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The Bush and Cheney Gang - who else!? While the ridiculous spectacle of personality politics in the US distracts us, Bush/Cheney are attacking Pakistan.
Again and again!
Killing hundreds of men, women, children and - oh, by the way, the occasional member of Al Qaeda or the Taliban.
My, my. Do tell! There are Taliban and Al-Qaeda member in Eastern Afghanistan and Northwest Pakistan? In the Tora Bora Mountains! There!?
This is not news. This is the same old info we’ve had since before the Russians bailed on their Afghani adventure. The CIA and the SIS recruited and hired those thugs to harass the Ruskies. The thugs did a pretty good job and they continue to do a pretty good job at harassing occupying forces. And they’re still in the same area of the world where the USA armed them.
Of course, with the Bush/Cheney eyes on a different prize, they were not so interested in finding some Arab with bad kidneys in a cave and bringing him to trial. (What would you imagine we could all learn from several days of Bin Laden’s testimony in a witness box?)
A third of world oil reserves! Makes your head spin! Bush could revive Arbusco Oil (and probably run it into the ground.)and Cheney would probably get free virgins and a gazillion bucks a month in retainers from Halliburton just for his rolodex.
But I digress…
US forces are attacking our ‘key partner in the War on Terror’! What the f… is with that?
I suppose Bush/Cheney and their round-table of socio-paths figured the Pakistanis wouldn’t mind if the US killed a few dozen people in the Tribal Areas for a 'good cause'.
Of course, Bush/Cheney were advised against such an insane, immoral action by the Intelligence Community, but did they listen? (That’s a rhetorical question.)
You’ve got to give credit where it is due, though. This is a tried and true tactic for winning the war on terror; it’s proven successful in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a nutshell, here’s the plan: make every person in the region hate the US for brutally murdering a family member or loved one. Then everybody in the region, man, woman and child, will share a culturally rooted vow to affect terrible, bloody vengeance on the USA.
That will take care of ‘collateral damage’ for good; whoever’s on photo-op detail at the White House will simply read the teleprompter and sign the executive order making ‘them’ all terrorists.
Ipso facto…
Presto change-o! Nobody’s an innocent because they’ve all been defined as ‘evil terr’rists’ by Imperial decree.
Then we just nuke ‘em all and take the oil.
