywood writers, their abilities
seemingly beyond comparison in the realm of human understanding. Yet
their faces and names must be maintained and posterized, their
reputation made to resound throughout America, for they are the
symbols of the enemy we are fighting over there so we do not have to
fight them over here. Their fictitious reputation, an illusion of
psychological warfare against us, must be birthed sinister and
wicked, deranged and psychotic, for the more dangerous the terrorist
the greater the need to continue the war on terror.
With the abrupt disappearance of Osama the poster child of the enemy
had to find new life. Thus the impenetrable Zarqawi was born, for
his name and reputation impute Al-Qaeda directly into Iraq, allowing
the corporatists to manipulate the war on terror, creating the
impression that our soldiers are in Iraq because the enemy has made
its nest there as well. The illusion of Zarqawi allows the
government to claim that Iraq is infested with terrorists, that all
attacks on our forces are directly attributed to Al-Qaeda. To the
creators of reality the Iraqi resistance does not exist and native
Iraqis are not fighting an insurrection against oppressive
occupation of their lands.
Therefore the war in Iraq is marketed not as a battle of
nationalistic freedom fighters combating oppressive occupiers,
wanting American forces expelled, which it is, but rather as the
convenient masquerade of pitting American forces against our enemy,
jihadi terrorists belonging to Al-Qaeda (in truth, less than 6
percent of all arrests made by US forces are of foreigners,
according to War Department research). The Iraqi homegrown
resistance, along with the support of them by more than 80 percent
of the population is never divulged to the masses, for this would
fracture the smoking mirror that has sustained the Iraqi war chimera
for three years.
The illusion that America is fighting terrorists, conveniently
blamed for 9/11 so as to reenergize the emotions we suffered that
horrific day, has helped sustain support for an illegal and immoral
war based on lies. After all, we are fighting them there so we do
not have to fight them here. In reality, the guerilla war being
waged has the support of the vast majority of the Iraqi people whose
lives have been spent in Hell on Earth thanks to America’s invasion
and occupation.
Yet to the propagandists, we can never be seen as the evildoer or
villain in this Hollywood production, which we are, murdering,
oppressing, maiming, bombing, torturing, dehumanizing and utterly
eviscerating an entire people and culture. And so, it is said we
fight terrorists, not freedom fighters, we fight for freedom and
democracy, not oil and geopolitical expediency, and we invaded to
topple a dictator, even if tyranny is worse than before.
The day will soon come when the face and name of Zarqawi will stop
having the desired effect on the American population, his brand
having matured. When that time arrives, a new evildoer
extraordinaire will rise to claim the throne of propaganda matrix
for the corporatists in power, his arrival launched like a new
product, ready, willing and able to unleash terror upon the lands of
Earth, intent to destroy America, hating us for our freedoms and
democracy.
Like Osama and Zarqawi before him, this new evil one will see his
reputation grow exponentially, his words and deeds disseminated for
our consumption, and manipulation. We will be made to fear him,
demanding he be killed after every act of barbarity attributed to
him. One hundred of his second and third in commands will be killed
in combat, his lieutenants’ names grazing the news sound bites we
are given, and he will have evaded imminent capture dozens of times.
He will orchestrate bombings and death and heinous acts of terror,
his face posterized for the masses to see and memorize. For a few
years he will be most useful to those committing psychological
warfare on the people, becoming a treasure trove of propaganda and
distraction, his reputation growing with each newscast by the
corporate media. His name will be uttered repeatedly, bombarded into
our conscious, becoming, thanks to the airplay granted him,
evildoer, terrorist, America’s new enemy. The new poster child for
perpetual war for perpetual profit will captivate the minds of
millions, who will be told to be afraid of attacks against their
city and children.
His fictitious legend will live in infamy, giving fresh oxygen to
the war on terror, rejuvenating a weakened marketing campaign. The
deeds and actions attributed to him will make the Establishment more
powerful, granting it sustenance for the continued embezzlement of
billions of dollars in taxpayer money. Our treasure will disappear,
going straight into the coffers of corporatists and capitalists who
will have instructions to assemble and build the instruments of
death and destruction the military-industrial complex will need for
the next fifty years. Our children will be sent to foreign lands
under the pretext of killing him, dying and being maimed for lies
upon lies. Never captured, never found, existing like a ghost in our
midst, the mightiest army the world has ever known will fail to
bring him to justice, for in his freedom the corporatists maintain
the illusion, the psychological war upon us, their most profitable
war on terror.
In a war of fantasy, without a nation to blame, a face must be given
to mystery and ambiguity, enabling the masses to maintain their
illusion of a fight against terror, doing battle with an enemy
possessing Hollywood prowess, engaged in conflict against Arabs and
Persians and Muslims whose only crime is having lived for millennia
atop a resource both addictive and essential to maintaining
standards of living unsustainable and excessive.
Psychological Warfare
The manufacture of the war on terror – along with the systematic
branding of Arabs and Persians as America's enemy – has coincided
perfectly with the race in a geopolitical chess match to see who can
secure the remaining fields of the resource known as the devil’s
excrement, the black blood needed to run the machines of mankind.
Had the vast amounts of oil fields been in Latin America instead of
in the Middle East and Central Asia the war on terror would be
taking place in Brazil or Ecuador or Venezuela, and Hispanics would
be today’s bogeymen. Instead, America finds herself having lied and
deceived her own people, trying to find justifications to penetrate
and control the remaining oil fields, unleashing psychological war
on us the easier to manipulate the population and using terror as a
pretext to invade and occupy a most important geopolitical and
geostrategic prize, Iraq.
Subsequently, the occupation of Iraq has opened the door to the rest
of the Middle East and has become a gateway to Central Asia and its
vast quantities of oil. In its own right, Afghanistan, now in the
hands of the Americans, has become a geopolitical prize of grand
strategic importance, used for oil and gas pipelines and for the
permanent military bases and the presence they provide needed to
contain America’s next enemies, namely Iran, China and Russia. With
Iraq and Afghanistan now for all practical purposes American
colonies, its military firmly entrenched in permanent bases designed
to protect and control the flow of oil, the high possibility exists
of further intervention in Iran and/or Central Asia.
The war on terror, born on 9/11, has been the perfect instrument of
control for the corporatists in power, its mechanisms allowing the
preemptive invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq as well as the
perfect excuse to retain a permanent stronghold in Afghanistan. Had
the fierce Iraqi resistance not created the debacle now witnessed,
trapping American forces in a tar pit of carnage, the charade that
is the war on terror would have inevitably been expanded to invade
Iran and Syria on the way to Central Asia.
Inside the hallways where neocon and corporatist vultures reside,
the thinking was that 9/11 would be the new Pearl Harbor needed to
mobilize the citizenry, by exploiting our fragile psychology, toward
a perpetual war footing, that invading Afghanistan would be
justified and very easy to take, that Iraq would be a cakewalk and
that, in the wake of America’s blitzkrieg in the Middle East, the
invasion of Iran and Syria would soon follow.
Thereafter, America would dictate terms to all remaining Middle East
nations, controlling their leaders but most importantly, their oil
fields, pipes, ports, waterways and infrastructure, deciding to sell
oil from American and British markets, in dollars, not euros. From
controlling the Middle East it would only be a matter of time before
Central Asia offered herself to America, granting her terms, prices
and barrels of oil favorable to her, deciding it safer to befriend
the superpower rather than the Asian giants.
9/11 was the catalyst to the war on terror, the spring that gave
sustenance to the imperialistic wet dreams of corporatists and
neocons. It was a moment in time, though only affecting a few blocks
of downtown New York City, that sent concussions of fear and hatred
and immediate calls of anger and vengeance reverberating throughout
the land, as if a nuclear bomb of psychological warfare had been
unleashed into our atmosphere, transforming us into unthinking
animals, our primate psychology and emotions set free, usurping our
normal human intelligence.
At that point, after seeing the televised images of the horror and
evil spawned that day, its recording repeated continuously without
end, with angle after angle of carnage and death shown us, with the
immediate propaganda of journalist buffoons penetrating our pores,
with stenographers for power injecting us with their venom, we
mutated into an army of robots, unwilling to listen to reason,
unwise to the lessons of humanity, failing to control our raw
emotions, becoming, in the end, a united herd of sheep that was
easily corralled into following and obeying the dictates of the
corporatists.
We became, with our jingoism, nationalism, patriotism and Nazi-like
militarization of the nation a people on the verge of mass
psychosis, ready to bomb and murder entire nations, ready to lose
all sense of morality in order to attain the vengeance our mammalian
brains sought.
Upon the destruction of the Twin Towers we succumbed to our masters’
wishes, allowing ourselves to be molded like fresh clay, becoming
exactly what the Establishment wanted us to become. The hatred we
felt was manipulated and directed, our attention made to focus on
the dark skins and alien religion of the Middle East. Our fear was
exploited, our fragile psychology abused, steered toward war against
Arabs and Persians and Muslims, for clandestine reasons we did not
wish to know or understand.
For control of oil and continued expansion of the economy
psychological war was declared on 300 million Americans, the
mechanisms of corporatism acting in unison to make of us a marching
army of unthinking drones, willing to give up our rights and
freedoms, willing to sacrifice our sons, daughters and treasure for
the vengeance we felt and the thirst for blood we craved. We came
under the myopic control of power, distracted from the war against
us. Our animal instincts had taken over us; our human intellect
vanished inside the clouds of 9/11, only returning a few years later
to claim its rightful place alongside reason and logic. Such is the
power of psychological war upon a population and such is the level
of human wickedness by corporatists and neocons alike.
In the end, we allowed corporatism to fast forward in time, firmly
cementing its claws into our land, slowly rising in stature, growing
in power, its instruments becoming ingrained into society, our
rights and freedoms slowly eroding. Its rise to prominence now seems
inevitable, this stage of American capitalism feeds and sustains it,
our acquiescence and apathy helps it grow. With another attack, real
or created, America will usher in the era of the police state.
Perhaps this has been the plan the overlords of Earth have had all
along.
Into Orwellian times have we descended, and, after the corporatists
no longer find usefulness to the Arab/Persian terrorist as enemy, a
new one will be created, just in time to fit into the grand plans
and goals of those in power, molded to entertain and distract us yet
again, rising from the Far East to manipulate and control us.
Perpetual Enemy, Perpetual Control
Marketed to exploit our fears and hatreds, manufactured to mobilize
our talents towards wickedness, the new enemy will evolve from the
carcass of all those that have come before, rising from its cocoon,
metamorphosis enabling it to acquire a different appearance, ready
to terrorize and frighten us into obedience. It will once again work
like magic, capturing our minds, manipulating our psychologies,
pushing society in the direction the corporatists want us to follow.
Those in power will make barbarians of an entire people, creating
subhuman creatures wanting to destroy us for our freedom and
democracy.
America’s new enemy will work like a charm, for it always does,
always ready to push the interests of the few, willing to demonize
the innocent and enrapture the ignorant.
Yes, a new enemy can be seen in the horizon. In a few years time the
rivalry with China will grow and intensify, for this world cannot
sustain both America and a nation of 1.4 billion people whose
economy will surpass our own in a decade or two. A new Cold War will
ensue, new enemies will be delineated, and new forms of conditioning
will evolve. Two peoples will be taught to hate each other,
brainwashed to see the other as evildoer extraordinaire, for the
race to the last vestiges of natural resources has begun as the
world runs out of water, oil and space.
Like the Soviet and Arab/Persian Muslim terrorist before him, the
Chinese enemy will be deviously marketed, his exploits and evil
deeds will be told and retold, his hatred of our way of life made to
be everlasting. Our minds will be programmed to believe not reality
but what the corporatists want reality to be. We will be manipulated
to seek victory against the Red menace of China, told to sacrifice
blood, sweat, and tears for the cause, for the salvation of America,
and that of the corporatists. We will be forced to toil in the
sweatshops and assembly lines of the military-energy industrial
complex, our corporatist government engorging itself through
conquest of land and resources, our wages given to the corporations
that own us.
In time the Arab/Persian Muslim terrorist as enemy of America will
vanish from our conscious, perhaps once again becoming the freedom
fighter he has usually been marketed as, coming full circle in the
minds of Americans. Perhaps he will join us in the new Cold War,
ready to fight with us against the Chinese, becoming our friend and
our ally. For China waits in the wings, growing by leaps and bounds,
an ancient civilization wise and patient, a growing behemoth whose
drums we now hear, methodically letting her future rival hemorrhage
itself to death, letting America defeat itself.
In time we will once again be allowed to see the beauty and grandeur
of Arab and Persian cultures, from Morocco to Iraq to Iran, free to
explore lands both alien and mesmerizing, with architecture and
fashion and decoration and design and music and ideas and ways of
thinking as alien as they are appealing. Perhaps we will incorporate
some of their culture into our own, for that which has never been
seen by human eyes becomes beautiful, soon thereafter coveted and
imitated. With the passage of time we will be able to learn from our
Arab and Persian friends, for theirs is an old civilization, in many
ways different than ours, yet in many ways similar as well,
offering, like any culture, both good and bad traits.
In time we will see that the charade we have been living in since
mid-2001 has degraded us as a culture, making us torturers and
invaders and occupiers and murderers and pillager of human rights,
in the process destroying history and culture and ancient
civilizations. We will see that America is crumbling under the
weight of its hypocrisy and its immorality, her foundations severely
damaged by her crimes both against the planet and humanity. Perhaps
we will even see the error of our ways, the madness we have allowed
to enter our conscious and the destruction we allowed our power and
wealth to unleash on innocent human beings.
But just as we are ready to forgive ourselves for what we have
allowed to be done in our name and as we seek closure by asking for
forgiveness from the world and the Iraqi people in particular a new
enemy will be created to distract us away from the anger we now feel
for being lied, deceived and manipulated. As the fear, hatred,
nationalism and xenophobia engendered by 9/11 evaporates thanks to
the passage of time and the escape from psychosis a new adaptation
of psychological warfare will be thrust upon us, used to damage our
minds and control our lives.
Just as we are finally ready to seek the justice denied us, ready to
confront the real enemy among us, new terror will be unleashed to
quiet us. New 9/11s, perhaps more destructive and deadly, will usher
in an era of the coming American police state, granted to the
corporatists by our own willful yet manipulated emotions. Just as we
begin to ask questions and seek the accountability that has so far
alluded us a new threat will be born, a new attack inside one of our
cities will take place, conveniently captured by television,
disseminated widely by a corporate media eager to recreate the cycle
of propaganda seen on 9/11. Its inevitability is a foregone
conclusion.
Once again we will fall for the same trap, becoming the pawns of
corporatists, the army of “good Germans.” Terror new and real will
arrive on our shores just in time to once again take possession of
our minds, making us, yet again, unthinking animals sustained by raw
emotion and instinct, becoming the sheep easily corralled, led and
controlled by our masters. We will mobilize once more, marching to
the trumpets of war and violence, becoming the instrument the
corporatists need to further their goals.
An enemy will be chosen, his lands will be targeted, those that look
like him will be bombed and all the while, sitting idly on our
couches, languishing away our lives next to the television, we will
be told what to think and believe, our animal brains commandeering
our rational minds. We will be told that we are to fear, even though
there is nothing to fear. We will be told we should hate, even
though there is nothing to hate. We will be told our security is in
peril, even though we are very secure. We will be told that reality
is what we see on the monitor, not what our daily lives make it out
to be.
We will be told to follow the orders of corporatist leaders, to
place undying loyalty and trust in them and that, even though it
seems they are pilfering our treasure and sending our children to
certain death and destroying our reputation and bringing shame upon
our land and leading us into incompetent debacle after debacle, we
are never to question, never to protest, never to dissent, yet
forever to become the ignorant drone that unbuckles his belt, bends
over to the dictates of power and allows for the raping of his mind
and the sodomy of his existence.
With the minds of tens of millions lined up, their ability to think
independently erased from memory, ready, willing and able to
sacrifice children, treasure and morality to professional
puppeteers, becoming slaves to the system, the games of geopolitical
and geostrategic chess can continue and the power of our corporatist
masters can expand.
The name of the game is control, of our society, culture, lives and
futures. The game of control is played for world domination, of its
resources, peoples and lands, like a grand chess contest dictated by
the sacrifice of pawns and the movement of kings. To the overlords
of Earth, humanity is but a herd needing to be dominated and
controlled; our lives and fates decided by the realities created and
decisions made of those players who hold the reigns of ultimate
power. It is the story of humankind, of a corrosive pyramid of
hierarchy, of a system of castes, of the fortunate and the doomed,
of a mechanism of perpetual control.
Civilization has not changed for millennia, it remains its
predictable self, with the few at the top as always aggrandized by
their control over the masses, and the masses forever easily led and
maneuvered, electing to remain captives to what has always been,
afraid to confront what could become. The making of the enemy is but
one more form of control over us, for those whose power, control and
wealth grows exponentially thanks to the making and marketing of
enemies would not have it any other way.
Manuel Valenzuela is a social critic and
commentator, international affairs analyst and Internet columnist.
His articles as well as his archive can be found at his blog,
http://www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
and at
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
as well as at other alternative news websites from around the
globe. Mr. Valenzuela is also author of Echoes in the Wind, a
fiction novel. Mr. Valenzuela welcomes comments and can be reached
at
manuel@valenzuelas.net.
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