In this article I hope to provide the reader with many specific (and often little known) details concerning the creation of what may evolve into an actual third world war. The latest manufactured crisis has already taken on global proportions.

This article has been written in response to people repeatedly asking me, “Are we headed for W.W. III?” This is a valid question considering Osama bin Laden has been circulating the manuscript of his unpublished book (which he wrote) entitled America and the Third World War. For years, I have been looking beyond the theatrical symbols of the world’s movers and shakers and examining the underlying realities. These global elite would not dare let you know their plans, but I will provide you with more details so that you might know your enemy, for whether you chose to love or hate your enemy you need to know them.

I will organize this information into two parts: A. THE OUTLINE OF THINGS B. DETAILS OF SPECIFICS, first Osama bin Laden, & then second, the creation of a manufactured Moslem threat.

THE OUTLINE OF THINGS

In my intense study of the world’s elite, I have come to realize a profound truth; these men know how to control humans by directing the way the human mind likes to think. Their methods to mind control are not so much to conquer the mind, but to direct its natural paths of thinking in the direction they want it to go.

This process is always to dumb down the higher, more intelligent, levels of humanity, impose the Oligarchic Principle of Poverty, to pervert the people through drugs and sex and then kill through pogroms and Democide, which means the genocide of populations by their own governments. Usually the more intelligent are killed first.

If you understand this principle it will help you understand how the natural desires of Muslims, Christians, secular Corporations, Jews, Palestinians, Americans, British, Afghanis, Iraqis, Chinese, Cambodian etc. are being manipulated into a large confrontation, a confrontation that was planned even before Jewish immigrants began to pour into Palestine to create Islam’s first big sore spot called “al-Naqba” (Islam’s “Holocaust” in Palestine).

Before providing the details, allow me to give the bigger pictures. The present crisis was originally planned in the 19th century. The script for the crisis called for an incredible theater of puppets. The goal is the creation of a New World Order ruled by Bankster technocrats including a necessary  elimination of fundamental religions, Christianity and Islam, and the control and the enslavement of planet earth.

Russia was targeted through the destabilisation of the Czar, the imposition of British Agent Lenin aided by the Myth making capacity - all societies are governed through created Myths thus govern mente, mente meaning mind thus mind control - of British Agent Marx who wrote Das Capital thus inventing Communism under his handler Engels. British and American Secret Agent Stalin and his form of British and Rockefeller created Eugenics which he called Lysenkoism, dumbed down the population through his Secret Services, his concentration camps in Siberia called Gulags and thus Democided 65 Millions of People in order to destroy creativity, intelligence, dumb down the population and create poverty, The Oligarchic Principle of Poverty which periodically most be instituted in every population in order to cull and thus control forever the populations of the world.

One hundred and fifty years ago China was targeted through the addiction of its upper classes to Opium imported from India by the illuminati Lords of England given permission to do this by the Satanic British Royalty who took their cut. This then created the Opium Wars when the Emperor of China tried to stop this trade and resulted in his defeat and the gaining of Hong Kong by the British for 200 years. The Hong Kong and and Shanghai Bank, HSBC, was created to Launder all the profits of this Drug Trade. However this was not enough to destroy the long term threat of the emergence of Asia...Mao was a 33rd Degree Freemasons and was placed in power by the British and American Satanic Secret Services in order to Democide 80 Millions of people, never build any infrastructure and thus condemn China to Poverty, the removal of intelligence to the gulags and the imposition of the one child policy.

The Vietnam War had the effect war always has of destroying the dreams of an educated and rich population through the destruction of richness producing  infrastructure, the genocide of one million people and Agent Orange genetic destruction of many of the population.

Cambodia gained Pol Pot as a leader through the good offices of the British and American Satanic Secret Services through their agent Brezinski who removed all the rich and intelligent people from the cities to the countryside where 3 millions of people were genocided, democided, in the Killing Fields.

The purpose was to kill the most intelligent, dumb down the rest and destroy the ability of Asia to be a credible threat to the West.

The WTC attack is the tip of the iceberg to this manufactured crisis, and the beginning of more sad events.

The Moslem world has had a predictable pattern with the west (European culture). In fact there is a book, which provides Muslim country by Muslim country, year by year, the history of how this cycle has occurred. The Moslem world goes through a cycle, one phase is where its adopts technology and liberty from the west and then the other phase is where it rejects what is foreign and goes back into Islamic fundamentalism. Different areas of the Moslem world are at different phases at any given time. The Moslem world has usually not had all of its territories in the same phase at the same time. The world’s movers and shakers have aggravated and manipulated this natural cyclic pattern.

Carroll Quigley, the famous establishment historian writes in Tragedy & Hope in 1966, “The destructive impact of Western Civilization upon so many other societies rests on its ability to demoralize their ideological and spiritual culture as much as its ability to destroy them in a material sense with firearms…. It is possible that new civilizations may be born in the debris from the civilizations wrecked by Western Civilization…In this wreckage is debris from Islamic, Hindu, Chinese and Japanese civilizations…. The birth of a powerful civilization at any or several of these points…would serve as a counterbalance to the expansion of Soviet Civilization on the land mass of Eurasia.” (Tragedy & Hope, p. 14) Quigley had a sense of what the elite were doing. He predicted that Western Civilization and Russia would be challenged by a rising Asian civilization by 2000, which turns out to be Islamic fundamentalism. (Ibid. p. 21) While the politicians of the world allow themselves to look incompetent, the movers and shakers (the puppeteers) know in a very detailed way what they are doing and the effects that their actions are causing. The West’s leadership has had very detailed studies about the Islamic world and what the impact of certain actions will have.

Their detailed plans have been repeatedly leaked in vague ways to the unsuspecting public. For instance, H.G. Wells, one of their Fabian Socialist-Masonic-Illuminati prophets, in his film “Things to Come” made in the late 1930’s, shows delta-winged planes (resembling stealth fighter-bombers) flying over Iraq’s oil fields to bomb.

Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Sudan were used as incubators to create fierce Moslem fundamentalist Jihad warriors. Palestine, Lebanon, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other spots were used to create incidents that would fuel natural passions. When one realizes that the non-Islamic leaders (i.e. the U.K., U.S., USSR etc.) who subtly helped create these incidents had advisors who knew totally well how these incidents would create Islamic fundamentalism, it is impossible not to realize that the catalyst that created Moslem fundamentalism turns out to be the global elite themselves.

The Muslim Brotherhood was created 100 years ago by the British Secret Service in order to dumb down Islam and thus create the Burks with the imposition of the Burqua on all Islamic women, but more specifically to attack Russia and her vassal states.

Fundamentalist Al Quaeda was created to be the foot soldiers of the American and British Satanic Secret Services so as to destabillise Ancient and multicultural Islamic States and take them over under the Muslim Brotherhood in order to make war and create trouble for the states around them. Fundamentalist Al Quaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood are fully supported with the Oil money and armaments of the Feudal and fundamentallist vassal states of the British/American Imperium of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Catarrh, Oman and the United Arab Emirates

Now the Muslim Brotherhood has been imposed on Iraq by the USA, Iran with the Ayatollahs, Turkey with Erdogyan, Tunisia and Egypt with the colour revolution Arab Spring removal of Mubarak, Libya with the imposition of the Muslim Brotherhood under the Al Quaeda flag and soon Syria . This work is well under way..

Of course, Islamic fundamentalism is a natural reaction to the modernization, secularization, and corruption that is accelerating in what is termed “the West” (European civilization). Such a strong reaction to the sinfulness of the West has taken place that the Sunni and Shiite fundamentalists are in full collaboration. Devout Christians who hold to wholesome family values, freedom from global corporate tyranny, and the destruction of communities are also having some similar “reactionary” reactions to the New World Order. Christian fundamentalists turn to the Bible and Biblical law, and the Moslem of course turns to the Koran and its Sharia (Islamic law). The trick of the elite is to harness those natural reactions to destroy their opposition. This is why both the Christian Patriot movement and the Islamic fundamentalists are infiltrated with agent provocateurs who will encourage both groups to run to their own destruction.

The elite are not above actually stepping in and taking leadership of their opposition. This is why George Hunt discovered that the Rothschilds and Rockefellers and other leading capitalists were leaders of the UNSED green, carbon tax and Agenda 21 environmental activities. This is why the anti-big corporation movement rented by the Banksters that rioted in Seattle against the WTO, in order to create the reaction increasing the Totalitarian police state has its share of connections back to the elite.

This is why many of the leaders of Fundamentalist Al Quaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood of Islamic fundamentalism have ties back to powerful rich Capitalists or Communists. (Communism has been a great front for the elite.) While I am not attacking the concerns of the Islamic fundamentalists, I am pointing out that their leaders are tainted with puppet strings. Moslems have threatened me in the past for being so frank.

As an example of someone who heralds himself as a third alternative to capitalism and communism and yet has ties to both is Col Qaddafi of Libya. Without outside help he would not survive in power. I personally noticed that Col. Qaddafi of Libya maintained his popularity with his people because he came into power at the same time that big oil money flowed into Libya. He was able to associate himself in the eyes of his people with prosperity. Rich capitalists, (such as the Bush family, the Rockefellers, the Royalty of England and the Netherlands, to name just a few) are behind the oil companies. Americans have operated the oil fields that provided Quaddaffi the money to remain popular with his people. He gave fifty thousand dollars to every couple who married, free medical, free education etc. Behind those Americans technicians were Capitalists who controlled or even became political figures.

However when Quaddaffi created the infrastructure which brought a river of water from deep aquifers beneath the desert to the coastal plains, sufficient to make Libya the bread basket of Africa, when Quaddaffi created the African Gold Dinar currency in order to support infrastructure improvements throughout Africa separate from the American Dollar, Quaddaffi was targetted for destruction. First he was targetted by previous British Premier and currently Director of JPMorgan Chase who made a friend of him and in return for removing all weapons of mass destruction gave him access to even more investment money from Big Oil. However the removal of the weapons of Mass Destruction made him vulnerable to Fundamentalist Al Quaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood supported by British and American Satanic Secret Services. Apparently when Nato Jets screamed overhead for the first time he rang Tony Bliar and said, "Tony, what are you doing??"

The script calls for a primary “bad guy”, in this case Bin Laden, who like other modern “bad” guys, actually is quite popular with fundamentalist Muslims. Actually a number of bad guys have been created, and we will examine some of the details of these. The puppet strings of many of the leaders of around the world can be discerned by looking at their affiliations, their training, their genealogies, their fraternal memberships and their actions. These puppet strings ultimately go back to the global elite. For instance, the elite here in America verbalized to each other how pleased they were with Saddam Hussein’s destruction of things.

Islamic fundamentalists would say that Allah is responsible. If the West’s leaders had seriously wanted to halt the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, they had the ability to do so, but they added fuel to the fire at each step. My point is that the rise of fundamentalism is being encouraged and manipulated. How convenient for Israel that Iran has its religious revolution and then goes to war with Iraq. How convenient for all the corporations in the West and the Soviet Union that supplied materials for the long war and the attempts to rebuild after the war. How convenient for those who made profits off of oil and gas and opium. Follow the money of Moslem terrorists, the CIA, the Illuminati elite, and the rich Gulf Arabs and you will find much of it met at the infamous BCCI - Drugs, Armaments and terrorism, HSBC - Mexican Money Laundering in hundreds of Billions of Dollars under British Director Lord Green, WELLS FARGO - Mexican Money Laundering in hundreds of Billions of Dollars, BARCLAYS BANK and the manipulation of Libor Rates controlling the rates of  2000 Trillions of derivatives..

The fall of the West’s puppet Shah of Iran was actually not a surprise to the elite. They had decided to let him fall. He had been empowered by America’s CIA, and then abandoned when the time was ripe for a strong reaction. The man who replaced him, the Ayatollah Khomeini was British MI6. And tying together Saudi intelligence, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence and Egyptian intelligence (and previously the Shah’s CIA-led SAVAK) is a group called the Safari Club set up by French espionage. When you are aware of these kind of things, then you realize the insidious deceptive nature of this script. Different puppets, one script.

Look at the Moslem leaders like Jordan’s King Hussein. He married an American and was a Freemason. The Shah of Iran’s father was put into power by the British, and is descended from an old Jewish bloodline. The Shah joined a Catholic Military Order in 1958, and Jordan’s King Hussein joined the Catholic Military Order of the Golden Spur in 1964. And then some of the Moslem leaders are Sufis. Syria’s leader Assad, who is also a Freemason, maintains secret ties with Syrian-born Jews from Aleppo who are one of the groups plotting the Temple Mount conspiracy to build a Temple in Jerusalem. All these men have allegiances beyond Islam.

The Muslim world views itself as a single entity. This is embodied in the term pan-Islamism, which transcends nationalism. However, in my travels in the Middle East, I saw first hand that most Muslims also have allegiances to clans, language groups, nations, ideologies and sects, Sunnis and Shias. The West and Russia have meddled in the affairs of the Moslem world most of the 19th and 20th century, and have tried to work the different allegiances of the Moslem world to their own advantage. The Soviet Union took a very active role in helping to create Greater Syria & a Greater Israel. The New Right in Israeli politics was KGB controlled. The West managed to interject itself smack into the middle of the Moslem world, and there is a great deal of tension in the Moslem world about this. They feel that their civilization will not be safe until they eject the West (with its control and influence) from the middle of their territory.

DETAILS, first, Bin Laden, and second, the creation of a viable Moslem threat

Now let’s look at the script’s top Bad guy Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden’s family was on the inside track for construction contracts with the House of al-Saud of Saudi Arabia. George Bush got his first Directorship through the good offices of the Bin Laden Family. Osama Bin Laden was given 300 millions of Dollars by his father.

Anyone who has had the opportunity to bump into Saudi princes here in America or Europe is well aware of their enormous appetites for immoral behavior. The King and Princes of Saudi Arabia have been provided any perversion they wanted by the West’s elite. As a young man, Osama bin Laden was cut from the same cloth. He loved fornication, alcohol and the pleasures of sin. Some of his brothers and sisters live in the United States, mostly in the Boston, MA area. He doesn’t come from some poor Palestinian family that has suffered from Israeli tyranny. Instead he comes from a family that has tasted what the West has to offer. He has tasted of the sins that are associated with the West and has rejected that life. It’s sad that that is the view of America that so many see. While the Bible Belt and America’s traditional spiritual values are mocked and scorned by the establishment media, the liberal values that American Propaganda Industry Hollywood treasures are in turn scorned by the militants who hate their intrusion into the Moslem world.

Osama bin Laden had several religious experiences, and turned his back on wealth and the life of sin. Even though he was a successful businessman with a university education, he lives the life of a warrior monk, along with his 4 wives and fifteen children. (No small responsibility, especially since each wife according to Moslem standards should be treated equally.) He has been reported to live in a cave with no running water. (His forces are also headquartered in remote deep well protected caves.) He has turned his back on the easy life, and technology and is waging a war against the non-Islamic world. Since America is the top power in the non-Islamic world and very active interfering in the affairs of the Moslem world, America has captured his negative attention.

Christians have long tried to tell secular Americans that the life of sin was an empty life. It is no surprise that Osama bin Laden lost interest in it.

Osama bin Laden was recruited by the CIA and rediscovered his religious roots in medieval Afghanistan when he led their freedom fighters against the infidel Russians. Al Quaeda was created by the CIA to be their Foot Soldiers. He said, “One day in Afghanistan was like one thousand days of praying in an ordinary mosque.” This is similar to the Baptism of Fire that the Christians talk about, which purges the weak sinner of what is insignificant in life and gets the pilgrim down to the real fundamentals of life, one’s spiritual roots. I’m not saying that bin Laden found the right roots, but he certainly found the spiritual roots of Islam, which included Jihad against the infidel.

Besides Osama bin Laden, over 20,000 other Arabs traveled to Afghanistan to join in the holy war against the Russians. Pakistan and Afghanistan became the crucible where these individuals were turned into warriors with a kamikaze martyr spirit and the training and experience to make them deadly. Our CIA helped supply them. The Russians provided one side of the hellish fight; America helped provide the other, and out of the conflict comes a closely bonded experienced group of CIA created Moslem warriors - AL CIADA. And Osama bin Laden was down in the trenches with them, sharing their dangers, and poor food. And the American elite’s Feudal House of al-Saud helped finance Osama bin Laden & the other Arab volunteers (mujahideen) from all over the Moslem world.

There were two events had great impact on Moslem terrorism. One was done by the United States, the other by Russia. America’s contribution was the “al-Azma” (literally Arab for “crisis”). The crisis was the American desecration of Saudi soil during Desert Shield/Storm. All of the Saudi religious leaders were against allowing the infidel American troops into Saudi Arabia. The global elite, as well as the House of Saud, knew that the Moslem world would be outraged for years, and they were.

The Russian contribution was to carry out the covert sabotage of a C-130 plane carrying Pakistan’s President Zia-ul-Haq on Aug. 17, 1988. His replacement, Benazir Bhutto, also made it national Pakistani policy to support militant Islamic fundamentalists. Pakistan gave out special “tourist” visas and airline tickets were given out to Moslems who wanted to join the militant fundamentalists in their Pakistani training camps. Kosovo Albanians and Bosnian Moslems were some of those who came. They didn’t come to liberate Afghanistan. They came to create militant Moslem groups in their own countries.

Another Russian contribution to things was Gulbaddin Hekmatiyar, a Muslim leader who they controlled, and who led one of the factions of Afghan resistance. His contribution was to fight other resistance groups and weaken the original Afghan mujahideen forces.

Next, it was Pakistan (still supported by the U.S.) who encouraged the Afghan mujahideen to carry out a large-scale conventional offensive against the fortress Jalalabad. In a fashion similar to the how the Viet Cong (southerners) were eliminated by the Tet offensive, and then the NVA (northerners) had complete control, the Afghani rebels lost large numbers of men, & were replaced by Pakistan’s Taliban mujahideen force.

We can then see how through a series of actions encouraged by outside influences, the original Afghan forces were decimated and the fundamentalist Taliban, who were foreigners, could take over. In a sense, Afghanistan was still an occupied country; they traded the occupation by the Russians for the occupation of the Taliban.

In 1989, after the war, Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia as a popular war hero. He was popular with the Saudi Royal family, with whom he was still very close friends. He was also close to Saudi intelligence. Since the Saudi Royal family is clearly reprobate spiritually, by any standards, - just using the Islam Fundamentallist Myth to control their subjects in a Feudal way it is difficult to rationalize Bin Laden’s loyalty to them unless he too was a cynical sinecure working for the CIA, and to seriously continue to believe he genuinely believed in the tenets of Islam. Unless perhaps he has multiple personalities, which may well be the case. Bin Laden is now titled as Sheikh bin Laden, and is very respected across the Moslem world.

THE CREATION OF A VIABLE MOSLEM WAR THREAT

While an explanation of how this threat was created will not eliminate it, it is useful for us to learn how the bad guys’ threat was created.

The bad guys in the script had to have a viable dangerous army or threat. It has taken billions of dollars and countless wars and machinations by the global elite to finally get the fundamental Moslems to the point that they are both angry and a real threat.

In 1991, after the Afghan war wound down, the militant Moslem fundamentalists shifted from Pakistan to the Sudan. Iran contributed to this shift. The training of hard-core fighters occurred in numerous countries, but the center of activity shifted to Africa.

Anyway, prior to the Afghan War, the Moslem world lacked a large trained international cadre of dedicated warriors committed to fundamentalism. The Afghan war provided the perfect setting with which to create the hard core international Moslem cadre to create a third world war. It was the perfect setting because the United States, which protects Israel, could (without the contradiction looking too obvious) supply and assist these Moslem fundamentalists, and Russia could provide a technologically superior super-power for them to train against. I realize that most people reading this will not realize the enormous cultural-technological gulf that has existed between the Arab world and the West. To put it bluntly, these people were riding donkeys and camels a few years ago, and living in medieval cultures. The ways of organizing things, of openness, and education that we take for granted were foreign to them. The establishment press has done a poor job of showing this cultural gap. In order to create a credible threat to the West, the Moslem world has had to receive an incredible amount of help from the West and Russia. This incredible amount of assistance from the West and Russia finally began to show some successful results during the 1990’s. Even then the gap between the two cultures is enormous. I write this from first hand observations, as well as from the observations of numerous others who have shared their experiences.

By the way, this is not the first time America played both sides of a conflict. During the six-day war of June 1967, the CIA provided the Egyptians important intelligence on the Israeli’s ongoing Order of Battle via the USS Liberty spy ship sailing near the battle in order to make the war more equal. The Israeli’s sank the U.S. spy ship. Since Israel & the U.S. call each other an ally, they both covered up the sordid affair.

During the 1990’s, these militant fundamentalists trained in Afghanistan have been using terrorism to gain control over the rest of the Moslem world and to extend Moslem control over the sub-Saharan and East African areas. The Somalian fiasco where hundreds of American Rambos almost got annihilated at Mogadishu was an extension of the new strength the Moslems gained from the spread of the trained militants. The defeat of America in Somalia convinced the Moslem militants that they could defeat America in other countries.

During the 1980’s and the 1990’s a large number of Moslem successes against Russia, Israel, and the United States have breathed a new spirit into the militant Moslems. This impact of these successes can’t be overstated. For instance, the Intifadah was only possible after the Palestinians regained their self-respect from a successful commando raid into Israel which used hang gliders. After losing war after war with Israel and the West, the Moslems had begun to doubt their abilities. Their successes worldwide that have occurred since Russia invaded Afghanistan have changed all that. That confidence is going to be crucial to sustain any credible world war.

Are we entering into a war similar to the Vietnam War, except that this time it will be continental (and perhaps global) rather than against a single nation? An example of how widespread the fighting is already is the Philippines. Militant Islamic Fundamentalists are fighting there. Both Iran and Iraq work with Bin Laden. Do the Muslim forces have enough of a military and terrorist threat to really create a third world war? It is clear that just as the elite quietly supplied Hitler’s war machine before and during W.W. II, the elite are going to continue to supply both sides to continue this war between Moslem fundamentalists and the West. The United States military has even provided training for some of the Moslems here in the United States. The Kosovo Liberation Army is connected to the Militant Moslems, and yet it was assisted during the Kosovo crisis by the Americans.

Where will the next major terrorist strike be? What kind of weapon will be used next? How far will the war spread? As things continue to deteriorate, we can expect more Moslem countries to become militant. The entire Moslem world is in a state of flux. Militant Moslems live in all over Europe. Chechnya is part of the militant Moslem network, and events were tossing Russia and the U.S. together as allies again until Putin came to power. The level of Moslem abilities to carry out terrorist acts is impressive. Besides extensive training in the use of aircraft as vehicles of terrorism, extensive work has taken place to create a cadre of trained martyrs who can carry suitcase nukes into areas.

While it looks great on paper that America can launch a $600,000 cruise missile with pinpoint accuracy, the effect of some expensive cruise missile hitting a mud building in Afghanistan is less impressive. America is infatuated with its military toys, but a few B-1s and B-2 Spirit bombers are not going to impress a hardened group of warriors who have already faced everything the Soviet Union could dish out. This “war” doesn’t seem to be well thought out. It seems to setting the stage for more trouble. In America’s haste to do something, it looks like Bush will be just as effective as Carter and Clinton were against radical Moslems. The threat from Moslem terrorism is more dangerous because the United States still thinks like it did when it fought North Vietnam.

For instance, during that war, the Vietnamese successfully used tunnel systems. The Moslem fundamentalists have spent energy learning how to copy those successful Vietnamese tunnel systems. Even our B-52 bombers had limited success against the Vietnamese’s tunnel systems, and our high technology failed. Our best weapon against the tunnels turned out to be small men called tunnel rats armed with knives. It seems that many of the same high tech American attitudes that had limited success in Vietnam are being brought out again. Dropping bombs on people is not the solution to the Moslem fundamentalists. It makes Americans feel good, but what are these expensive cruise missiles really accomplishing?

Our approach to solving our difficulties with Moslem fundamentalism is seriously lacking. Why are our leaders setting us up for failure? Who is going to benefit from this long war? What kind of alternatives could be creatively developed to back out of this mess? As usual, the elite have done their job well in creating this crisis. They prefer to develop these problems so that only one plan of action makes sense, and then they stampede us that direction before we can think of anything else.

What we have covered in this article are some of the details tracing the creation of today’s war between the U.S.A. and her allies and militant Moslem Fundamentalists. Some will call the evolution of hostilities accidental, or the fault of reckless indifference by incompetent politicians. But the strings of the puppets are visible if you look close. The unfolding of events look like scripts that were discussed years ago. It is obvious, that whatever caused this “war” has happened and now we have the problem of how to end it. But like a disease, we can treat the symptom or the cause, and in this case, the war is a symptom of a larger problem.