Obama¹s War:
Afghanistan Is Spelled V-I-E-T-N-A-M
By Dave Lindorff
President Barack Obama has staked his presidency on winning his
³necessary² war in Afghanistan. Coming into office, one of his first acts,
on Feb. 18, was to boost US troop levels in that country by 17,000, bringing
the total number of soldiers and Marines in the country to about 57,000, to
which one must also add about 33,000 other soldiers from NATO countries and
Australia. That¹s 100,000 foreign soldiers fighting against Taliban
fighters.
Ominously, even with the new US troops, US military commander
Admiral Mike Mullen this month has described the situation in Afghanistan as
being ³serious and deteriorating.² The Afghani national government
organization that is basically confined to the capital city of Kabul and a
few other cities can be called a national government, is hopelessly corrupt
and ineffective, and a current national election, which US forces sought to
³protect² by sending troops to election districts, appears to have been a
disaster, plagued by vote rigging and with low turnout.
The US war in Afghanistan, billed as part of a war on terror
begun by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in
September 2001, is now eight years old, and while the Taliban government
that ruled Afghanistan at that time has been ousted from Kabul, its
insurgency grows by the day in strength and popular support.
The US, meanwhile, is identified as an occupier and as the sole
support of a corrupt regime of drug lords, thieves and charlatans.
Does this sound familiar? It should. It is a replay of what
America did in Vietnam...
more here:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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