Our petulant president’s ego can’t handle a general letting off steam. Neither can any of the spoiled children who comprise “our” government in D.C., the capital of the “superpower.”
Generals have to fight wars that civilians start, either from the incompetence of their diplomacy or the arrogance of their hubris. Generals have to get young troops killed because of the stupidity or ambition or corruption of civilian government officials.
All McChrystal did was to let off steam. A real president would have realized that and let it go.
Don’t get me wrong. McChrystal is a militarist, and I am pleased to see him gone.
However, McChrystal didn’t restart America’s aggression against Afghanistan. The Obama moron did.
People elected Obama, because they were tired of Bush’s wars based on lies. So Obama gave us a new war in Pakistan and reignited the Afghan war. No one knows what these wars are about or why the bankrupt US government is wasting vast sums of money, which it has to borrow from foreigners, in order to murder the citizenry in two countries that have never done anything to us.
Just as Bush/Cheney and their criminal neocon government deceived the world that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction” that threatened white people everywhere, Obama has conflated the Taliban with al Qaeda. Obama has sold the tale to white countries that unless the US determines how Afghanistan is ruled and by whom, white people are in danger of being exterminated by al Qaeda Taliban terrorists.
The most telling aspect of the McChrystal-Obama contretemps is that it has caused no one in the US government, or media, to ask why the US is still killing women and children in Afghanistan after 9 years. The US government is prepared for everyone except itself to be tried at the War Crimes Tribunal.
Fred Branfman writing in AlterNet on June 22 reminds us that five million Iraqis were killed, maimed, tortured and displaced by an American invasion based on lies told by the highest officials in the American government. Yet, no one has been held accountable.
But Gen. McChrystal is held accountable for letting off steam.
Once the Roman senate, the legislative branch, collapsed, the caesars, the executive branch, became the captives of the military. Now with Gen. Petraeus once again moved to the fore as McChrystal’s replacement in Afghanistan, we have the Obama moron elevating Petraeus to the Republican presidential nomination in the next election. Thus has Obama replaced himself with a man who will unify the military and executive branch.
Associated Press writers Jennifer Loven and Anne Gearan write (June 23) about the “admired and tightly disciplined Gen. David Petraeus,” the “architect of the Iraq war turnaround,” who is “once again to take hands-on leadership of a troubled war effort.”
Petraeus is an evolved form of general. He “won” in Iraq by paying protection money to the Sunnis who were effectively resisting the U.S. occupation. Petraeus figured out that it was far cheaper and more efficient to put the Sunnis on the US military payroll and to pay them to stop fighting, which is how the war between the Sunnis and the Americans ended. To keep the Americans out of the ongoing large scale sectarian violence that continues to slaughter Iraqis, the US military was confined to remote bases.
If history is a guide, the Afghans will also accept Petraeus’ protection money, and Petraeus has just enough time to buy the Afghan war before the next presidential election.
The Afghans will, of course, take the money and wait us out, just as the Iraqis are doing.
All of this drama is playing out despite the continuing lack of any valid reason for the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Washington idiots, trying to dictate how Iraq and Afghanistan are governed, are destroying constitutional government in the United States. In our hubris to determine how Iraq and Afghanistan are ruled, we are losing our own government.
Thank YOU Dr. Roberts,
for this most excellent analysis..as always
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now.. we know the rest of the story
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Dr. Roberts. For once I take issue with your statements. I always appreciate your frankness and indeed blunt comments that do not miss the mark. But your statement that “No one knows what these wars are about… [and] the continuing lack of any valid reason for the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan…” are not up to your usual standard of analysis.Surely you are aware that the reasons are oil,oil,oil and pipeline.
“Surely you are aware that the reasons are oil,oil,oil and pipeline.”
Dear Adam Brown,
I hate to brake it to you but this is not about the oil.. if USA supported abetted Saddam Hussein, as they did during the Iraq – Iran conflict in 1980, you in the US would be paying today at the gas pump $1 and not $3! Saddam wanted to be friend of US regime, badly. But Saddam was very anti Israeli anti Jewish and that was the problem. After he established the fund for Palestinian Families whose members died fighting Jews I knew he was finished.
I know ( and this comes from the very top) that Saddam did everything to replace Israel as a “point man” for the USA in the Middle East. That would mean the end of Israel and for the USA would mean no wars, cheap oil and economic prosperity, strength.
It is in the Highest Israeli Interest ( matter of survival) that USA is in perpetual war with Muslims. As you may well know Jewish Zionist lobby has tremendous influence over US government. It always had. They will sacrifice the USA, even the entire west in blink of eye for the sake of self-preservation, the status quo. Also weak always in state of war USA plays very well for countries that simply want USA off their backs like..Russia. USA has been assaulting Russia and or her interest since her rebirth in 1991.
People Republic of China, India, Brazil, Venezuela even some members of EU do not mind weak and confused USA either.
If US Regime does not see that it is simply STUPID or totally controlled by the Jewish Interest Groups.
The bottom line: It is Not OIL, it is Israel Israel Israel.
I know that
The war in Iraq was not fought for Israel. That it served Israeli interests, also, was merely incidental:
http://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2007/09/06/the-reasons-for-regime-change-in-iraq/