Justin Raimondo considers the recent spate of cable-cutting “accidents”:
In a piece headlined “Cable cutter nutters chase conspiracy theories,” The Register goes out of its way to laugh off the prospect that what we are witnessing is a military operation, or the prelude to one, sniffing “there’s little more than suspicions to work with” since we’ve yet to reach the damaged cables. Yet, given the sort of government we are dealing with – a regime that lied us into one war, and is not-so-subtly trying to finagle us into yet another one – why shouldn’t we be suspicious? We’d have to be crazy not to be.
The Economist follows suit, sneering at “internet conspiracy theories” and denouncing the whole brouhaha as an “online frenzy” that is “way out of line.” Yet one has to wonder: four cable cuts in the past week?
I have only two things to say on the matter. 1) Conspiracy theory is the only theory of history that holds up to historical analysis. Only the stupid and profoundly ignorant can dismiss anything on the basis of it being conspiracy theory. This does not, of course, mean that all conspiracy theories are correct, that would be impossible. 2) Four accidents in a week in a potential war zone is neither a coincidence nor a series of accidents.
What part of the concept of “information war” do these people not understand?