Afghanistan fronts the wider war

We refrained from commenting on President Obama’s Afghanistan speech. As you’ll recall, the Right was excited about Obama sending more troops and the Left was appalled. Nobody could figure out why Obama would announce a troop escalation and then set a deadline for beginning withdrawal eighteen months later. Obama succeeded in confusing everyone. The confusion arises because people listen to his speeches and believe he is telling the truth. If you simply recognize Obama as one of the great liars of our time, you won’t fall into confusion. We aren’t interested in commentary on speeches, it’s a waste of everybody’s time. Obama’s speeches take everybody’s eye off the ball. He is a master of misdirection.

“Obama’s counterinsurgency is part of a dirty war for world dominance.”

Why does Obama want to send more troops to chase around a couple of hundred al-qaeda in Afghanistan? We don’t get the logic of the troop escalation. Obama’s Afghanistan policy defines the Taliban as supporters of al-qaeda and applies the same pacification strategies to the Taliban used in Iraq. But the Taliban aren’t a threat to the United States, and the Iraq “troop surge” was not the reason Iraq became more pacified. The number of insurgent bombings fell dramatically in Iraq because the Bush administration bribed large numbers of Iraqi dissidents. Bush simply paid better than the insurgent groups could pay.

“Until 1999 U.S. taxpayers paid the entire annual salary of every single Taliban government official.”

Obama’s “al-qaeda is a cancer” lie. Al-qaeda has already been defeated in Afghanistan.

Washington explains what the war in Afghanistan is about. Why the war against terrorism is a constructed myth designed to fool the masses.

The Obama administration, like the Bush administration, is using terrorism as a “defensive” excuse to launch offensive campaigns in countries around the world. Former British ambassador Craig Murray writes,

“We are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and for the further radicalisation of Muslim communities worldwide. That threatens a perpetual war – which is of course just what the military-industrial complex and the security industry want.”

Conservatives are very fooled about this war. Yes, there is a terror threat from militant Islam, but occupying two countries for eight years (and into the indefinite future) at a huge expense is not the right formula for defending the U.S. against terror attacks. Stopping Islamic immigration would be a better first step, and closing our open southern border would be a necessary second step. Neither of these things has been done. Small, mobile task forces responding to intelligence have been effective in hammering al-qaeda and shoring up vulnerable targets. The war against al-qaeda in Afghanistan is just a smokescreen for the wider U.S. war. Today we’ll take you beyond Afghanistan and show you how big this war is. It’s at the scale of a world war.

Drone attacks, cross-border raids, pressure from U.S. officials on Pakistani officials, anti-U.S. sentiment rising against U.S. war atrocities in Pakistan.

The surge attacks in northern Pakistan are not directed against al-qaeda but against the Haqqani network. Note the high number of civilian casualties and displaced people from these drone attacks. The U.S. surge into Pakistan disrupts existing agreements negotiated by the Pakistani government. That is why the U.S. is putting so much pressure on Pakistan to change its policies.

Drugs and corruption

Afghanistan and Iraq are two of the most corrupt governments in the world. Allow yourself to consider that this is no accident. War is profitable for many different parties who want to keep the money flowing.

Karzai is so corrupt that the U.S. has rerouted aid directly to the provinces.

“A growing number of experts have come to the conclusion that this war is unwinnable and will fuel terrorism.”

Corruption in U.S. defense contracting. A look at the unprecedented rise in defense spending.

Russia blames the U.S. coalition for the rise in heroin production. Afghanistan’s drug czar agrees. Why the opium poppy was inflicted upon Afghanistan by the “great powers.” The difference between a “failed state” and a “ravaged state” at the mercy of foreign schemers. How Pakistani intelligence, funded by Saudi Arabia and the United States, supported Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan. The Pakistani take from the heroin trade, estimated at $2.5 billion annually, serves to block any U.S. drug eradication program, out of deference to Pakistan. Pakistani officials are also up to their elbows in the heroin trade. Sharp insiders believe money from the drug trade ends up supporting distressed U.S. banks, another reason for the U.S. to turn a blind eye to the growth in the heroin trade.

The mere presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan drives more support to the Taliban. The military surge creates even more support for radical Islam in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

CIA covert operations complement military strikes

“The US power elites are increasingly desperate to maintain their control of a global parasitical empire, called deceptively by their media machine, globalization.”

William Engdahl exposes the master plan, the building of U.S. bases inside Afghanistan in order to dominate the region. Engdahl also explains why the war against al-qaeda is phony propaganda.

Al-qaeda was created by the CIA. Exaggeration of the al-qaeda threat is used as justification for a wider war in the MIddle East. That wider war is currently focused on U.S. military control over Pakistan, but its tentacles reach much farther.

“The U.S., Saudi and Pakistan intelligence alliance that created the terrorist financing bank BCCI reunited to facilitate the rise of the Taliban. BCCI was a US intelligence bank, which served as the financing arm for the creation of the al-Qaida network. BCCI was involved in many covert operations throughout the 80’s. They played a pivotal role in arming Saddam in Iraq, creating the Iran hostage crisis, even selling drugs through Manuel Noriega and other top drug dealers. BCCI gave nuclear weapons to Pakistan, which led to North Korea and Iran obtaining pivotal nuclear secrets as well. BCCI was also a driving force behind the Savings and Loan scandals that were a precursor to our current economic crisis.”

You can thank Poppy Bush for all of the above.

Inconsistencies in the al-qaeda myth

Why wasn’t there a second al-qaeda attack on the United States in the era of open borders?

“Why would the US government not pursue the Al Qaeda money trail leading to 9/11 attacks? Why would the CIA destroy video tapes containing hundreds of hours of interrogations of Al Qaeda detainees in Guantanamo Bay? Why would it obstruct independent investigation by members of the US Congress? Why would the Pentagon and the CIA not try Khalid and other Al Qaeda members in a normal court?”

And why did the U.S. military allow Osama bin Laden to slip out of their net? And why was bin Laden’s family hurried out of the United States right after 9/11?

Because 9/11 wasn’t an attack on the U.S. by al-qaeda, it was an inside job. You need this piece of the puzzle to understand the wider initiatives the United States and NATO are taking in the Middle East and Eurasia, based on the justification of a proactive response to the threat of terrorism.

“Very few people remember that during the 1990’s Karzai was involved in negotiations with the Taliban regime for the construction of a Central Asian gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through western Afghanistan to Pakistan. At that time he was a top adviser and lobbyist for Unocal.”

Afghanistan’s election scandal. President Obama may have delayed his troop decision to evaluate whether it was feasible to overthrow the corrupt Karzai government. UN involvement in the corrupt election.

Or perhaps Obama stalled on the troop surge to make sure NATO and Europe were on board. How Russia plays into this “great game.” Once again, the leaders of Europe are promising troops for Afghanistan while every country’s people oppose the war.

The Taliban have offered assurances to the United States that al-qaeda will not flourish there, but the U.S. is stiffing the Taliban’s offer to open talks. Why does Secretary of State Clinton insist that there is a Taliban link with al-qaeda? This offer could be the basis for a U.S. exit. Didn’t Obama say he wanted to negotiate with everybody? Oh, right, see the first paragraph.

The real cost of the war: not just $2 trillion in extra debt, but also higher oil prices and the opportunity cost of domestic investment.

“US military officials in Kabul estimate that a minimum of 10 percent of the Pentagon’s logistics contracts–hundreds of millions of dollars–consists of payments to insurgents.”

It’s Obama’s war now: the statistics of escalation. And how about all those missing funds? Obama is directing a vast criminal/military enterprise while managing to appear to be “thoughtful” or “out of the loop.”

Why there is no liberation and democracy strategy.

“Gen. Stanley McChrystal, tapped by Obama to direct the Afghan war, was previously the head of the super-secret Joint Special Operations Command, which consists of such special forces troops and assassination squads.”

Who are the “bad guys” inside Afghanistan targeted for assassination by Blackwater, the U.S. government’s private army? Hint: it’s not al-qaeda. Reporting from inside Pakistan at Veterans Today. Why is Obama taking over Bush’s secret war of private armies and hit squads? Why is Joe Biden lying about our involvement in Pakistan?

How the CIA creates shadow governments wherever U.S. troops are sent. Why it’s difficult for the U.S. to penetrate and corrupt the Taliban:

“Recruiting agents is especially difficult in Afghanistan because the Taliban do not have politics, per se. They also are not capitalists and have not succumbed to the cash nexus. They do not have bookkeepers nor do they organize in Western-style hierarchies. They do not issue press releases, broadcast their plans and strategies, or allow photography (which can confound CIA assassins).

“These ideological precepts make them nearly impervious to blackmail, extortion and corruption – the CIA’s standard means of penetrating the enemy infrastructure, and the means by which it controls top-ranking officials in the Karzai government.”

The wider war

“With the arrival of the Barack Obama administration in Washington this January 20th and its emphasis on shifting US focus and forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials have paid a number of visits to the South Caucasus and Central Asia to arrange logistics for the war in South Asia and to solicit not only transit and basing rights but also troop commitments from former Soviet republics like Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan.”

CIA “Orange Revolution” scenarios are part of a wider U.S. war that seems to have no limits. Ordinary folks are fooled into thinking that street demonstrations are a sign of “democratic upsurge among the people” to overthrow tyrannical governments. They are not. They are CIA-backed and funded destabilization movements to further U.S. global dominance by eliminating opposition leaders.

“… [The U.S.] application of military force to the Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Macedonia) and since then have waged, directed and assisted armed conflicts – individually, multilaterally, collectively and by proxy – in the Middle East (Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza), the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Djibouti-Eritrea), Africa west of the Horn (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Congo, Chad, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Mali), the Caucasus (Georgia-South Ossetia/Russia), South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan) and as far away as the Philippines in Southeast Asia and Colombia in South America.”

The arc of war extends across all continents. Pakistan and Turkmenistan are the current focus. Whenever the wider war can be linked to al-qaeda, the U.S. initiative gets “positive publicity.” When no al-qaeda link can be established, the war remains covert.

NATO is building a world army. That’s why Europe is generally on board with Obama’s troop escalation.


“Stabilization” of Pakistan is really destabilization. How the U.S. exploits ethnic and religious groups in Iran and Pakistan.

The bigger picture: Afghanistan and Pakistan are merely bridges to central Asia. The U.S. doesn’t want China or India or Iran controlling these bridges. If they do, the U.S. gets shut out of access to oil. Afghanistan’s geostrategic position blocking Chinese, Indian, and Iranian control of central Asia. Pipeline politics. The Iran/Pakistan/India pipeline. Why China sold airplanes to Pakistan on the eve of Obama’s visit. The U.S. redraws the map: Pakistan shrinks, Afghanistan expands. What is Baluchistan?

The even bigger picture: The CIA destabilizes regimes around the world in the name of “stabilization.”

Russia views the “war against the Taliban” as an excuse masking the greater geopolitical strategy of destabilizing Eurasia. Russia is playing a cautious game, believing the war in Afghanistan to be a war against Russia and Russian interests, yet supporting NATO initiatives in some cases to avoid all-out war against NATO.

“According to US intelligence sources the total number of Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in the region was estimated to only be about 25,000, giving the US led forces a minimum of a 12 to 1 troop advantage.”

What U.S. gangster capitalism has to do with Afghanistan and Iraq. Increasing unemployment in the U.S. drives more of the young poor into the military.

“The White House estimates that it spends one million dollars per soldier, per year in Afghanistan, not including the added expense of training and maintaining a security force….a gallon of fuel costs the military about $400 by the time it arrives in the remote locations in Afghanistan where U.S. troops operate…you have trillions more in taxpayer money vanishing and very few regulating and accounting for it.”

“Officially there are 900 military facilities in 46 countries.”

“Military spending on the war in Iraq has created over a trillion dollars in losses to the US economy.”

“But last year, the United States sold arms or military services to well over 100 nations… the majority of U.S. arms sales to the developing world went to countries that our own State Department defined as undemocratic regimes and/or major human rights abusers. And over two-thirds of the world’s active conflicts involved weapons that had been supplied by the United States. Selling all these weapons, especially during the biggest global financial crisis, will lead to one thing… terrorism.”

“The war is not supposed to be winnable, it is supposed to be continuous.”

Opposition

Veterans against the troop escalation.

“Today we live under the shadow of the gun with the most corrupt and unpopular government in the world.”

Why Afghanis oppose U.S. involvement. The quagmire scenario.

How U.S. casualties are under-counted.

Why does the Left believe Obama was a Peace Candidate? His rhetoric was always very hawkish. Why Afghanistan wasn’t the location of the 9/11 plotting. “Good Taliban vs. Bad Taliban” propaganda and a short history of negotiations with the Taliban.

The emerging peace movement.

Our dilemma: The people want peace, the leaders make war. Why America is a failed democracy, hi-jacked by the New World Order.

The Left is generally pretty sharp about arguing against these wars, and against the extension of U.S. power around the globe. Note that many of our links are sourced to Global Research, a lefty website. During the Cold War the Left always argued against U.S. initiatives against Communism as a strategy of protecting Communism. With the formal end to the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union, the way was opened for U.S. military domination of the globe as the only superpower. But the United States needed a rationale for global dominance. Islamic terrorism became that rationale, masking the continuation of Cold War strategies of CIA-directed covert operations, assassinations, support for dictators, involvement in the drug trade, sponsorship of private armies, and Defense Department corruption.

Conservative patriots have difficulty recognizing U.S. military imperialism as a war against humanity because they are wedded to a positive vision of the military as savior from Nazism and Communism. They are also very vulnerable to the propaganda about exporting “democracy” around the world at the point of a gun. But today’s wider war isn’t about democracy or fighting Communism or even fighting terrorism, it’s about destabilizing nations that oppose U.S. global hegemony so that they fall under U.S. military control, with oil and gas resources and pipelines as the prizes. A second objective is controlling nations that might oppose the worldwide network of free trade agreements and maintain economic nationalism. Such nations cannot be easily exploited by U.S. global corporations.

Obama’s escalation of the wider war belies Obama’s talk of changing America’s image in the world when he travels abroad. Obama is a corrupt New World Order insider in the tradition of Clinton and Bush, acting in the interests of Wall Street globalists, multinational corporations, and the web of contractors and private armies who profit from the corruption built into the military budget. Obama is Bush on steroids, spending us into unprecedented debt, overseeing vast corrupt money flows, and waging war against innocent populations for the purpose of extending U.S. military control throughout Eurasia. Afghanistan is just the front.

As U.S. citizens our sympathies naturally lie with our country and our leaders. You have to overcome this emotional attachment and find a little space for a superior identity to find a basis for opposing this vast criminal enterprise. That is why we want you to reach above propaganda to genuine moral standards as your identity orientation during this chaotic period. Identifying with globalism, supporting “democracy” and fearing “terrorism” will keep you blinded. Strange times, no? But remember, Obama wants to control us with socialism as much as he wants to control the rest of the world with guns and bombs. We are also Obama’s intended victims. If you will pay closer attention to the domestic initiatives of the U.S. military, you will understand that their scheme for global dominance also includes total control over the U.S. population.


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4 Responses to “Afghanistan fronts the wider war”

  1. Nordicelt says:

    I take note, that this blogg, does NOT touch upon the “possibility” that the “terrorist” threat that “supposedly” threatens America, may be, headquartered in Tel Aviv, rather than in a cave in Afganistan,…Other than that glaring omission, I do like this site very much,..overall,…

    You can get that at other blogs. We provide a gentle introduction to elementary topics for the naive. There are many topics we don’t cover at all here. But see Christmas in Yemen for our analysis.

  2. Brandy Bunde says:

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  3. Self Esteem says:

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