War

Firstly, please read an update on this post. I took what can only be read as a swipe at Chris Hedges which I was unfair and wrong of me.


Over a hundred civilians were killed by - what appears to be - American air raids in Afghanistan yesterday. Pictures of the results are linked here with a warning that they are sad, sickening, and heartbreaking.

I am not going to write about what I think of this particular war - which is now clearly Obama's but it must be made clear over and over again that - whether the Afghanistan war is right or wrong - that innocents die. Young innocents.

Obama's stance on this war is one of the many things that was ignored by the Obama Pod-O-Sphere. His duplicitous stances on Iraq were also papered over by the dutiful minions on the Move-On Left. His strategy has always been to expand the Afghan war and move it when necessary into Pakistan. All along he stated that we would get out of Iraq. Though the timetable for that is now no different than Bush's. I've stated before what I believe to be true: He won't exit Iraq - or won't be able to - and there will be a continued expansion of troops into Afghanistan through out his term.

Of all the shuck and jive (go on call me racist, I'm well past giving a shit.) Obama and his minions threw down last year, the double and triple speak on Iraq, which made room for false hope regarding Afghanistan is the most despicable.

A long time ago reasonable people realized that we will be in what amounts to a permanent war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. A permanent war, that is, until this country simply has no more resources to fight it. I do not like the willy nilly use of the word "imperial" by anti-war commentators - but the war is about power and resources much more than it is about "radical Islam". We control the region or someone else does. That is how it goes with powerful countries in a world with other powerful countries.

Geo-politics were not changed on January 20th. No one should kid themselves.

It is the Code Pink ninnies and the other adjacent jackasses on the Left that refused to press Obama on the wars that deserve our contempt and a severe comeuppance

Make no bones about it. They sold their souls and their principals. Not by supporting Obama over McCain but by refusing to see the reality of their chosen one and demand answers before handing him the keys to the kingdom.