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