Tactical Candor and Strategic Illusions

The issue of betrayal and subversion is as old as history.  Today the same game is being played with different actors, but the goal is always the same -- why batter down the gates when you can merely have someone from the inside unlock and open them.

The mendacity of politicians is one of the great commonalities of history, one that is far truer than the whore with the heart of gold.  Betrayal often starts at the top, usually by those addicted to power who think that by their betrayal they can ride the tiger.  The examples are myriad, and can explain - in part - such seminal events as the loss at Manzikert in 1071, the raids into Thrace in the 1360's that presaged the Ottoman Ascendancy, or the invasion of Moors into Spain in the early 700s. 

Similarly, to think that members of a different 'tribe' will value your life and not covet your possessions is a fools belief, for absent a change of values, all you have done when you invite an 'outsider' in, is to determine who will walk on your grave.  The Romanized Britons let in Saxons to fight their battles, the Romans brought in the Goths, the Byzantines used the Arabs and Normans as auxiliaries, and see where it got them.  Invasion, decimation, enslavement, and destitution.

Today the whole issue is clouded by the mantra of multiculturalism.  But multiculturalism is a lie designed to destroy (and not uplift) a culture. If you look at multi-cultural societies, toleration is an abberation, and genocide and enslavement or subjugation of populations are the rule.  Even when multinational empires exist, they do not last. And when they disintegrate the nations of the empire pull apart and fall upon each other. Sectarian animosity simmers and on the right occassion leads to the betrayals like the fall of Bagdhad to the Mongols, or the fall of Antioch to the Crusaders. 

If you look at what is happening now in the middle east the issues have not changed. It is a long story of Muslim slavers and Christian genocide.  The tale is told again and again with little variation, whether it is Iraq ,central Asia,  North Africa, Spain, or Egypt.  The story is always the same.  But for the fool it does not matter, for things will be different this time...

The issue of betrayal and subversion is as old as history.  Today the same game is being played with different actors, but the goal is always the same -- why batter down the gates when you can merely have someone from the inside unlock and open them.

The mendacity of politicians is one of the great commonalities of history, one that is far truer than the whore with the heart of gold.  Betrayal often starts at the top, usually by those addicted to power who think that by their betrayal they can ride the tiger.  The examples are myriad, and can explain - in part - such seminal events as the loss at Manzikert in 1071, the raids into Thrace in the 1360's that presaged the Ottoman Ascendancy, or the invasion of Moors into Spain in the early 700s. 

Similarly, to think that members of a different 'tribe' will value your life and not covet your possessions is a fools belief, for absent a change of values, all you have done when you invite an 'outsider' in, is to determine who will walk on your grave.  The Romanized Britons let in Saxons to fight their battles, the Romans brought in the Goths, the Byzantines used the Arabs and Normans as auxiliaries, and see where it got them.  Invasion, decimation, enslavement, and destitution.

Today the whole issue is clouded by the mantra of multiculturalism.  But multiculturalism is a lie designed to destroy (and not uplift) a culture. If you look at multi-cultural societies, toleration is an abberation, and genocide and enslavement or subjugation of populations are the rule.  Even when multinational empires exist, they do not last. And when they disintegrate the nations of the empire pull apart and fall upon each other. Sectarian animosity simmers and on the right occassion leads to the betrayals like the fall of Bagdhad to the Mongols, or the fall of Antioch to the Crusaders. 

If you look at what is happening now in the middle east the issues have not changed. It is a long story of Muslim slavers and Christian genocide.  The tale is told again and again with little variation, whether it is Iraq ,central Asia,  North Africa, Spain, or Egypt.  The story is always the same.  But for the fool it does not matter, for things will be different this time...