The comic book intellect of the average American brainwashed by the teachings of
a Bernard Lewis (a British jewish historian) that the West basically both Britain
and the US are committed to “wars with no end” as the main means of keeping
Israel safe from mainly Asian and Arab Muslims can only lead to the most
glaring reality that has marked US policies since the end of WWII.

If the US still maintains thousands of its military in Japan, South Korea,
Bahrein,Italy, Germany and in almost every state that came into existance after
the break up of the USSR and at present is in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan (soon to be in Somalia, Sudan and Chad in Africa)
can hardly believe that come 2075 there will be no more US troops in the named countries.
Like the proverbial surges Bush’s and Obama’s may come and go but Bernard
Lewis’s, “wars with no end” against we all know who will continue.

I have heard the concern about nukes falling into the hands of Radicals in Pak coming from Obama.
No shit that is why we are beefing up our efforts.
Yet what strikes me as disingenous about this mans agruement is that we should allow Islamic countries to aid in this effort. You mean like Iran, who has it’s Own Ruling radicals? Like Hamas, who’s hated US for decades as well? Maybe Somalians who not only highjack our cargo ships now, but were a former safe haven for Bin laden & AQ.Should we trust our dear old Libyan ‘friend’ Moammar Kadhafi?
And I have yet to hear the Saudis, Kuwaitis’ or Dubians belly up anything of substance.
So we are not only waiting for their offer of assistance, we also want their assurances they won’t shoot US in the back.

Keep in mind that US “aid” has been so perfected that US corporations (Bechtel, Haliburton, the Carlyle Group, etc.) are the primary beneficiaries.  The projects are yet another conduit to funnel taxpayer dollars to a handful of private corporations.  All the while, taxpayer dollars are being used to “train” the enemy’s troops so that they will enforce the “proper business climate” and crush any resistance to US corporate and military lawlessness. These officer corps in training will do nicely in case a democratically popular politician shows any sign of putting his country’s resources at the disposal of his own people instead of open to foreign despoilation and theft.  The officer corp will be there to act as death squads, provide agents for subversion and sabotage, and will be all too willing to carry out a coup at the behest of their American paymasters, just as their counterparts have done in the US National Security States in Latin America and across the world.

The CIA and Pakistan’s ISI are partners in the Global War of Terror.  The goal is to control the resources (drugs, oil, and the money that comes from them), cut out all competition to US corporate investment, and establish laws which make the theft all nice and legal.

“It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable and to propagandize the American people to hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on arms.”
(John Stockwell)

“...the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of “investor friendly” regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights.”
(Edward S. Herman)

“There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and “develop” them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the “enforcers” of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.”
(Edward S. Herman)

“If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?”
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

“Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector.”
(Michael Lerner)

“The men and women who enlist in this country’s military [should] be told the truth that they are not protecting the United States, they are and always have been protecting corporate interests.”
(Chante Wolf, Veterans for Peace)

“Evenhanded use of the “terrorist” label would mean sometimes affixing it directly on the U.S. government. During the past decade, from Iraq to Sudan to Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan, Pentagon missiles have destroyed the lives of civilians just as innocent as those who perished on September 11, 2001. If journalists dare not call that “terrorism,” then maybe the word should be retired from the media lexicon.”
(Norman Solomon)

It doesn’t require much dot-connecting to comprehend that Pakistan is the real concern in the region. It’s equally
obvious that the foreign policy goal of keeping nukes out of the hands of Pashtun extremists is a touchy subject
in Pakistan. Already Obama’s mere suggestion in a speech last week that Pakistan might do more to fight
extremists was met with faux outrage and defensive caterwauling from Pakistan’s officials and media, who fear
political backlash if they are seen as American foreign policy lapdogs, or worse, too weak to defend themselves.

In this political environment, the best second solution (once the above premise is accepted) is to engage the
extremists from the other side: Afghanistan. This may have the unfortunate effect of pushing these groups and
their poisonous ideology deeper into Pakistan, where military resistance will be weaker, and more prone to
corruption—something we all know, but cannot say publicly without offending and thereby alienating
sympathetic Pakistanis.

Clearly, Obama has accepted the notion that doing nothing about these extremists is not an option, since it will,
in his judgement, lead to the fall of the Afghani gov’t, which, in turn will strengthen the extremists in Pakistan
and pose a grave threat to a feeble Pakistan.

All the rhetoric about terrorism and Al Queda is there to sell the military operation to the American public,
nothing more. There is no need for gifted analysis, or journalistic expertise to figure all this out, since it is all
rather transparent by design.

I like to add Iran to Mr. Dajani’s theory. The US and its allies will have more than 300,000 troops & private contractors by the end of 2010 placed in Afghanistan which is geographically situated between Pakistan & Iran.

“Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”

“The momentum of Asia’s economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.”

- Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/the-ones-who-attacked-us/

johnny far out,,,

I enjoyed your post….

Of course, I’m a broken record on this subject but here I go again..

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are wars for Greater Israel…. Period!!!!!!!!!!!111

To not discuss Israel in the context of these 2 wars is like me wondering why I have a beer belly when I drink 15 Pabst Blue Ribbons everyday….

Jamal Dajani of Link TV is a good counter to the fairy
tales told to the children of the U.S. by the MSM
propaganda machine.

johnnyfarout,
Go, man, go!

O’Bama is folding under to some threat made on him and his family, to go along with this plan from the New American Century mentalists. Most sources from the world outside the US see Osama bin Laden as already having been murdered in the past, or he is no longer involved in terrorism for the CIA, and is retired in an undisclosed location, just like The Dick Cheney. Al Queda is a media creation of the CIA to smoke screen their savage activities all over the world. 9/11 had nothing to do with Afghablamastam, or Iraq, as any intelligent person can know by reading a few websites. Thousands more US soldiers will die for nothing but the financial powers of the US Empire to use military force to make 3rd world people die also. This is a nightmare just like Viet Nam for us to live through as a gift of cynicism from our ruling class. O’Bama is committing a sin of global dimensions in not speaking the truth, that Al Queda is a creation and figment of the CIA/Pentagon Military Industrial Complex to scare the crap out of ignorant propagandized Americans. Plus we will not get health care that will be anything other than bullshit business as usual. What kind of failure and doom do you want with your coffee as you sit in another traffic jamb on your way to your lying, cheating, and scheming job? Knuckle under and take the blue pill like you are told. I must be off my Prozac today.