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NO MORE SUPPORT FOR ROMES WARS
I BELIEVE FIRMLY THAT AMERICANS SHOULD NOT TAKE A BUNKER MENTALITY ABOUT THESE WORLD WIDE WARS THAT ARE ONLY EXPANDING. FEEDING WARS REQUIRES LIVES...BOTTOM LINE. AMERICANS HAVE NO PROBLEM PAYING FOR SECURITY WITH CASH, BONDS, AND INFLUENCE...BUT WHICH OF US IS READY TO GO DIE NOW THAT THE FIRST WAVE OF BRAVE YOUNG MEN HAS BEEN GROUND UP? PLEASE GO VOLUNTEER TO SERVE ROME.
IF HOWEVER YOU VALUE LIFE, YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF OTHERS INCLUDING THE PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN YOU MUST ASK THE QUESTION: HOW MUCH IS THIS WORTH? WHERE IS THIS GOING? TO WHAT END?
NATION BUILDING WAS NEVER IN THE BUSH ARGUEMENT. IF PUNISHMENT WAS THE INTENTION THEN AFGHANISTAN HAS BEEN PUNISHED...WE HAVE DUPLICATED THE TWIN TOWERS OVER SEVERAL TIMES IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. SO IF PUNISHMENT...'SHOCK AND AWE' IS THE POINT THEN THE WAR SHOULD END TODAY AND WE SHOULD GET OUT.
IF NATION BUILDING IS THE POINT: THE ABOVE ARTICLE CLEARLY GIVE A SNAPSHOT INTO THE PROGRESS OF THE DUAL WAR ON TERROR AND WAR ON DRUGS. THE US HAS ITS NATION THEY HAD ELECTIONS WE SHOULD END TODAY AND GET OUT. BY DEFINITION.
BUT IF IMPERIALISM. EXPANSION. PROTECTING, PROMOTING AND ESTABLISHING A BALANCE OF POWER IN THE FORM OF MERCHANTILISM IS THE POINT. BY PROMOTING BROKEN POLICIES THAT IN FACT ENCOURAGE AND CREATE TERRORIST RECRUITS... BY ALL MEANS WE GREAT ROMANS SHOULD STAY.
NOW THE QUESTION ARISES WHOSE WILLING TO SEND THEIR CHILD, FOR IS IT NOT WRITTEN THAT ALL WE GREAT ROMAN CITIZENS MUST BE WILLING TO DEFEND THE STATE?? I SEE LINES ON THE COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN SAN DIEGO BUT NONE AT THE RECRUITING OFFICE.
MAYBE THE "CONSERVATIVES" CAN SEND THE MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS. THE GUYS WHO CALLED FOR BUILDING THE HUGE 18FT MULTI BILLION DOLLAR FENCE OVER DEFINING "US -U.S.AND "THEM". MAYBE THEY CAN TARGET THEIR RECRUITING TO HISPANICS AND BLACKS...OOPS TOO LATE.
NOT TO MENTION THE THIRD WAR WHICH IS BEING FOUGHT (ALLEGEDLY) AGAINST DRUG DEALERS. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT AMERICA IS FIGHTING TERRORISTS AND DRUG DEALERS AT THE SAME TIME IF THE AFGHAN US GOVERNMENT IS DEALING DRUGS. THIS IS NOT NEWS TO THE CIA IM SURE. SO TO CLOSE DOWN KARZAI IS TO CLOSE DOWN SOME DRUG DEALERS...NARCO TERRORISTS...? WHAT REVELATIONS HISTORY HOLDS FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION REGARDING. QUITE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF EL SALVADOR,HONDURAS,CHILE,COLUMBIA,AND PANAMA IN THE 1980'S. BY THE WAY WHO THE HECK IS AMERICA FIGHTING OVER THERE???
MOST EDUCATED AMERICANS DONT BELIEVE IN BIN LADEN ANYMORE WHILE WE DEFFINATELY BELIEVE HIS IDEOLOGY IS ALIVE AND WELL. BIN LADEN IS DEAD, BUT THE IDEOLOGY OF THE TALIBAN AND AL QEDA LIVE ON IN THE MOST EXTREME OF GROUPS. FIGHTING THEM IS IN FACT COUNTERPRODUCTIVE ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT DRUG DEALING IS A COMMONLY ACCEPTED FORM OF FINANCIAL GAIN. AT LEAST BY AFGHAN STANDARDS.
MEANWHILE BACK ON THE HOME FRONT...THE CRITICS ARE CALLING FOR "MORE SOLDIERS AND GREATER ACTION" WHILE THE MORE PRIVELDGED AND INFO SAVVY CHILDREN OF THIS COUNTRY ARE LOOKING FOR A FUTURE. LINING UP IN DROVES TO GO TO COLLEGE AND GET AN EDUCATION AT THE HIGHT OF FINANCIAL CUT BACKS... ALL THOSE BILLIONS FUNDIG IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN MIGHT BE BETTER SPENT ACCORDING TO THE AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE.
THE LOVE OF LIFE AND DEATH CANNOT BE TRUE AT THE SAME TIME. THE U.S. MUST GET A GRIP ON ITS POLICY OF PERSUING WAR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, OR THE EDUCATION OUR CHILDREN ARE GETTING TODAY WILL ONLY SERVE THEM ON A BATTLEFIELD OF THE FUTURE, IN SOME STRANGE COUNTRY WE CAN HARDLY IDENTIFY ON A MAP.
WE BEGAN THE WAR AS A COUNTRY...WILL WE END AS AN EMPIRE???
WILL THEIR TUITION BE BE WASTED MONEY... A LOT OF RECRUITS WILL BE NEEDED FOR ROMES WARS.
THINK ABOUT IT
AMIR AL KATIB
IF HOWEVER YOU VALUE LIFE, YOUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF OTHERS INCLUDING THE PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN YOU MUST ASK THE QUESTION: HOW MUCH IS THIS WORTH? WHERE IS THIS GOING? TO WHAT END?
NATION BUILDING WAS NEVER IN THE BUSH ARGUEMENT. IF PUNISHMENT WAS THE INTENTION THEN AFGHANISTAN HAS BEEN PUNISHED...WE HAVE DUPLICATED THE TWIN TOWERS OVER SEVERAL TIMES IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. SO IF PUNISHMENT...'SHOCK AND AWE' IS THE POINT THEN THE WAR SHOULD END TODAY AND WE SHOULD GET OUT.
IF NATION BUILDING IS THE POINT: THE ABOVE ARTICLE CLEARLY GIVE A SNAPSHOT INTO THE PROGRESS OF THE DUAL WAR ON TERROR AND WAR ON DRUGS. THE US HAS ITS NATION THEY HAD ELECTIONS WE SHOULD END TODAY AND GET OUT. BY DEFINITION.
BUT IF IMPERIALISM. EXPANSION. PROTECTING, PROMOTING AND ESTABLISHING A BALANCE OF POWER IN THE FORM OF MERCHANTILISM IS THE POINT. BY PROMOTING BROKEN POLICIES THAT IN FACT ENCOURAGE AND CREATE TERRORIST RECRUITS... BY ALL MEANS WE GREAT ROMANS SHOULD STAY.
NOW THE QUESTION ARISES WHOSE WILLING TO SEND THEIR CHILD, FOR IS IT NOT WRITTEN THAT ALL WE GREAT ROMAN CITIZENS MUST BE WILLING TO DEFEND THE STATE?? I SEE LINES ON THE COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN SAN DIEGO BUT NONE AT THE RECRUITING OFFICE.
MAYBE THE "CONSERVATIVES" CAN SEND THE MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS. THE GUYS WHO CALLED FOR BUILDING THE HUGE 18FT MULTI BILLION DOLLAR FENCE OVER DEFINING "US -U.S.AND "THEM". MAYBE THEY CAN TARGET THEIR RECRUITING TO HISPANICS AND BLACKS...OOPS TOO LATE.
NOT TO MENTION THE THIRD WAR WHICH IS BEING FOUGHT (ALLEGEDLY) AGAINST DRUG DEALERS. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT AMERICA IS FIGHTING TERRORISTS AND DRUG DEALERS AT THE SAME TIME IF THE AFGHAN US GOVERNMENT IS DEALING DRUGS. THIS IS NOT NEWS TO THE CIA IM SURE. SO TO CLOSE DOWN KARZAI IS TO CLOSE DOWN SOME DRUG DEALERS...NARCO TERRORISTS...? WHAT REVELATIONS HISTORY HOLDS FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION REGARDING. QUITE SIMILAR TO THOSE OF EL SALVADOR,HONDURAS,CHILE,COLUMBIA,AND PANAMA IN THE 1980'S. BY THE WAY WHO THE HECK IS AMERICA FIGHTING OVER THERE???
MOST EDUCATED AMERICANS DONT BELIEVE IN BIN LADEN ANYMORE WHILE WE DEFFINATELY BELIEVE HIS IDEOLOGY IS ALIVE AND WELL. BIN LADEN IS DEAD, BUT THE IDEOLOGY OF THE TALIBAN AND AL QEDA LIVE ON IN THE MOST EXTREME OF GROUPS. FIGHTING THEM IS IN FACT COUNTERPRODUCTIVE ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT DRUG DEALING IS A COMMONLY ACCEPTED FORM OF FINANCIAL GAIN. AT LEAST BY AFGHAN STANDARDS.
MEANWHILE BACK ON THE HOME FRONT...THE CRITICS ARE CALLING FOR "MORE SOLDIERS AND GREATER ACTION" WHILE THE MORE PRIVELDGED AND INFO SAVVY CHILDREN OF THIS COUNTRY ARE LOOKING FOR A FUTURE. LINING UP IN DROVES TO GO TO COLLEGE AND GET AN EDUCATION AT THE HIGHT OF FINANCIAL CUT BACKS... ALL THOSE BILLIONS FUNDIG IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN MIGHT BE BETTER SPENT ACCORDING TO THE AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE.
THE LOVE OF LIFE AND DEATH CANNOT BE TRUE AT THE SAME TIME. THE U.S. MUST GET A GRIP ON ITS POLICY OF PERSUING WAR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, OR THE EDUCATION OUR CHILDREN ARE GETTING TODAY WILL ONLY SERVE THEM ON A BATTLEFIELD OF THE FUTURE, IN SOME STRANGE COUNTRY WE CAN HARDLY IDENTIFY ON A MAP.
WE BEGAN THE WAR AS A COUNTRY...WILL WE END AS AN EMPIRE???
WILL THEIR TUITION BE BE WASTED MONEY... A LOT OF RECRUITS WILL BE NEEDED FOR ROMES WARS.
THINK ABOUT IT
AMIR AL KATIB
Monday, October 26, 2009
Obama: Americans killed in Afghan crash 'doing this nation proud' - CNN.com
Obama: Americans killed in Afghan crash 'doing this nation proud' - CNN.com: "A helicopter went down in the west of the country after a raid on suspected drug traffickers. Seven U.S. service members and three U.S. civilians were killed, according to an ISAF statement. Fourteen Afghan service members, 11 U.S. service members and one U.S. civilian were injured in the crash."
HOW DO YOU DEFINE THE ENEMY IN THE WAR ON TERROR?
WE ASSUME FROM THE INFORMATION WE ARE GIVEN IN THE MEDIA THAT EVERY ACT OF OUR GOVERNMENT IS JUSTIFIED. WE (AMERICANS) ASSUME THAT WHEN AN AMERICAN DIES IN A FAR OFF PLACE THAT WHAT THEY DIED FOR WAS GOOD AND JUST.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASSUME THAT, HOWEVER COMING FROM A WAR ZONE HAVING LIVED ON THE STREETS OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT U.S. INNER CITIES, I BELIEVE THAT WHEN THE INTERESTS OF DRUGS AND MILITARIES/GOVERNMENTS COLLIDE, THERE IS CORRUPTION ON BOTH SIDES.
DO WE REALLY KNOW WHO OUR ENEMY IS?
I WAS WONDERING WHY THE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HAS TAKEN SUCH A DELIBERATE APPROACH AT "SENDING TROOPS" TO AFGHANISTAN. I NOW BELIEVE THAT HE HAS A GREATER APPRECIATION FOR LIFE THEREFORE HIS APPROACH WILL BE FROM A PERSPECTIVE OR RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY UNLIKE BUSH II WHO SHOWED NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT FOR HUMAN LIFE. BUSH II LASHED OUT WITHOUT DEFINING HIS ENEMY, WITHOUT RESPECT TO LAW OR HUMAN LIFE. OBAMA IN FACT IS THE OPPOSITE IN THIS APPROACH.
DEFINING THE ENEMY MEANS: WHO ARE YOUR SOLDIERS GOING TO SHOOT AT. WHOSE BLOOD WILL BE SHED. SOME AMERICANS ARE SO QUICK TO CALL FOR THE BLOOD OF OTHERS...BUT I DONT SEE ANY LINES IN FRONT OF RECRUITING OFFICES.
ACCORDING TO THE ART OF WAR THE GREATEST OF ALL GENERALS IS HE THAT CAN WIN A BATTLE WITHOUT SHEDDING A DROP OF BLOOD. DEFINING YOUR ENEMY AND UNDERMINING HIS IDEOLOGICAL STRENGTH IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN JUST GOING OUT ONE BY ONE AND KILLING THEM. THERE IS NO LACK OF PERSONS WILLING TO TAKE THEIR PLACE, WHETHER ON EARTH OR IN PARADISE. THE THEM IT IS THE SAME AND EVEN PREFERABLE TO BE IN PARADISE BEFORE SUNSET.
KNOW YOUR ENEMY.
FACT: THERE WILL ALWAYS BE DRUG DEALERS FOR THE DEA TO BUST IN AFGHANISTAN.
FACT: WHEN THE U.S. LEAVES DRUGS WILL STILL BE THE #1 PRODUCT GROWN IN AFGHANISTAN.
FACT: THE TALIBAN IS NOT A PERSON OR EVEN A GROUP BUT AN IDEOLOGY. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST EXTREME IDEOLOGIES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD. IN ORDER TO DEFEAT AN ENEMY YOU MUST ALSO DEFEAT HIS IDEOLOGY.
WAR ONLY ENDS WHEN ONE OR BOTH SIDES BELIEVE THE SACRIFICE IS NO LONGER WORTH WHILE. DRUG DEALING IS A SOCIAL REALITY THAT ONLY ADDS FIRE TO AN EXISTING PROBLEM. IT MUST BE LOOKED AT WITH GREATER PERSPECTIVE AND TREATED WITH LESS OF A RACIST AND BIAS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
WITH THE HISTORY OF MISDEALINGS IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ONE CAN NOT HELP BUT WONDER AT PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST HAVE BEEN STUNNED WHEN CONFRONTED BY WAKE AND EXTENT OF CORRUPTION LEFT BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
AMERICA HAS INTERESTS IN DRUG DEALING THAT GOES BACK TO ITS VERY CONCEPTION AND CREATION AS A COUNTRY. ONE COULD EVEN ARGUE THAT PROHIBITION IS A POLICY USED TO DIRECT AND MANIPULATE THE INITERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC COMMUNITIES.
THE SOLDIERS THAT DIE IN THESE WARS SURELY ARE HEROES, THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT THE HONOR OF SOLDIERS AND MANY IN THE MILITARY (AT LEAST IN MY MIND).
THE POLICIES HOWEVER...IN OTHER WORDS THE WAYS AND MEANS THAT AMERICAN POLICY IS METED OUT BECOMES THE PROBLEM FOR US ALL. AT THE END OF THE DAY, DRUGS ARE ANTOTHER FORM OF COMMODITY, POTENTIAL GREEN U.S. DOLLARS: THE INTERNATIONAL DRUG DEALING STANDARD.
THIS IS AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF COLD HARD CASH...NOT KEPT IN ANY BANKS, OR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, NOT RECORDED ON COMPUTERS, OR EVEN LEDGERS. THIS IS A STREAM OF BLACK MARKET INCOME WHICH ALL GOVERNMENTS, IN CLUDING THE UNITED STATES HAVE AND DO DEAL IN.
THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST. THE DEATHS OF THE SOLDIERS IN THESE WARS CONSTITUTE CANNON FODDER. THEY WILL BE ONE OF THE FACELESS THOUSANDS TO DIE IN AMERICAS FOREIGN WARS ENFORCING BAD POLICIES, FOR REASONS EVEN THE PUBLIC HAS NO SENSE OF, FIGHTING DRUG DEALERS.
WHEN THE GREAT GENERALS SENT THEIR TROOPS INTO THE VALLEYS TO DIE IN THE CIVIL WARS. TENS OF THOUSANDS IN A DAY...MY HISTORY TEACHERS USED THE WORD CANNON FODDER.
CANNON FODDER IS NOT A FORIEGN CONCEPT TO THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE: ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS WORLD WWI AND WWII...ULTIMATELY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS TURNED INTO CANNON FODDER.
GOVERNMENT POLICIES CREATE CANNON FODDER. GREEDY MEN, AVARICIOUS GROUPS WITH POWER BEHIND THEM. HITLER IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS. HITLER WAS THE MANIAC BUT BEHIND HIM WAS A LARGE GROUP OF "ANONYMOUS" RICH GERMANS. AS LONG AS HE RODE THE WHITE HORSE HE HAD THE AUTHORIZATION TO DO WHATEVER HE PLEASED.
INTERESTING NOTE: HITLER WAS A METH ADDICT AND IN FACT HIS PEOPLE CREATED THE DRUG. THEY GAVE IT TO THEIR SOLDIERS ON THE FRONT LINE, SO IN FACT IT WAS CREATED TO MAKE YOU PARANOID, AWAKE, SENSITIVE TO SOUND AND LIGHT, AND NOT HUNGRY. CANNON FODDER.
WHAT ARE THE REALITIES OF US POLICY, BUT THE QUESTION AFTER THAT IS: HAVE DRUGS BECOME THE SCOURAGE HUMANITIES ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION? WHEN AMERICANS LEAVE THE POPPY AND COCOA AND MARIJUANA WILL STILL BE THERE. ERRADICATING THE DRUGS IS USELESS POLICY.
HISTORICALLY IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT ULTIMATELY THE US TAKES PART IN THE TRADE, AS ACTORS, DEALERS AND DIRECTORS, AS WELL AS PROFITEERS, OR AT THE LEAST OPPORTUNISTS, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME BEING THE NUMBER ONE WORLD CONSUMER.
COINCIDENCE?
MAN'S GREATEST WEAKNESS IS HIS OWN GREED, BUT THOSE WHO STAND BY AND WATCH EVEN KNOWING BETTER...THEY ARE AS GUILTY AS THE ACTORS.
THINK ABOUT IT.
AMIR AL KITAB
I WOULD LIKE TO ASSUME THAT, HOWEVER COMING FROM A WAR ZONE HAVING LIVED ON THE STREETS OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT U.S. INNER CITIES, I BELIEVE THAT WHEN THE INTERESTS OF DRUGS AND MILITARIES/GOVERNMENTS COLLIDE, THERE IS CORRUPTION ON BOTH SIDES.
DO WE REALLY KNOW WHO OUR ENEMY IS?
I WAS WONDERING WHY THE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HAS TAKEN SUCH A DELIBERATE APPROACH AT "SENDING TROOPS" TO AFGHANISTAN. I NOW BELIEVE THAT HE HAS A GREATER APPRECIATION FOR LIFE THEREFORE HIS APPROACH WILL BE FROM A PERSPECTIVE OR RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY UNLIKE BUSH II WHO SHOWED NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT FOR HUMAN LIFE. BUSH II LASHED OUT WITHOUT DEFINING HIS ENEMY, WITHOUT RESPECT TO LAW OR HUMAN LIFE. OBAMA IN FACT IS THE OPPOSITE IN THIS APPROACH.
DEFINING THE ENEMY MEANS: WHO ARE YOUR SOLDIERS GOING TO SHOOT AT. WHOSE BLOOD WILL BE SHED. SOME AMERICANS ARE SO QUICK TO CALL FOR THE BLOOD OF OTHERS...BUT I DONT SEE ANY LINES IN FRONT OF RECRUITING OFFICES.
ACCORDING TO THE ART OF WAR THE GREATEST OF ALL GENERALS IS HE THAT CAN WIN A BATTLE WITHOUT SHEDDING A DROP OF BLOOD. DEFINING YOUR ENEMY AND UNDERMINING HIS IDEOLOGICAL STRENGTH IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN JUST GOING OUT ONE BY ONE AND KILLING THEM. THERE IS NO LACK OF PERSONS WILLING TO TAKE THEIR PLACE, WHETHER ON EARTH OR IN PARADISE. THE THEM IT IS THE SAME AND EVEN PREFERABLE TO BE IN PARADISE BEFORE SUNSET.
KNOW YOUR ENEMY.
FACT: THERE WILL ALWAYS BE DRUG DEALERS FOR THE DEA TO BUST IN AFGHANISTAN.
FACT: WHEN THE U.S. LEAVES DRUGS WILL STILL BE THE #1 PRODUCT GROWN IN AFGHANISTAN.
FACT: THE TALIBAN IS NOT A PERSON OR EVEN A GROUP BUT AN IDEOLOGY. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST EXTREME IDEOLOGIES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD. IN ORDER TO DEFEAT AN ENEMY YOU MUST ALSO DEFEAT HIS IDEOLOGY.
WAR ONLY ENDS WHEN ONE OR BOTH SIDES BELIEVE THE SACRIFICE IS NO LONGER WORTH WHILE. DRUG DEALING IS A SOCIAL REALITY THAT ONLY ADDS FIRE TO AN EXISTING PROBLEM. IT MUST BE LOOKED AT WITH GREATER PERSPECTIVE AND TREATED WITH LESS OF A RACIST AND BIAS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
WITH THE HISTORY OF MISDEALINGS IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ONE CAN NOT HELP BUT WONDER AT PRESIDENT OBAMA MUST HAVE BEEN STUNNED WHEN CONFRONTED BY WAKE AND EXTENT OF CORRUPTION LEFT BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
AMERICA HAS INTERESTS IN DRUG DEALING THAT GOES BACK TO ITS VERY CONCEPTION AND CREATION AS A COUNTRY. ONE COULD EVEN ARGUE THAT PROHIBITION IS A POLICY USED TO DIRECT AND MANIPULATE THE INITERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC COMMUNITIES.
THE SOLDIERS THAT DIE IN THESE WARS SURELY ARE HEROES, THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT THE HONOR OF SOLDIERS AND MANY IN THE MILITARY (AT LEAST IN MY MIND).
THE POLICIES HOWEVER...IN OTHER WORDS THE WAYS AND MEANS THAT AMERICAN POLICY IS METED OUT BECOMES THE PROBLEM FOR US ALL. AT THE END OF THE DAY, DRUGS ARE ANTOTHER FORM OF COMMODITY, POTENTIAL GREEN U.S. DOLLARS: THE INTERNATIONAL DRUG DEALING STANDARD.
THIS IS AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF COLD HARD CASH...NOT KEPT IN ANY BANKS, OR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, NOT RECORDED ON COMPUTERS, OR EVEN LEDGERS. THIS IS A STREAM OF BLACK MARKET INCOME WHICH ALL GOVERNMENTS, IN CLUDING THE UNITED STATES HAVE AND DO DEAL IN.
THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST. THE DEATHS OF THE SOLDIERS IN THESE WARS CONSTITUTE CANNON FODDER. THEY WILL BE ONE OF THE FACELESS THOUSANDS TO DIE IN AMERICAS FOREIGN WARS ENFORCING BAD POLICIES, FOR REASONS EVEN THE PUBLIC HAS NO SENSE OF, FIGHTING DRUG DEALERS.
WHEN THE GREAT GENERALS SENT THEIR TROOPS INTO THE VALLEYS TO DIE IN THE CIVIL WARS. TENS OF THOUSANDS IN A DAY...MY HISTORY TEACHERS USED THE WORD CANNON FODDER.
CANNON FODDER IS NOT A FORIEGN CONCEPT TO THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE: ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS WORLD WWI AND WWII...ULTIMATELY HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS TURNED INTO CANNON FODDER.
GOVERNMENT POLICIES CREATE CANNON FODDER. GREEDY MEN, AVARICIOUS GROUPS WITH POWER BEHIND THEM. HITLER IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS. HITLER WAS THE MANIAC BUT BEHIND HIM WAS A LARGE GROUP OF "ANONYMOUS" RICH GERMANS. AS LONG AS HE RODE THE WHITE HORSE HE HAD THE AUTHORIZATION TO DO WHATEVER HE PLEASED.
INTERESTING NOTE: HITLER WAS A METH ADDICT AND IN FACT HIS PEOPLE CREATED THE DRUG. THEY GAVE IT TO THEIR SOLDIERS ON THE FRONT LINE, SO IN FACT IT WAS CREATED TO MAKE YOU PARANOID, AWAKE, SENSITIVE TO SOUND AND LIGHT, AND NOT HUNGRY. CANNON FODDER.
WHAT ARE THE REALITIES OF US POLICY, BUT THE QUESTION AFTER THAT IS: HAVE DRUGS BECOME THE SCOURAGE HUMANITIES ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION? WHEN AMERICANS LEAVE THE POPPY AND COCOA AND MARIJUANA WILL STILL BE THERE. ERRADICATING THE DRUGS IS USELESS POLICY.
HISTORICALLY IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT ULTIMATELY THE US TAKES PART IN THE TRADE, AS ACTORS, DEALERS AND DIRECTORS, AS WELL AS PROFITEERS, OR AT THE LEAST OPPORTUNISTS, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME BEING THE NUMBER ONE WORLD CONSUMER.
COINCIDENCE?
MAN'S GREATEST WEAKNESS IS HIS OWN GREED, BUT THOSE WHO STAND BY AND WATCH EVEN KNOWING BETTER...THEY ARE AS GUILTY AS THE ACTORS.
THINK ABOUT IT.
AMIR AL KITAB
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Analysis of recent developments in Afghanistand and historical context
To be fair, the Taliban did outlaw the production of Poppy while they were in Power. They are the only political power that has ever been successful at cutting the production of Heroin in Afghanistan and cut down the lawlessness whiched thrived in the counrty since before the time of Soviet occupation.
The Taliban are mainly Pashtun, Sunni Afghans, mixed with experienced Arab Wahabi fighters from all over the Middle East but particularly from the Iraq war zone. Their movement is also aided by a young and third generation of mujehideen form different parts of Asia who are attracted to the aspect of Jihad and martyrdom. These include persons from Aftica and even Western countries.
Where do they get the money? The Bush war on terror was a hoax, no true terrorist organizations maintained their cash in banks of any sort anywhere. This money comes almost exclusively form donations and drug profits, the sale of arms and military training in other warzones...one hand washes the other.
The production of narcotics is an economic problem in a severely underdeveloped country which works to the benefit of militant groups such as Al Qeda, the Taliban and local warlords. Therefore while worldwide governments are 'cash strapped', narcoterrorist groups are CASH FLUSHED.
Therefore, the Taliban see selling Heroin as a "necessary evil", which all tribes, groups and political parties have profited from, POSSIBLY INCLUDING THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT.
The Taliban are as much a religious movement, as a they are a political movement, and as the above video shows, it is a way of life for thousands of young generations of children...learning ENGLISH.
The problem is that the Taliban want to run the entire country in a repressive and exclusive way, they have one vision of society which is intolerant and exclusive...in the US we would describe it as a form of RACISM. Racisms in all its forms nad fashion is still racism and must be recognized as such.
If America withdrew from the region today and conceded to the Taliban there would be a form of systematic genocide and civil war - THE HAS HISTORICAL PRESEDENCE IN AFGHANISTAN.
Only by creating a system of government which includes all factions in Afghanistan and discourages the sheltering of foreign fighters will these disputes be resolved.
While you can kill a man, his ideas will live forever, and be spread to future generations. The dichotomy here, however, is that the Taliban who were ILLEGALLY REMOVED FROM POWER, and who initially obtained that power through acts of genocide, see the current government as a product of US IMPERIALISM. Which by definition - IT IS.
So there is an impasse': both sides have positioned themselves on a one track ideology which excludes the existance of the other in the future of the country. This while civilians try to live from day to day.
The Afghanistanians must be given their country to run, the foreign Arabs need to go back home and the Taliban must modify their position on dealing with others who do not share their extremist religious views of what the world should be.
How do you DEFANG AND IDEOLOGY?? Eliminate its cash flow, isolate it militarily, and undermine their moral arguments in the eyes of the public and the world. Soldiers, and guns will not sove this conflict alone.
Afghanistan is a muslim country, but no human being likes to be told how and when to pray, what to wear, who can and can't go to school...unfortunatley for the Taliban, their brand of Islam has become synonymous with INTOLERANCE...quite similar to the HAWKISH VIEWS OF THE BUSH II ADMINISTRATION (exclusivism, absolutism and defiant of internatioal laws, conventions and world agreements).
Americans see politics as separate from religion. In Afghanistan, traditionally politics and religion are sononymous. To the Taliban there is no distinction, however. Their practice would be considered an extremely conservative brand largely influenced by Wahaby Arabs, and Shi'ite muslims.
The US Government will not defeat the Taliban by simply seeking them out one by one and killing them.
There is no such thing as a just war. By definition wars violate the fundamental principles of humanity: preservation of human life...not just preservation of self. Therefore, both sides must cease killing, and come to a dialogue that renders justice for the majority, which at this point will require compromise, tolerance, equity and forgiveness on all sides. Wars do not create peace, and often the "peace" they create, only contains t the seeds of future GREATER conflagerations of death and destruction.
In order for me to understand Afghanistan (and the region in general) I have to look at it as a land of peoples and not borders. When you only see the borders you miss the mix of cultures which meet in this exact spot, which is the history of this region since before Alexander the Great.
American policy must begin to show: greater regard for human life, more willingness to legitimate grievances of the disaffected people, more willingness to invest into the security of the populace. Sending soldiers may help the military, but in itself it does not help to create peace. I never heard 'peace grows out of the end of a gun barrel'.
The Taliban are mainly Pashtun, Sunni Afghans, mixed with experienced Arab Wahabi fighters from all over the Middle East but particularly from the Iraq war zone. Their movement is also aided by a young and third generation of mujehideen form different parts of Asia who are attracted to the aspect of Jihad and martyrdom. These include persons from Aftica and even Western countries.
Where do they get the money? The Bush war on terror was a hoax, no true terrorist organizations maintained their cash in banks of any sort anywhere. This money comes almost exclusively form donations and drug profits, the sale of arms and military training in other warzones...one hand washes the other.
The production of narcotics is an economic problem in a severely underdeveloped country which works to the benefit of militant groups such as Al Qeda, the Taliban and local warlords. Therefore while worldwide governments are 'cash strapped', narcoterrorist groups are CASH FLUSHED.
Therefore, the Taliban see selling Heroin as a "necessary evil", which all tribes, groups and political parties have profited from, POSSIBLY INCLUDING THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT.
The Taliban are as much a religious movement, as a they are a political movement, and as the above video shows, it is a way of life for thousands of young generations of children...learning ENGLISH.
The problem is that the Taliban want to run the entire country in a repressive and exclusive way, they have one vision of society which is intolerant and exclusive...in the US we would describe it as a form of RACISM. Racisms in all its forms nad fashion is still racism and must be recognized as such.
If America withdrew from the region today and conceded to the Taliban there would be a form of systematic genocide and civil war - THE HAS HISTORICAL PRESEDENCE IN AFGHANISTAN.
Only by creating a system of government which includes all factions in Afghanistan and discourages the sheltering of foreign fighters will these disputes be resolved.
While you can kill a man, his ideas will live forever, and be spread to future generations. The dichotomy here, however, is that the Taliban who were ILLEGALLY REMOVED FROM POWER, and who initially obtained that power through acts of genocide, see the current government as a product of US IMPERIALISM. Which by definition - IT IS.
So there is an impasse': both sides have positioned themselves on a one track ideology which excludes the existance of the other in the future of the country. This while civilians try to live from day to day.
The Afghanistanians must be given their country to run, the foreign Arabs need to go back home and the Taliban must modify their position on dealing with others who do not share their extremist religious views of what the world should be.
How do you DEFANG AND IDEOLOGY?? Eliminate its cash flow, isolate it militarily, and undermine their moral arguments in the eyes of the public and the world. Soldiers, and guns will not sove this conflict alone.
Afghanistan is a muslim country, but no human being likes to be told how and when to pray, what to wear, who can and can't go to school...unfortunatley for the Taliban, their brand of Islam has become synonymous with INTOLERANCE...quite similar to the HAWKISH VIEWS OF THE BUSH II ADMINISTRATION (exclusivism, absolutism and defiant of internatioal laws, conventions and world agreements).
Americans see politics as separate from religion. In Afghanistan, traditionally politics and religion are sononymous. To the Taliban there is no distinction, however. Their practice would be considered an extremely conservative brand largely influenced by Wahaby Arabs, and Shi'ite muslims.
The US Government will not defeat the Taliban by simply seeking them out one by one and killing them.
There is no such thing as a just war. By definition wars violate the fundamental principles of humanity: preservation of human life...not just preservation of self. Therefore, both sides must cease killing, and come to a dialogue that renders justice for the majority, which at this point will require compromise, tolerance, equity and forgiveness on all sides. Wars do not create peace, and often the "peace" they create, only contains t the seeds of future GREATER conflagerations of death and destruction.
In order for me to understand Afghanistan (and the region in general) I have to look at it as a land of peoples and not borders. When you only see the borders you miss the mix of cultures which meet in this exact spot, which is the history of this region since before Alexander the Great.
American policy must begin to show: greater regard for human life, more willingness to legitimate grievances of the disaffected people, more willingness to invest into the security of the populace. Sending soldiers may help the military, but in itself it does not help to create peace. I never heard 'peace grows out of the end of a gun barrel'.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Photos: Massacre at another Mexico rehab clinic
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"War on Drugs" : Slogans Slop and Cops
I'm in the process of doing research on how the war on drugs is in fact empowering multiple insurgency movements all over the world. This article is just one of many that argues that: there is no "war on drugs", and in fact this so called war is a tactic by the government to promote political and economic agendas in poor countries, while simultaneously eroding the constitutional rights of all Americans.
It is my contention that the US government has historically implemented policies which target cartels who are on their "shit" lists(i.e.groups that fail to work with them in reaching their geo-political goals such as installing "friendly" governments), while overtly allowing others to operate with impunity.
Historically the US government agencies have had a history of working with international narco-terrorist, some of these rogues include: Manuel Noriega in Panama, Nicaraguan Contras, Zapata Oil connected to the CIA through George H.W. Bush Sr., the Colombian black-ops group " Los Pepes created by the DEA and now some of the most powerful narco-terrorists in Columbia , as well as various street gang operations, to name a few.
Publicly however police forces are well financed to target domestic drug dealers, with an emphasis on arresting users and small time dealers in the inner cities and suburbs of America (overwhelmingly minorities), while the narco terrorists who kill border agents, civilians, government officials and police, freely run their enterprises transporting mind boggling amounts of drugs across the MOST POLICED AND "SECURE" U.S. PORTS AND BORDERS IN THE WORLD.
Mexican and South American drug dealers, adapting to the recent tide of worldwide "war on terror" have taken notes from their middle eastern counterparts using URBAN WARFARE GUERRILLA tactics developed in Iraq and Afghanistan; textbook examples on how to effectively destabilize a government, terrorize a population, and hobble security forces, while simultaneously generating profits that rival Exxon Mobile and Chevrons record breaking revenues despite a world wide recession. While state and local governments go broke, cartels are flush with cash...drug money,not "charitable donations".
What do they do with all the billions of dollars they make? The days of Escobar style excesses are over, no longer do they buy soccer teams, or try to run for government offices, they have far greater aspirations. Why run for office when you can create your own fiefdom? They carve out territory, and having learned from history invest in much more lucrative ventures such as: buying off politicians, placing bounties on government officials, assassinate federal, state and local police who refuse to co-operate, murder politicians, invest in submarines, tunnel building technology, anti-aircraft weapons, earth moving equipment, satellite phones, thermal and night imaging technology, bulletproof SUV's designed to defeat border security, along with millions of weapons imported from China and the US.
They recruit, train and pay salaries to legions of poor foot soldiers recruited from the worst gangs and poorest neighborhoods, while simultaneously corrupting local and federal police officials who operate as the "special forces", spies and "Intel" agents for the cartels. These are the most educated and well trained in "counter-terrorist" tactics (sometimes by US FBI, DEA, or Special Operations known as "trainers").
Narco terrorists are highly profit motivated and committed to their cause, they have no fear of the government and are in fact the number one threat to all governments that host them within their borders...they are the wave of the future.
Today's narco-terrorists have access to an almost unlimited cash flow via drug sales, making the Bin Laden fortune look like pocket change. These groups are OPENLY AND BRAZENLY CHALLENGING THEIR GOVERNMENT SECURITY FORCES, with one message: STAY OUT OF OUR WAY AND LET US OPERATE, OR BE READY FOR TOTAL WAR. This includes the areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Columbia, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, South Asia, and the more than 230 cities in the US.
The US policy of requiring developing countries to participate in the eradication of plants that have grown wild in their countries since the beginning of time is absolutely futile. The mafia in the US was created, funded and empowered by the prohibition of ALCOHOL (which anyone can make with a little sugar, grapes, and yeast). If policy makers are truly worried about the health of the public why not outlaw: Caffeine, Nicotine, Ibuprofen, Vocodine, Oxycontin, all opium based pain killers.... oh and LIQUOR, which kills millions of people every year. Why not create a Utopian society of totally sober and clean people 100% drug free (isn't that what Americans want)?!?!
Lets examine some of the governments latest facts about drug use in America: according to a 2008 study by the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DRUG ABUSE :
- 48 MILLION AMERICANS have abused PRESCRIPTION drugs BEGINNING AT AGE 12...THAT'S 20% OF THE US POPULATION ADDICTED TO LEGAL DRUGS.
- 129 million or 51.6% reported being current drinkers of alcohol, and 58.1 million described themselves as BINGE DRINKERS
- As compared to 20 million or 8% who used "illicit drugs" (IE.marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, etc).
To keep it short I left out nicotine, caffeine addicts and itemized narcotics such as designer drugs.
All these substances including caffeine and nicotine have harmful side effects, can be addictive and are considered "drugs" by FDA standards. Sound crazy? So too is the indiscriminate, culturally racist attitudes toward selectively picking and choosing WHO can consume WHAT substances then constructing MEGA POLICE BUREAUCRACIES TO INCARCERATE THE USERS and DEALERS.
Reference this blog for more facts on what the "war on drugs" is really doing to the world: http://wwwnarcowars.blogspot.com/ . Whose really benefiting from this so-called war? Pharmaceutical companies and the US government seem to be at the top of the list, followed closely by Cartel bosses and Terrorist groups.
After 40 years of this so-called war, why is it that I can walk one block in any city and buy drugs imported from Mexico, Columbia, South East Asia, Canada or Afghanistan? There's no such thing as a war on drugs, its a broken slogan used by the politicians and police agencies to persuade the public to acquiesce to the enactment of highly restrictive laws and policies that suppress the rights of common Americans and countries throughout the world, simultaneously expanding police and security forces within the US for "national security purposes".
The war on drugs has achieved two things for certain: The US has more people locked in prisons for drug related crimes than any other country in world history, even California alone has more people incarcerated than China; second, Americans have conceded to give up many constitutional rights to rid their communities of drugs; the end result: FEWER RIGHTS, and MORE DRUGS than ever in US history.
I can buy a gun, a beer, cigarettes or a hardcore sex tape anywhere but if I buy a joint even with a prescription....off to jail I go. Who makes these laws up? Maybe its the real drug dealers....CIA, DEA, State Department, FBI, Pharmaceutical lobbyists? Certainly its not the families of the generations of black and Hispanic youth wiped out on the inner city streets by this so called "war on drugs", nor the thousands of world wide victims of NARCO-TERRORISTS WHO IN SOME CASES HAVE WORKED FOR AND WITH THE US GOVERNMENT.
THINK ABOUT IT
AMIR AL KATIB
It is my contention that the US government has historically implemented policies which target cartels who are on their "shit" lists(i.e.groups that fail to work with them in reaching their geo-political goals such as installing "friendly" governments), while overtly allowing others to operate with impunity.
Historically the US government agencies have had a history of working with international narco-terrorist, some of these rogues include: Manuel Noriega in Panama, Nicaraguan Contras, Zapata Oil connected to the CIA through George H.W. Bush Sr., the Colombian black-ops group " Los Pepes created by the DEA and now some of the most powerful narco-terrorists in Columbia , as well as various street gang operations, to name a few.
Publicly however police forces are well financed to target domestic drug dealers, with an emphasis on arresting users and small time dealers in the inner cities and suburbs of America (overwhelmingly minorities), while the narco terrorists who kill border agents, civilians, government officials and police, freely run their enterprises transporting mind boggling amounts of drugs across the MOST POLICED AND "SECURE" U.S. PORTS AND BORDERS IN THE WORLD.
Mexican and South American drug dealers, adapting to the recent tide of worldwide "war on terror" have taken notes from their middle eastern counterparts using URBAN WARFARE GUERRILLA tactics developed in Iraq and Afghanistan; textbook examples on how to effectively destabilize a government, terrorize a population, and hobble security forces, while simultaneously generating profits that rival Exxon Mobile and Chevrons record breaking revenues despite a world wide recession. While state and local governments go broke, cartels are flush with cash...drug money,not "charitable donations".
What do they do with all the billions of dollars they make? The days of Escobar style excesses are over, no longer do they buy soccer teams, or try to run for government offices, they have far greater aspirations. Why run for office when you can create your own fiefdom? They carve out territory, and having learned from history invest in much more lucrative ventures such as: buying off politicians, placing bounties on government officials, assassinate federal, state and local police who refuse to co-operate, murder politicians, invest in submarines, tunnel building technology, anti-aircraft weapons, earth moving equipment, satellite phones, thermal and night imaging technology, bulletproof SUV's designed to defeat border security, along with millions of weapons imported from China and the US.
They recruit, train and pay salaries to legions of poor foot soldiers recruited from the worst gangs and poorest neighborhoods, while simultaneously corrupting local and federal police officials who operate as the "special forces", spies and "Intel" agents for the cartels. These are the most educated and well trained in "counter-terrorist" tactics (sometimes by US FBI, DEA, or Special Operations known as "trainers").
Narco terrorists are highly profit motivated and committed to their cause, they have no fear of the government and are in fact the number one threat to all governments that host them within their borders...they are the wave of the future.
Today's narco-terrorists have access to an almost unlimited cash flow via drug sales, making the Bin Laden fortune look like pocket change. These groups are OPENLY AND BRAZENLY CHALLENGING THEIR GOVERNMENT SECURITY FORCES, with one message: STAY OUT OF OUR WAY AND LET US OPERATE, OR BE READY FOR TOTAL WAR. This includes the areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Columbia, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, South Asia, and the more than 230 cities in the US.
The US policy of requiring developing countries to participate in the eradication of plants that have grown wild in their countries since the beginning of time is absolutely futile. The mafia in the US was created, funded and empowered by the prohibition of ALCOHOL (which anyone can make with a little sugar, grapes, and yeast). If policy makers are truly worried about the health of the public why not outlaw: Caffeine, Nicotine, Ibuprofen, Vocodine, Oxycontin, all opium based pain killers.... oh and LIQUOR, which kills millions of people every year. Why not create a Utopian society of totally sober and clean people 100% drug free (isn't that what Americans want)?!?!
Lets examine some of the governments latest facts about drug use in America: according to a 2008 study by the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DRUG ABUSE :
- 48 MILLION AMERICANS have abused PRESCRIPTION drugs BEGINNING AT AGE 12...THAT'S 20% OF THE US POPULATION ADDICTED TO LEGAL DRUGS.
- 129 million or 51.6% reported being current drinkers of alcohol, and 58.1 million described themselves as BINGE DRINKERS
- As compared to 20 million or 8% who used "illicit drugs" (IE.marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, etc).
To keep it short I left out nicotine, caffeine addicts and itemized narcotics such as designer drugs.
All these substances including caffeine and nicotine have harmful side effects, can be addictive and are considered "drugs" by FDA standards. Sound crazy? So too is the indiscriminate, culturally racist attitudes toward selectively picking and choosing WHO can consume WHAT substances then constructing MEGA POLICE BUREAUCRACIES TO INCARCERATE THE USERS and DEALERS.
Reference this blog for more facts on what the "war on drugs" is really doing to the world: http://wwwnarcowars.blogspot.com/ . Whose really benefiting from this so-called war? Pharmaceutical companies and the US government seem to be at the top of the list, followed closely by Cartel bosses and Terrorist groups.
After 40 years of this so-called war, why is it that I can walk one block in any city and buy drugs imported from Mexico, Columbia, South East Asia, Canada or Afghanistan? There's no such thing as a war on drugs, its a broken slogan used by the politicians and police agencies to persuade the public to acquiesce to the enactment of highly restrictive laws and policies that suppress the rights of common Americans and countries throughout the world, simultaneously expanding police and security forces within the US for "national security purposes".
The war on drugs has achieved two things for certain: The US has more people locked in prisons for drug related crimes than any other country in world history, even California alone has more people incarcerated than China; second, Americans have conceded to give up many constitutional rights to rid their communities of drugs; the end result: FEWER RIGHTS, and MORE DRUGS than ever in US history.
I can buy a gun, a beer, cigarettes or a hardcore sex tape anywhere but if I buy a joint even with a prescription....off to jail I go. Who makes these laws up? Maybe its the real drug dealers....CIA, DEA, State Department, FBI, Pharmaceutical lobbyists? Certainly its not the families of the generations of black and Hispanic youth wiped out on the inner city streets by this so called "war on drugs", nor the thousands of world wide victims of NARCO-TERRORISTS WHO IN SOME CASES HAVE WORKED FOR AND WITH THE US GOVERNMENT.
THINK ABOUT IT
AMIR AL KATIB
Reference on current "low level" high casualty conflicts many funded by narcotraffic, but excludes many low level narco-wars
Interactive: Forgotten conflicts
Interactive: Forgotten conflicts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28584056/ns/world_news/from/ET
Interactive: Forgotten conflicts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28584056/ns/world_news/from/ET
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Narco-Terrorists Confront the Government and Shoot Down Police Helo Leaving 12 Dead
http://www.france24.com/en/20091018-brazil-drug-gangs-violence-clashes-police-helicopter-rio-morro-jao
Friday, October 16, 2009
NARCOCLEPTOCRACY
Columbia has been consumed by a drug war since the 1969. Forty years later the best solutions have resulted in bumper crops, drug lords flush with cash, and our number one declared enemy stronger than ever. How is this possible? Lets examining some particular facts then you decide, first however we must take a few steps back in time:
1960-70's Vietnam Era
"It was widely alleged among various veterans that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in smuggling opium produced in Western Vietnam and Eastern Cambodia to heroin producers in the United States at considerable[clarification needed] profit. In the book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred W. McCoy, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, provides evidence of the use of opium by agents of the U.S. Government to fund covert operations in Vietnam. McCoy discusses the use of opium to fund covert operations done by the CIA in Vietnam and provides prolific testimony from interviews with many of the principals involved.[2] According to Dr. McCoy, the agency intimidated his sources and tried to keep the book from being published.
(Wikipedia citation: CIA DRUG TRAFFICKING
1979-1980's Afghanistan Part I
It was alleged by the Soviets on multiple occasions[citation needed] that American CIA agents were helping smuggle opium out of Afghanistan, either into the West, in order to raise money for the Afghan resistance or into the Soviet Union in order to weaken it through drug addiction.
According to historian Alfred W. McCoy, the CIA supported various Afghan drug lords, for instance Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . In particular, McCoy stated that:
"In most cases, the CI A's role involved various forms of complicity, tolerance or studied ignorance about the trade, not any direct culpability in the actual trafficking ... [t]he CIA did not handle heroin, but it did provide its drug-lord allies with transport, arms, and political protection. In sum, the CIA's role in the Southeast Asian heroin trade involved indirect complicity rather than direct culpability."
(ibid)
1980's The Los Angeles Crack Explosion / Iran Contra Affair
John Kerry (Dem) head of the Congressioinal inquiriry into allegations of CIA drug trafficking in Central and South America concluded:
that "the Contra drug links included...payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies."[3] The US State Department paid over $806,000 to known drug traffickers to carry humanitarian assistance to the Contras (emphasis mine)
J.Kerry Committee Report April 13 1989
2002-2009 Afghanistan Part II
The United States and multiple members of NATO such as the UK totally overthrew the existing Taliban regime (who coincidentally had totally outlawed growing poppies), eradicated all known Al Qaeda operations, and installed a new so-called "democratic" government, police force and army.
Today Afghanistan remains the worlds number one producer of Heroin for the entire world producing more than 75% of the worlds supply in excess of what is needed for medical purposes. The production is so successful that there is a Heroin bumper crop every year since the allied invasion, and it is widely reported by government agencies that the Taliban and other hostile groups are flush with cash from these drug sales.
How can we find Bin Laden and his deputies when we cant find the acres and acres of poppy fields growing openly in Afghanistan, and being sold by Taliban and other groups fighting Packist and the Afghan government?
1990's Venezuela before Hugo Chavez
In November 1993, Judge Robert C. Bonner, the former head of the DEA, appeared on 60 Minutes and alleged that the CIA had permitted a ton of cocaine to enter the United States.
The New York Times reported:
“ The CIA - over the objections of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a branch of the Justice Department - approved the shipment of at least one ton of nearly pure cocaine to Miami International Airport as a way of gathering information about the Colombian drug cartels. But the cocaine ended up on the street because of "poor judgment and management on the part of several CIA officers," the intelligence agency said.
In November 1996 a Miami jury indicted former Venezuelan anti-narcotics chief and CIA asset, General Ramon Guillen Davila, who "led a CIA counter-narcotics program that put a ton of cocaine on U.S. streets in 1990." The internal fallout however contributed to a military coup by Hugo Chavez in 1992, and his eventual popular election in 1998, 2000 and 2006. It is alleged that the CIA supported groups who attempted to assisinate him in 2002, creating a public debacle surrounding the Bush Administration.
1950's - 1980' Panama and Manuel Noriega
The brief invasion of Panama without UN authorization and in violation of current UN conventions baffled many. One day we woke up and the US Army was in Panama, with the stated goal: capture Public Enemy Numer 1 MANUEL NORIEGA. Apparently he had fallen out of favor with the CIA and so the in fact accused him of the very crimes they aided him in committing for decades:
Senator John Kerry's 1988 Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations concluded that "the saga of Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the United States. Throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, Noriega was able to manipulate U.S. policy toward his country, while skillfully accumulating near-absolute power in Panama. It is clear that each U.S. government agency which had a relationship with Noriega turned a blind eye to his corruption and drug dealing, even as he was emerging as a key player on behalf of the Medellín Cartel (a member of which was notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar)." Manuel Noriega was allowed to establish "the hemisphere's first 'narcokleptocracy'".
2002-2009 Afghanistan Part II
The United States and multiple members of NATO such as the UK totally overthrew the exhisting Taliban regime (who coincidentally had totally outlawed growing poppies), erradicated all known Al Qaeda operations, and installed a new so-called "democratic" government, police force and army.
Today Afghanistan remains the worlds number one producer of Heroin for the entire world producing more than 75% of the worlds supply in excess of what is needed for medical purposes. The production is so successful that there is a Heroin bumper crop every year since the allied invasion, and it is widely reported by government agencies that the Taliban and other hostile groups are flush with cash from these drug sales.
How can we find Bin Laden and his deputies when we cant find the acres and acres of poppy fields growing openly in Afghanistan, and being sold by Taliban and other groups fighting Packistan and the Afghan government?
2009 ColumbiaWhen we speak of the state of Columbia we have come full circle to where the drug war really took on its current militant form that you see today. Pablo Escobar epitomized what a narco-terrorist is and the damage a committed, well funded and organized group can do when in direct confrontatoin with the government.
While the US was eventually able to remove Pablo after considerable loss of life, the US governments actions spawned a new breed of militants. After multiple failures to capture Pablo Escobar the local military formed a group called "los Pepes". This was not officially recognized by the US agencies however it is known that the Los Pepes consisted of DEA trained, black ops vigilantes who operated outside the rule of law, executing, torturing and eliminating anyone associated with Pablo Escobar.
In the end the members of Los Pepes disentigrated into a soup of militant bosses making up the bulk of narco-terrorists being fought in Columbia today. The CIA and DEA created multiple "frankienstiens" similar to Pablo: Diego Murillo-Bejarano aka "Don Berna leader of the rebel AUC, Manuel Noriega and Felix Arroyano but unlike Pablo, their still alive and in business.
The war on drugs has metamorphosized like a hydra that sprouts cartel bosses and drug dealing Jihadists, flush with weapons, money, men, a fearful public, corrupt government officials and a hungry world demand for their dope.
As part of PLAN COLUMBIA, the U.S. Government funded coca eradication through private contractors such as DynCorp and helped train the Colombian armed forces to eradicate coca and fight left-wing guerrillas such as the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and right-wing paramilitaries such as the AUC (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia), both of which have been accused of participating in the illegal drug trade in their areas of influence. Private U.S. enterprises have signed contracts to carry out anti-drug activities as part of Plan Colombia. DynCorp, the largest private company involved, was among those contracted by the State Department, while others signed contracts with the Defense Department.
Once again however the Bush II administration found a way to get US corporations involved in runing our wars. Only in the twisted Bush mind would you rationalize paying a FOR PROFIT COMPANY to erradicate cocaine in Columbia, and other parts of South America. Please refer to the Columbian presidents speach for and update on the success of this 40 year old "war".
THINK ABOUT IT
1960-70's Vietnam Era
"It was widely alleged among various veterans that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in smuggling opium produced in Western Vietnam and Eastern Cambodia to heroin producers in the United States at considerable[clarification needed] profit. In the book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred W. McCoy, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, provides evidence of the use of opium by agents of the U.S. Government to fund covert operations in Vietnam. McCoy discusses the use of opium to fund covert operations done by the CIA in Vietnam and provides prolific testimony from interviews with many of the principals involved.[2] According to Dr. McCoy, the agency intimidated his sources and tried to keep the book from being published.
(Wikipedia citation: CIA DRUG TRAFFICKING
1979-1980's Afghanistan Part I
It was alleged by the Soviets on multiple occasions[citation needed] that American CIA agents were helping smuggle opium out of Afghanistan, either into the West, in order to raise money for the Afghan resistance or into the Soviet Union in order to weaken it through drug addiction.
According to historian Alfred W. McCoy, the CIA supported various Afghan drug lords, for instance Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . In particular, McCoy stated that:
"In most cases, the CI A's role involved various forms of complicity, tolerance or studied ignorance about the trade, not any direct culpability in the actual trafficking ... [t]he CIA did not handle heroin, but it did provide its drug-lord allies with transport, arms, and political protection. In sum, the CIA's role in the Southeast Asian heroin trade involved indirect complicity rather than direct culpability."
(ibid)
1980's The Los Angeles Crack Explosion / Iran Contra Affair
John Kerry (Dem) head of the Congressioinal inquiriry into allegations of CIA drug trafficking in Central and South America concluded:
that "the Contra drug links included...payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies."[3] The US State Department paid over $806,000 to known drug traffickers to carry humanitarian assistance to the Contras (emphasis mine)
J.Kerry Committee Report April 13 1989
2002-2009 Afghanistan Part II
The United States and multiple members of NATO such as the UK totally overthrew the existing Taliban regime (who coincidentally had totally outlawed growing poppies), eradicated all known Al Qaeda operations, and installed a new so-called "democratic" government, police force and army.
Today Afghanistan remains the worlds number one producer of Heroin for the entire world producing more than 75% of the worlds supply in excess of what is needed for medical purposes. The production is so successful that there is a Heroin bumper crop every year since the allied invasion, and it is widely reported by government agencies that the Taliban and other hostile groups are flush with cash from these drug sales.
How can we find Bin Laden and his deputies when we cant find the acres and acres of poppy fields growing openly in Afghanistan, and being sold by Taliban and other groups fighting Packist and the Afghan government?
1990's Venezuela before Hugo Chavez
In November 1993, Judge Robert C. Bonner, the former head of the DEA, appeared on 60 Minutes and alleged that the CIA had permitted a ton of cocaine to enter the United States.
The New York Times reported:
“ The CIA - over the objections of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a branch of the Justice Department - approved the shipment of at least one ton of nearly pure cocaine to Miami International Airport as a way of gathering information about the Colombian drug cartels. But the cocaine ended up on the street because of "poor judgment and management on the part of several CIA officers," the intelligence agency said.
In November 1996 a Miami jury indicted former Venezuelan anti-narcotics chief and CIA asset, General Ramon Guillen Davila, who "led a CIA counter-narcotics program that put a ton of cocaine on U.S. streets in 1990." The internal fallout however contributed to a military coup by Hugo Chavez in 1992, and his eventual popular election in 1998, 2000 and 2006. It is alleged that the CIA supported groups who attempted to assisinate him in 2002, creating a public debacle surrounding the Bush Administration.
1950's - 1980' Panama and Manuel Noriega
The brief invasion of Panama without UN authorization and in violation of current UN conventions baffled many. One day we woke up and the US Army was in Panama, with the stated goal: capture Public Enemy Numer 1 MANUEL NORIEGA. Apparently he had fallen out of favor with the CIA and so the in fact accused him of the very crimes they aided him in committing for decades:
Senator John Kerry's 1988 Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations concluded that "the saga of Panama's General Manuel Antonio Noriega represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures for the United States. Throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, Noriega was able to manipulate U.S. policy toward his country, while skillfully accumulating near-absolute power in Panama. It is clear that each U.S. government agency which had a relationship with Noriega turned a blind eye to his corruption and drug dealing, even as he was emerging as a key player on behalf of the Medellín Cartel (a member of which was notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar)." Manuel Noriega was allowed to establish "the hemisphere's first 'narcokleptocracy'".
2002-2009 Afghanistan Part II
The United States and multiple members of NATO such as the UK totally overthrew the exhisting Taliban regime (who coincidentally had totally outlawed growing poppies), erradicated all known Al Qaeda operations, and installed a new so-called "democratic" government, police force and army.
Today Afghanistan remains the worlds number one producer of Heroin for the entire world producing more than 75% of the worlds supply in excess of what is needed for medical purposes. The production is so successful that there is a Heroin bumper crop every year since the allied invasion, and it is widely reported by government agencies that the Taliban and other hostile groups are flush with cash from these drug sales.
How can we find Bin Laden and his deputies when we cant find the acres and acres of poppy fields growing openly in Afghanistan, and being sold by Taliban and other groups fighting Packistan and the Afghan government?
2009 ColumbiaWhen we speak of the state of Columbia we have come full circle to where the drug war really took on its current militant form that you see today. Pablo Escobar epitomized what a narco-terrorist is and the damage a committed, well funded and organized group can do when in direct confrontatoin with the government.
While the US was eventually able to remove Pablo after considerable loss of life, the US governments actions spawned a new breed of militants. After multiple failures to capture Pablo Escobar the local military formed a group called "los Pepes". This was not officially recognized by the US agencies however it is known that the Los Pepes consisted of DEA trained, black ops vigilantes who operated outside the rule of law, executing, torturing and eliminating anyone associated with Pablo Escobar.
In the end the members of Los Pepes disentigrated into a soup of militant bosses making up the bulk of narco-terrorists being fought in Columbia today. The CIA and DEA created multiple "frankienstiens" similar to Pablo: Diego Murillo-Bejarano aka "Don Berna leader of the rebel AUC, Manuel Noriega and Felix Arroyano but unlike Pablo, their still alive and in business.
The war on drugs has metamorphosized like a hydra that sprouts cartel bosses and drug dealing Jihadists, flush with weapons, money, men, a fearful public, corrupt government officials and a hungry world demand for their dope.
As part of PLAN COLUMBIA, the U.S. Government funded coca eradication through private contractors such as DynCorp and helped train the Colombian armed forces to eradicate coca and fight left-wing guerrillas such as the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and right-wing paramilitaries such as the AUC (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia), both of which have been accused of participating in the illegal drug trade in their areas of influence. Private U.S. enterprises have signed contracts to carry out anti-drug activities as part of Plan Colombia. DynCorp, the largest private company involved, was among those contracted by the State Department, while others signed contracts with the Defense Department.
Once again however the Bush II administration found a way to get US corporations involved in runing our wars. Only in the twisted Bush mind would you rationalize paying a FOR PROFIT COMPANY to erradicate cocaine in Columbia, and other parts of South America. Please refer to the Columbian presidents speach for and update on the success of this 40 year old "war".
THINK ABOUT IT
October 14, 2009 CNN: Columbian gang hideout
My earliest political memory begins by seeing Nancy Regan on TV in a room full of school children saing "Just Say 'No' to drugs! That in my mind marks the beginning of the war on drugs in the 1980's, officially however the war on drugs began in 1969 under the Nixon Admistration, so thats a grand total of 40 years to this date. Who would have ever suspected that the war on drugs would last FOURTY YEARS??
So how much progress has been made in this 40 year war, which has resulted in the largest incarceration of human beings in the history of mankind, not to mention the body count (no one really knows the true number of millions). Are we winning or losing, have we made any notable achievements? Take a look at the link below for a birds eye view of how far we have come, and how far we have to go. Think about it.
So how much progress has been made in this 40 year war, which has resulted in the largest incarceration of human beings in the history of mankind, not to mention the body count (no one really knows the true number of millions). Are we winning or losing, have we made any notable achievements? Take a look at the link below for a birds eye view of how far we have come, and how far we have to go. Think about it.
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