11/29/2010 PERMALINK
The evolution of a new meme for war. SOURCE : Can a more successful war meme be developed? A war meme where a budding future Hitler could be taken out long before he could unleash a holocaust? Could bombs destroy only the guilty, without a single innocent civilian life being lost in the crossfire? Contrast this with the ham fisted use of the traditional war making meme, as practice by the administration of President Bush. Tens of thousands of innocents killed in the cross fire and thousands of American lives lost. Trillions expended that America did not have and could not afford. Borrowing trillions to pay for the occupation of two countries in retaliation for the attack on 9/11. Only to find out later that one of the countries was not even involved in 9/11 and had no weapons of mass destruction as claimed.
So much spending that America's debt levels have now become a bigger national security threat that terrorism. Going to pay for an effort that so dissipating America's extremely limited number of Arab speaking intelligence agents across two fronts, that Bush was never even able to accomplish the main objective of the whole exercise, catching or killing the perpetrator of 9/11, Osama Bin Laden.
But now, perhaps we are seeing a new war meme.
Since the new administration came into office things have been very different. Calls for an invasion of Iran from the neocon nincompoops that formulated Bush's strategy, have been resisted.
But it seems that a third Iranian front has in fact been opened up using a new war meme.
In recent months, several scientists working on Iran's nuclear bomb development have been taken out of action by car bombs so precise, that their wives sitting in the passenger seats next to them were injured but not killed.
While at the same time an incredibly sophisticated computer worm has set back Iran's nuclear bomb development program by years. This worm managed to crawl from computer to computer around the world until it found its way into the computers running the centrifuges refining uranium in secret Iranian nuclear facilities. It then took over these computers and caused the centrifuges to spin erratically in a manner that destroyed both the 'bomb quality' of the uranium being produced and permanently damaged the centrifuges themselves. All accomplished without scientists monitoring the process realizing anything was going wrong.
It seems that a radically new and more sophisticated war making meme is evolving right before our eyes. Perhaps one that could save many innocent lives, but also one that could easily get out of hand and prove to be a fast track to tyranny.