Envisioning an Exit Strategy?

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The Scapegoat War

Envisioning an Exit Strategy?

By STEPHEN FLEISCHMAN

President Barack Obama is now the figurehead for America’s corporate oligarchy.

Barack Obama is a man without a heart or soul but with great rhetoric, master of the platitude and the cliché. Upon taking office, he picked Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, known for his hawkish foreign policy and a reputed operative for the military-industrial complex, as one of his closest advisors; or maybe it was the military-industrial oligarchy that picked Obama.

Obama made his pitch, Tuesday night, to 4000 cadets of the US Military Academy at West Point.

He used all the threadbare reasons for this new escalation of the war; reverse Taliban gains, protect the Afghan people from attack, provide time for them to build their own military capacity, increase pressure on al Qaeda in Pakistan and so on. He seemed to be in a hurry to get through the speech, taking up only 37 minutes. The cadets didn’t demonstrate much enthusiasm, applauding lightly only twice.

Obama envisioned the de-escalation beginning in 2011. Using the old saw again, he said it was time the Afghans took more responsibility for their country. So, was Obama able to eat his cake and have it, too?

With the country in near economic free-fall, why doesn’t our Dear Leader do something to fix this country and let the Afgans take care of themselves?

Actually, the Taliban is one of the political entities of Afghanistan, like the Republican Party in this USA. So why does Obama vow to “break the Taliban”. He’s using it as a scapegoat to keep the war going. He can certainly find something better to do, like make sure there is a public option in the new Health Care Reform bill working its way through Congress – or better still, fight for the Singer Payer Plan.

Norman D. Livergood says in “The New Enlightenment”: “In actuality, the basic social structure of the United States consists of the production of armaments by the ‘defense industry’ and the destruction of armaments in fabricated wars.”

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