06/01/07
Should the U.S. declare war on Saudi Arabia? -
Categories: I've been musing a long time on this, though have come to no productive answer. It is obvious that the Saudi government has worked against the United States and its people in a number of important ways, especially by encouraging radical Islam in schools. Most of the 9/11 suicide skyjackers were Arabs from the holy soils
of Saudi Arabia.
After 9/11, the attack upon the Taliban was probably a good idea. Get the trainers and the supporters of those trainers who set up the Al-Qaeda network, members of which attacked two sites in America.
But beyond that, what should have been done? The Iraqi war was a misstep, at the very least. Wrong enemy.
I have discussed on this site and others one strategy: declaring war on Saudi Arabia. Not attacking it, but sending notice to the Saud government that, if America is attacked again, the U.S. government will take it out on Mecca, drop a dirty bomb there and let the Muslims die on Hajj.
I have also discussed what's horrible about this strategy: it embraces total war, it is genocidal in intent and consequence, and it is treats honestly and in public the chief problem of our time: the radically uncivilized nature of fundamentalist Islam.
This option is surely not an option that any peace-loving person would want. But here's the point of bringing it up again: our current president has so botched Mid-East policy that we may be heading for this policy even if we don't want it.
The preferred policy is something that blow-hard militant American demagogues don't want: strategic disengagement in the area, limited defense of Israel, and retaliation against those networks of terrorists that attack us . . . and the states that harbor those terrorists. But the main thrust has to be strategic disengagement. Withdrawal. Let the Arabs misrule their own deserts.
Iraq didn't figure in this, and doesn't, even, now, though of course most Americans are so unhinged on the subject they can't make the distinctions necessary.
Basically, we need to remain as hands-off as we can in the area, giving Muslims as little cause as possible to hate us, to switch into terrorist mode. Our present policies of nation-building in Iraq do just the opposite, and so qualify as the greatest blunder in American diplomatic history.
Why this policy? Very simple: we need to allow time for material progress and liberal civilization to corrupt the Islamic faith of the Arab (and other infected) populations. (The Islamic faith is not wholly evil, of course, but does indeed have a rotten element at its core, a sort of religious imperialism that we in the West cannot and must not accept. We must resist it. To do this effectively, we must carefully wait until Muslims in general abandon it, like Christians abandoned their Augustinian practice of torture and slaughter for doctrine's sake.)
If we respond to terrorist attacks as narrowly as possible, we echo the ideas of justice found in the Koran, and Muslims cannot in principle object. But if we begin attack and rule vast tracts of land around Mecca, and vast hordes of Muslims, then we run afoul of basic Islamic principle, and stir up a hornet's network of trouble.
Only fools suggest the latter.
That is, most Republicans, of course, one of the two big Fool Parties dominating American life at present.
Still, this is one area where I prefer not honesty but a kind of dissimulation as official diplomatic stance. We pretend that Islam is a good religion, and we kill our Muslim radical enemies as we must, and declare them bad Muslims. We freely trade with non-terrorist-supporting Muslim states, and we allow Muslims from those states to enter our country . . . if they sign a document that foreswears any plan on their part to establish Sharia in America.
This plan of dissumulation is unfortunate, and galls me. And yet, I can't help but judge it the superior official policy. And, in my ironist's heart, I happily note that it mirrors an aspect of Islam: Taqiyya.
All in all, I don't think that a declaration of war on Saudi Arabia is a good idea. I don't think that we've reached the point of threatening Mecca. But if we keep electing idiot demagogues to the White House, it might just come to that.
Whatever we do, we must not submit to Islamic hegemony.
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