I thought I would give o enough rope as I could have stated this way before now
and as obvious as the military industrial congressional financial complex’s part in
having their ‘magic fuckboy ’ ridiculously sacrifice more troops(are those troops all of them americans?) under the guise that there is noway that america can defend itself at home and they won’t come close to winning any war abroad because the wars are ‘sustained’ now and never won but a war can be made to sort of ‘win an election’ and that is why I wanted to give o enough rope so maybe he would do the right thing and hang himself.

So, this little conflict will be, in 2011 when o ‘brings the boys and girls home’,  the
year before the next presidential election be how o’s handlers will try to get his
genocidal butt re-elected which it may or may not do that because there are still
the voter scrub lists, the easily manipulated voting machines and obfuscation of
when and how to vote, but he and my congresspersons will NOT get my vote or
rather my vote won’t get him re-elected.

Just be aware that the 2012 election really will need the scrutiny of the last election and more.

No president can withstand the pressures of the military-industrial complex.  This is as true today as it was when Eisenhower said it probably more so.  You cannot achieve empire without the establishment of military bases in strategic locations.  Korea was one.  Vietnam was another, but failure to follow Clausewitz’s principles of war screwed that one up.  It won’t happen again.  Establishing bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategist dream come true.  And an all-volunteer army is essential to carry out that strategy.  The much talked about “draft” will seriously hobble the military so it ain’t gonna happen.  Actually, a military career is not bad as long as don’t get killed or seriously injured.  The pay isn’t half bad for higher enlisted personnel and the retirement benefits are OK.  As for officers with ranks of captain and above the pay is equal to civilian jobs with commensurate duties.

The conflated reasons for the Nato’s presence in Viet-Stan that have been repeated over and over again ,like a Brocken record ,The war on Terror, The war on Drugs and of course Gorden Brown’s latest rant -The fight
against corruption.Once PM Brown had declared in his speech that the commitment in Viet-Stan was vital to the security of England every tom ,dick and harry Pundit jumped on the band wagon -even the smiling
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton .The not so secret surge has been in the works for quite some time now and PM Brown has once again pledged to send more troops along with Poland-where does Poland find the
money? so folks don’t be surprised by President Obama’s decision of more troops in his address tonight -oh yes the surge will help the US forces to leave Viet-Stan sooner,imagine that.Many people believe that the
TAPI pipeline is a major reason for the surge and the raison d’être of this mission ,in order to pump gas from Turkmenistan down to Herat and eastwards towards Kandahar and afterwards to Pakistan and possibly
India ,but how can that be possible at the moment given Pakistanis instability and their conflict of interest with India.The other proposed pipeline which would also originate in Turkmenistan would pump oil southwards
all the way to Gwadar ,but Gwadar is in Baluchistan -basically part of Pakistan -and from there were would it be Shipped ,to China? The Chinese already have a pipeline running from Kazakhstan to the western part
of the PRC and if one recalls in the not so distant past the dubious trouble that was being sparked in Xinxiang Province.The port of Gwadar was to a large extent financed and built by the Chinese and it’s interesting
to note that the first ship to use the port facilities was Canadian -with a shipment of grain- but there exist other tantalizing mineral wealth in the Baluch province that is of interest not only to the PRC.Saudi Arabia has a vested interest in the Afpak war because of the possibility of contournement which is presently unfolding in this geopolitical chess game even though they claim a certain fear with regards to the Iranians and their Nuclear Program ,but realistically the Iranian dispute with the US is not only about Nuclear ambitions , the flow of oil is the major issue,if the Iranians acquiesce then Saudi Arabia will begin to feel a little more isolated, the Dubai debacle may just be a precursor.Getting back to Afghanistan and the Pashtuns that have been separated by the Durand Line which in essence was a dupe by the British at the time ,is making
it more difficult for the Coalition to achieve their goals because it intermingles two countries simultaneously in their quest to Westernize Afghanistan a task that has been stated will require many years to achieve,so no it’s not about terror or about drugs ,but closer to coercion and the suppression of of a society and their beliefs for corporate benefits.

It is well worth considering to whom the Afghan army is dysfunctional. That it stands in the way of US corporate interests and are an obstacle to US control of the oil pipelines and the heroin trade is clear.  What remains willfully ignored (in the US) is exactly who or what the enemy in Afghanistan is.  I would suggest, given the long and ruthless history of US aggression and neo-colonialism, that the enemy is any people or leader who chooses the welfare of their own country over anything US and Western multi-nationals covet.  Obama spouts the same tired, failed rhetoric of Vietnam and a thousand other imperial wars, and it is clear why schools are loathe to teach any real history, for then the people would recognize that all these same justifications by the oligarchy for legitimizing the illegitimate haven’t changed.  The US regularly installs and props up puppet dictators that it can count on to sign over the store, so the US theft is “lawful”.  Though I personally believe 9/11 was an inside job, presuming that the Bush regime told the truth about it points up the glaring dysfunctionality, incompetence and corruptness of our own multi-trillion dollar US “defense” industry, as well as the corporate Congress and the trade representative called the President. 
As a thought experiment, consider how the average American would take being invaded by a foreign power.  The occupier would predictably brand any who dissented, any who protested or took action to oust the invaders, an “insurgent” or a “terrorist”.  Such terms are meaningless and tell us nothing.  They would certainly cite various US acts, real or imagined, that precipitated the invasion, demanded a pre-emptive strike.  What would we do to those who collaborated with the hated invader?  Would we not consider it an act of the highest patriotism and honor to kill and fight, with any and every weapon and means available, the occupying enemy?  Would we believe the empty promises given by the invaders as they install their puppets into office, train those traitors and stooges who volunteer to defend the invaders from those they seek to conquer? 

“Far from being the terrorists of the world, the Islamic peoples have been its victims, principally the victims of U.S. fundamentalism, whose power, in all its forms-military, strategic, and economic-is the greatest source of terrorism on Earth…. People are neither still nor stupid. They see their independence compromised, their resources and land and the lives of their children taken away, and their accusing fingers increasingly point north: to the great enclaves of plunder and privilege. Inevitably, terror breeds terror and more fanaticism. But how patient the oppressed have been. Their distant voices of rage are now heard; the daily horrors in faraway brutalized places have at last come home.”
(John Pilger)

“The U.S. government leaders ... have created an idol, the military machine. They require the people of this country to sacrifice to this idol. Not only tax dollars, but the lives and futures of the nation’s young people, the health of communities and society, and the well-being of natural resources and the environment are all offered up at the altar of military might.”
(Friends Committee on National Legislation)

“Around the world, the message received is that, whoever wins [the U.S. election], expect only more of the same - national narcissism disguised as altruism, corporate appeasement, and the arbitrary use of U.S. military and economic might.”
(Greg Guma)

When I said that the US will never again allow the press nor the public to dictate the conduct of war I should have added that an all volunteer military force makes this much more achievable.

Thomthum, December 1 at 3:24 pm #

I’ve run out of patience. I will be voting for the other guy
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I am curious , which other guy?

By felicity, December 1 at 2:20 pm #

“Stuff like this makes me pace the floor in anger.”

Nader tried to warn you, but you wouldn’t listen. On the other hand, you can still celebrate O’s winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Why do we have to “TRAIN” the police, military etc…in all of these countries that we have NO BUSINESS in in the first place.

Get the hell out and leave them to destroy themselves in anyway they see fit. It is none of our business, we cannot even take care of the problems here in America, and as for the repukelicans using an expanding war as an excuse to delay health care longer, which will never take place and if it does it will be useless, especially 4-5 years from now. A health care plan would cost about 5.2 billion a year on the latest figure I heard and repukes bitch, but is more than dandy to waste 4 billion dollars plus per week in just Iraq.

Time to cut our losses and let these people shift for themselves, which they are capable of doing, the longer we make them dependent upon America, the less the incentive to do it for themselves. We cannot afford to continue these wasteful and senseless wars just to make the uber-rich richer. We need to concentrate on the problems here at home-where the majority of Americans live and not some country on the other side of the world.Let their governments worry about them and if the people didn’t like the way things are run in their own country they would have done something about it long ago.Since they didn’t, they must be content.

Kostyaatya…

The US lost in Vietnam, but not in Korea.  Both wars were fought to establish a long term viable US presence.  With South Korea the US gained a strong economic trading partner as well as a military base.  It was the same outcome hoped for in Vietnam.  A South Vietnam beholden to the US becomes another military outpost and trading partner.  So instead of making shoes and shirts they’d be making computers and cars today!

The US will never again allow the press and public to decide foreign politics——its just too important!  Surrounding Iran with US outposts in both Iraq and Afghanistan is a strategy that Sun Tzu would admire!

COIN For Coin

COIN is a blooper
a policy bloater
pumped by deluded blooters

One nation under coin
divisible in
.. a manual of just US
or… predator deliver us
in the quagmire deluded by coin
for,.. by,.. and of,.. the INCs

The INCs of the coin
the culture vultures of surge
who support rather than purge
the poppy field war lords
in the dessert of dirge

One nation under sac
a Goldman without back
a preemptive manual in black
to guide the prescient puppets
of ‘we make reality’ ..hacks
for..
coin is what makes us
the holders are what shakes us

Be a counterinsurgency blot
an Alexander the Great or a Hottentot
for it’s red ink for the lot
don’t hesitate,,.. take up your spot.

Line up for an opiate.

Ship out for the coin.

From this point on, Barack Obama is personally responsible for every dead G.I. that gets tagged and bagged in that stinking Hell-hole. Furthermore, to say that the ANA will step up and do the job in three years sounds suspiciously like the situation in Vietnam when it was announced that the war would be turned over to the ARVN forces, who were largely apathetic and would clearly lose the war to the fiercly committed Communist troops. This is no solution, and it isn’t even a decent Band-aid. Obama has failed miserably to deal with this issue.

Only thing left to say, is something a neighbor once said in re something else, the great line,
  “Nothing good can come of this.”.

THE AUDACITY OF OBAMA’S HOPEFUL EXIT STRATEGY

There are several versions of: “Fool me once, shame
on

you,fool me twice shame on me….”, and also: You
don’t

have to fool all of the people all of the time,
just…”

This Bush 3 miscreant creature has screwed us 100% of

the time, from campaign to today’s news, & MSM is

lapping it up & fecal vomiting it out with occasional

breaks for celebrity funerals or infidelities, and a

balloon boy hoax thrown in so things appear “normal”

instead of ho hum business as usual.

I’ve run out of patience. I will be voting for the other guy.

Good luck with your war, President Obama.

We lost in Vietnam and neither a greater nor a lessor part of the world turned to communism. Our need for bases in Iraq and Afghanistan is just as pointless.

Kostyaatya…

You got that right——it’s only words to assuage the public.  The need for military bases in both Iraq and Afghanistan is quite evident.

It is 40 years since President Nixon gave us details about his plan to end the war on Vietnam. President Obama should have heard the words I quoted below by now. Given the announcement of his decision tonight, it is clear he cannot understand them. Nixon told future generations, and presidents, that if his Vietnamization policy fails, we aught to heed its critics.

“If it does succeed, what the critics say now won’t matter. If it does not succeed, anything I say then won’t matter,” said President Nixon on 11/3/1969.

Isn’t getting rid of the Taliban religious genocide?

Which should we frighten us most - that Obama actually believes in the viability of this escalation, or that this nothing more than a cynical maneuver to ensure a second term?

President Obama has failed us.  Shockingly so.  We voted for change and what we
are getting is support - aid and comfort- for former President Bush’s middle
eastern policies.  I include support for Wall Street here and their greed as well. 
America has homeless, hungry, jobless americans.  Yet we throw billions of dollars
invading other nations and to finance trust funds of the bankrupt Wall Street
crowds.  Helps our economy?  Absolutely not. Obama is an abject failure and it is
so disappointing.

Stuff like this makes me pace the floor in anger.  The utter conceit, the complete disregard for pride of country, the American military marches into a sovereign nation, insults its military by assuming they have to be trained to fight, even though they’ve been fighting off invaders for centuries - and, by the way, have always won - and wonderment of wonderment can’t understand why the local military doesn’t take too well to being ‘instructed’ in how to fight a war.

Actually, from a military perspective, the need for bases in Iraq and Afghanistan is quite evident.  From all appearances Iran will be the next bona fide enemy and what better than to have Iran surrounded by a US presence.  From an Iranian perspective you can see why they desire to have a functional nuclear capability——they need a viable deterrence.

Kind of expected another Vietnamization strategy.  Quite unique huh?

http://www.kostyaatya.blogspot.com/

We Really Do Regret to Inform You

Here is a form letter that I think would be appropriate for use by the Obama Administration. No apologies needed to be given to A. Lincoln as he is dead and because he had the courage to stand up against his generals.

The White House
Washington, DC. [fill in the date]

Dear Sir(s) and/or Madam(s):

I have been informed by the database of the War Department that you are the father or mother of a child or children, some other close relative, or the significant other of a same sex partner we have not been officially informed about, who have died, as they agreed to risk doing when they signed with any of the branches of our military, from an improvised explosive device, suicide bomber or an unfortunately targeted drone bomb. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the United States of America, and the Islamic Something of a Republic of Afghanistan, which they died to create, or at least keep going until I can figure a way out of the region. I pray that our Heavenly Person may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of whatever it is we are trying to achieve over there.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

B. Obama

PS: The forgoing communication does not, in any way, constitute an admission of any negligence or wrongdoing on the part of the President, his cabinet or anyone in his administration other than from the normal consequences resulting from any aggressive engagement of any forces, foreign or domestic, that have been previously certified by the U.S. Congress or otherwise sanctioned under the U.S. Constitution, as understood at the time of the incident in question.