Remember Khomeini Who Started It All




Dear Friends, 

As our "war" allegedly with bin Laden proceeds from 
day to day, the news media continues to pump us with 
"the story." But what we are told never mentions the 
name of KHOMENI, the cleric who started it all. As a 
student at Bucharest's Facultatea de Medicina Generala 
in the early 1980s I noticed that many of the Arab and 
Iranian students (these composed some 51% of the class) 
never seemed to show up at classes. I will not go into 
details, but it turns out that many were using the 
faculties as cover for their real "studies"--the art 
of terrorism in a camp near Ploesti. 

The Brezhnev Politburo had chosen Romania and East 
Germany to train any and all wanna-be terrorists, 
whatever their cause, to set them loose on the West. 
On the one hand, the Russians were fighting the 
mujahadins in Afghanistan, on the other, they were 
training Arab and Iranian terrorists in Romania and 
East Germany. This should be recalled when we speak 
of our "Grand Alliance" with Moslem nations. 

Indeed, Arab and Iranian diplomacy centers on being 
on *both* sides of an issue so that, either way, 
you don't lose. When Khomeni took power in Iran he 
decided that it was his mission to unite all Moslems 
for a holy war-- a Jihad-- against the infidels of 
the West. Many Moslems exhibited a pious side at home, 
but when visiting the West they were totally debauched. 

This hypocricy was not seen by Khomeni as a flaw in 
the Muslim faith, serving as a social practice rather 
than a personal guide. Instead, he saw it as 
demonstration of the caustic power of Western cultures 
to corrupt the faith. Thus, Khomeni wanted the source 
of this corruption destroyed, as prescribed by the Kohran. 

Our global economy depends on making people predictable 
consumers. Since producer and clients may be continents 
apart, a merchant must have a good idea of how much he 
can expect to sell. The best way to do this is by infusing 
in people a consumerist culture. That is why more, and more, 
the global market is in fact promoted as the global culture. 
The car you drive, the clothing you wear, the soda you drink 
and the cigarettes you smoke are all imbeded in a social 
setting, a behavioral realm and a whole new set of values, 
making these products vital even to your personal identity. 

I will not enter into discussion of whether we have gone 
too far in trying to get the world to buy our goods. But 
it is important to note that Khomeni believed that our 
consumerist cultural imperialism was totally responsible 
for the weakness of the Moslem faith. He and the Mullahs 
around him organized a Movement of Moslem Youth Devoted 
to Allah for the Restoration of the Faith. These were to 
become "fighters for Allah," attacking the corruptive 
forces invading the Moslem World. Because it did not affect 
Americans directly, no one here took note of how these 
"fighters for Allah" brought the flocks back into the faith. 

For example, whole Algerian villages of only women, 
children and old folks had their throats slit. Why? 
Because the men who were migrant workers in Europe 
were sending trinkets back to their families. These, 
the Muslim fundamentalists saw as corrupting influences 
and thus they punished the wayward sinners sending such 
filth into the Moslem lands. But the intellectual and 
consumerist appetite of the Moslem World for high-tech 
Western modernity is irrepressable. And so, the 
"fighters for Allah" were converted into the 
"martyrs for Allah." Since the sinners could not be 
saved from temptation, the faithful would seek to slay 
the "Great Satan"-- the USA-- that was responsible for 
all the corruptive global modernization. These 
"martyrs for Allah" would clense their sins in the 
blood of the infidels by suicide missions which took 
as many Americans with them as possible. For two decades, 
since my student days in Romania, I have watched the 
dilligent work of the Mullahs bear fruit. Over that 
time thousands of suicide-killer cells were composed and 
sent to the US, made up of Moslems from all sects and all 
nations-- Moslems sans frontieres, you might say.

 The Afghan War, the Gulf War, the Balkan War and the Kosovo 
War all fed the ranks of "martyrs for Allah." The KGB and 
the CIA trained them as "fighters for Allah" and the clerical 
fascilitators in Iran grouped them into "martyr for Allah" 
cells, ready to clense their sins in the blood of the infidels 
as they go to meet Allah. These missions guarantee the "martyrs" 
entry into Paradise. While totally uninhibited in sending 
young men and boys to die on terrorist missions in the belly 
of the beast, the Great Satan, the Mullahs themselves are 
not willing to share their fate. They reason that without 
them the faithful would drift into the grasp of the Great 
Satan. And so, just as we had Muslims Afghanis fighting 
against the KGB (trained by the CIA) in Afghanistan and at 
the same time other Muslim Arabs trained by the Romanian 
Securitate and East German Stasis to perpetrate acts of terror 
in the West, we now have the Iranian Mullahs organizing 
Bin Laden's cells while also negotiating with the US for 
their participation in our "Grand Alliance." So desperate 
is the Dept. of State for "more flags"-- especially Moslem ones-- 
in its Grand Alliance, that it forgets that it is the essence of 
Arab and Iranian diplomacy to be represented on both sides so as 
to best control the situation and never be defeated. 

I worked hard for Pres. Bush's election. I admire him and his 
courage and his down to earth openess. I also think that his 
Cabinet is composed of excellent people. I in no way weaver 
in my support of him. But, it is as a loyal friend and supporter 
that I must say that what he is doing in Afghanistan is "BUSH-IT"! 
Why? Because you can't kill a snake by stomping on its middle. 
That only leaves the head free to sink its poisonous fangs into 
your leg. Caught between DoD's recommendation for decisive action 
and DoS's recommendation to "adapt" his policy in order to get 
"more flags" on board his Grand Coalition, Pres. Bush pulled an 
*LBJ in Vietnam* move and split right down the middle. To do 
something while not straining his Moslem "allies," Pres. Bush 
ordered our most modern aircraft to use top of the line misilles 
and bombs, going after terrorism's "middle management," bin Laden & Co.
Where does that get us? Let us say we kill him, so what? And what 
can we expect in retribution from the Mullahs in Iran if we succeed, 
given that they have more operatives here in the US than in
 Afghanistan? In medicine you are taught that above all don't 
let what you do make things worse than they were before you 
intervened. 

Perhaps Mr. Bush would do well to consider a few questions: 
   
   (1) What would the Mullahs in Teharan think if we go after 
   their operatives in the Afghani desert mountains, once again 
   as we did in Vietnam, using assets that cost far more than 
   the targets we risk these assets on to destroy? Consider: 
   When LBJ chose to respond to the Gulf of Tonkin incident 
   with major airstrikes on minor targets, Beijing and Hanoi 
   concluded that the US was not serious about drawing the line 
   in Vietnam. When the US sent troops to defend South Vietnam 
   against North Vietnamese invasion instead of blocking Hanoi's 
   ports of entry for supplies, Hanoi concluded that we did not 
   have the resolve to see the war through to the end. In light 
   of that past history, what do you think the Mullahs are thinking 
   when they see billion dollars aircraft bombing abandoned mud shacks? 
   
   (2) The biggest open secret is that the terrorists' greatest 
   success was not in the destruction of buildings and the taking 
   of lives but in the disruption of our economy. Recall that our 
   global economy is, in their eyes, the work of Satan. So, given 
   our economy's dependence on an open society in order to function, 
   what can we expect them to target next, now that our wrath is 
   expressed only on desert mountains in order to appease our 
   Moslem "allies"? 
   
   (3) Given our unalterable vulnerability to 
   the "martyrs for Allah" cells (since our economy can only 
   function in an open society) shouldn't we let go of the middle 
   of the snake and aim for his head? 
   
   (4) Since American nuclear power was never tested after 
   WWII, its real power is not in bombing but in deterrence. 
   For 50 years the Soviets tried to defeat the US in many 
   ways; but they never attacked America or the West 
   because they knew that we had invested as much as 
   needed to maintain destructive superiority. Yet, 
   why should we convince the Mullahs as we convinced 
   Hanoi that, to quote Le Duan: it doesn't matter if 
   America has the means to win, it doesn't have the 
   will to win? 
   
   (5) Bin Laden's spokesman said today that they 
   "have many Moslem youth who love death as much as 
   Americans love life." But the Mullahs want to live 
   as much as we do. So, why let our strategy polarize 
   the Moslem states right out of the Grand Alliance 
   because of our protracted shadow-war against shadowy 
   targets? Already the Pakistani head of state called 
   for an end to the bombing. We are seen as the big bully 
   chasing the little desert rat. The longer he lives, 
   the bigger he becomes in the eyes and the dearer 
   in the hearts of the Muslim masses that today are 
   outraged by his haneous crime. This war could soon 
   become a full blown war between the Moslem World and 
   the Judeo-Christian World. The longer we prevent the 
   Moslem states from playing both sides for advantage, 
   as is their habit, the greater the chances that they 
   will jump to the other side to avoid internal political 
   collapse. 
   
   Lastly, as a victim of Yalta, I fully stand with Prime 
   Minister Sharon. The Munich analogy was most appropriate, 
   for without Munich there would have been no Yalta. 
   Because Chairman Arafat was too afraid to accept the 
   Camp David offer, last year, without the Arab states 
   that recommended he accept publicly standing by him, 
   he has lost much power to Hamas and other agents of 
   the Mullahs. For us to now trade Israel's security 
   for an imaginary state led by a politically dead man 
   is the ultimate betrayal. It confirms what all the 
   world believed since the turn of the 20th Century: 
   that America never learns because it thinks itself 
   so big and strong that it doesn't have to learn. For 
   us to betray Israel would not appease the Moslem World. 
   This is not a political war, it is a religious war-- 
   it's not Intifada, it is Jihad. Instead our feeding 
   Israel to the Palestinians by forcing it to accept a 
   Palestinian state right now would confirm the Moslem 
   view that America indeed is the "Great Satan." If we, 
   like our Moslem "allies," waffle on our friends, 
   as they do, then they will see us as indeed an evil power. 
   For they, being weak, need to do that, but we must do 
   it only because of our evil nature. As small states, 
   they feel justified in using deception and betrayal to 
   get their way; but if we do the same, then in their 
   eyes we are no better than them. We may never get their 
   loyalty, but God help us if we lose their respect by 
   feeding Israel to them through weakening of our support 
   for the Jewish State. In the final analysis, all we can 
   do is point our ICBMs at Teharan, where the Mullahs are, 
   and at Baggdad, where their agents are, and hope that 
   they heed our warning that should another terrorist 
   incident be visited on us we will vaporize them. They 
   are not dumb; they know full well that a nuclear tipped 
   ICBM packs a lot more bang than a thousand fuel laden 
   airplanes. They know full well that they can do no more 
   against our ICBMs than we can do against their "martyrs 
   for Allah" cells. We are the ONLY superpower in the world. 
   That indeed places terrible responsibilities on us. But 
   it is not our responsability to sacrife our best men just
   to catch and "bring to justice" terrorism's middle management. 
   I do not want to kill innocent Moslem women and children. 
   But I'm not going to allow Moslems to kill American innocent
   women and children because I don't want to kill Moslem 
   innocents. If we continue on our present path, we will be 
   seen as a big country of little indecisive people who send 
   their disadvantaged to fight a disadvantageous war. But if 
   we pull back our men, point our misilles at Teharan and 
   Baggdad, give a clear warning that we will launch upon the 
   next event and-- above all-- SHOW FULL NATIONAL RESOVE, we 
   will not have to get Bin Laden because the Mullahs will 
   always find "martyrs for Allah" ready to get the "martys 
   for Allah" that risk making the Mullahs "martyrs for Allah." 

I wish you good luck in the coming catastrophes, for it seems 
to be all that's left to save us. Daniel E. Teodoru