Source: Boiling Frogs Post
Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald
As the U.S. becomes more and more the kind of country it has
traditionally opposed, the answer to where we are headed may lie more
in the arcane traditions of a dim past than in a bright future.
"‘We’re the dark matter. We’re the
force that orders the universe but can’t be seen,’ a strapping Navy
SEAL, speaking on condition of anonymity, said in describing his unit."
If anyone (correctly) thought that
the war on terror and Washington’s response to it had taken on a
fantastical otherworldly quality, this recent quote on the front page of the Washington Post seemed to confirm it.
Following 9/11, the elected government
of the United States of America delivered the country to a whole
department (of Homeland Security) dedicated to expanding the
government’s fear of darkness into everybody’s life (remember the 2003 duct tape and plastic sheeting craze?)
Now we also have a top secret military operation known as the Joint
Special Operations Command (JSOC) that thinks it is the dark.
Begun as a modest hostage rescue
team, JSOC has morphed into a veritable heart of darkness, with the
power to murder at will and with immunity from American legal
jurisdiction (which apparently still maintains that such assassinations are illegal).
Even within the military, JSOC
operates as a “Stovepipe,” operation, meaning that it operates
completely in the black, reports to no one and continues to employ rogue
ex-CIA professionals such as indicted Iran Contra operative Dewey Clarridge.
The Navy Seal Team that took out Osama bin Laden operated under JSOC.
Retired military personnel refer to JSOC as “Murder, Incorporated” and
the “most dangerous people on the face of the earth.”
But if JSOC’s reputation for secrecy,
vengeance and death from above can’t be explained from within the
context of traditional U.S. military operations or U.S. law, then what
set of rules is it operating from? Or is it simply that
the traditions of rationalism and law that most Americans took for
granted about the United States are subject to deeper, religious, or
perhaps even mystical rules, whose anachronistic logic has found a
renewed acceptance in an irrational world of personal, private and holy
war?
