No Enemy

The Liberal Patriot

No Enemy, No Profit

J.G. Schwam - January 15, 2007

On C-Span yesterday Richard Perl openly accused Saudi Arabia of being the major source of funding for the rising tide of the terror attacks in Iraq. These charges are not revelations. Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabist form of Islamic extremism has long been tacitly linked to terror.

Whose favor is Perl trying to court? Given the well entrenched oil interests in Saudi Arabia, Perl’s recommendation that the US step up the pressure on Saudi Arabia to end their funding and association with terrorists is no less than palliative, jocular lip service. The kind designed to engender support for his American Enterprise Institute agenda of depredation of the Middle East and war to disengage Middle Eastern sovereignty over their own territory. There is no argument that can be made in favor of the preservation of the Saudi royal family. Externally, they have never exercised wealth their vast as force for good, solely terror, destruction and disruption.

However Perl’s step up the pressure statement proves the Bush administrations oil and corporate profit at all costs driven agenda bears no true commitment to ending terrorism. Doing so in any manner other lip service would kill the huge profit train the war is generating for the Bush administrations big oil allies and his “rangers and pioneers” across the wide $3 million a month military supply requirement. Doing so would disrupt the vast profits borne of the mastadonic debt the Bush‘s have heaped down upon our nations next three generations.

Perl’s statements intended to garner public support for Bush’s rhetorical war on terror are entirely casuistic. The very nature of the Bush administration close ties to big oil virtually guarantees that they will never seriously sanction Saudi Arabia. Exxon, the world's largest oil company, reported earlier this year that its profits had risen 58% to $4.2 billion in the second quarter, on sales of $60 billion. The firm is one the largest importers of Saudi oil. The specious escalation in big oil profits under G.W. Bush should not be considered coincidental.

Until former president Bush’s recent resignation from the board of war profiteers, the Carlyle Group, George H.W. Bush is purported to have earned at least $500,000 annually from Carlyle.

The deals the former presidents defense secretary and Carlyle Chairman Frank Carlucci has brought into Carlyle total close to $2 billion in profits. There were Magnavox and GDE, makers of top-secret electronics gear, and Vought, an aircraft-parts manufacturer, all of which Carlyle bought and sold within two years, netting $300 million, $109 million, and $140 million, respectively.

Some of us will never forget that on 11 September, while Al-Qaeda's planes whose course was ordered by his brother Osama planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Shafig bin Laden was the among the guests of honor as a valued investor, the Carlyle Group hosted a conference at a Washington hotel.

The neo conservatives are hooked on the golden goose. Iraq was a golden opportunity. They seem to think that by putting Perl on C-SPAN his spin will reach a new audience, beyond Fox and the inobjectivity of the network morning weekend news shows. The neo cons think highly of Perl but like all of them, when opens his mouth he has clothes. But behind the scenes it matters not what we may think, there are deals to be made. There is profit to be made, as long as there is an enemy. That is how they see it. And we all must pay.

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