Re: [Pen-l] Obama Bombs, Women and Children Die

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

when Juan Cole (my favorite Middle East expert) made similar
criticisms of Obama's policies in SALON, he was accused of giving
ammunition to Sean Hannity and other right-wing creeps. What crap!

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's good to see that in his first week in office Obama has not let
> his liberal credentials get in the way of good old-fashioned
> blood-spilling, sanctioning two CIA remote-control Predator drone
> missile attacks in Pakistan that killed at least 22 people, most of
> them women and children.
>
> Let's remind ourselves how this all works: based on information
> supplied by paid informants who often have their own motives for
> filching on friends and neighbors, the CIA sends Predator drones to
> gather "intelligence" --- in unvarnished English "information of
> dubious quality" --- that is then used to target "insurgents",
> "extremists", or "terrorists".  The bombs or missiles ("smart" or
> otherwise) are then loosed and the pieces (of human beings) fall where
> they may --- a crisp example of "judicious projection of military
> power" in Obama's words --- with the predictable effect of increasing
> hatred for the United States and corresponding support for groups who
> profess the same.  Never mind that we are almost always conducting
> such bombing within the borders of a sovereign nation against their
> wishes, a crime against laws both domestic and foreign, illustrating
> with clarity that our government has never bothered to follow the
> dictates of our own Constitution (Article VI, Section 2) when imperial
> prerogative is in question.


-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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