Given that President Obama
has chosen to give his Afghan policy speech from West Point, I think it's
safe to say they he will take the "security conscious", "war of necessity",
"commander in chief" position Tuesday and increase the number of troops
there.
This is a mistake.
A giant mistake.
Probably
the biggest mistake of his presidency.
I understand the situation
in the region is incredibly dangerous, that the relationship with the nuclear
powers, India and Pakistan is incredibly tense, that it is ALL an inherited
situation and that the West Point style Pentagram military solution is ONLY
and always superior force.
I also understand the
complete neocon infiltration of the pentagon from gates on down, and the complete
inability to do anything with a hole other than keep digging.
I also understand the president
is not only stuck to this tar baby, but trapped by a chosen chronology of
priorities, with the economy being the biggest threat to re-election.
I also understand the neocon
fascists are controlling the president's information, intel and his subsequent
options and have apparently convinced him that a surge in troop level will
do something functional in terms of pacifying Afghanistan and his enemies
in the congress and nation.
It won't.
PM Singh being the first state
dinner guest is a shot fired across the bow of Pakistan's military, who is
still in control of the most of the country, has never accepted Zardari as
leader, is infiltrated by and loyal to the taliban and other fundinazi maniacs,
AND, as with all armies making policy decisions, sees job and funding security
in war and destabilization ONLY. Pakistan just tried to placate the Indian/Pakistan
regional war somewhat with the ceremonial arrest Wednesday of 7 ISI trained
nuts for participation in the Mumbai massacre, on the eve of the 1 year anniversary
of the attacks. A lot of good it does, since they have resisted accepting
the blame for training this mercenary army with their incredibly corrupt ISI
spook intel corp. The ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba have been most of the force
in the Kashmir border war and are fully involved in Waziristan, Kurdistan
and Balochistan, as well.
That brings us to another of
the president's inherited traps, and that is that his situation is similar
to Zardari's in that he is saddled with an autonomous army operating as a
fourth pillar of government, along with the CIA as the another policy making
pillar and blackwater as a mercenary militia under no control at all except
the STATED "holy war" against Islam, that their founder, and son of FUKUS
board member, Elsa Prince Broekhuisen has made policy. Between their control
of FUKUS, Family Research Council, Media Research Center, Council for National
Policy, Amway, and their own mercenary army, this family is the center of
the "christian" taliban "holy war" on Islam, is driving domestic policy as
well, and under no control whatsoever, by anyone, least of all President Obama.
Blackwater has moved into Pakistan after loosing contracts
in Iraq and Afghanistan to some degree, (there are still more private mercenaries
in both countries than US troops) and, like all armies, wants the job security
of total destabilization and war. It's become impossible for any news outlet
to know and report who set off any bomb, fired any shot, who funded them,
and why, BUT it's always hypnotically reported by the corrupt media as the
neocon-trained "fact" of "insurgents", "taliban", "al-qaeda", etc., when the
ISI, mossad, CIA, and blackwater are orchestrating black-bag, covert, false-flag
ops daily in all 3 countries.
The problem in Afghanistan
is political, needs political solutions and can NOT involve the neocon's Big
Oil corrupt puppet, former Unocal exec, Hamid karzai and the federalization
of power. Obama has inherited a mess in every way, but will it his own if
he escalates. His solution should involve wrapping the pentagon, regulatory
agencies, and NGOs with a plastic sheet and setting off several thousand insecticide
bug bombs to rid himself of the neocon infestation.
Problem is they still infest
Congress, who controls and obstructs his ability to do just that. In a year,
he has only been able to change out a tiny percentage of the last administration,
and just like the GDop that held onto the Minnesota Senate seat for almost
a year after the election, they have saddled him with basically the same administration,
installed by "W", and having no respect for majority rule, they will not let
go. This happens with every administration change, but has become the fascist's
hallmark.
I'm the last person that can
be accused of being some spoiled, whiney, narcissistic liberal who wants immediate
gratification while ignoring political reality, but the president is making
these problems his policy, and at some point the honeymoon has to be over. This
is in no way an excuse for Obama on Afghan policy and we will participate
in the rally against the surge on Tuesday, December 1, in Acacia Park at 5PM,
because the buck stops with him no matter where and when it started.
BUT, added to the complexity
of NOT having his own administration to any functional degree, along with
inheriting an economic disaster, foreign policy tar baby, obstructionist minority-ruled
congress, destroyed negotiating position, secret, private mercenary armies,
teabagger militias opening inciting assassination, vacant regulatory agencies
and the rest, he has still done far, FAR better than the alternative.
Obama did not create this army,
mercenary militias or situation, does not support any of it, but is very limited
in what he can do about it, while they operate as a 4th arm of government
to create policy disasters anywhere they want. They smell blood and money
in Afghanistan and the inextricably related Pakistan and India. They are under
no executive control, with a budget hidden deep in pentagon funding, under
no local control, under no laws of any state, fighting for no flag, and see
their very survival as dependent on endless war in the region.
The election was over last
November.
The regime change has hardly
started this November.
Obama needs more boots on the
ground, but NOT in Afghanistan.