"Wiping Countries Off the Map": Who's Failing the "Failed States"
Washington is in the "business of destroying" a very long list of countries.
By <
http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/michel-chossudovsky> Prof Michel
Chossudovsky
Global Research, December 31, 2012
Theme: US NATO War Agenda
<
http://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/us-nato-war-agenda>
"Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic
implications. According to legend, Iran's President has threatened to
destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the
map". Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, ." (Arash
Norouzi,
<
http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-wiped-off-the-map-the-rumor-of-the-cent
ury-fabricated-by-the-us-media-to-justify-an-all-out-war-on-iran/21188>
Wiped off The Map: The Rumor of the Century January 2007)
"The United States has attacked, directly or indirectly, some 44 countries
throughout the world since August 1945, a number of them many times. The
avowed objective of these military interventions has been to effect "regime
change". The cloaks of "human rights" and of "democracy" were invariably
evoked to justify what were unilateral and illegal acts. (Professor Eric
Waddell,
<
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-united-states-global-military-crusade-1945
/4610> The United States' Global Military Crusade (1945- ), Global
Research, February 2007
"This is a [Pentagon] memo that describes how we're going to take out seven
countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He
said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." (General Wesley
Clark,
<
http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years
-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166> Democracy Now, March 2,
2007)
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Washington is in the "business of destroying" a very long list of countries.
Who is "Wiping Countries off the Map"? Iran or the United States?
During a period which is euphemistically called the "post-war era"
-extending from 1945 to the present-, the US has directly or indirectly
attacked more than 40 countries.
While the tenets of US foreign policy are predicated on the "spread of
democracy", US interventionism -through military means and covert
operations- has resulted in the outright destabilization and partition of
sovereign nations.
Destroying countries is part of a US Imperial project, a process of global
domination. Moreover, according to official sources, the US has a total of
<
http://www.globalresearch.ca/737-u-s-military-bases-global-empire/12824>
737 military bases in foreign countries. (2005 data)
The Notion of "Failed States"
The Washington based
<
http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/GlobalTrends_2030.pdf> National
Intelligence Council (NIC) in its Global Trends report (December 2012)
"predicts" that 15 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East will become
"failed states" by 2030, due to their "potential for conflict and
environmental ills".
The list of countries in the 2012 NIC report includes Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Kenya, Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda,
Somalia, DR Congo, Malawi, Haiti, Yemen. (see p 39)
In its previous 2005 report, published at the outset of Bush's second term,
the National Intelligence Council had predicted that Pakistan would become a
"failed' state" by 2015 "as it will be affected by civil war, complete
Talibanisation and struggle for control of its nuclear weapons".
Pakistan was compared to Yugoslavia which was carved up into seven proxy
states after a decade of US-NATO sponsored "civil wars".
The NIC forecast for Pakistan was a "Yugoslav-like fate" in a "country riven
by civil war, bloodshed and inter-provincial rivalries" (Energy Compass, 2
March 2005).
While the failed states are said to "serve as safehavens for political and
religious extremists" (p. 143), the report does not acknowledge the fact
that the US and its allies have, since the 1970s, provided covert support to
religious extremist organizations as a means to destabilize sovereign
secular nation states. Both Pakistan and Afghanistan were secular states in
the 1970s.
A Yugoslav or Somalia-style "failed state status" is not the result of
internal social divisions, it is a strategic objective implemented through
covert operations and military action.
The Washington based <
http://www.fundforpeace.org/global/?q=fsi-grid2012>
Fund for Peace, whose mandate is to promote "sustainable security through
research", publishes (annually) a "Failed States Index" based on a risk
assessment (see map below). Thirty three countries (included in the Alert
and Warm categories) are identified as "failed states".
According to the <
http://www.fundforpeace.org/global/?q=fsi-grid2012> Fund
for Peace, the "failed states" are also "targets for Al Qaeda linked
terrorists"
"The annual ranking of nations by the
<
http://www.fundforpeace.org/global/?q=aboutus> Fund for Peace/
<
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/failed_states_index_2012_interactive> Foreign
Policy for failing/fragile-state trouble-signs comes as
<
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/14/africa-security-mali-qaeda-idINDEE
86D04720120714> international alarm grows about al-Qaeda-linked extremists
setting up a
<
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Qaida+cancer+Mali/6956956/story.html>
state-based sanctuary in northern Mali for jihadi expansion."
Needless to say, the history of Al Qaeda as a US intelligence asset, its
role in creating factional divisions and instability in the Middle East,
Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are not mentioned. The activities of
the jihadist Al Qaeda units in most of these countries are part of a
diabolical covert intelligence agenda.
"Weaker" and "Failed States": A Threat to America
In a twist logic, "weaker failed states", according to the US Congress, are
said to constitute a threat to the security of the US. The latter includes
"several threats emanating from states that are variously described as weak,
fragile, vulnerable, failing, precarious, failed, in crisis, or collapsed".
As the Cold War concluded in the early 1990s, analysts became aware of an
emerging international security environment, in which weak and failing
states became vehicles for transnational organized crime, nuclear
proliferation pathways, and hot spots for civil conflict and humanitarian
emergencies. The potential U.S. national security threats weak and failing
states pose became further apparent with Al Qaeda's September 11, 2001,
attack on the United States, which Osama bin Laden masterminded from the
safe haven that Afghanistan provided. The events of 9/11 prompted President
George W. Bush to claim in the 2002 U.S. National Security Strategy that
"weak states, like Afghanistan, can pose as great a danger to our national
interests as strong states." ( <
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34253.pdf>
Weak and Failing States: Evolving Security, Threats and U.S. Policy, CRS
Report for the US Congress, Washington, 2008)
What is not mentioned in this Congressional CRS report is that the "hot
spots of organized crime and civilian conflict" are the result of US covert
intelligence operations.
Amply documented, the Afghan drug economy which generates over 90 percent of
the World's supply of heroin is tied into a multibillion dollar money
laundering operation involving major financial institutions. The drug trade
out of Afghanistan is protected by the CIA and US-NATO occupation forces.
Syria: Categorized as a "Failed State"
The atrocities committed against the Syrian population by the US-NATO
sponsored Free Syrian Army (FSA) create conditions which favor sectarian
warfare.
Sectarian extremism favors the breakup of Syria as a Nation State as well as
the demise of the central government in Damascus.
Washington's foreign policy objective is to transform Syria into what the
National Intelligence Council (NIC) calls a "failed state".
Regime change implies maintaining a central government. As the Syrian crisis
unfolds, the endgame is no longer "regime change" but the partition and
destruction of Syria as a Nation State.
The US-NATO-Israel strategy is to divide the country up into three weak
states. Recent media reports intimate that if Bashar Al Assad "refuses to
step down", "the alternative is a failed state like Somalia."
One possible "break-up scenario"
<
http://www.globalresearch.ca/hidden-us-israeli-military-agenda-break-syria-
into-pieces/31454> reported by the Israeli press would be the formation of
separate and "independent" Sunni, Alawite-Shiite, Kurdish and Druze states.
According to Major-General Yair Golan of Israel's IDF "Syria is in civil
war, which will lead to a failed state, and terrorism will blossom in it."
The Israel Defence Forces are currently analyzing "how Syria would break
up", according to Major General Golan (
<
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/31/us-syria-crisis-israel-idUSBRE84U
0CT20120531> Reuters, May31, 2012)
In November, United Nations peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi intimated that
Syria could become "A New Somalia" ,. "warning of a scenario in which
warlords and militia fill a void left by a collapsed state." (Reuters,
November 22, 2012)
"What I am afraid of is worse . the collapse of the state and that Syria
turns into a new Somalia."
"I believe that if this issue is not dealt with correctly, the danger is
'Somalisation' and not partition: the collapse of the state and the
emergence of warlords, militias and fighting groups." (Ibid)
What the UN envoy failed to mention is that the breakup of Somalia, was
deliberate. It was part of a covert US military and intelligence agenda,
which is now being applied to several targeted countries in the Middle East,
Africa and Asia, which are categorized as "failed states".
The central question is: who is failing the failed states? Who is "Taking
them Out"?
The planned break-up of Syria as a sovereign state is part of an integrated
regional military and intelligence agenda which includes Lebanon, Iran and
Pakistan. According to the "predictions" of the National Intelligence
Council, the breakup of Pakistan is slated to occur in the course of the
next three years.
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<
https://store.globalresearch.ca/store/towards-a-world-war-iii-scenario-the-
dangers-of-nuclear-war/> WWIII Scenario
"The US has embarked on a military adventure, "a long war", which threatens
the future of humanity. US-NATO weapons of mass destruction are portrayed as
instruments of peace. Mini-nukes are said to be "harmless to the surrounding
civilian population". Pre-emptive nuclear war is portrayed as a
"humanitarian undertaking".
"While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from
present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to fully
comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using
"new technologies" and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a
reality. The international community has endorsed nuclear war in the name of
world peace. "Making the world safer" is the justification for launching a
military operation which could potentially result in a nuclear holocaust.
Nuclear war has become a multibillion dollar undertaking, which fills the
pockets of US defense contractors. What is at stake is the outright
"privatization of nuclear war".
The Pentagon's global military design is one of world conquest. The military
deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world
simultaneously.
Central to an understanding of war, is the media campaign which grants it
legitimacy in the eyes of public opinion. A good versus evil dichotomy
prevails. The perpetrators of war are presented as the victims. Public
opinion is misled.
Breaking the "big lie", which upholds war as a humanitarian undertaking,
means breaking a criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest
for profit is the overriding force. This profit-driven military agenda
destroys human values and transforms people into unconscious zombies.
The object of this book is to forcefully reverse the tide of war, challenge
the war criminals in high office and the powerful corporate lobby groups
which support them."
(Michel Chossudovsky,
<
https://store.globalresearch.ca/store/towards-a-world-war-iii-scenario-the-
dangers-of-nuclear-war/> Towards a World War III Scenario, Global Research,
Montreal, 2012)
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