I’m going to try to cover a whole lot of ground on this December 7th, 2021, the 80th anniversary of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor which initiated America’s participation in World War Two. I’m going to focus on the CIA because that organization ties 80 years of history together in one blood-soaked package. Opening that history to the light is not for the faint of heart, so I hope you’ll stick with me.
Kit Klarenbrg editorializes for RT:
New published documents have shed fresh light on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program in Afghanistan, describing in alarming detail some of the extreme techniques used by officers that resulted in deaths in captivity.
In a recent legal filing, the lawyers of Abu Zubaydah – the Guantánamo Bay detainee almost tortured to death by the CIA, held without charge by the US for nearly 20 years – urged that their client be released, given Washington’s wars in Afghanistan and with Al-Qaeda are finally over… What the petition omits to mention, however, is that Zubaydah’s detention was, from day one, intended to be permanent in order to keep the CIA’s criminal maltreatment secret and ensure his abusers were insulated from prosecution in perpetuity...
— https://www.rt.com/op-ed/542459-cia-detention-program-afghanistan
Abu Zubaydah has never been charged with a crime. Waterboarded, repeatedly downed and revived in over 100 torture sentences, Zubaydah is said to have given the CIA torturers false confessions the “Agency" used as the “classified actionable Intelligence” to justify the “Company” being the de facto central director of the so-called “war” in Afghanistan.
This was an exact replication of the CIA role in the Vietnam War. The CIA ran the Vietnam War from the US Embassy at least up to 1968, the year of the disastrous Tet Offensive which exposed how fecklessly the war had been conducted; this is why the US soldiers, nicknamed “grunts” because they were reduced to nothing but targets to justify the business of CIA drug trafficking supported by torture, called the Vietnam War the “Spook War”.
The War in Afghanistan was also a Spook War. And just as in Vietnam the CIA crimes included not only torture and murder they also included “child sexual abuse by Agency staff and contractors”. US soldiers were shocked and enraged when they witnessed the newly armed and “trained” Afghan police and armed forces personnel kidnap and rape the little boys of the rival tribes whose lives had been placed in their hands. These soldiers were told by their officers that this was “their culture”, despite aggrieved families coming to them to beg for help in recovering their raped children. Now that CIA “classified” documents are public we learn what I always assumed, that CIA officers and “contractors” were also sex trafficking and raping little boys. Drugs and stolen arms were also Company business. Afghanistan became the primary source of half a billion dollars of heroin profits annually laundered through the major banks, another exact replication of the Spook War in Vietnam.
How in hell, and hell is where the Western World surely is, did America spawn this horrible criminal organization? The standard line which writers must adhere to or be “cancelled” is designed to obscure the reality of the CIA and its origin. For example this editorial for RT by Scott Ritter.
Eighty years ago, Imperial Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at the Pearl Harbor naval base, on the island of Oahu in what was then the US territory of Hawaii.
“Remember Pearl Harbor” became a household term, used to… rally the civilian population… While the shock at losing more than 2,300 service members in a surprise attack helped stoke American patriotism, by war’s end… Pearl Harbor ceased being a rallying cry, and instead morphed into a cautionary tale of the dangers a nation faces when it allows its guard to be dropped in the face of a knowable threat.
Scott Ritter deserves a lot of respect. I’m personally grateful to learn about Wolstetter’s book and its influence. But now that the argument has arrived at “Al Qaeda attacked the the United States on 9/11” which is a complete delusion, one nurtured by CIA criminality, torture and murder, I part the ways.
My history book about Pearl Harbor is “At Dawn We Slept” by Gordon W. Prange. Prange spent the last 30 years of his life befriending and interviewing every surviving principal survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack on both the American and Japanese side. He also reviewed every relevant foreign policy document of the era, British, American and Japanese. He also exhaustively reviewed every inquiry into the attack (there were four). This work makes At Dawn We Slept the only account of the attack and its preconditions I am aware of that even approaches being definitive.
Scott Ritter’s conclusion that US oil policy caused Japan to attack Pearl Harbor in “desperate self defence” because of America’s hunger to control the world’s oil is conventional among many who critique US foreign policy, or pretend to – Noam Chomsky for example, a man who parrots CIA positions on the Vietnam War and the 9/11 attack.
In the documentary evidence and the testimony of those who made policy in 1941 Gordon Prange revealed that the embargo on Japan’s oil supply was intended to deter Japan from attacking in the South Pacific. Yes that was a massive misunderstanding of Japan guided by wishful thinking but that was what motivated the embargo. The US and British governments were desperate to avoid a war in the Pacific because their main focus was to prevent Germany from conquering Britain and they knew they didn’t have the means to wage a two front war all over the globe.
This was a great deal of the reason that FBI Intelligence and military intelligence and preparations on Oahu were guided by wishful thinking. For example, it was felt that closing the Japanese Embassy on Oahu would have “provoked” the Japanese so it wasn’t done. But when it came to supplying oil to Japan, that was a red line because in September of 1940 Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy becoming an ally of Nazi Germany and de facto an enemy of Britain and the Netherlands. Besides that, Imperial Japan was bent on conquering China, an ally of the USA.
"Desperate self defence” was not the thrust of Japanese foreign policy, a desperate war of Imperial conquest was the reality of the day. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour had been in the planning and preparation stage from September 1940 as well as the much larger attack on the Philippines. Had there been no attack on Pearl Harbor there still would have been the attack on the Philippines starting with the bombing of Clark Field Manilla which took place on the same day 10 hours later and that would have brought the US into the war. There was no desperate and justifiable self defence involved.
Why is this important? Because the delusionary account of the Pearl Harbor attack leads directly to the delusionary account of the 9/11 attack. On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center buildings were brought down by controlled demolition arranged by covert Intelligence including Mossad. It facilitated the CIA war in the Middle East by the use of the fantasy of the Pearl Harbor attack being a response to US oil policy just as 9/11 was “provoked” by US oil policy. This account leaves the CIA in the darkness of secrecy they love.
Lies and fantasies and carefully cultivated delusions are a fatal way for an individual to guide his actions because insanity is a straight road to death. For a nation to walk blindly into the future with a virtual reality simulation blinding it to reality is fatal to whole populations. Who ran the War on Terror and the wars in the Middle East still on-going? The CIA runs that war. A military man like Scott Ritter shouldn’t be squinting at that.