CENTCOM commander General David Petraeus conceded again today that the war in Afghanistan will continue to “get harder before it gets easier,” a daunting prospect as the war has spiraled to record violence already, and the Taliban is taking growing control over much of the nation.
But as the war continues to worsen, Gen. Petraeus doesn’t want to hear any complaints, insisting that Congress should “reserve judgement” on the new strategy for at least a year.
The prospect that America will throw 30,000 more troops at Afghanistan and forget about for the next 12 months as the death toll continues to spiral seems unlikely, as President Obama’s March escalation of 21,000 troops only lasted a few months before generals started hankering for another surge.
Gen Petraeus is just the latest in a growing chorus of military commanders conceding that the record violence of 2009 is going to give way to record violence in 2010. All seem to be keeping on message that the violence is going to eventually drop, but for the time being the effort seems mostly to stifle criticism of the rising casualties.
Ike's military/industrial/CONGRESSIONAL complex has evolved into one where Wall Street pulls the Executive's strings via bagmen like Petraeus. The weak link in this chain is CONGRESS. Next November there's another chance. FLUSH the DC TOILET in 2010! Send as many incumbents as possible a pink slip, and select their replacements from candidates who are neither Republican nor Democrat. Church and State guarantee War may always be with us. Wall Street's War Profits, however, are in play. Nationalize the Defense Industry, and TAX war PROFITS into EXTINCTION.
George Phillip is a man of clear yet extraordinary discernment. Nationalize the defense industry indeed! Stated differently: Criminalize all private commerce in war materials. Starting with US law, make all non-governmental war material manufacturers and their business associates subject to arrest. Eliminate all connection between war and profit. And while I haven't yet figured out quite how to arrange it, make all high-ranking officers hate and oppose war as much as they now love and promote it. One possibility: classify the onset of war as a profound failure of leadership, and reduce all officers to buck private pay grade for the duration, put them — and the entire congress — as close to the fighting as possible, and if they survive, fire them all when the war is over. Turn them out on the street — no paycheck, no pension — for failing to prevent the war in the first place.
Sun Tsu is reported to have said: The mark of a great general is not fighting and winning 100 battles, but rather achieving those victories without ever having to fight.
Harry Truman would have FIRED both Petreaus and McChrystal. Sadly, we have an "empty suit" in the White House with Obama. "And if any ask why we died – tell them because our fathers LIED."
Let’s assume a serious situation. Germany was so upset with the Israelis taking them to the Cleaners that the Nazis made them wear the star of Israel on their jacket to identify them to unsuspecting fellow citizens. If the USA would apply the same method, only then would Americans realize how corrupt their system has become.
The whole house of elected officials would be wearing the Star of David,
America as it is right now is under the rule of Israel, like it or not.
All American Generals are of Israeli decent and are using American blood to fight their holy war while at the same time inflicting genocide upon the people of Palestine.
by the way, those are the very same senators that are taking kick backs from insurance companies to turn down the public option in the health care reform bill. this is not lobbying but Bribery, plain and simple.