Speaking today on a visit to Indonesia, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said the US ‘remains a Pacific power” and vowed that the US would “continue to strengthen our presence in this part of the world.”
Panetta met with his Indonesian counterpart Purnomo Yusgiantoro, who is currently facing a growing backlash about the military’s treatment of separatists. Yusgiantoro said he told Panetta “separatism has to be put down” and that Panetta “completely agreed.”
But Panetta largely appeared unconcerned with the killings of Papuan separatists and the talks were for him more about strengthening ties with the Indonesian military, its shoddy human rights record be damned.
To that end the talks reportedly centered around China’s growing influence in the South China Sea, though Panetta did add after the speech that he was quite pleased with China’s response to US weapons sales in Taiwan, and predicted this would mean improved relations with the nation.
Another one of these, "Look Ma – it's all mine!"
Hardly deserves a comment….. More of the SAME………… INSANITY… I remember in the depth of the depression AKA the H.W. Bush presidency……. with the economy in the tank…. No business …. NO MONEY at all… Banks telling us "Sorry we are not making commercial loans" H.W takes a trip to Singapore…. Before he departs…. He says to the press…. "This is a trip to create jobs" We are talking about a country of 246 Sq. Miles…. Jacksonville, Florida is 758 square miles…. Once there, he makes a speech…. "We pledge to protect Singapore" he says….. Why would we want to defend Singapore…?? This is the hubris and insanity that guides those whom spend OUR money [taxes] and commit the lives of our troops… Would we wanna get dragged into a WAR with CHINA to preserve some nutty thing that the 3.7 million citizens of Singapore do that offends the I.3 billions in CHINA…??? America is the merchant of DEATH these days….. Searching the world to find NEW victims on which to practice their principal export.. bringing death and destruction to those with natural resources. Guns, bombs DRONES…. Killings murder, torture and rape….. the toolz of their [our] trade…. surfing their wave of fiat paper and digital added zeros….. How long will it last…???
Idiotic as always. All it takes is for some corrupt ruler to call his enemies terrorists and off goes one of our braindead neocon puppets with crates of money to offer "support" and to swear we'll get involved forever in affairs that don't have anything to do with us and that just continue to destroy our image in the world and ravage our budget.
They are going not because they care who these people are. For as long as there is a slightest pretext for "action", they will trumpet it. And why not? Most Americans do not care WHERE, HOW or WHY is our money being spent, and trust implicitly that it is for the good. Majority of our fellow countrymen are, to paraphrase Justing Raimondo, "tech savvy, and as dumb as a brick".
Here, "secessionism" is baaaad. In Kosovo, "secessionism" was gooood. Secessionists in Libya, got an entire NATO airforce to clear all living ahead of their pickup trucks with artilllery that cannot shoot straight. In Kosovo, NATO bombed an entire country into oblivion., so that the secessionists can have "their own state". with American base, Camp Bondsteel, as its real capital. In Indonesia, the bad "secessionists" are going to pay the price, as the ruling elite in Indonesia decided it wiser to give us the right to place bases then to be bombed.
More of the same nonsense, from the same idiots.