"If history is what is recorded, then deep history is the sum of
events which tend to be officially obscured or even suppressed in
traditional books and media. Important recent deep events include the
political assassinations of the 1960s, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and now
9/11. All these deep events have involved what I call the deep state,
that part of the state which is not publicly accountable, and pursues
its goals by means which will not be approved by a public examination.
The CIA (with its on-going relationships to drug-traffickers) is an
obvious aspect of the deep state, but not the only one, perhaps not
even the dirtiest.
Bush and Cheney have maneuvered America into a war on
terrorism. That war threatens to become a permanent justification for
curtailing the U.S. constitution’s elaborate checks and balances, and
its guarantees of America’s traditional liberties.
Dilip Hiro observed in 2002 that America’s unilateralist war on
terror is nothing less than a formula for permanent mobilization for
permanent war:
'Now, by continuing to turn a deaf ear to the plea of the Arab
and Muslim leaders, starting with President Mubarak, a loyal ally of
Washington, and ending with the ICO [Islamic Conference Organization,
an institution for cooperation between Muslim states, headquartered in
Saudi Arabia] in April 2001, to convene an international conference
under the UN auspices to formulate “a joint organized response of the
international community to terrorism in all its forms and
manifestations,” the Bush administration is failing to live up to the
expectations of people around the world that America, the sole
superpower, would spearhead a multilateral campaign against the scourge
of terrorism based upon a commonly agreed platform, and stop indulging
in unilateralist interpretations and actions to fight terror, which
would set it on an inexorable course of war without end.'
This course seems likely to endure, until America’s approach to
terrorism is radically redefined by popular demand. And the surest way
to liberate ourselves from the siege mentality underlying it will be to
finally understand the conspiracies that have brought us here." - Professor Peter Dale Scott, Univ. of CA, Berkeley
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