I hesitate to repeat my views again about such things Neil. So, here are some words from someone else. Orn. =========== Starting Another Year of War in Afghanistan
October, 02 2009By Solomon, Norman October 2009 has begun with the New York Times reporting that "the president, vice president and an array of cabinet secretaries, intelligence chiefs, generals, diplomats and advisers gathered in a windowless basement room of the White House for three hours on Wednesday to chart a new course in Afghanistan." As this month begins the ninth year of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, "windowless" seems to be an apt metaphor. The structure of thought and the range of options being debated in Washington's high places are notably insular. The "new course" will be a permutation of the present course. While certainty is lacking, steely resolve is evident. An unspoken mantra remains in effect: When in doubt, keep killing. The knotty question is: Exactly who and how? News accounts are filled with stories about options that mix "counterinsurgency" with "counterterrorism." The thicker the jargon in Washington, the louder the erudite tunes from the latest best and brightest -- whistling past graveyards, to be filled by people far away. In the White House, there's no indication of a pane that's facing the pain in Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, where the U.S. government continues to bring gifts: a dollar's worth of warfare for a dime's worth of everything else… For the rest of the story, see: http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/4000 Again, one small vignette about a few people, humanity and the lack thereof as well as what feeds insurgency. The USSR had it right… retreat. On Oct 6, 12:44 am, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > "Truth..."http://video.google.com/videosearch?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1ACGWCENUS3... > > All clear now? ;-) > > On Oct 5, 5:29 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Perhaps the recession is a depression after all. It seems Chris was > > approached to lend his ear in traditional manner so we could have a > > basis for a just war (the second war of another Jenkins' Ear) and > > refused on the moral grounds that he was not offered enough money and > > exclusion from the draft. In place of this, the powers that be are > > ramping up Afghanistan, where we can fight a just war on behalf of the > > new tradition of protecting unfairly elected governments and a > > necessary search for WDM there (weak, democratic malcontents). In > > once smoke filled rooms, our foreign policy analysts and > > econometricians have decided we need a war, any old war, to recover > > from the recession. The first stage will be a draft of 50,000 new > > troops to protect a run off election between Khazi and Abdullah > > Abdullah (votes for him will only count half). In my view, these > > battalions should consist only of unarmed bwankers parachuted in at > > random and led by Rumsfeld espousing that a sensible strategy must > > make no sense at all to the enemy and that all must remain silent on > > it on pain of death. There is no shortage of recruits to kick him out > > of the plane first to further protect the strategy. > > > Any more sensible suggestions on what we are doing in this country?- Hide > > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
