OBAMA AND THE SAME OLD BUSH LIES, FOR THE SAME REASONS
By Peter Chamberlin
Online Journal
Dec 8, 2009, 00:26
The war in Afghanistan is being escalated on false pretenses. There
is zero chance to "win" the war with the "new" (which is the same
old failed) strategy and everybody involved with it knows it.
When Obama and McChrystal use the words "win" and "victory," they
are not using the same dictionary used by the rest of the human race.
"Victory" to them, means that the greater undefined mission can
continue, not come to an end.
Afghanistan, like Iraq, will never see the withdrawal of American/NATO
forces; that’s why all the giant super-bases are needed in both
countries. That also applies to the massive super-embassy being
built in Islamabad. "Victory" is not winning, but is the point
in the war when large numbers of troops fighting this war can be
safely transferred to the next war. This is what we are seeing in
the so-called withdrawal from Iraq and will probably see in the
anticipated withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2011. There will never be
a real American withdrawal from any of these countries, unless it is
forced upon them by the people.
Just like Iraq, Afghanistan has been drawn-out until the start
of the next war in Pakistan. This is done with the fraudulent war
strategy of training replacement armies to fight the enemies which
America’s superior forces could not defeat. Switching missions from an
offensive war to a training mission merely gives the adversary time to
reinforce. All the generals and strategists are aware of this; it is
simply a part of the plan. The plan has nothing to do with defeating
anyone, except maybe for eventually defeating the Russians. We might
also fight for the sake of denying energy resources to our greater
adversaries, the Chinese.
The "war on terror" is in reality, a war on mediocrity. We are waging
this war in order to maintain our position as "Number One" boss of
the world. Our leaders have determined that we cannot accept any other
nation becoming our equal, meaning that they would have to share the
power that they have accumulated unto themselves. The infamous document
from the "neocon" Project for a New American Century, which clearly
delineates this triumphal American ideology, is not an expression of
a radical minority, but rather, a summation of the single American
ideology which is common to both political parties.
There are two neoconservative parties in America, masquerading as
opposites.
The escalation in southern Afghanistan is embraced by both parties,
as American and NATO forces move against local Taliban, hoping to push
all the fighters into Balochistan, or back into South Waziristan. The
entire war effort has consisted of herding the militants wherever
central command planned to go next. This is the reason that many of
the posts along the Durand Line were closed before Pakistan moved
into S. Waziristan. Who ever heard of military planners opening the
back door before coming in the front? How can one pincer by itself
perform a pincer movement?
As long as the American people are willing to wage war without defined
missions, our so-called leaders will be able to play these dangerous
games. One would think that the ever loyal American veterans would
grow tired of watching their comrades and their own children die
for wars based on nothing but lies. The dishonor they bring upon
all servicemen, by not speaking-up for their own, will haunt them
until the day they die. Soldiers who are martyred in the liberation
of countries are rightly honored, but who will honor those who have
given their lives in wars fought to enslave mankind?
The American people were enlisted in this war under the pretense of
fighting against a malignant evil, only to see this war hijacked in
the service of other causes. The fight against terrorists has become
a war against nuclear proliferation, a war for Israel’s security,
a war for oil, a war for any reason they dream up.
What has become of the moral sense of the people of the United States?
Has life for us become so hard and uncertain that we will support any
effort to merely keep things from getting worse, even if that means
turning every country, especially our own, into a police state? We
surrender our rights to choose our own destinies when we submit to the
extortion that to do otherwise will make things get a lot worse. Isn’t
this the same threat that Saudi Prince Bandar allegedly made to the
British Crown over ending pay-offs — that failing to comply with
his demands would mean that the terror against Britain would get a
lot worse?
If we don’t support Obama and McChrystal’s surge, then what will
happen? They tell us that if we don’t let them have their way,
then the terror in Afghanistan and Pakistan will only grow worse. I
say that is a total lie. If they do escalate the Special Forces and
Predator strikes into Pakistan, launching a powerful counter-insurgency
campaign, then I guarantee that everywhere will become like Peshawar
is today. Peshawar is bombed daily, because the armies of militants
were driven to the city’s doorstep.
Apparently these assholes haven’t figured out the formula for this
war yet — the more innocent people you kill, the more young men
will volunteer to fight against the Americans to avenge them. The
anti-American terrorism that makes the whole world suffer is not a
spontaneous phenomenon; it is a reaction against what we have been
doing in that part of the world for a lot longer than this current
war has been raging. They fight because we kill their friends and
relatives, simple as that.
America’s military leaders act as if they make policy for the
politicians, instead of the other way around. They make their plans and
tell us that we must stick to them or else our "American way of life"
will perish from the face of this earth. Well, maybe that wouldn’t
be such a bad thing, after all. They don’t bother to own up to the
facts about our precious way of life, even though everything around
us screams out about the utter wrongness of our ways.
The continuing global economic collapse has been precipitated
by American greed and profit-takers upsetting the balance of the
international economic system. The low-level world war we see before
us is a direct result of the many unnecessary low-level wars we have
started, trying to preserve our inflated status. One day soon, the
world will hold American leaders accountable for what they have done
to the world in their greed. But in the end, it will be the American
people who will pay the price for the havoc that has been unleashed,
in addition to the hundreds of millions globally who live in our
chosen war zones. In the end, America as we know it will cease to
exist within the global American empire, or in the catastrophic chaos
that will result from failure of the empire. Either way, the America
of our youth is no more.
It will only be through our own uprising and chaining these criminal
psychopaths who run and ruin our nation that the world will be spared
what is barreling down the road at us. The war in Afghanistan is but
an act of very desperate men.
Peter Chamberlin may be contacted at [email protected].