Again, the US Air Force document submitted to the US Congress earlier this year in support of Air Force's requests for taxpayer money says point blank that the build-up in Colombia will provide US imperialists with "an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America."
Now, we wish to switch from the question of where the US imperialists will conduct operations to the question of what kind of operations they will conduct, regardless of location. We see from the above discussion that the bourgeois media and reactionary bourgeois regimes try to justify the build-up in Colombia by saying that build-up is intended to be anti-drug trafficking and anti-terrorist. Or, in other words, the build-up will conduct only two kinds of operations ... anti-drug and anti-terrorist.
Right now, the US imperialists run ... at least ... 1000 different kinds of operations out their military bases, including the infamous operation called "shock and awe" which drops 5000 of the biggest bombs and the most powerful missiles on the most densely populated cities, towns, and villages of country within only 48 hours. Not even the worst say that "shock and awe" is essentially an anti-drug operation or anti-terrorist operation, although "shock and awe" may effect incidentally and peripherally anti-drug and anti-terrorist operations. Even most of the worst concedes that "shock and awe" is essentially an anti-humanity operation designed to exterminate somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 human beings, mostly civilians, within a two day period. If anything, "shock and awe" itself is a terrorist operation rather than anti-terrorist operation because the intent of "shock and awe" is to scare or terrorize a population into immediate surrender to conquest by US imperialists.
So ... does "conducting full spectrum operations," about which the US Air force document expressly refers, mean only two operations or does a full spectrum mean conducting at least 1000 operations, including "shock and awe?" Is the "full spectrum" two or more than two? The bourgeois media and reactionary bourgeois regimes say, in this case, a "full spectrum" is only two.
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If two is a full spectrum, then two is surely a very small full spectrum.
On the "South America" and the "full spectrum" things, it hard to be more perceptive, prescient, and lucid than Eva Golinger, as this August 2009 interview [before the recent exposure of the US Air Force document] shows.
WHAT DOES "COOPERATIVE SECURITY LOCATION" MEAN?
"Establishing a Cooperative Security Location (CSL) in Palanquero [one of the seven new US bases in Colombia] best supports the COCOM's (Command Combatant's) Theater Posture Strategy and demonstrates our commitment to this relationship. Development of this CSL provides a unique opportunity for full spectrum operations in a critical sub-region of our hemisphere where security and stability is under constant threat from narcotics funded terrorist insurgencies, anti-US governments, endemic poverty and recurring natural disasters," states a document prepared by the United States Air Force, submitted to the US Congress in May 2009 in order to persuade congress to fund a US military build-up in Colombia during 2010 fiscal year.
The US imperialist War College loves to wax philosophical about the nature and essence of US military facilities.
The War College occupies 500 acres in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and caters to high-level personnel, both military and civilians. The US Army, for example, sends only army's colonels or lieutenant colonels to the War College to be train how to kill. Many of the colonels, lieutenant colonels, and high-level civilians have read Hegel, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Lukacs, and the 20th century philosophers on mathematical philosophy. Of course, a base ... one of the subjects on which the War College fixates ... is only a base and will be only a base as long as it exists, but the War College still dwells conceptually on a base as if the War College were in pursuit of an elixir.
What is a "Cooperative Security Location" or, in other words, what is a "CSL?"
A Cooperative Security Location (CSL) is a US military term for a US imperialist base in its early stages of development, evolution, and construction. A CSL base provides support and access on a continental scale ... e.g., at the moment largely in Latin America and Africa ... to savage, degenerate, and genocidal US troops and mercenaries. This kind of base warehouses conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction for use in any and all contingencies that arise anywhere on a given continent. In the early stages of development, a CSL formally remains the territory of the host country which the US imperialist regime in Washington seeks to occupy in part. In this case, the host country is Colombia.
Again, in the early stages of development, a CSL base often engages in extensive construction projects to warehouse a wide array of weapons, especially fighter planes, tanks, mountainous amounts of ammunition, as well as chemical and biological weapons which pose extreme hazards to the host country. In the middle stages of development of a CSL, the construction projects are generally more designed to erect accommodations for a large scale deployment of savage, degenerate, and genocidal US troops and mercenaries as well as additional conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction.
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