President Obama finally appeared in his ruthless American mantle. Even some Americans were saddened to hear him.
President Obama has called for a prolonged war to crush the Islamic insurgency all over the world with excessive use of American fire power, diplomacy of divide and rule, create failed Muslim states with a dollar pipeline to their rulers, and death of civilians and destruction of whatever meagre resources the Muslims have anywhere in the world.
Send in 30,000 more troops is just a gimmick to please America’s right wing Bush supporters who clapped at every turn of the crusade against Islam. His “clear plan of action” will result in hundreds of thousand civilian deaths, and turn Afghanistan into a replica of Vietnam’s killing fields.
President Obama is trying to deceive the American people that his hyped strategy will end the wars it has initiated in the next18 months. He is sold out to the right wing Republican and American army nexus.
Did he decide to totally abandon his anti-war supporters only because he made some vague promises to win American presidency? He won it not because of his promises but because then President Bush and his Republican backers had lost the American confidence.
President Obama believes he will go into Afghanistan with a massive force to kill anyone who remotely resists American strategy, set up puppet regimes and leave a clean central Asia in 2011.
What if the Taliban refuse to cow-tow?
Taliban don’t have a superpower to back them. Their old, rusted hand-held guns are no match to the US drones. But they have a limitless supply of men who believe in their cause and are not afraid of death.
America is in the worst economic slump, and most Americans are facing severe crunch. Millions of Americans need jobs, and save their homes from foreclosure. American treasury is bankrupted by greedy banks and unscrupulous CEOs. Already it owes trillions of dollars to China and other lenders. From where will the extra money needed to support the war machine for next 18 months come?
President Obama knows well how corrupt is Afghan regime. His threat to Pakistan is very serious. Pakistani ruling elite and Pakistani army has brought more death and destruction within its borders. Its army is weakened to the point of losing its fighting spirit. What if the Pakistani masses join the Taliban fight against the ruling elite, including Zardari, Nawaz Sharif and Kiyani?
President Bush began the Iraq ‘crusade’ eight years ago with expenses promised at $1 billion a month only to find that it was $1 billion a week. This is George Bush all over again.
President Obama is promising to withdraw American GIs in 2011 in the hope that the Afghan army, trained and equipped by the US for eight years now, will take over the American Jihad against the Taliban in the next 18 months.
President Obama is heading for a collapse and Americans will pay for this expensive adventure.
He did not learn from the history what the British realised after the Jalalabad massacre: ‘Afghanistan is a graveyard of empires.’
The grand design of President Obama is heading for a collapse and America will pay for this expensive adventure for decades.