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Who will put an end to U.S.-led genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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More than 7,500 Afghan men, women, and children have been murdered by the American regime in its apparent War on Poor Farmers, yet the Holy One maintains "we still have a long way to go."
Maybe Obama should just tell us what his magic number of civilian deaths is so we'll actually know when we've "gotten there."
As a rule, politicians will find any excuse to perpetuate programs that grow the state and allow them to accumulate power, money, and terms in office. Content to peddle the Bush line that carpet-bombing Middle East towns can actually prevent someone from detonating a dirty bomb in a London or New York subway, Obama's latest laugher is that "we" have to get through Afghanistan's August 20 presidential election and then turn "our" attention to creating an Afghan army and police force. Apparently because that's already worked out so well in Iraq.
And speaking of Iraq, where 20 civilians are slaughtered for every alleged terrorist killed, Obama has said, "By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end," contending that all U.S. forces will be out of Iraq by December 31, 2011. Uh huh. And just abandon all those permanent military bases the government's spent billions to build and maintain?
It's one thing to fall for propaganda when emotions are running high, especially when the horrors of a massive terrorist attack are still fresh. But it's another thing entirely to condone genocide after you realize the government had to fabricate evidence and advance lies in order to justify its criminal invasions and occupations in the first place.
In a shameful display of our disregard for anything that doesn't immediately disturb our daily lives, Americans have made it clear that as yet we will not be the ones to put an end to these atrocities. While there may be just causes, it certainly isn't clear -- when so many innocents must bear the consequences of indiscriminate killing -- that there's ever been anything remotely resembling a just war.
