6 Painful Truths About the War on TerrorismBy Dylan Charles The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for peace in our time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are at war now with somebody and we will stay at war with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives. It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerrilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Hunter S. Thompson By no means a prophet, Hunter S. Thompson was just an eccentric observer with a knack forconnecting the dots between political events and the ongoing mainstream media narrative that supports and manufactures consent for the oligarchy.When taken at face value, the terror script is indeed a rather convincing and motivating story, but when you dismantle the official fiction and bring the hidden pieces into the picture, the truth about the war on terror is just too heavy for conscious people to ignore any longer. As itpersists, international terrorism is guaranteed to increase; and as time goes by, we learn more and more about the real reasons why weve been forced into this apocalyptic conflict. After nearly 15 years of kicking down doors, drone bombing villagers, shattering societies, and mourning our own senselessly dead,here are 6 things we now know for sure about the war on terrorism. The first casualty when war comes is truth. Hiram W. Johnson The conflict was engineered from the onset to break up, destroy and destabilize most of the oil-producing countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The war on terrorism is about control of oil, about conquering national economies and turning them over to foreign investors, aboutdemonizing Muslim nations, about creating a lawless territory in which to develop Western-controlled mercenary armies like ISIS, about protecting Israels interests in the region, about destabilizing Europe, about opening access to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, and about punishing those nations which dared to defy the international banking cartel by moving to avert the petro-dollar. The war on terrorism is also about radically altering the legal framework of Western governments to allow forgreater surveillance, control and the militarization of once free societies. The aim is to continually broaden the definition of terrorism so that any act of defiance against the stateor the corporate oligarchy,whether advocating for human rights, the environment, or any other issue of popular concern, can be prosecuted without due process. The war on terror will be used to target American citizens who support the idea of limited government and strive to maintain the protections afforded by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United States of America. Additionally, the war on terror is about creating new markets for the security industry and opening steady income streams for war profiteers and arms manufacturers, so that a relative minority can profit heavily from the continuance of the war and the waste, swindlingand destruction involved. The Western nations most heavily invested in the war on terror are also the nations most heavily involved in global arms trading, which givesadvanced weaponry to any despotictin pot dictator with an oilfield. AndFrance just happens to be the worlds number one exporter of arms per capita. The Western coalition regularly kills civilians in other nations directly and indirectly, which is in and of itself a very real type of terrorism. You cannot have freedom or peace in a country whose government is engaged in the global wholesale of advanced military arms and weaponry to national governments. Stefan Molyneux The Mujahideen was originally organized, funded, trained and supplied by the CIA to oppose the Soviet Union. The Mujahideen became Al Qaeda with the assistance of Saudi Arabia and American training, arms and financial aid. Al Qaeda has morphed into, orbeen replaced with ISIS, who is the creationof the military industrial complex, the US, Israel, the UK and France, and issupported by some 40 other nationswho knowingly trade and deal with ISIS. They tax you in order to create weapons to sell to foreigners to attack you. Stefan Molyneux ISIS, the new Islamic Caliphate as they call it, is the most barbaric, cruel and inhumane social movement to come about in some number of centuries, perhaps even a millennia or more. ISIS was given birth and nurtured into being by the West, and now primarily Muslim people are suffering horribly in their own homelandswhilethe war intensifies and extends into Europein acts of urban terrorism. The primary role of the corporate-owned and government-controlled mainstream media is to transform selected acts of terror into enduring symbols that can be used again and again to reinforce the war on terror narrative. Their secondary role is to keep the level of tension and stress as high as possible by ceaselessly over-reacting to non-events and over-reporting on non-issues, thereby keeping the public captivated and hypnotized by an ongoing drama so that when a major event does occur it has the greatest possible psychological impact. Reporting on global terrorism isduplicitous and hypocritical because certain events have more franchisethan others in influencing public support for government policy changes and military actions. In the practical world of marketing, French flags pictured draped over national monuments at night-time will go much further inpromoting the war on terror than Kenyan flags draped over Africanmonuments. The media uses shock and awe in a war of psychological attrition against the public. The objective is to incapacitate and sideline people from participating in dissent, while scaring people into acquiescence to any imposed government authority or security measures. There is a tremendous continual international effort underway to expose the true facts behind each new terror attack, terror plot, and major government lie. The alternative media is growing in reach and effectiveness; however, the reality is that the Hegelian dialectic of problem, reaction, solutionstill works on a shell-shocked public. The war on terrorism represents the first time in US history that suicide has been the leading cause of death of US soldiers. The psychological impact of this type of conflict is unique and the suicide rate of returning soldiers may be our best evidence that the war is unwinnable. The goal of the war on terror is transform people into willing participants in chaos, mayhem and murder, or to turn them into collateral damage.Nobody is born a terrorist, andwe are all being set up asdispensable pawns in an orchestrated clash of civilizations. The truth is out there.When you cut through the propaganda, emotional triggers, and the divisive nature of discourse today, whats left is the truth that the war on terror is something that we must end. The rise in global consciousness and our willingness to speak out may be our only hope. Image Credit: Anthony Freda Endless War Read more articles from Dylan Charles. Dylan Charlesis a student and teacher of Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi and Qi Gong, a practitioner of Yoga and Taoist arts, and an activist and idealist passionately engaged in the struggle for a more sustainable and just world for future generations. He is the editor ofWakingTimes.com, the proprietor ofOffgridOutpost.com, a grateful father and a man who seeks to enlighten others with the power of inspiring information and action. He may be contacted atwakingtimes@gmail.com. The TOW missiles cost a Tad over $58,000 each and the whole setup shown costs $180,000 , NOT A VERY COST EFFECTIVE WAY to DESTROY an old redundant humvee probably worth $5000 , the US when they Left Iraq abandoned thousands of these vehicles or left them to the Iraqis . The war on terror does two things very well. And when you have architects and engineers from all over the world saying that the 3 buildings that fell on 9/11/2001 were controlled demolitions, then that is what they were whether we like it or not. Simply put, hard science is not a conspiracy theory, and we either adhere to science or we do not. If our one-world, corporate-controlled government can get away with perpetrating the events of 9/11, then it can get away with anything, and we should expect more terrorist events to occur. Exactly. In essence, we have become ENABLERS, because we know what we are doing. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. It is our apathy and cowardice that is creating this Frankenstein monster, and it is only a matter of time before it destroys us in the end. I for one do not want that but seem to be a severe minority among the walking phone zombies who are oblivious. This twilight zone environment has created a dysfunctional society obsessed with entertainment to escape reality and responsibility. A nation of children. 