Obama's coming tragic mistake, expanding the illegal and lost war on Afghanistan
Mike9
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_afghanistan
Yeah, right.
Obama's coming decision may include sending 34,000 more soldiers and
support troops to Afghanistan.
There were no Afghans onboard the 9/11 airplanes.
There were no Afghans involved in the planning for 9/11.
The war was illegal, complete overkill as well as a terrible blunder
and crime,
by the idiot from Texas and the warmonger-scoundrel from Wyoming.
These two had no military and geopolitical sense whatsoever.
The war should never have been started.
Now they are in a quagmire: they can't leave and they can't stay,
so they will escalate and expand the killing. As in Vietnam.
With Obama we all thought we elected a peace = anti-war president!
A man who could think out of the box and come up with a clever
solution for peace.
Copied from Time.com 10-28-2009: 3 paragraphs:
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Yet eight years of war with no end in sight leaves other military
experts vexed. "Having to a great extent captured, killed and
seriously disrupted the al-Qaeda leadership and training
infrastructure in Afghanistan, the necessity, and therefore the
strategy for this war, has gotten away from us," Air Force Major
Jeremy Kotkin, a strategist with the U.S. Special Operations Command,
wrote on Aug. 31 in Small Wars Journal, an independent
counterinsurgency blog. "We have transferred the consequence of the
very real threat of al-Qaeda to the Taliban, to fields of Afghan
poppies, and to the political and economic shambles that was and is
Afghanistan." Such mission creep, he says, has made the nation's task
in Afghanistan far tougher than originally intended.
Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army colonel, says the drone strikes are
paying off in Pakistan because of that nation's "quasi-legitimate
government and reasonably effective army" — neither of which
Afghanistan has. "So I don't think we can say the methods employed in
Pakistan are the right template for Afghanistan." But he does call the
war "misguided and unnecessary" and says the U.S. should work with the
country's tribal chiefs to ensure stability in their respective
valleys. And offhore spy-and-strike capabilities could, at a minimum,
keep al-Qaeda off balance in the region "and optimally destroy
whatever entity is engaged in a plot."
Beyond such tactical issues, Bacevich, who served in Vietnam, is
baffled by the willingness of today's U.S. Army officers to engage in
a never-ending counterinsurgency. "If you're in my generation, it is
simply extraordinary that we now have an officer corps that accepts
protracted, morally ambiguous warfare as its destiny," says Bacevich,
now a professor at Boston University. "They have embraced this as the
new American way of war, heedlessly, thoughtlessly and — in terms of
what the larger interests of the country require — very foolishly."
Obama will be weighing precisely those larger interests in the days
ahead.
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Barack Obama will now become the next Lyndon Johnson =
war president = a 4-year failure, as he will not have the audacity
and
courage to buck the system, stand up to the military goons and
work a withdrawal. It's clear the US warmaking machine
(industrial-military complex) with its bought politicians is just too
powerful and too wedded to arms making and illegal and thus criminal
killing and destruction in foreign countries many thousands of miles
away from our own shores.
It's not about defense. These are offensive wars.
And all that for oil, gas, pipelines and military bases in two of the
richest resource areas of the world. The reasons why are never
articulated, but are very clear.
The war is nothing but a western neo-colonial war. How can you
invade a country, occupy and bomb it for 8 years, and then
still expand the armies to kill more Afghans in their own country?
The war on Afghanistan, as the war on Iraq, are western
colonial wars for oil, gas, pipelines and bases. That makes
them criminal, robber-type wars.
The arguments are always: We are bringing democracy!
We are bringing freedom and education for women.
We need to help the people. We can't abandon them.
Yeah, right.
Just all lies and fabricated justifications for a robber-type
war on one of the poorest countries in the world.
That's why we opposed Bush and we will oppose Obama.
No buts or ifs at all.
Michael McKinley