[Peace-discuss] Middle East Is Being Destroyed.

Sat Apr 11 16:30:34 EDT 2015

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Middle East Is Being Destroyed. 

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600/images-2.jpegYemen in ruins because of bombing by US backed Saudi Regime
of Islamic nut cases, billionaires, anti women degenerates and friends of
the Bush Family. 

by Sean O'Torrain

It was 1965. I was 21. I was in the merchant marine. We were sailing from
Australia up to the Red Sea towards the Suez canal and Europe. We passed
Aden. I could hear the gunfire of the war that was raging. It is now fifty
years later and the guns are still firing.  And not only that but in the
last few weeks Yemen and Aden have been laid waste by war.

I had a friend some years ago from the Congo. He had been a guerrilla
fighter there. We were talking about his experiences, how his mother had
been killed in one of the many wars there. And he said to me: "You know why
we have the non stop wars? It is because we have too much wealth. As a
result the rich powers either come directly or fund directly war machines to
come and plunder us." 

I thought more about what my friend said in the last few days. Practically
the entire Middle East is being destroyed by war. It would take a full
article just to list the names of the countries in this state. . Why is
this?  The Middle East is being destroyed because it has too much wealth in
a capitalist world. Oil in particular. So the major imperialist powers
invade and occupy and fund militias to slaughter and kill and rob the area
of it wealth. This is why the Middle East is being destroyed. It has too
much wealth. If you think this is over simplistic think about the invasion
of Iraq, Afghanistan, the recent backing by the US of Saudi Arabia to invade
Yemen, the US backing of the Zionist regime in Israel to slaughter the
Palestinians and back up its proxy militias and forces in other countries.
The Middle East is being destroyed because it has too much wealth and
because that wealth is in private hands and used as a source of profit.. 

There is one other related feature to explain this destruction. The
indigenous capitalist forces in the Middle East have been and are very weak.
They allied themselves with the imperialist powers to cling on to power and
to get a skim of the wealth. The Saudi so called princes, in reality
degenerates in every aspect, are the prime example of this. The capitalist
forces in all the countries of the Middle East were not able to take the
wealth of their own countries into their own hands and develop these
countries, develop their economies, unify their national territories, throw
out imperialism. Instead they kissed the boots of imperialism. Any of them
who got out of line even the least bit like Saddam Hussein or Qaddafi were
invaded and overthrown and  lynched. 

For a time there appeared as if there might be an alternative force to take
the aspirations of the Middle East masses forward. This was Nasser and Arab
nationalism. But Arab nationalism also kowtowed to imperialism. Then it
appeared there might be an alternative in Stalinism. For a time it got a
mass base in Iraq and also invaded and held Afghanistan. But Stalinism could
give no way forward as it stuck to its stages theory its so called socialism
in one country theory and also as it itself was collapsing. 

So an unprecedented historical vacuum developed. The masses in the Middle
East were and are robbed and are starving and beaten down. There is no mass
force which can help them see the way to a unified struggle for a socialist
Middle East. So radical Islam begins to fill this vacuum, gets a base and
along with that splits in all directions and fights amongst itself, so its
wars civil wars and religious wars and on and on. 

Capitalism, imperialism is destroying the Middle East. The entire region is
being blown to bits. The few parts that still have some strength and
cohesion such as Iran are being assaulted by imperialism and threatened that
they must come to heal or else they will be starved to death with the
sanctions or bombed. US imperialism  prefers to bring Iran to heal with the
sanctions given the increased chaos that a war would bring but what will
develop is not sure. Its crazed mad dog of Zionism is biting at its heels to
make sure it does not back away from being prepared to take military action.
Putin and the Chinese elite are sitting at one and the same time,   happily
but also nervously watching US imperialism get impaled in its own
contradictions both internationally and with the splits in its own political
base at home. 

What is going to happen? It is impossible to say with any certainty. But
what does seem a sure bet is that the present destruction and wars and
looting by imperialism  in the Middle East will continue for the foreseeable
future. There is even the increased tension in the last couple of days
between the two nuclear states Pakistan and India. On the basis of
capitalism and imperialism there can be no solution to the destruction and
crisis in the region. 

Only the working class, united throughout the region and across national and
religious lines can provide a way out. And it can only do this by carrying
out the democratic socialist revolution and throw out imperialism,
overthrowing its own domestic capitalist class and establishing a democratic
socialist federation of the Middle East with the right of self determination
for all peoples and the right of freedom of religion and freedom for no
religions for all. 

In countries where the capitalist class came on to the scene of history late
they could not carry out their historic tasks. This is correct and applies
to the Middle East today. The capitalist classes in the Middle East cannot
carry out their tasks. Instead they bow the knee to imperialism. Unless the
working class take power and carry through the socialist revolution and
spread this internationally the destruction of the Middle East will
continue. It is fifty years now since I sailed up past Aden and the guns
were firing then. Fifty years from now I strongly feel that these guns will
be  silenced.  And silenced in one of two ways. One way is because the
Middle Eastern working class will have taken power and transformed the
region by carrying out a democratic socialist revolution. Or they will be
silenced by the silence of the graveyard . And this will have come after
decades of war, regional war, religious war, civil war, nuclear war.

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