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| The depths of capitalist imperialism have driven several countries to ruin through WAR: Imperial Japan, fascist Italy, NAZI Germany, and the allies of these big three such as Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Slovaks who joined the AXIS invasion of the Soviet Union and Western Europe. Will our adventures in the Middle East in the so called War on Terror bring us to the same end? It needn't be that way but the possibility is there if we don't act responsibly and intelligently as a people and as a nation. This page will have thought and commentary on War and Foreign Policy. |
| War of Occupation is impossible in Iraq and Afghanistan --- Hollis Stewart The new commitment by the Obama administration demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the parameters of fighting a war on an undefined enemy. Hitherto wars have been fought between nations and one or the other nation won when it occupied the land or territory of its adversary. However, the "War on Terror" began and continues to be fought as a nation/s against a diffused, guerrilla style opponent that holds no nation and can't be occupied. Rather the enemy has been characterized as a war against a person, Osama Bin Laden, and a community organization type structure, Al Qaeda, which operates as a guerrilla military as one of its functions. In fighting this personal vendetta against OBL the US and our Allies have invaded two countries Afghanistan and Iraq that never attacked us and killed many of the civilians of both nations as well as dismantling the civil structure of the societies. Meanwhile, Al Qaeda simply moved to other fronts following the guerrilla strategy of refusing to come to do combat in a positional warfare strategy that nations use but which is unavailable to an insurgency or guerrilla movement. Recently it has come to light that our own government has been using Terror as a strategy with the utilization of assassination teams that operates/operated out of the White House through the Office of ex-Vice President Dick(head) Chaney. Now, the commitment to send 20,000 more troops into Afghanistan plays directly to the strength of the opponent and further weakens our country. It is the hope of Al Qaeda, and groups like it, that the US will continue to spread |
| willy-nilly across the middle east, enraging the peoples of the various countries as their fellow citizens, families, and friends are wantonly killed by our forces who have no idea what they are doing or why they are doing it. We make it easier for our opponents by not resisting the temptation to charge into the trap set for us. The Afghans have been an independent people for thousands of years and have a great tradition defeating invaders on their territory by refusing to surrender their freedom and sovereignty to outsiders, patiently wearing down the invaders and at last defeating them. They kicked the British out, the kicked the Soviets out and they will kick the US and our allies out or make us pay a terrible price for our mis-adventures based on old thinking. OBL, who may or may not be the "brains" or "mastermind" behind the insurgency/guerrilla war, is probably sitting in his Pakistani cave (or maybe he is in another country) putting markers on a map and laughing as the US spreads its forces farther and farther across the middle east. In fact he probably hopes that the US will soon send troops into Pakistan in large numbers because this will bring the war into one of the most densely populated areas of the world --- and a nation with nuclear weapons, a large military that is jealous of its territory, and a fierce Muslim people who are tired of living in poverty and at the mercy of the west. An incursion by the US would furnish radical islam with millions of possible recruits. Already our "drones", our assassination squads, and our support of the recently defeated military dictator have polarized the population against us. |
| Who knows: did we assassinate Ms. Bhutto last fall as she was preparing to take power after her electoral victory? It is for sure that Ms.Bhutto would not have been a President for Pakistan that Dick(head) Cheney would have liked to tolerate. And, like Bush, Obama is trying to get US allies to commit troops and resources to Afghanistan but it is not going to happen. Oh sure, the laughing stock ass licking British will probably send some ignorant young men there, but not much else is going to happen because the other countries understand the stakes and aren't about to be around to suffer the defeat. It is an American war and it will be lost by our nation because our generals, who only get promotions when they can point to wars that need their services, will continue to work to drum up business. There was a reason that the framers of our Constitution, Thomas Jefferson first of all, made the military subservient to the civilian, elected leadership --- to not allow generals to promote policy so that they would have a vested interest in promoting wars. |
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Our troops deserve better than to fight and die in Afghanistan and Iraq following a bogus war policy that was
built on a foundation of lies, misdirection, and fear hyping by the Bush/Cheney administration. Afghanistan
never attacked the US and offered to turn OBL over to the US if we furnished evidence of his involvement with
the attacks of 9/11. Iraq never supported OBL or had anything to do with 9/11. Now, we are told we must stay
the course because of the troops we have lost and the investment that we have made. How many dead troops
and civilian casualties will it take in Afghanistan and Iraq before we do the inevitable and leave? The people
of these nations can and must handle their own problems. No War for Oil! Obama should get us out, just cut
and go and then pay reparations for the damage we have done in these two countries.
built on a foundation of lies, misdirection, and fear hyping by the Bush/Cheney administration. Afghanistan
never attacked the US and offered to turn OBL over to the US if we furnished evidence of his involvement with
the attacks of 9/11. Iraq never supported OBL or had anything to do with 9/11. Now, we are told we must stay
the course because of the troops we have lost and the investment that we have made. How many dead troops
and civilian casualties will it take in Afghanistan and Iraq before we do the inevitable and leave? The people
of these nations can and must handle their own problems. No War for Oil! Obama should get us out, just cut
and go and then pay reparations for the damage we have done in these two countries.
Recently, General McCrystal got fired for his ignorant comments about his commander in chief, the President, but the real
problem is that reality on the ground is catching up with his failed strategy of counter insurgency, COIN. We have managed
to kill civilians, destroy villages, and wreak havoc on the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan in our surge and all it has done
is further alienate the citizens of both nations. Now we are sending General Petraeus there but he won't do any better.
JUST FOR THOUGHT: IRAQ HAS NOT BEEN PACIFIED OR THE WAR "WON", RATHER THE LOW INTENSITY WARFARE
CONTINUES AND IN THE LONG RUN WE WILL BE SENT PACKING IN BOTH OF THESE COUNTRIES AS WE WERE IN
VIETNAM. We can't run other people's countries for them --- that is their business.
Several Americans were killed when a "double" agent blew himself up in a CIA outpost in Afghanistan. Again, while we may
find some "Arabs" or "Muslims" willing to sell out their own brothers and sisters for money to participate in a program of
"Arabs killing Arabs" or "Muslims killing Muslims" in the service of the West most will not and they will sell out their
American handlers in a hot minute .
You or I would not kill our fellow Americans in a paid program of "Americans killing Americans" for another country. We
tried this stupid concept in Vietnam when we championed a policy of "Asians killing Asians" to reduce American casualties
in that country. This racist policy didn't work then and it won't work now. The racism is exhibited when we foolishly believe
that our lives are worth more to others than their own lives, duh. Dullards like McCrystal are a dime a dozen.
problem is that reality on the ground is catching up with his failed strategy of counter insurgency, COIN. We have managed
to kill civilians, destroy villages, and wreak havoc on the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan in our surge and all it has done
is further alienate the citizens of both nations. Now we are sending General Petraeus there but he won't do any better.
JUST FOR THOUGHT: IRAQ HAS NOT BEEN PACIFIED OR THE WAR "WON", RATHER THE LOW INTENSITY WARFARE
CONTINUES AND IN THE LONG RUN WE WILL BE SENT PACKING IN BOTH OF THESE COUNTRIES AS WE WERE IN
VIETNAM. We can't run other people's countries for them --- that is their business.
Several Americans were killed when a "double" agent blew himself up in a CIA outpost in Afghanistan. Again, while we may
find some "Arabs" or "Muslims" willing to sell out their own brothers and sisters for money to participate in a program of
"Arabs killing Arabs" or "Muslims killing Muslims" in the service of the West most will not and they will sell out their
American handlers in a hot minute .
You or I would not kill our fellow Americans in a paid program of "Americans killing Americans" for another country. We
tried this stupid concept in Vietnam when we championed a policy of "Asians killing Asians" to reduce American casualties
in that country. This racist policy didn't work then and it won't work now. The racism is exhibited when we foolishly believe
that our lives are worth more to others than their own lives, duh. Dullards like McCrystal are a dime a dozen.