World War IV?

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World War IV?

• As viewed
• from
• Above and from Below

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Woolsey on WWIV

• James Woolsey Ex-CIA Director under Clinton
• Speech at UCLA, April 2003
• Forum sponsored by Americans for Victory over
  Terrorism
• Right Wing Group founded by Bill Bennett
• Quotes Elliot Cohen of Johns Hopkins
• Not War on Terrorism, but World War IV
• Who are the enemies in this war?
• Islamist Shia in Iran,
• fascists/Baathists, like Hitler, in Iraq and
  Syria
• Islamist Sunni, Al-Qaeda
• Saudi Royal Family, Mubarack in Egypt

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Marcos on WWIV

• Subcomandante Marcos
• Spokesperson for the EZLN
• War in Chiapas
• January 1, 1994 to the present
• Should have ended with San Andrés Accords
• Why not?
• Constants in WWI, WWII, WWIII, WWIV
• Conquest and reorganization of territory
• Destruction of the Enemy
• Administration of Conquest

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WWIV?

• End of WWIII (cold war) left unipolar world
• WWIV achievement of globalization
• Globalization embodiment of neoliberalism
• Requires defeat and administration of enemy
• Enemy humanity
• Strategy?
• Homogenization
• Fragmentation

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Homogenization

• Destroy effective differences
• Whatever makes nation states different, e.g.,
  language, culture, economy, social fabric
• Destruction?
• Not of people, per se, but of relationships
• Reduction to computer language logic of market
• Break up and destroy social relationships that
  resist their reduction to market relationships

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Fragmentation

• Fragmentation of nation states (Balkans)
• Fragmentation of social groups
• New identities for old
• A commercial/financial network
• No local equilibrium
• Market determines what you produce, buy, consume,
  your worth
• People reduced to producing/consuming machines

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The Enemy

• All that resists this becomes the enemy,
  including dignity, overt resistance, solidarity,
  i.e., those qualities that make people human
• Thus the hate campaigns
• Xenophobia against foreigners
• Racism against immigrants
• Homophobia against gays
• Thus the attack on civil liberties
• No rights for foreigners
• Discrimination against immigrants
• Persecution of gays
• Ethnicide against the indigenous
• But thus too growing resistance to these attacks,
  increased solidarity across borders, within and
  across differences

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More than military WWIII

• Many (US) soldiers vs many (USSR) soldiers, I.e.,
  conventional war scenarios
• Limited Nuclear war (in Europe)
• Total Nuclear war, MAD, Deterrence
• Surrogate conventional wars in Third World, e.g.,
  Vietnam, domino theory
• Total War (on all fronts) military anything
  else, e.g., media, diplomacy, economic warfare,
  sabotage
• Tried to recapture legitimacy of WWII defense
  of freedom for all

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More than military WWIV

• Total war all fronts anywhere anytime
• Against all possible enemies
• Thus flexible forces and rapid deployment
  capacity
• Thus forward basing of materiel and troops
  ready for fast deployment
• But also use of surrogates
• Supranational institutional legitimacy (UN, NATO)
  of humanitarian intervention
• From containment to the extension of total
  war
• From national armies national security to
  national stability and policing both domestic
  and international
• From national defense to hemispheric defense,
  e.g., against drug trafficking

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War in Chiapas

• Total war, no neutrals
• Not just against the EZLN, it is secondary
• But the terrorism of the military and
  paramilitaries against the real enemy the
  indigenous people/communities in rebellion
• That is why the war didnt end
• Implementing the San Andres Accords would have
  mean accepting the existence of an enemy they
  actually want to destroy, to disperse, to wipe
  out as peoples
• Question But why destroy the indigenous?
• Answer 1 for the resources of on their lands
  oil, uranium and lumber, the Mayan Lands
  tourism project
• Answer 2 the indigenous are neither consumers
  nor producers, they go their separate way and
  that is unacceptable, they are in the way

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The Machinery of Ethnicide

• The Army
• An occupying force, on alien terrain
• The enemy is the civilian population
• That goes about its life
• That shouts get out every day
• Bought media hide the reality of this occupation,
  profitable and destructive
• Trafficking in babies
• Drug trafficking (reversed EZLN ban)
• Prostitution
• Alcohol
• Desertions and promotions

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Army Strategies

• Surgical Strike
• Special operation units to strike EZLN
• Total Strike
• The Army seals of the area to hide what happens,
  no press, no HR observers
• The rest of the army attacks all known leaders
• Secret basements and tunnels for torture and
  killing and disposal (within and without)

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Human Rights Strategies

• Violation of Individual Human Rights
• Beatings, torture, killings
• Violation of collective human rights under the
  legitimacy of individual human rights
• Collective human rights have no legal status
• There are no collective HR observers
• Objective destruction of indigenous peoples,
  I.e., ethnicide.

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Resistance

• Not to take power (like Emiliano refused)
• We question everything, we are an army that wants
  to abolish armies
• The old resist, the young resist, they are the
  bridge between an unacceptable present and more
  acceptable future
• Against neoliberalism in Mexico, nationalism is
  revolutionary
• Nationalism as self-determination
• Nationalism as shaping ones own future

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