Neocon Academic Glorifies P2OG Terrorism

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Neocon Academic Glorifies P2OG Terrorism

Kurt Nimmo

 

Monday April 24th 2006, 2:54 pm

 

On occasion, I receive an email suggesting I'm a mental case for

speculating that " al-Qaeda in Iraq " is a black op perpetuated by the

Pentagon and various intelligence organizations. Now comes

vindication, of a sort, issued by a neocon at the Hoover Institution

" on War, Revolution, and Peace, " a conspiratorial and criminal

brotherhood with members such as Paul Wolfowitz, Condi Rice, Richard

Scaife, Robert Kagan, Don Rumsfeld, and others, and connected at the

hip to other warmongering organizations such the American Enterprise

Institute, where Bush gets his " minds, " deplorable creatures such as

Bill Kristol, Michael Ledeen, John Bolton, and other war and mass

murder hounds, in short the most " influential " of the Straussian

neocon coterie.

 

Thomas H. Henriksen is a " senior fellow " at the Hoover Institution and

also at the U.S. Joint Special Operations University, the latter

billed as a " university " that " focuses on the educational needs of

special operations forces at the executive senior- and

intermediate-leader levels, " according to the Hoover Institution. " It

enjoys a direct reporting relationship with and is subordinate to the

United States Special Operations Command, " overseer of various Special

Operations Commands, headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa,

Florida.

 

In an article posted on the Hoover Digest website, Henriksen " explains

how to adapt [subversion and deception] to the war on terror,

exploiting the ideological and religious differences of our enemies, "

in other words implementing the dirty work of P2OG (Proactive

Preemptive Operations Group), a psychological operation designed to

" stimulate reactions " on the part of " terrorists, " in this instance

the Iraqi resistance struggling against the illegal invasion and

occupation of their country. " In the current anti-terrorist campaign, "

Henriksen writes in an appropriately entitled essay (Divide et Impera,

or divide and conquer), " small groups of Special Operations Forces

(SOF) will continue to find themselves up against insurgents in

societies marked by tribal and sectional differences that could be

turned to the advantage of the special forces, " a situation " ideally

suited to the world of stealth and counter-subversion, " or killing

Iraqi patriots opposed to neocons and neolibs destroying their country.

 

Mr. Henriksen writes:

 

Sowing divisions among enemies is as old as warfare. By the time

Niccolò Machiavelli cited the ancient political maxim divide et

impera, the strategy of dividing to conquer had long been accepted in

statecraft and warfare. U.S. military forces have not ignored the

tactics associated with pitting one enemy against another. But those

tactics have often been subordinated to the American way of war that

relies on massive firepower. The global struggle against violent

extremism is a highly political conflict where overwhelming combat

" punch " is less applicable. By the same token, the extreme ideological

and political divisions among the terrorists and insurgents open

chinks to savvy and adaptable forces.

 

In other words, shock and awe is less effective at subduing official

enemies—an enemy resisting the on-high dictates of the global elite

and their uncompromising demand to be allowed to steal natural

resources and other profitable goodies—than subverting resistance

through " stealth and counter-subversion. " It should not be surprising

that Mr. Henriksen would mention Machiavelli, one of several

philosophers adored by the neocons (others include Leo Strauss and his

mentor, the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt). Machiavelli was an advocate of

tyranny, cruelty, and fraudulence—sociopathic traits currently

reflected in the Bush administration.

 

" From the founding of the United States, the federal government has

relied on subterfuge, skullduggery, and secret operations to advance

American interests, " Henriksen notes, dispensing with the normal

neocon tendency to avoid history or at best gloss over it. " Even in

the midst of World War II, America's greatest conventional war of the

twentieth century, the United States resorted to cloak-and-dagger

missions under the Office of Strategic Services. For example, the OSS,

along with British intelligence services, aided the French resistance

to the German occupation, helping prepare for Europe's liberation.

When divisions were absent in the Cold War, American operators

instigated them. " Indeed—and one such instigation was Operation

Gladio, a clandestine " stay-behind " operation sponsored by the CIA and

NATO after World War Two to fight against " communist influence, " or

subvert democratically elected governments not sufficiently

reactionary or fascist through terrorism and mass murder (one such

incident was the Strage di Bologna, or Bologna massacre, which killed

85 people and wounded more than 200, a collaboration by Ordine Nuovo,

the Italian secret service, and the P2 Masonic lodge and part of

Operation Gladio's strategia della tensione, or strategy of tension,

designed to manipulate public opinion using fear, propaganda,

disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, and

threats of terrorism).

 

Henriksen only mentions " subterfuge, skullduggery, and secret

operations " against the Nazis. In fact, since Truman set up the

national security state at the close of the Second World War, such

tactics have been used habitually. Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner's

Office of Policy Coordination at the newly established CIA employed

" propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including

sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures " and

" subversion against hostile states, including assistance to

underground resistance groups. " States considered " hostile " (or had

their own ideas about how to run their countries) included Iran,

Guatemala, Hungary, Laos, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic,

Ecuador, the Congo, Brazil, Indonesia, Greece, Bolivia, Cambodia,

Chile, Angola, Afghanistan, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama,

Iraq, and others. The CIA's " secret operations " and " skullduggery "

included assassination (for instance, the CIA had the democratically

elected leader of the Congo, later Zaire, Patrice Lumumba

assassinated—other victims include Dominican Republic President

Trujillo, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem, and Chilean Rene

Schneider), torture, and death squads (the CIA put Brazil's General

Castelo Branco in the torture and death squad business in 1964—the

effort was so successful at generating dread and fear the spook and

subversion agency used it as a matter of course over the years).

Henriksen mentions none of this—or does he bother to make note of the

Pentagon's various " counter insurgency " programs, including Operation

Phoenix in Vietnam (an assassination program " plain and simple, " as

Mark Zepezauer comments).

 

Mr. Henriksen looks fondly back at the " fictitious resistance movement

entitled the Sacred Sword of the Patriots League (SSPL) " in Vietnam, a

precursor to the black op terrorists groups (the mythical al-Zarqawi

terrorist " network " Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad comes to mind)

currently at work " exploiting the ideological and religious

differences of our enemies " in Iraq. " Although created by the Central

Intelligence Agency in 1962, the SSPL was handed off to the Military

Assistance Command Vietnam—Studies and Observation Group (MACVSOG or

SOG). Special Forces officers assumed oversight of SSPL and other

'black' operations aimed at North Vietnam, " Henriksen writes. " SOG

conducted a spate of espionage activities, psychological operations,

and deceptions to throw North Vietnam off balance. " However, it

appears the crop in Washington at the time was a bit squeamish about

the idea of Pentagon-sponsored terrorists. " Although SOG had

unheralded successes as well as setbacks from 1964 to 1972, it

constantly ran up against impediments from senior military officers,

the State Department, and Lyndon Johnson's White House. Official

timidity and bureaucratic interference hampered operations and

constrained missions to narrow agendas. In today's anti-Islamist

struggle, we cannot afford a repeat of this governmental inertia and

interference. " Of course, with the Straussian neocons and their

operatives fast at work in the White House and the Pentagon,

" timidity " (or moral scruples) is in short supply.

 

In Iraq, the Straussian neocon dominated Pentagon unleashed " wily

machinations, " in other words the dirty and bloody work of P2OG

terrorists. " Like their SOG predecessors in Vietnam, U.S. elite forces

in Iraq turned to fostering infighting among their Iraqi adversaries

on the tactical and operational level. " In short, the Pentagon has put

its own " resistance " in the field, determined to instigate " factional

fighting " or Iraqis killing Iraqis, an antecedent to full-blown " civil

war, " now in progress, as per the overall plan to balkanize the

region, a plot engineered by the Israelis decades ago.

 

" As with other weapons in our arsenal, the orchestration of red-on-red

clashes has a correct time and place, " Henriksen concludes. " Not all

hostile environments will accommodate application of this tactic. But

as another arrow in the counter-terrorism quiver, it can, when aimed

deftly, be discriminating and lethal. " Iraq is the " correct time and

place " because the Iraqi resistance is determined to fight on and has

not rolled over—and the Iraqi people did not shower U.S. troops with

rose petals, as the popular mythology originally dictated in the

corporate media generated fable about the Iraqi " cakewalk. " If

anything, Henriksen has provided us with a glimpse of what is really

going on in Iraq—black operations mounted by red (actually blue)

operatives designed to create " factional fighting " and thus splinter

Iraq into malleable pieces.

 

As noted earlier, it is not surprising the Straussian neocon Pentagon

is fully engaged in subversive " Divide et Impera " operations. It is a

bit surprising, however, they have wheeled out an academic highbrow to

carry on about the efficacy of " subterfuge, skullduggery, and secret

operations " ultimately resulting in large numbers of dead people and

incalculable misery. But then, as is becoming increasingly apparent,

the Straussian neocons are not only shameless about their plans, they

also want us to know on various levels about the sort of future they

have mind, for as the grand daddy neocon, Norman Podhoretz,

admonishes, " there can be no question that we possess the power and

the means " to kill hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people,

now we must summon " the stomach to do what will be required. "