'Fight Smart' Update - 1 Jan 2002

Don't Take the Bait - Fight Smart
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Bush and Blair Offer Victory to bin Laden
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NATO has legitimised war as the principal response to terrorism - the world is now paying the price

"September 11 is the date which everyone remembers... December 13 was the day on which other Islamic suicide bombers attacked India... The casualties were not so great; the symbolism was identical... No one can be sure that a major war between India and Pakistan might not end in nuclear suicide... [their] dispute is on the verge of taking well over a billion people to war... the further danger is that the bin Laden strategy will succeed, with or without bin Laden. His strategy was to use terror to create a general state of war between Islam and the major powers...The terrorists want war; they should not be given what they want."
London Times, Dec 31 2001

"...we are suddenly prisoners of our own rhetoric..."
Anne Applebaum, MSN.com, 28 Dec 2001, 'Why can't India have a war on terrorism, too?'

"By declaring war against an undifferentiated, undefined and fundamentally vague phenomenon like global terrorism, or terrorism with global reach, we in a sense opened the gates to a lot of countries to leap into this exercise on our backs. They are all declaring whoever their enemy is to be a terrorist, and then claiming moral justification for doing whatever they decide to do."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser under Jimmy Carter, New York Times, 30 Dec 2001

"Pakistan probably cannot halt a massive Indian invasion without using tactical nuclear weapons. This, in turn, could trigger nuclear strikes against military and civilian targets. I hope both nations will pull back from the brink, but a false report, or another raid, could set off a huge, devastating war with unimaginable consequences."
Toronto Sun, 30 Dec 2001

"Community leaders in the UK have warned that any major conflict between the two countries could have repercussions for Britain, which is home to large Indian and Pakistani populations"
BBC Online, 1 January 2002


On 11 September 2001 America was attacked by terrorists and it decided to bomb Afghanistan in response. On 13 December 2001 the Indian parliament was attacked by terrorists and now, following the example of America supported by its NATO allies, India is on the verge of declaring war on Pakistan in reply.

Ignorance in the form of Bush, and naivete on the part of Blair, are the most dangerous factors influencing world affairs today, or as Nelson Mandela put it: "[Unilateral action in the war against terrorism by the US and Britain] is extremely dangerous because they are introducing chaos into international affairs."

There are several ironies in all of this:

For the last few months we have urged the US and its NATO supporters to 'Fight Smart' and not to take 'the bait'. This plea has been ignored and now the world - including many more innocent American citizens - sits on the brink of encountering the devastating consequences. We have not offered a 'pacifist' approach in the sense of urging 'ok, let's sit back and take it on the chin'. We have offered a specific and proven solution which rapidly addresses the causes of terrorism rather than mindlessly lashing out at its manifestations.

The inherent self-defeating futility of the current war on terrorism is further graphically demonstrated by the discovery of the UK suicide bomber on a recent commercial passenger flight to Miami. The implications of this development were aptly summarised in the words of the London Times again on 31 December: "Will President Bush Bomb Brixton now?... Clearly, Bush and Blair have been looking in the wrong place by seeking a solution in the caves of Afghanistan or in the pages of the Koran... the appeal of Islam [to the disaffected in the west] is only a symptom of a more fundamental loss of coherence at the centre of Western society."

We must be thankful, therefore, that at least one journalist has started sniffing around the real source of the problem. The problem is one of a lack of national and international coherence, and it is one which a large number of papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals demonstrate can be easily and quickly addressed.

Mr Bush and Mr Blair, you are either for terrorism or you are against it. If you continue to adopt methods which are known to inflame terrorism, and if you continue to refuse to deploy approaches which are known to extinguish those fires, then you are guilty of supporting terrorism and you must take responsibility for the resulting consequences that you inflict on humanity.

When are you going to act responsibly? Mr Bush and Mr Blair, if you have an ounce of intelligence between you, please stop behaving as slaves to popular press 'dumb-down', and please start providing genuine leadership - that means deploying those approaches whose effectiveness is supported by scientific evidence. Or in reality are you against science instead of terrorism?

There is still time to act before it is too late. Or do you really wish to go down in history as the leaders of the 'civilised' world who spread terrorism throughout the globe at the very time when the means to stop it peacefully and instantly were readily at your disposal?


Indian Subcontinent
Security & Political Risk Analysis (SAPRA)
An Alternative to Military Violence and Fear-Based Deterrence - SAPRA


NLP USA NEWSFLASH, 31 December 2001

EVIDENCE BASED SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL PROBLEMS

Wednesday, January 2: Dr. John Hagelin Radio Show Online
On Wednesday afternoon, January 2, Dr. John Hagelin will be a featured guest on Lisa Garr's "Aware" show on KPFK radio (90.7 FM), one of southern California's largest radio stations. Dr. Hagelin is scheduled to speak from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. Pacific time, and his talk will also be broadcast live via the Internet at
http://www.kpfk.org

How to Hear the Show

  1. Listeners in the southern California area can tune in to 90.7 FM at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday to hear Dr. Hagelin live.

  2. To hear the show online, go to
    http://www.kpfk.org

    on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time (4:30 p.m. Eastern) and click on the "Listen Live" link at the top of the home page.

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NLPWessex War-Against-Terrorism 2001 News Archives


Defending 'Civilisation' with Terror - a Western Export Tradition - 16 Dec 2001
Iraqgate Phase III - Texan Congressman speaks of 'Forbidden Truth' - 6 Dec 2001
CIA provided funds to financiers of Sept 11 bomber - 18 Nov 2001
'Getting back to normal' - 4 Nov 2001
Global War - 'It's the oil stupid' - 3 Nov 2001
US funds terrorists in Eastern Europe - Bush must go - 31 Oct 2001
The Real Bush Agenda - 28 Oct 2001
Islam, Vedic Defence and World Peace - 24 Oct 2001
Sept 11 Deja Vu? - 22 Oct 2001
Mr Bush, Mr Blair: Either you are for World Peace, or you are against it - 22 Sept 2001
Global Security - The time for 'conservative' thinking is over - 16 Sept 2001
War on Whom? - 15 Sept 2001
WORLD PEACE AND RECONCILIATION - THE THIRD WAY - 14 Sept 2001
Hagelin Responds To Attacks on US - A Message From NLP Leaders 13 Sept 2001
A New Paradigm in Global Security - 12 Sept 2001

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