The Proxy War… a war of double deception

When any group raises its weapons to protect themselves against an aggressor, it is an act of self-defense, but the aggressor somehow orchestrates it all to look like they are the guilty party.

The American government, or any other group that starts a war is caught up in a web of deception and hidden agendas. First they have to rationalize to themselves that going into a country and killing its citizens is somehow good for some greater cause. Then they have to fabricate a story to convince their own people and the world at large that what they are doing is good not only for the people who live in the target area but for the people of their own country as well.  It doesn’t take a lie detector test to know that this is nothing but propaganda.  Recently, the American public just about fell out of their collective chairs when President Obama and Secretary Clinton announced that U.S. forces would help the people of Libya for humanitarian purposes by attacking their country with air strikes. One news commentator asked a government spokesperson “Can you explain please, I don’t quite understand… what exactly is a humanitarian bombing?”

But this is only one level of the lies that accompany war – or strategies as the militarists call them. Secretary Clinton addressed the American public stating that every middle-east country undergoing a revolt has different circumstances so each one needs to be handled with a different strategy. What that really translates into in non-diplomatic terms is “We have to take advantage of these opportunities individually and use them for our own benefit while making it look like we are helping the oppressed people”. So, the ruse of war is custom designed for different circumstances. 

With the news busy focusing the earthquake disaster in Japan and the stories about the American government almost having to shut down the reports on the uprisings in the middle-east have become just another news story. But there has been something almost mysteriously absent from the news from the very beginning. Why is it that the coverage of the revolution in Bahrain and Iran have been buried by the U.S. Media? To further confirm the secrecy, the entire CNN news staff was recently held captive by the government of Bahrain, interrogated, released and told that they were not to report on anything going on in the country. Other news sources have reported that the Bahrain Center for Human Rights has reported ongoing atrocities against the Shia. So where is the American support for the Shia of Bahrain?  It’s an incredibly complex issue that goes back a long way in political history.

Ever since Iran ousted their dictator shah and moved towards a Shiite Islamic government, the U.S. knew that they were dealing with a government that was one to be reckoned with.
The American government knew that they could not put Iran in its back pocket as they had done with the leaders of the Arab countries in the region. They also knew that Ahmadinejad was not one to back down when he stands up for his principles. So this called for a very special policy – they knew they would have to battle Iran on multiple fronts. Since the cold war was long over with Russia, America needed a new bogey man to replace communism as an external threat. It wasn’t long before the convenient choice was Iran and Islam. Shia Islam in particular.  It didn’t seem to matter that President Ahmadinejad was recently elected by the people of Iran. But the American government insisted on calling him a dictator. It was the only thing the Democrats and Republicans could agree on. Paving the way to the current situation President Bush stepped up to the plate when he came into office. Backed by his evangelist Christian friends who shared his support of Israel, Bush knew that he had to do something to build a case against Iran. Among a host of things, he dubbed Iran as part of the ’axis of evil’ and quietly started supporting a ‘regime’ change giving Condoleezza Rice over $75 million in funds in one year to back anti-Iranian propaganda broadcasts and to support opposition groups both in and outside Iran. This was just one of his many contributions to the proxy war against Iran.

 In layman’s terms, a war of proxy is when one country doesn’t want to fight another country directly so it makes a deal with one of its friends to do it for them in exchange for other favors. It can be used in many different ways. Sometimes it is supporting people within the target country with money or promises of giving them American passports when they have finished their dirty work.  But in the end it means having their ‘friends’ inside the country planting the seeds of unrest while spying for the host country. It’s a sort of a ”You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” type deal. There was an earlier type of proxy war waged on Iran by the United States through the hand of Saddam Hussein – the outcome of which made the U.S. war machine even more reluctant to face Iran directly. They had witnessed the Iranians strength and endurance so were even more certain that they did not want to wage the war themselves. Another case in point-the war of Israel on the Shia of Lebanon- a proxy war sponsored by the American government and directly carried out by Israel.  Most recently the Saudis went into Bahrain to subdue the Shia uprising against the government that has oppressed the Shia minority there for years. The deal, and everything is a trade off in a proxy war – was apparently that if the Saudis would promise to invade Bahrain, the U.S. would invade Libya. And being highly suspicious of Iran’s alleged connection with Syria the American government’s policy is to remain guarded as they fear they are dealing with a country that is backed by Iran.

 A proxy war is not always on the battlefield. Proxy war is a double dirty tactic that specializes in making the real attacker invisible while sending in a puppet to do the job for them. For example, last year the Obama administration quietly announced a plan to sell sixty billion dollars worth of sophisticated weapons to Saudi Arabia. Americans knew that this was a red flag that something was going on. Saudi Arabia is known to oppose Shia religious doctrine and repress its Shia residents. And although it was not covered in the western media but the U.S. who had accused Iran of developing nuclear power for other than peaceful reasons, had long ago sent the CIA into Iran not only to carry out their usual spy operations and support the current revolution but were reportedly also behind the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist.  

The campaign for a regime change in Iran has nothing to do with defending democracy or the political rights of the Iranian people. It’s all about securing the middle-east for Israel and its partner in crime, the American government.  No one is admitting it, but America is afraid of a direct confrontation with Iran. American policy makers know that they have no legitimate reason to start a war. Iran has not waged war on any country for reasons other than self defense.  So with the proxy war against Iran, the Shia of Bahrain, the Shia of Lebanon and their hesitancy in dealing with Syria because of its alleged connection with Iran, it becomes evident that the American government is very afraid of Iran and the Shia of the middle-east.
 
Could there be more going on than meets the eye? Of course there is, that’s what the trickery of war is all about. But as one Shia in America summed it up “The Shia of Iran will not instigate a war because it is against the tenants of Islam. But if and when they are forced to stand up to defend themselves, they will rise up and everyone else is going to sit down”.