AFGHAN DEBATE? WHAT AFGHAN DEBATE?
The debate over new policy for Afghanistan is tragically missing the best option of ending our involvement in that senseless and futile war just as we take baby steps to end our senseless and futile war in Iraq.
When President Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs announced withdrawing from Afghanistan was off the table, he signaled an overwhelming victory for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex which has an insatiable need for endless war to promote their careers, their wealth and their lust for power.
The previous decade began with the worst event that ever befell the Complex, the collapse of Soviet Communism. The last thing they wanted was a Peace Dividend to rebuild American education and infrastructure and manufacturing base because none of that benefited career war lovers. The current decade began with the greatest event to befall the Complex, the September 11, 2001, attacks. With flames still billowing out of the hole in the ground that was once the World Trade Center, the politicians and the pundits and the career military who come alive only in warfare, had an endless excuse to attack any land in the Middle East that was weak enough for bullies in the Complex to make war against. The beauty of 911 is that we only needed to announce a threat by Islamic extremists residing in the target of choice.
First up was Afghanistan because that is where the rag tag equivalent of a street gang who committed 911 was apparently trained. We should have done the sensible thing - kill them and get out. Instead, we neither killed them nor got out, but took over the entire country which provides endless war for the Complex but endless decline to America.
While still stuck in the quicksand of Afghanistan, the Complex ginned up a totally fabricated war in Iraq, without a shred of evidence to justify it other than that infamous “threat” and the alleged presence of “Islamic extremists” that the 911 attacks made possible.
The truth most Americans are too afraid or too horrified to admit is both these wars are criminal in violation of the directives and prohibitions of the Nuremburg War Crime Trials following World War II. We led numerous German war leaders to the gallows or prison and the Far East equivalent did the same the Japanese war lords. But try to apply those standards to our own rulers and the new leadership and the media and the masses just shrug and go on with war as usual.
America needs to get out of Iraq, get out of Afghanistan, stop bombing civilians in Pakistan and cease nonsensical talk of blockading or even attacking Iran. Those in the Complex who stand the most to lose personally should look around and the shuttered car dealers, vacated factories, crumbling bridges and roads, forty-six million without health care and a second rate educational system and just get out of the way. They can consider themselves lucky that they’ve sucked away countless billions for their retirement and won’t have to face a war crime docket for their skullduggery.
When President Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs announced withdrawing from Afghanistan was off the table, he signaled an overwhelming victory for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex which has an insatiable need for endless war to promote their careers, their wealth and their lust for power.
The previous decade began with the worst event that ever befell the Complex, the collapse of Soviet Communism. The last thing they wanted was a Peace Dividend to rebuild American education and infrastructure and manufacturing base because none of that benefited career war lovers. The current decade began with the greatest event to befall the Complex, the September 11, 2001, attacks. With flames still billowing out of the hole in the ground that was once the World Trade Center, the politicians and the pundits and the career military who come alive only in warfare, had an endless excuse to attack any land in the Middle East that was weak enough for bullies in the Complex to make war against. The beauty of 911 is that we only needed to announce a threat by Islamic extremists residing in the target of choice.
First up was Afghanistan because that is where the rag tag equivalent of a street gang who committed 911 was apparently trained. We should have done the sensible thing - kill them and get out. Instead, we neither killed them nor got out, but took over the entire country which provides endless war for the Complex but endless decline to America.
While still stuck in the quicksand of Afghanistan, the Complex ginned up a totally fabricated war in Iraq, without a shred of evidence to justify it other than that infamous “threat” and the alleged presence of “Islamic extremists” that the 911 attacks made possible.
The truth most Americans are too afraid or too horrified to admit is both these wars are criminal in violation of the directives and prohibitions of the Nuremburg War Crime Trials following World War II. We led numerous German war leaders to the gallows or prison and the Far East equivalent did the same the Japanese war lords. But try to apply those standards to our own rulers and the new leadership and the media and the masses just shrug and go on with war as usual.
America needs to get out of Iraq, get out of Afghanistan, stop bombing civilians in Pakistan and cease nonsensical talk of blockading or even attacking Iran. Those in the Complex who stand the most to lose personally should look around and the shuttered car dealers, vacated factories, crumbling bridges and roads, forty-six million without health care and a second rate educational system and just get out of the way. They can consider themselves lucky that they’ve sucked away countless billions for their retirement and won’t have to face a war crime docket for their skullduggery.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 7:45 PM
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