Sunday, February 05, 2006
Orchestrated Spontaneity for Cartoon War ?
One of the more ominous aspects of the recent Muslim riots over the Danish cartoons, depicting Mohammed in various terrorist contexts, is their apparently spontaneous outbreak world-wide. It seemed to me to need a lot of orchestration to occur so widely four months after publication and, sort of, "Just-In-Time" to apply global publicty pressure when both Sryia and Iran need it most. The following blog articles shed a lot of light on that insight.
This Power Line Blog post has a good summary and links to the current Cartoon War and Muslim riots ( which Austin Bay refers to as "war"). In particular, it cites Charles Moore's UK Telegraph Op-Ed, If you get rid of the Danes, you'll have to keep paying the Danegeld , which notes :"It's some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, but I don't remember seeing many Danish flags on sale there. Not much demand, I suppose. ....
Why were those Danish flags to hand? Who built up the stockpile so that they could be quickly dragged out right across the Muslim world and burnt where television cameras would come and look? The more you study this story of "spontaneous" Muslim rage, the odder it seems. ....
The Mudville Gazette has a lot more background on the orchestration of spontainity about the cartoon wars , concluding with : "The evidence above makes it increasingly apparent that the events surrounding 'toonrage' have been carefully orchestrated, well planned and coordinated."
So, why would all the careful coordination and planning erupt in action now? Well, the IAEA has just voted to refer Iran's nuclear efforts to the UN Security Council - an event which has been preceeded by many threats of retaliation from Iran . The UN is pressing Syria very hard on the murder of top Lebanese officials. Both regimes are concerned (correctly) about US and UN pressure that could become regime threatening.
Hezbollah and Hamas are strongly funded by Iran and operate in both Syria and Lebanon. Last week these terrorist organizations held high level coordination meetings with the Presidents of Syria and Iran in Damascus. Three embassies have been burned and destroyed - Danish and Norwegian in Damascus and Danish in Lebanon. Large scale demonstrations and embassy burnings can not occur in Syria without government approval. And Michael J. Totten posts from Beirut that "Most of today's mobsters don't even live in the city at all. They appear to be poorly educated reactionaries bussed in from Tripoli and Hezbollahland." As a contrast, only a relatively small non-violent protest rally occured in Turkey.
Connect these dots as you wish. My view is that we are in a serious long term war with Islamic militants (or fascists or radicals) and that our opponents are expert at using the media and public opinion as a weapon.
This Power Line Blog post has a good summary and links to the current Cartoon War and Muslim riots ( which Austin Bay refers to as "war"). In particular, it cites Charles Moore's UK Telegraph Op-Ed, If you get rid of the Danes, you'll have to keep paying the Danegeld , which notes :"It's some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, but I don't remember seeing many Danish flags on sale there. Not much demand, I suppose. ....
Why were those Danish flags to hand? Who built up the stockpile so that they could be quickly dragged out right across the Muslim world and burnt where television cameras would come and look? The more you study this story of "spontaneous" Muslim rage, the odder it seems. ....
The Mudville Gazette has a lot more background on the orchestration of spontainity about the cartoon wars , concluding with : "The evidence above makes it increasingly apparent that the events surrounding 'toonrage' have been carefully orchestrated, well planned and coordinated."
So, why would all the careful coordination and planning erupt in action now? Well, the IAEA has just voted to refer Iran's nuclear efforts to the UN Security Council - an event which has been preceeded by many threats of retaliation from Iran . The UN is pressing Syria very hard on the murder of top Lebanese officials. Both regimes are concerned (correctly) about US and UN pressure that could become regime threatening.
Hezbollah and Hamas are strongly funded by Iran and operate in both Syria and Lebanon. Last week these terrorist organizations held high level coordination meetings with the Presidents of Syria and Iran in Damascus. Three embassies have been burned and destroyed - Danish and Norwegian in Damascus and Danish in Lebanon. Large scale demonstrations and embassy burnings can not occur in Syria without government approval. And Michael J. Totten posts from Beirut that "Most of today's mobsters don't even live in the city at all. They appear to be poorly educated reactionaries bussed in from Tripoli and Hezbollahland." As a contrast, only a relatively small non-violent protest rally occured in Turkey.
Connect these dots as you wish. My view is that we are in a serious long term war with Islamic militants (or fascists or radicals) and that our opponents are expert at using the media and public opinion as a weapon.
