Thirteen-plus years into the occupation of Afghanistan, one thing has been constant. Officials have been optimistic from the start, and seen “progress” being made in some vague way that cannot be measured in any rational manner.
The new ISIS war seems to be going to same direction, with Secretary of State John Kerry today bragging about the “significant impact” the new war has made, despite ISIS still controlling pretty much everything they controlled when the US war began, and then some.
Kerry claimed that “roughly 1,000 air missions” were flown against ISIS and that it had “inflicted damage on its logistical and operational capabilities.”
That’s not the only part of the Afghan War the new ISIS war is mirroring, as Kerry went on to insist the war is going to be measured in terms of years, in a way that suggested that the number of years wasn’t going to be a small one.
Kerry vowed that the US as well as its allies will “engage in this campaign for as long as it takes to prevail.” Other US officials have predicted many years of war, with former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta projecting a 30-year war.
The administration is seeking to avoid a vote pushed by Sen. Rand Paul (R – KY) on a formal declaration of war against ISIS. Paul insists that constitutionally a declaration is required for the war, while the White House insists Obama has the authority for the war already, and is willing to consider an authorization for the use of military force as little more than a formality.
Constitutionalist Congressmen have pushed declarations of war in the past for wars, though rarely with the understanding, as Sen. Paul is insisting, that he supports the war itself.
Congress has not declared war since World War 2, despite myriad US wars during that time, and in recent administrations presidents have argued that, as commander-in-chief, they have unilateral war-making powers.
We reap what we sow. Our invasion of Iraq opened Pandora's Box and no one can shut it.
My take on war http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/christian-pacifis…
But the brains behind it ,the neo-cons who promoted it ,got exactly what they wanted "PERMANENT CHAOS"
Perpetual WAR is the agenda for Kerry and his 'Skull & Bones' brothers
behind the New World Order. Their plan also includes subjugating the
entire planet under a Global Police State.
With all the violence I see from the pigs on the tube, it is difficult to
distinguish from what we see happening in Gaza, West Bank, Baghdad,
Kabul, Ferguson, New York…
At the conclusion of the ISIS war followed by the war against Assad there will not a single building in that country remain standing.
If Lurch can't find a war, he and his gangster cronies who pretend to be public servants will create one out of nothing, by destroying leaders and creating power vacuums… like the way gangster capitalists create wealth out of thin air.
If the Islamic State expansion were to encompass all of Iraq and Syria, no harm would this cause to our Empire or to our economy. But, to our corporate rich in the war materials and oil industries, much profit would be lost and this is what were killing all those people to prevent. For in our Empire, profit is more important then people.
Rand Paul is just another in a long line of demonic warmongers. He, like so many other conservative or liberal politicians are not against Americas centuries old warmongering blood lust, so long as it is wrapped in a cloak of constitutional righteousness. These politicians and the war profiteering bottom feeders in the military industrial complex could not continue with America's endless wars of aggression (beginning with the genocide of the Native Americans) without the support of the brainwashed masses, who, like lemmings, rush head long over a cliff to cast their vote for the newest Democrat or Republican incarnation of Satan. Take a note to self all of you supporters of Americas ungodly "constitutional or unconstitutional" wars. When God, who hears the cries of the "prophets, saints, and all who have been slain upon the earth." Rev.18:24, He will reward America double for her sins. Rev. 18:6. The cries of the millions who have been slain by America's War Machine from Hell will rejoice when God pays her back for the blood she has shed. You who scoff at this, and especially you Christians who have "stained your garment of righteousness" with blood of these innocents, you can laugh now, but God will exact His justice and you will not escape.