Doug Casey: Neutrality & Terrorism

Legendary investment adviser Doug Casey speaks ethical and geopolitical truth:

"Our main interest is keeping the United States out of this thing. We’re 330 million people. About 7.6 million are Jews, and 3.6 million are Arab. The rest of us don’t want to have anything to do with what amounts to a Biblical domestic dispute that could easily turn into World War III."

Then there's this gem:

"Let’s not be too sanctimonious about terrorism. Bombing cities, which are by definition full of civilians, is just state terrorism, tarted up, justified, and rationalized with legalities and rhetoric."

Uh oh. That means America's "greatest" presidents--e.g., Lincoln, FDR, Truman--were terrorists! Sherman's March to the Sea; the firebombing of Dresden, Cologne, and Tokyo; and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki all targeted innocent civilians.

They had it coming, you say? I'm sure al-Qaeda said the same about Americans working at the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. It's not as if Presidents George H. W. Bush and William J. Clinton had refrained from perpetrating all manner of mayhem on Iraq and Palestine through the 1990s, is it?

Targeting civilians doesn't stop being terrorism just because "the good guys" do it. Take a deep breath, step back, and look at it. Ask yourself: What kind of a good guy targets civilians?