Tuesday, March 22, 2016

A formula for endless war in the Middle East ?


    The U.S. declared " war on terrorism " 15 years ago. It was an ill conceived war from the beginning. Naturally, the American people craved an explanation for these incorrigible terrorists. And all we got was typical war-time propaganda.

    THEY just hate us ? Why ? What did WE ever do to THEM ? Well THEY hate us for our virtues. They hate our freedom and our democracy and our American Way of Life.

   The anti-war movement -with long experience of sanctimonious U.S. wars -told peace loving Americans that U.S. imperialism was no small factor in creating terrorists. Did the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan succeed in terrifying the terrorists ?

    All those drone strikes -with " collateral damage " - did not multiply terrorists ? The bombing of a Doctors Without Borders trauma hospital in Afghanistan - a " war crime " said a UN observer- did not multiply terrorists ?

   The Donald Trump " hate Islam " rhetoric does not multiply terrorists ?
The state terror of the New Colonialism is multiplying Islamic terrorists. They have a different slant on our " goodness ".

   I heard on the radio yesterday that Obama has placed thousands of U.S troops back in war ruined Iraq.

     A formula for ENDLESS WAR ? Just what the U.S. war machine wants.

  [ ISIS -- as it has for other terrorist attacks in Europe, Asia and Africa -- embraced all the assailants. Its claim noted that Belgium is "participating in the international coalition against the Islamic State." In fact, Belgian warplanes flew 796 sorties and launched 163 airstrikes over Iraq from September 2014 to July 2015, according to the U.S... ]



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