[Marxism] Road to Perdition: Yet Another Atrocity in Afghanistan, More to Come

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Road to Perdition: Yet Another Atrocity in Afghanistan, More to Come
 
Empire Burlesque - Chris Floyd - October 16  -
 
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Obama's position is the most relevant now, as  it seems increasingly likely 
that he will be the next interim manager of the  empire. And as we noted here, 
his position is a vast war crime in the  making:







The Democratic candidate's stated polices on  the conflict dovetail exactly 
with those of Rove, Bush and McCain: Thousands  of more troops. More military 
hardware. More drone missile strikes, not only  in Afghanistan but in Pakistan 
as well. Obama has also pledged to pressure the  Europeans to send more troops 
and hardware of their own to Afghanistan, with  "fewer restrictions" on their 
combat operations.

In other words, the American political establishment is  committed to 
plunging headlong into what almost all outside experts --  including America's 
closest allies, not to mention the Afghans themselves --  say will be a 
bloodsoaked, 
botched catastrophe....

The United States has lost its pointless war against the  people of 
Afghanistan. Yet both the "progressive" standard-bearer and the  "conservative" 
stalwart have sworn to expand the conflict. Both have  internalized the 
rhetoric and 
beliefs of a violent imperial project. Both men  have shown themselves too 
weak in truth to escape the fear of appearing weak  in the false light of 
militarism.
 
 

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