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Insanity 101: The Cheney 1% Doctrine
Cheney’s 1% Doctrine Revisited, or: Why Pat Buchanan Should Choose His Friends More Carefully
by Kevin Barrett
According to Ron Suskind, Dick Cheney launched the Global War on Terror via “the one percent doctrine”:
“If there’s a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al-Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response. It’s not about our analysis … It’s about our response.”
Slapping an arbitrary 1% probability on a nonexistent but scary-sounding threat – why not space aliens, hare krishna terrorists, or giant mutant insects – and spending the rest of our lifetimes throwing trillions of dollars at it, is not a wise use of the dwindling American treasury. If Cheney meant what he said, he is obviously insane.
Or maybe not. Translated from the BS, what Cheney apparently really meant was:
“If 1% of the hardline Zionists, who are 1% of the Jewish population, who are 1% of the general population, can convince the looniest 1% of America’s strategic planners that there is a 1% chance that the competent 1% of the violent 1% of the radical 1% of the world’s Muslims might some day successfully execute a big terrorist attack on the USA, we must treat it as a certainty – and blow up the World Trade Center to convince Americans that the threat is real.”
So according to my esoteric reading of Cheney’s 1% doctrine, the man is not insane. He’s just stark, raving, bat-shit bonkers.
Pat Buchanan, a smart man who is right about many things, thinks I’m the one who’s bonkers. He tells me his good friend Dick Cheney would never do such a thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w1BNdsIKXA
Pat, how well do you really know Dick Cheney? Well enough to go hunting with him? Or maybe too well?
Do you really think Cheney, if he decided to go to war and plan on losing, say, 10,000 Americans, wouldn’t sacrifice 3,000 to get the war off on the right foot? After all, you told me you’re aware that FDR sacrificed nearly that many American lives at Pearl Harbor, to launch a war and gain a huge strategic advantage.
And if Cheney made that decision, and carried it out, do you really think he’d tell you? You’re moral man, Pat – a practicing, believing Catholic. You’ve made a career of insisting that morality has a role in politics. The same cannot be said of Dick Cheney.
If you really, honestly think Cheney wouldn’t do something like that, maybe you’re just as batshit bonkers as he is.
That would explain why such a smart guy as you, who understands the banksters’ controlled demolition of the US economy, the futility of the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, the crucial role of demographics and religion in history, the impending collapse of the US empire, and so many other things, can actually believe that the Global War on Terror is real.
Listen up, Pat: Even if you haven’t done your homework on 9/11, even if you still believe it was done by 19 drunken, whoring, pork-chop-loving cokehead gambling fiends led by a radical Muslim on dialysis in a cave in Afghanistan, even if you think the Trade Center blew itself to kingdom come due to a couple of relatively modest fires, even if you think the US military weaponized anthrax false-flag follow-up was unconnected to the main event, you still must admit, if you have even one sane brain cell in your head, that the massive success of such a “19 hijackers” plot would be a one-in-a-million freak occurrence, and that the average American is more likely to be hit by lightning than to be killed by terrorists. Therefore the War on Terror is an Orwellian hoax. It really is that simple.
Still don’t get it? Let me put it another way, Pat. When our forefathers fought the American Revolution to give us the Bill of Rights, the average life expectancy was, at best, 45 years. Today, it is 78.1 years.
Our ancestors were not cowardly, fear-obsessed people. When they chose to fight the British, they were willing to reduce their modest life expectancies by considerably more than 1%.
If “radical Islamic terrorism” threatened to reduce our 78.1 year life expectancy to something significantly below the 45 years of those who risked their lives to give us the Bill of Rights, a sane, patriotic person might be willing to temporarily suspend some of those rights – perhaps even to let the President order the extrajudicial murder of an American citizen.
But today, the inarguable reality is that “radical Islamic terrorism,” including both the real and far more dangerous Zionist false-flag varieties, does not threaten to reduce our 78.1 year life expectancy by even one percent. In reality, it cannot shave one percent of one percent of one percent off our life expectancy. It is a non-issue. If we restrict our freedoms even one iota in response to such a palpably obvious non-threat, we are a nation of worthless, cowardly scum.
So Pat, please come on board with the Second American Revolution – the Freedom Revolution. It is our shared commitment to the freedoms embodied in the Bill of Rights, and not “our” whiteness or Christianity or imperial control of the planet, that holds our society together. By allowing our leaders to burn the Bill of Rights, we are committing collective suicide.
This is the real suicide of the American superpower, Pat. And by supporting the bogus War on Terror, you’re right out there with the crowd of worthless, cowardly scum chanting “Jump! Jump! Jump!”
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Posted by Kevin Barrett on Nov 3 2011, With 0 Reads, Filed under Civil Liberties and Freedom, Corruption, Editors Picks, Foreign Relations, Government, Of Interest, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Great rant. you nailed it, several times!
Buchanan can sometimes act just plain batshit stupid.
Tell Pat to read Susan Lindauer’s book “Extreme Prejudice”.
The book would be vital evidence at a criminal trial.
Some of Pat’s friends would be in court.
Interesting interview. Buchanan kept coming up with arguments that began with some version of “I cant believe….” regarding 9/11. But at least he remained calm and respectful to the interveiwer.
Buchanan seems a fundamentally decent, thoughtful guy – unlike the conservative talking heads he spawned like Hannity, O’Reilly and Beck. He’s far from the only smart person who’s batshit stupid about 9/11.
Pat like the rest of the celebrities are too worried about their careers. That’s why you do not hear from them on OWC, 911 and many other topics of interest that question authority and the establishment rhetoric. They are not interested in the truth, only opinion and being in the spotlight. Even Ron Paul who at least speaks a lot of truth knows that there are just 3rd rail topics you do not touch if you want to remain relevant in the Orwellian World of politics, media and big business.
Just wait till the day when the system breaks down, they all be jumping ship and claiming they always knew, but were to afraid to say so.
It has nothing to do with “batshit stupid about 9/11″. None of these NeoCon(victs) are about to “jeopardize” their lucrative cash flow by letting facts, logic, research, analysis , or any other “inconvenience” get in the way of “mamma’s milk”. THEY are just as privaleged to the “mountains” in information as we are. They actively choose to ignore it and label all those that reference it as “conspiracy nuts.”
Ultimately, I hope to live long enough to see ALL of them hang along with the “Bush regime” and every other low-life scumbag, zionist loving POS that had even a fingertip in this MYTH!
Waste of time. Guy is just another beltway phony. How many times are people going to sucked in by these professional bullshitters before they figure it out.
There was a guy around here kept rattlesnakes in his apartment. I guess to demonstrate what a tough character he was. One day he staggered out into the street and died. One of his “pets” bit him. We all had a good laugh about that.
I had a few ounces of respect for Buchanan until I heard this, Kevin. This just confirms my belief that “Christians” like Buchanan love to think and preach that everyone is as weak, ignorant and undisciplined as they (Christians) are.
Anyone who can admit they were friends with Cheney, Rumsfeld and Friedman and not be BEGGING God for forgiveness deserves to rot in Hell alongside the zionists and neocons.
I’ll bet he believes the “death” of an unconscious white fetus is far worse than a million dead, formerly fully-conscious brown-skinned Islamists, even though he claims to be anti-war.
Depressing, but thanks for the warning!
Thank you Kevin!
Kevin, I listened to your broadcast live as I was running at Ocean Beach. I almost turned off my iPhone when Buchanan started denying 9/11 was an inside job and declaring it was those nasty 19 Arabs with boxcutters who were still to blame in his estimation. Fortunately, I hung on to the point where you refused to let him get away with his misinformation. At one point I heard Buchanan give you credit for being intelligent! I think he believes that Truthers are ten levels below Tea Party wingnuts in brain category.
Anyway, it was a great interview & I hope Buchanan takes your advice and goes on a few good Truther sites. I also think he’s basically a good and moral person, and if he could stand the shock to his system about how he and this entire country have been lied to and manipulated, he would make a strong ally.
Don’t hold your breath on that “impossibility” for reasons already stated. Do you actually believe that Buchanan is somehow “totally unaware” of this information? I have doubts that ANYONE can have their head up their own ass getting a “daily high” off the smell of THEIR own sh*t for 10 years. The man doesn’t own a computer and has NEVER come across any 9/11 Truth Information. And I’m the fricking tooth fairy!
On the subject of 9/11, Buchanan has the blinders firmly in place.
I’m ashamed I supported him so heavily in 2000…the man’s clueless…I don’t believe he’s deceitful ( MSNBC can’t be paying him much for his commentary ) I just think he’s stuck in that ” 1950′s America-Ozzie and Harriet Syndrome..” Catholics like Pat made the Republican Party part of their religion…If he would listen to the bravest Catholic bishop in the world, Richard Williamson, he might come around…But religion, social doctrine, doctrine concerning usury and Just War-that’s for sunday, right Pat? The really important stuff happens in the MSNBC studio where we discuss the merits of a Bachman/Perry/Romney presidency or second Obama term..