Vietnamization All Over Again
NATO wants to hand over to Afghan forces
"LONDON - The secretary general of NATO said Thursday that alliance forces should begin handing responsibility to Afghan forces in a coordinated way next year in areas where conditions permit.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued a statement after talks in London with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The talks come as President Barack Obama weighs a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan — though alliance nations have been reluctant to commit more troops.
The NATO chief and Brown agree that transition to Afghan leadership is the way forward."
They must figure new generations won't remember this garbage from the 70s. The corporate war in Vietnam was going very badly despite intense bombing campaigns and billions thrown at it. Morale had plummeted and the military was coming apart . The '72 election was coming up and Nixon decided to rebrand america's failing efforts to prolong the invasion, calling it Vietnamization. Sound a little familiar?
The empire will never leave Afghanistan until it's defeated and thrown out just like it'll never leave Iraq until it's beaten and tossed out on it's ear. These neo colonial occupations are for purposes unstated, never for the bullshit reasons they pawn off on the unwashed. Let's just say those giant installations that were built aren't going to be abandoned any time soon.
Methods vary from colony to colony but the template stays the same. Empire finds reasons to invade that will be palatable for the mouthbreathers back home who foot the bills, then goes about the task of destroying all home grown opposition to the occupation, usually in a brutal manner. Next up is to find compliant stooges who are installed as an obedient Vichy government. If all goes according to plan, a substantially funded security apparatus gets installed, usually terrorizing the population with gusto to keep the peasants in line and the occupation's objectives fulfilled. After eight years that seems to be the point our overlords are at now in Piplinestan and in the psychos' dreams they can put their feet up in their lavish bases and let their traitorous wogs do the dirty.
Of course, all this filth has to crouch behind much better smelling language. So along with venerating the military which gets tasked for these thankless jobs the whole package is smothered in flowery language for the Foxified dead-from-the-neck-up droolers. "Liberation" "Responsibility" "Commitment" "Transition"
"Peace with Honor"
"LONDON - The secretary general of NATO said Thursday that alliance forces should begin handing responsibility to Afghan forces in a coordinated way next year in areas where conditions permit.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued a statement after talks in London with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The talks come as President Barack Obama weighs a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan — though alliance nations have been reluctant to commit more troops.
The NATO chief and Brown agree that transition to Afghan leadership is the way forward."
They must figure new generations won't remember this garbage from the 70s. The corporate war in Vietnam was going very badly despite intense bombing campaigns and billions thrown at it. Morale had plummeted and the military was coming apart . The '72 election was coming up and Nixon decided to rebrand america's failing efforts to prolong the invasion, calling it Vietnamization. Sound a little familiar?
The empire will never leave Afghanistan until it's defeated and thrown out just like it'll never leave Iraq until it's beaten and tossed out on it's ear. These neo colonial occupations are for purposes unstated, never for the bullshit reasons they pawn off on the unwashed. Let's just say those giant installations that were built aren't going to be abandoned any time soon.
Methods vary from colony to colony but the template stays the same. Empire finds reasons to invade that will be palatable for the mouthbreathers back home who foot the bills, then goes about the task of destroying all home grown opposition to the occupation, usually in a brutal manner. Next up is to find compliant stooges who are installed as an obedient Vichy government. If all goes according to plan, a substantially funded security apparatus gets installed, usually terrorizing the population with gusto to keep the peasants in line and the occupation's objectives fulfilled. After eight years that seems to be the point our overlords are at now in Piplinestan and in the psychos' dreams they can put their feet up in their lavish bases and let their traitorous wogs do the dirty.
Of course, all this filth has to crouch behind much better smelling language. So along with venerating the military which gets tasked for these thankless jobs the whole package is smothered in flowery language for the Foxified dead-from-the-neck-up droolers. "Liberation" "Responsibility" "Commitment" "Transition"
"Peace with Honor"
posted by nolocontendere at 5:12 AM
5 Comments:
You forgot the ever popular "We have to fight them there so we don't have to fight them here."
It's still a favorite in certain parts of the Empire today.
Although that's a popular scare tactic today, if my shaky recollection is right they didn't start that until the deadly Nicaraguan hordes were going to swarm into Texas.
With Vnam it was the domino theory, which I guess on reflection, was an ancient slow prototype of what they're handing us now.
Your so right about this. We've seen it all before. I just published a piece about the same thing happening in the Philippines back in 1900. It's not my best piece. I just strung together various sources and hope the reader will make the connections. It was so emotionally exhausting reading all that information about torture and terror by the US military that I had no energy left to try to create a narrative like I usually do.
Here it is.
US Military use of torture and terror: 1900 - Present
So, so many of those water torture pics from the Philippines came to light when waterboarding got discussed. One can only imagine what went on there.
From the information I found, there were a million people that died as a result of this war. This includes many civilians who died from disease in concentration camps.
One of the issues I have with the Holocaust industry is that it never acknowledges the other atrocities that have been committed throughout history. School children are constantly bombarded with information about the Jewish Holocaust. But how many are taught in schools about the Philippine Holocaust performed by our own government? How many movies has Hollywood made depicting the heroic struggles of the Philippine people for independence against the American Imperial forces? None and none.
I myself was completely unaware of this until just a few days ago when I began reading about Mark Twain's involvement in the Anti-Imperialist League. And I am someone who goes out of his way to try to educate himself about these things.
And yes I wrote an article about Mark Twain which you can read here.
Reflections on Mark Twain on Armistice Day
The most important thing about that article for me is that it led me to discover for myself the Truth about the American Imperial War in the Philippines.
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