Robert Greenwald film to be shown at the PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER OF EASTERN MAINE 123 Park St. in Bangor, 7:00 p.m., SUNDAY SEPT. 20
Take a look at the people and environment of the country of Afghanistan. Does it resemble the threat President Obama outlined this week at the VFW Convention in Phoenix?
President Obama: As I said when I announced this strategy, there will be more difficult days ahead. The insurgency in Afghanistan didn't just happen overnight and we won't defeat it overnight. This will not be quick, nor easy. But we must never forget: This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is a -- this is fundamental to the defense of our people.Even a recent report in the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relation suggests strategies being employed in Afghanistan that would seem wildly to diverge from any purpose of rolling up purveyors of terror aimed at the U.S. It looks like he U.S. has taken a decision to fight using the dirtiest of tactics, according to a New York Times story last week on this report.
"We have a list of 367 'kill or capture' targets, including 50 nexus targets who link drugs and the insurgency," one of the generals told the committee staff. The generals were not identified in the Senate report, which was obtained by The New York Times. ... The Senate report found that American officials did not believe that Afghan drug money was fueling Al Qaeda, which instead relies on contributions from wealthy individuals and charities in Persian Gulf countries, as well as aid organizations working inside Afghanistan.Evidently, the objective now is to have a drug war. I'd ask the same question suggested by in the Greenwald film: How are these terror tactics -- embrace of extrajudicial execution -- going to do anything but build up hatred of U.S. occupation? Stopping terrorism from Afghanistan has gotta be way down the list for being there, doesn't it?
Posted by The Owl at 17:17. Filed under: War and peace
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