Despicable acts: White supremacy drives Afghan atrocities

By Askia Muhammad -Senior Correspondent- | Last updated: May 1, 2012 - 12:49:53 PM

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'This is a widespread, popular uprising against what the Afghan people see is a colonial-type domination of their land by a foreign invader, who’s only there for their natural resources, which is actually the reality of the situation, but I would say the Afghan people see that very clearly.'
—Michael Prysner, co-founder of the March Forward anti-war coalition

WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Even as Pentagon officials are reeling from the fallout caused when the Los Angeles Times published photos of U.S. soldiers holding what appear to be the body parts of a dead Afghan insurgent, they are appealing to Florida pastor Terry Jones against repeating last year’s burning of the Holy Qur’an and images of Prophet Muhammad that led to widespread rioting and deaths around the world.

The threat from the Jones comes on top of embarrassment over the publication on April 17 of pictures showing U.S. troops with dismembered bodies in Afghanistan in 2010; the burning of Qur’ans and Islamic religious documents by U.S. troops at Bagram airport in Afghanistan in February that left 41 dead and more than 200 injured; a recent video of U.S. Marines urinating on enemy corpses; as well as a pre-dawn massacre in March of this year of nine children, four men and three women by another U.S. soldier.

U.S. officials are trying to police their own forces. Meanwhile, the Rev. Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., set a deadline of 5 p.m. April 28 for his demands to be met for the release of a Christian religious leader in Iran. The last time Mr. Jones organized such a spectacle was on March 20 last year when he burned a Qur’an dressed in a judicial robe on the grounds of his church. The act prompted attacks on a UN compound in Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan in which seven UN employees died, and there were other fatal protests around the region.

The behavior of the U.S. troops is “puzzling to every admiral and to (Defense Secretary Leon) Panetta,” Eugene Bird, the retired head of the Council for the National Interest, and a former intelligence analyst once posted in Afghanistan told The Final Call. “I can’t explain it except by saying that the attitude displayed by the Afghans towards the Americans has not changed very much, despite the fact that we’ve given them a lot of money and a lot of troops.”

Mr. Bird suggests that U.S. forces don’t trust their Afghan counterparts, so their conduct often violates military codes of conduct, because the Afghans themselves are to blame. “And these soldiers are Afghan nationalists underneath it all. The fact is that a fellow that thinks that he has made a friend may well have a friend, but the family and the nation are far more—shall we say—important to him. The British found the same thing. The Soviets found the same thing.

“You can say it’s tribal. It’s broader than just tribe. It’s a pride of being independent between the great power of Iran on one side and the great power of Pakistan on the other, and they want to be independent above everything else. These incidents are very likely to continue,” he said.

Michael Prysner, co-founder of the March Forward anti-war coalition, and a veteran of the war in Iraq, said that the frequency of these horrific incidents reflects instead the mindset of U.S. troops sent into these war zones. “Of course the entire civilian population has become the enemy as a result, because in the mind of the Pentagon, and the aims of Washington, and the aims of Wall Street, the Afghan people are the enemy,” Mr. Prysner told The Final Call. “So for veterans of Iraq-Afghanistan and for the Afghan people, these images don’t really come as a shock, because they are part and parcel of the war.

“On the other hand too, (the public at home, is) very surprised by them, but these are the inevitable outcome of what is a colonial type war that’s really aimed against the civilian population itself, where soldiers going to Afghanistan are saying that every single Afghan potentially is the enemy. You know, there’s no enemy army or anything, it’s a national widespread uprising against a foreign occupation, and so for those soldiers it’s become completely skewed in that direction, and so the Pentagon thinking they’re isolated incidents, just doesn’t reflect reality.

“Soldiers going to Afghanistan today—just like going into Iraq—the people that are opposing the U.S. occupation are really the vast majority of Afghans, from all walks of life, in every corner of Afghanistan. There’s really no place devoid of really popular resistance to the occupation. So the Pentagon and the White House they really like to paint a picture that it’s simply the Taliban, or Al-Qaeda, or the Hitani Network that is fighting the U.S. forces, and really by the Pentagon’s own numbers, there’s over a thousand separate armed resistance organizations,” Mr. Prysner continued.

“I mean this is a widespread, popular uprising against what the Afghan people see is a colonial-type domination of their land by a foreign invader, who’s only there for their natural resources, which is actually the reality of the situation, but I would say the Afghan people see that very clearly,” he said.

“Can they win?” That’s the only question in the minds of Americans, according to Mr. Bird. “This is not Custer’s Last Stand, if you’re familiar with American Indian War history. (Gen. George) Custer didn’t expect the Indians to overwhelm his little company of American soldiers in Montana.” In fact, Gen. Custer thought the Indians would cut and run in fear of when the Americans attacked. “Yes. And maybe that’s the same attitude that pervades the people who are doing the training and are closest to the situation,” in Afghanistan, he said.

The same White supremacist attitude which led to Gen. Custer’s demise has proven to be the undoing of all the European would-be-conquerers of Afghanistan, which is often referred to as the “graveyard of empires,” having endured invasions from Alexander the Great in the Fourth Century B.C., all the way through the British invasion in the 19th Century, through the Russian invasion in the 20th Century, facing now a U.S. invasion in the 21st Century with little prospect of a military victory.

Psychiatrist Frances Cress Welsing is blunt in her analysis of why Americans are behaving so savagely toward the Afghans. “I believe that everything is taking place within a context. My understanding of that context is that we are in a system of racism-White supremacy, that’s local, national, global. And that’s related to the fact that the people who classify themselves as White are a tiny minority population on the planet, and genetically speaking their White is genetic recessive to non-White. And so I maintain as a psychiatrist, that the deepest fear on the part of people who classify themselves as White is a fear of genetic annihilation,” Dr. Welsing told The Final Call.

“So, the system, aspects of the system include demeanment, humiliation, destruction of, people who are classified as non-White. So we see this occurring in various forms and various patterns. Whether it’s Norway, where the mass murderer recently killed some 77 people, and his clear statement about why he did what he did—for which he did not apologize—was to (I even read recently that he was sorry that he could not kill more) this is an expression of the fear that there are too many non-White people coming into Europe.

“I’ve made myself a student of Germany,” Dr. Welsing explained. “I was in Germany in 1957 as a graduation present; I told my parents, send me to Germany. I want to live with German people and ask them, just as a college graduate, I just had a curiosity to understand, did the people understand what they were doing, when they did what they did. I found out, people who seemed nice they might say, ‘Frances, come and stay at our house.’ But at the same time there were people walking around doing ‘Heil Hitler.’

“So that on the surface they may seem nice. Germany had been a democratic, so-called intelligent nation, but under certain kinds of threats, some of them economic, they decided that under Hitler they had to kill the people that were classified as non-White. Focusing has been on the Semites of the Jewish religion, you see. But Hitler said he wasn’t interested in their religion. That he was killing them because they were not White. That they were not Aryan.”

Today’s behavior by Whites has been likened to the response to a “dog whistle” coded message. That is a message that is transmitted on a frequency only certain ears are capable of hearing—in this case the ears of White supremacists. “I’ve been talking about racism-White-supremacy for 40 years, trying to get people to focus on this. This is the key and fundamental issue that is taking place on the planet today.

“It is just like when Adolph Hitler was in power ‘33-‘45 and he would so-call rant-and rave, and build up an emotional response, but the German people, consciously-subconsciously, understood what he was talking about, that kind of hysterical yelling and speaking. We see it in the speech of a Rush Limbaugh, for example, that people who are not in the ‘save us group’ think it’s crazy, but other people understand it because it’s sort of like a cry—‘help, help, help,’ alert, ‘achtung, achtung.’”

Pfc. Holmes, one of Calvin Gibbs’ “Kill team” members, over one of their victims in a scandal involving U.S. servicemen killing civilians and taking body parts as trophies. More reports desecration of corpses in Afghanistan emerged April 17. Photo: Courtesy of ohn Goetz, Marc Hujer

Sadly, those in this country who are the targets of racist attacks and who are tools of race-haters when they serve in the U.S. military don’t recognize the threat in part because, like the Jews in Nazi Germany, they want to be accepted, assimilated by the White supremacists. “People in Nazi Germany, the Semites of the Jewish religion wanted to be assimilated, wanted to be accepted as German, and to be accepted as White. So they were on a mission of, ‘he can’t mean what he says. We’re German also.’ It would be the same thing as Black people here, ‘we’re Americans,’ and ‘this is nonsense,’ and ‘people don’t really support this.’

“But if you listen to the news and you see the bifurcation of opinion, what Whites believe and what Blacks believe you have the same disparity in opinion, because the people of color are the people who are perceived as the genetic threat. But at the same time, because they have been victimized, they want to be accepted. So, they don’t hear it. What they hear is a message of ‘everyone should love,’ do you see?

“Dr. Martin Luther King talked about love, but he was killed, because at a certain level, if everybody on the planet just embraced and loved and that got translated into the area of sex, you would have White genetic annihilation. You’ve got to always understand context, even when people don’t want to look at it.”

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