2010: U.S. To Wage War Throughout The World

[JohnyCanuck]

2010: U.S. To Wage War Throughout The World
By Rick Rozoff

With senator and once almost vice president Joseph Lieberman's threat on December 27 that "Yemen will be tomorrow's war" <4> and former Southern Command chief and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark's two days later that "Maybe we need to put some boots on the ground there," <5> it is evident that America's new war for the new year has already been identified. In fact in mid-December U.S. warplanes participated in the bombing of a village in northern Yemen that cost the lives of 120 civilians as well as wounding 44 more <6> and a week later "A US fighter jet...carried out multiple airstrikes on the home of a senior official in Yemen's northern rugged province of Sa'ada...." <7>

The pretext for undertaking a war in Yemen in earnest is currently the serio-comic "attempted terrorist attack" by a young Nigerian national on a passenger airliner outside of Detroit on Christmas Day. The deadly U.S. bombing of the Yemeni village mentioned above occurred ten days earlier and moreover was in the north of the nation, although Washington claims al-Qaeda cells are operating in the other end of the country. <8>

Asia, Africa and the Middle East are not the only battlegrounds where the Pentagon is active. On October 30 of 2009 the U.S. signed an agreement with the government of Colombia to acquire the essentially unlimited and unrestricted use of seven new military bases in the South American nation, including sites within immediate striking distance of both Venezuela and Ecuador. <9> American intelligence, special forces and other personnel will be complicit in ongoing counterinsurgency operations against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the nation's south as well as in rendering assistance to Washington's Colombian proxy for attacks inside Ecuador and Venezuela that will be portrayed as aimed at FARC forces in the two states. `

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In this still young millennium American soldiers have also deployed in the hundreds of thousands to new bases and conflict and post-conflict zones in Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Djibouti, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mali, the Philippines, Romania, Uganda and Uzbekistan.

In 2010 they will be sent abroad in even larger numbers to man airbases and missile sites, supervise and participate in counterinsurgency operations throughout the world against disparate rebel groups, many of them secular, and wage combat operations in South Asia and elsewhere. They will be stationed on warships and submarines equipped with cruise and long-range nuclear missiles and with aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the world's seas and oceans.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/2010-U-S-To-Wage-War-Thr-by-Rick-Rozoff-100102-109.html

Sounds like the PNAC plans for a US lead, global hegemony are still very much alive.

[timeforpeace]

1. Bush's gone. War is in. War fever, catch it.

[villager]

2. But this time, they're *changeful*, *hopeful* wars...!

n/t

[G_j]

3. what Obama was saying, was that he hoped to do "Empire" better than Bush

more efficient, less bravado, more diplomacy, still empire.


:shrug:

[rug]

6. He's not against all empires, only dumb empires.

[spanone]

4. i don't think so.

[Jamastiene]

5. The nightmare never ends. n/t