Aby The Liberal

Dmitri August 3rd, 2007

This brief and to the point piece is dedicated to all those Americans who believe that their nation is out there for global peace, security, humanity and all those ideals which their government claims to strive for but acts differently. Don’t believe a word of this article till you have done a bit of search on facts and found out the details by yourself. Feel free to point out and mercilessly criticize (without insults and swearwords) if you find anything misleading or false in this brief history.

A cartoon made by an artist ~glogauer highlighting the ideological similarities that dictators like Saddam and US presidents like Bush have in common when it comes to genocidal wars.

The Rise of United States of America - From Independence to Hawaii to the World Wars
After the Declaration of Independence in 1772 as the foundation stone of modern United States, the US has been involved in dozens of acts of aggression in the American continent and Pacific Islands. The most notable among them were the mass massacre of Red Indians in the Indian Wars (1775), the subjugation of Mexico after the Mexican American War (1848), the annexation of Hawaii by backing an armed revolutionary coup against the rulers in 1893, the annexation of Philippines after the colonial US-Philippine War (1899), the Opium War against China for resisting Anglo-US smuggling of drugs into Chinese territory (1900) and the list is endless. Apart from these wars there were dozens of other conflicts, a few of them could be justified but a majority of them would have been war crimes in today’s world, even by fairly liberal standards. The US also participated World War I in support of it’s ally Britain and World War II against the Axis forces, after Japan attacked Hawaii. In conclusion of World War 2, US shocked the world by dropping two atomic bombs in Japan killing off over 300000 people despite the Japanese offer of conditional surrender.

The Post World War 2 era - Vietnam, Korea and beyond
With the end of World War 2, the United Nations was formed in hopes of peace and prevention of further massive conflicts which could lead to a World War or Nuclear Holocaust. But the hopes were shattered, when the US went to wars against Vietnam and North Korea (1950-1980), killing over 5,000,000 people and justifying the act of mass genocide as ‘fight against the evil of communism’. After these genocides where WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) were used, Vietnam and Cambodia were left in ruins and sanctions were passed to prevent recuperation, killing even more people in the process. These wars were however not the end as the US pushed Iraq into a decade long and bloody war against Iran (1980-1989). After the conclusion of this war, the US administration decided to dispose off its partner-in-crime Saddam with the First Gulf War against the weakened Iraqi forces. After defeating Iraq, several blockades and sanctions were passed against Iraq which ended up killing 1.2 million children.

The effects of Clinton Administration - Shock and Awe In Kosovo
The Clinton administration, widely acknowledged as the most anti-war among US governments, went into a bombing campaign at Kosovo (aided by NATO allies) in 1991 against Serb guerillas which resulted in over 60,000 civilian casualties and highlighted the defects in US military technologies after ’smart bombs’ missed targets and several combat aircrafts including at least one ’stealth’ F 117 was downed by ground based Serb guerillas. The Kosovo conflict was hardly resolved by the NATO carpet bombings and the place was left in ruins and destruction, now the land being a heaven for prostitution, driven by NATO forces.

The downfall of an old Partner in Crime: Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
George Bush was voted the US president in January 2001 and barely 8 months into his Presidentship, the US faced a massive strike against its heartland (September 11). The twin towers of World Trade Centre on New York were hit by two hijacked Boeing 767 aircrafts, collapsing the building and killing over 3500 people. Two other planes were used to attack the Pentagon and the White House, one hit the Pentagon while the other crashed into a forest in Pennsylvania. In reaction to this attack George Bush launched an unending war named as War on Terrorism starting off with bombing Afghanistan to weed out Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda mercenaries (which ironically was made and trained by US to bring down the pro-USSR Afghan government and end the Soviet occupation of Northern Afghan territories). The war on Afghanistan had widespread global support because of atrocities and excesses of the Islamic Taliban regime which made Bush and his supporters very happy.

The Bush War in Iraq and a can of International lies
Barely two years into the Afghan War, Bush went to a war against Iraq with claims that the CIA ‘discovered’ Saddam possessed WMDs and committed crimes against humanity with them. What was missed was the fact that most of these WMDs were provided by US and its allies to be used on Iranians and have been exhausted years ago. The CIA ‘report’ later turned out to be a verbatim copy of a Ph.D. student’s doctoral thesis and the WMD report was discredited leaving Bush red faced. To end the war in Iraq, Bush pushed the pro-US interim government to execute Saddam Hussein which was promptly done. However this hardly brought any change, the war rages on with massive casualties on Iraqi civilians and smaller casualties on US forces and a lot of rapes, plunder and murders in between. The war in Iraq is hardly the last war by US, history is a proof that the American people will soon forget it after it gets over and find some new nations where they can carry on their legacy…

More Information and Resources -

• American Military History - The History Guy
• The Oxford Companion to American Military History - reference book by John Whiteclay Chambers

• America , Violence , Military , Sarcasm
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Aby July 6th, 2007

The medieval king who persecuted St. Valentine must have had similar ideas when he banned marriages to get more warriors. He was of the view that married men who had more sex would not be able to make good warriors. His idea was not without a base however, as numerous historical trends and facts would show, including the profiles of current militant Islamist youths. Sexual deprivation does have an effect on organised violence as it is often channelled to terrorism as an outlet for the frustration.

Sexual frustration of unmarried young boys in their late teens and twenties did help Mao Zedong organise a ruthless, agressive and brutal thug army during the Cultural Revolution of China. It also helped Mahmoud Ghazni and the Islamic prophet Muhammad gain power; by enticing young, sexually deprived warriors with the promise of ‘booty women’, if lands were conquered or 72 houris (virgin women) in paradise if they perished in the attempt. Sexual frustration was one factor, if not the main driving force behind the nationalist Blackshirts of Imperial Japan, as evident from the trend where Japanese invading soldiers predated on women in the captured countries.

A cartoon by jesusandmo.net, commenting on how sexual deprivation leads Muslims boys to terrorism.

The scientific basis for the connection between sexual deprivation and violent instincts in men can be explained as the effects of the hormone testosterone, which causes both sexual desire and aggression in the human males. A high testosterone level in the body expresses itself in undesirably aggressive ways if sexual or other alternative outlets are not available. The methods of expression depends on the social system and taboos at the place the person lives in; in the post World War 2 world, physically intensive sports and games like cricket, tennis, football, etc. are used to keep high levels of male testosterone in control (as opposed to wars and asceticism in some places). Testosterone explains why wars are almost always initiated and fuelled by men which gives birth to the phrase “testosterone fuelled wars”. In the Islamic world the choices for these outlets are limited and hence the young men resort to religious fanaticism to distract themselves, or to terrorism with the hopes of pleasures in paradise.

Proponents of wars and terrorism in the name of Islam often exploited the frustration of sexually deprived young males and tantalised them with the prospect of captured women as ‘war booty’ if they succeeded. If they died, 72 lovely virgins in paradise as ‘houris’ would be provided to them which makes these boys ready to die for it, as suicide bombers. In this context, the Islamic terrorists differ from the real-politik terrorists like IRA or LTTE as the latter would not kill themselves through suicide bombing; being dead they would hardly achieve any personal gains. They would rather fight and kill while trying to protect their lives if possible, which reduced their driving force and made them less committed to violence than the Islamists.

The sexual frustration of the youths in the Arab world and Islamic societies has economic, legal and social reasons. In the Arab countries education is generally low and jobs are scarce. It results in young men being unable to marry till their late 20s and 30s, as without employment marriage would not be economically viable. Sex without marriage is a taboo and illegal in Islamic countries and is punishable by flogging in first three offences and death in the fourth offence in countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran. As a result there are unmarried men in cities like Jeddah, Sanaa, Damascus, etc. who live with their parents, anxiously frustrated about their sexual future. The access to western television channels with sexually stimulating themes create frustration, envy and hate for the luxuries enjoyed by the west and make their mind fertile ground for militant recruiters, for the fight against ‘the morally corrupt west’. The pattern can be seen in the profiles of militant Muslim youths both in Europe and Arab world, a majority of whom are in their late teens or early twenties - unmarried, virgins and contain a deep hatred for the free world.

This is not to imply that sexual frustration is the only cause for Islamic terrorism as there are other religious and political factors, each of which have their importance to understand the mind of a terrorist suicide attacker. This is also not to say that sexual deprivation leads to violence and terrorism in all cases, if that were so we would have faced destruction everywhere. But it would also be imprudent to throw away a theory with strong evidences and practical cases to back it up. As Ian Buruman of The Guardian says, “It has long been assumed that young men are better fighters when they are deprived of sex, like slavering dogs fighting in a pit.” We should never underestimate for a moment, the blinding passion which drives these young boys to blow themselves up, in the expectations of 72 eternal virgins in paradise.

More Information -

• Sex and Taboos In The Islamic World - Amira El Ahl and Daniel Steinvorth
• How a British Jihadi Saw The Light - Times Online, London

• Sexuality , Ideology , Violence , Humanity
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