Still another US air strike killing dozens of civilians in Afghanistan, still another promise by the Pentagon to "investigate", while in Washington President Obama hosts the AfPak summit with "Af" Hamid Karzai" and "Pak" Ali Zardari. Obama's surge in Afghanistan will ensure a steady supply of "collateral damage", even though sane military voices condemn "democracy at gunpoint" and Taliban "tacticians" mock Gen. David Petraeus' counterinsurgency tactics. The Bush "war on terror" has been rebranded as "overseas contingency operations" (OCO) by the Obama administration. Pepe Escobar argues everything remains the same, but with a new twist: Washington selling OCO in AfPak to US public opinion not as an American war - but as a Pakistani war.
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Murder Incorporated, better known as the United States Government, has perfected its PR campaign to justify ongoing, permanent slaughter for profits in Afghanistan, always while hiding behind a smiley face in the media, and always while playing the fear card: Do what we say or you will die. Evil is all around you, about to eviscerate you any second. Only our endless, brutal wars on poppy farmers, old women and goat-herders can protect you. Trust us.
Welcome to Oceania, George Orwell's term for the Western enclave of the the Matrix. Ginsberg simply called it Moloch.
Here is Pepe Escobar, renowned international journalist, to dissect the latest round of BS emanating from Washington:
I am a student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and a tempered advocate for the ultimate manifestation of peace, justice and the unity of humankind through self-realization and mutual respect, although I am not (more...)
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