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<DIV>I find this post very confusing and do not know what to make of
it. First, there is this, which I take to be a warning of some
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=galliher@illinois.edu
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:18 AM</DIV>
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<LI><A href="#1" moz-do-not-send="true">How The War Is Spun: Mass Killings
Mean ‘Progress’</A>
<LI><A href="#2" moz-do-not-send="true">The Cherry-Picking Fantasy Land of
Elliot Abrams</A>
<LI><A href="#3" moz-do-not-send="true">Coalition Tries to Undermine Afghan
Traditional Governance</A>
<LI><A href="#4" moz-do-not-send="true">Latin America Beware: The Imperial
Pretext Is Changing</A>
<LI><A href="#5" moz-do-not-send="true">Addicted to Militarism, Despite
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‘Progress’</A> </P>
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16 Aug 2011 12:50 PM PDT</P>
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<P>That’s the title of <A
href="http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/how-the-war-is-spun-mass-killings-mean-progress-military-says-1.152255"
moz-do-not-send="true">Kevin Baron’s piece at Stars and Stripes</A>, which
explains how propaganda is wrapped around the insurgencies in Iraq and
Afghanistan to make them seem as if they’re on the losing end.</P>
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<P>Politico’s Morning Defense shared <A
href="http://www.politico.com/morningdefense/" target=_blank
moz-do-not-send="true">an email Monday</A> that is pure military public
affairs gold. How do you interpret a suicide bombing assassination
attempt north of Kabul that killed at least 20 people into an obvious
sign the war was going as planned?</P>
<P>An International Security Assistance Force spokesman emailed MD’s
Chuck Hoskinson a response claiming the attack was “a resounding
failure” because: 1) the target, a provincial governor survived, 2) the
Afghan security forces reacted “autonomously” and 3) the attack did not
target U.S. forces.</P>
<P>The ISAF spokesman explained those points are important to make
because they are “crucial to undermining the Taliban’s attempt to obtain
a propaganda victory from their failed attack.”</P>
<P>Judge for yourself who won the victory, propaganda or otherwise. <A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/insurgents-attack-afghan-governors-compound-killing-at-least-20/2011/08/14/gIQAtD5fEJ_story.html?hpid=z2"
target=_blank moz-do-not-send="true">According to The Washington
Post</A>, the attack occurred in a relatively secure Parwan province,
north of Kabul. A car bomb blew up an entrance to the governor’s
compound, five insurgents breached the facility and a two-hour gunfight
commenced where five explosions “shook the building.” ISAF reported <A
href="http://www.isaf.nato.int/article/isaf-releases/isaf-joins-president-karzai-in-condemning-the-attack-in-parwan-province.html"
target=_blank moz-do-not-send="true">at least six IEDs</A> in addition
to the car bomb were detonated.</P>
<P>In far worse carnage, bombings in at least 17 Iraqi cities on Monday
killed more than 60 people in “<A
href="http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/15/3077493/60-killed-as-wave-of-violence.html"
target=_blank moz-do-not-send="true">bloodbath</A>” scenes of scattered
human flesh.</P>
<P>Stars and Stripes’ Erik Slavin, in Iraq, reports <A
href="http://www.stripes.com/news/u-s-servicemembers-in-iraq-not-attacked-but-mission-targeted-1.152245"
target=_blank moz-do-not-send="true">U.S. servicemembers were not
attacked</A>and Iraqi forces had to call for American assistance just
once.</P>
<P><A href="http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=65029"
target=_blank moz-do-not-send="true">U.S. Forces Iraq spokesman Maj.
Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan</A>, in the Pentagon Monday, said the attacks show
Iraq remains dangerous but do not threaten the government and the
insurgency remains an unpopular shadow of its former
self.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>This is notable, but of course just barely scratches the surface. I’ve
<A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/08/08/media-subservience-ignoring-the-crimes-of-america/"
moz-do-not-send="true">written</A> <A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/08/08/a-warrior-for-christ-a-warrior-for-our-country/"
moz-do-not-send="true">variously</A> about <A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/05/27/saudi-arab-spring-policy-imitates-u-s-media-cant-see-it/"
moz-do-not-send="true">systematic bias</A> <A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/06/02/media-keeps-iraq-tyranny-on-down-low/"
moz-do-not-send="true">throughout the media</A>, which is particularly
potent when it comes to war. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans
still develop their opinions about American foreign policy, and these wars
in particular, from “news anchors” and pundits on the major networks. This
results in systematic misunderstandings about U.S. foreign policy and <A
href="http://antiwar.com/donate/" moz-do-not-send="true">obviously needs
to change</A>.</P>
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Abrams</A> </P>
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<P>At the blog for the Council on Foreign Relations, <A
href="http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2011/08/16/will-ariel-block-peace/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Elliot Abrams concludes</A> that people who think
illegal settlement construction hinders the Israeli-Palestinian peace
process are not living “in the real world.”</P>
<P>Abrams has argued before, amazingly, that settlements in the West Bank
are “<A
href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67943/elliott-abrams/the-settlement-obsession?page=show"
moz-do-not-send="true">not a critical issue</A>” (to which <A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/06/27/pro-israeli-falsehoods-on-the-flotilla-settlements-and-statehood/"
moz-do-not-send="true">I responded</A>). In this latest fantasy land post,
Abrams pushes back against the condemnations for <A
href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/15/israel-announces-yet-more-settlement-expansions/"
moz-do-not-send="true">the newest set of approvals for 277 new homes in
the West Bank city of Ariel</A>. He argues that because these are new
units within an already existing settlement, <A
href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=it%27s%20all%20good"
moz-do-not-send="true">it’s all good</A>.</P>
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<P>The new units are to be constructed in the center of the town,
it was also announced. This is a significant fact, for construction of
new units at the edges of the town would mean that the security
perimeter would need to be extended to protect the new housing and the
people in it. But this will not happen, and Ariel will expand in
population but not in land area. It is not, in the usual
Palestinian Authority parlance, “taking more Palestinian
land.”</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Right, they’re just increasing the population of previously stolen
Palestinian land. Not only is this virtually a distinction without a
difference, but it pretends dishonestly that “expanding in population but
not in land area” is typical for West Bank settlement construction. Abrams
leaves out the <A
href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/11/israel-approves-4300-new-homes-in-east-jerusalem-2/"
moz-do-not-send="true">4,300 new units Israel approved last week for
construction in Palestinian East Jerusalem</A> (which Abrams calls
“Israel’s capital”). These thousands were in addition to the <A
href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/04/israel-announces-930-homes-in-east-jerusalem-settlement-expansion/"
moz-do-not-send="true">930 new homes approved for construction around the
same area</A> just days earlier. Abrams is intentionally white-washing the
fact that Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes <A
href="http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110802/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestiniansconflictdemolish"
moz-do-not-send="true">has skyrocketed this year with 356 structures
demolished and 700 people displaced in the first six months 2011</A>.
These were not instances where new units were built in the center of
existing settlements, but rather where innocent Palestinian people were
expelled from their homes so that they could be demolished and given to
Israeli settlers. Like, for example, the incident at the end of July where
<A
href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/07/27/israel-subsidies-untouched-by-us-budget-crisis/"
moz-do-not-send="true">the Israeli government sued a group of poor Bedouin
Palestinians in the Negev desert for over $500,000</A>, the claimed costs
of demolishing their village each time they rebuilt it. Israeli
authorities destroyed, and the Bedouin rebuilt, the homes in al-Araqib
more than 20 times.</P>
<P>Abrams leaves out those nasty little details so he can keep his
imaginary framework for the entire conflict nice and neatly undisturbed.
And then of course he chimes in with this little number:</P>
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<P>It is not reasonable to view it as a violation of international law
and a threat to a peace agreement every time bricks and studs and
drywall show up at the center of an Israeli settlement in the West
Bank.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Except that it is. They are a violation of international law according
to the consensus view of the international community. The Geneva
Conventions <A href="http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/WebART/380-600056"
moz-do-not-send="true">clearly states</A> that forcible transfers and
deportations people in occupied lands is prohibited, as is the transfer of
“parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” Not
to mention that numerous <A
href="http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/5fldpj.htm"
moz-do-not-send="true">international agreements</A>, as well as the <A
href="http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1671.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">International Court of Justice</A>, have declared
the settlements illegal. Heck, <A
href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/02/israeli-court-orders-settlement-dismantled/"
moz-do-not-send="true">even Israel sometimes admits certain settlements to
be illegal</A>.</P>
<P>Not Elliot Abrams though. He’s a bit too far down the rabbit hole…</P>
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<P>The Associated Press headline pushes the occupation line that <A
href="http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110816/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_learning_to_govern"
moz-do-not-send="true">the “coalition” is trying to “build”</A> a cadre of
leaders, but a perusal of the text makes clear that Kabul and its Western
masters are actively demolishing age-old local governance traditions in a
probably futile attempt to establish a European-style central state.</P>
<P>The piece begins describing a failed, underattended shura in
far-southern Helmand province, organized by Kabul carpetbaggers. Why did
only seven men show up? Gee, could it be this:</P>
<P>“The army commander had invited locals to the small fortified camp, but
<STRONG>sometimes those invitations were extended during gunfights when
soldiers and U.S. Marines were using private Afghan homes and farmers’
poppy fields for cover</STRONG>.”</P>
<P>*door smash*</P>
<P>“We’re using your house as a shield against gunfire from your
neighbors. Obey us or die. Also, wanna go to a cool party next week? It’ll
be about how great it will be to have a Ministry of Sport.”</P>
<P>The article describes the various problems suffered by the few local
elders who have decided to jump on the government bandwagon. One of them
is that constant fighting and threats of assassination make it, hm,
difficult? to extend authority. Also, reports AP matter of factly, “Some
are corrupt.” Nowhere is it noted that if one side of the fight withdrew,
the other side would have nothing — or at least a lot less — to fight.
After all, local insurgents didn’t pick this war. It came to them.</P>
<P>To illustrate the utter stupidity of trying to surreptitiously form a
state in a tribal area, one of the elders who did show up to the shura
said he obtained permission — from the Taliban. That’s pretty cocksure for
an insurgency we’re often told is on the wane.</P>
<P>Don’t we already have many guides as to the success rate of slamming
Eurostates onto tribal societies with ancient and viable alternative modes
of governance? Somalia is an ongoing nightmare of violence, due in large
part to the <A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2009/11/24/somali-american-terrorists-victims-of-unfortunate-labeling/"
moz-do-not-send="true">neverending attempts</A> to smash its <A
href="http://mises.org/daily/2701" moz-do-not-send="true">traditional
law-based society</A> and bring back the sort of state that brutalized
Somalis for decades. Even Pakistan has never been able to truly tame its
tribal areas. It’s the same in many other cases.</P>
<P>But how are America’s partners, the Brits, helping demonstrate the
fabulousness of Western-style secular government?</P>
<P>Oh they’re building a million-dollar mosque. </P>
<P>Which NATO blew up.</P>
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Is Changing</A> </P>
<P
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<P>During the Cold War, the pretext for reigning terror down upon the
masses in Central and South America through U.S. imperialism was the
creeping communist threat. This was used as a justification for our <A
href="http://www.fff.org/comment/com0502f.asp" moz-do-not-send="true">1954
overthrow of Guatemala’s democratically elected government of Jacobo
Arbenz</A>, <A href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB11/docs/"
moz-do-not-send="true">implementing a systematic campaign of political
assassinations, arming murderous right-wing militias there for
decades,</A> etc. Of course, the same commie justification held for the <A
href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm"
moz-do-not-send="true">CIA-orchestrated coup to oust the democratically
elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile</A> and installing the
repressive dictatorship of General Pinochet. The elusive Soviet threat was
also the pretext for Reagan’s terror war in <A
href="http://libcom.org/history/articles/nicaragua-contras"
moz-do-not-send="true">Nicaragua</A> and <A
href="http://libcom.org/history/articles/el-salvador-counterinsurgency"
moz-do-not-send="true">El Salvador</A>. You get the picture.</P>
<P>After the wall fell, the pretext became the drug war and terrorism.
Bush I <A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama"
moz-do-not-send="true">invaded Panama</A> with the justification of
capturing a minor thug Manuel Noriega (previously on CIA payroll), violent
militias were continually funded to fight the drug war (<A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/08/15/interventionism-south-of-the-border-teaching-drug-cartels-how-to-kill/"
moz-do-not-send="true">like now</A>), Clinton and Plan Colombia <A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/07/28/supporting-atrocities-in-columbia/"
moz-do-not-send="true">which continues to now</A>, <A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/apr/21/usa.venezuela"
moz-do-not-send="true">Bush II attempted a coup against Hugo Chavez</A>
because apparently he was ‘against us’ as opposed to ‘with us,’ etc.</P>
<P>Apparently the pretext for U.S. domination of Latin America is set to
change yet again. <A
href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/15/the_americas_not_the_middle_east_will_be_the_world_capital_of_energy"
moz-do-not-send="true">Amy Myers Jaffe’s piece in <EM>Foreign
Policy</EM></A> doesn’t mention anything about U.S. intervention, but she
intelligently predicts that the energy “center of the world” so to speak
will shift to the Americas, instead of staying in the Middle East.</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>For half a century, the global energy supply’s center of gravity has
been the Middle East. This fact has had self-evidently enormous
implications for the world we live in — and it’s about to change.</P>
<P>By the 2020s, the capital of energy will likely have shifted back to
the Western Hemisphere, where it was prior to the ascendancy of Middle
Eastern megasuppliers such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the
1960s.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>She writes the “reasons for this shift are partly technological and
partly political,” but oil and natural gas are likely to frame the
geopolitical understanding of the Americas in the coming years. That will
attract the attention of the U.S. who has been trying to exploit and
command the whole region since 1823 with <A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine"
moz-do-not-send="true">the Monroe Doctrine</A>. If she’s right, and if
Latin America’s recent moves towards strong independence movements doesn’t
continue to resist the weight of U.S. pressure, we may be looking at a
whole new pretext for a whole new set of ugly wars and interventions south
of the border.</P>
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name=5 moz-do-not-send="true">Addicted to Militarism, Despite Repeated
Failures</A> </P>
<P
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<P>Richard Falk has an insightful and somewhat dispiriting piece at al
Jazeera called “<A
href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201181592644232878.html?utm_content=automateplus&utm_campaign=Trial5&utm_source=SocialFlow&utm_medium=MasterAccount&utm_term=tweets"
moz-do-not-send="true">Why the Afghanistan War Won’t End Soon</A>.” He
writes about the prescience of the so-called ‘Vietnam Syndrome’ (<A
href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2011/06/06/war-fatigue-is-far-too-late/"
moz-do-not-send="true">once referred to as “sickly inhibitions against the
use of military force”</A>), and about the systematic tendency for
America, as the planet’s military superpower, to aggressively apply
military solutions to non-military problems. I was reminded of the
opportunity to avoid unnecessary war after 9/11 by treating the attacks as
a criminal act instead of an act of war (how many lives and dollars would
have been saved, how many laws never broken…). But Falk focuses on
conflicts like Afghanistan, say, which have available solutions towards
ending war but which are treated to the Petraeus counter-insurgency magic
described by Falk as “gradually expanding the war by means of a surge of
troops combined with a ten-fold increase in drone attacks” with little
regard for civilian casualties. Why the insistence on applying ineffective
and destructive militarist solutions when they are not applicable?</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Why do intelligent people persist in doing stupid things? If we had a
completely convincing answer to this question we would have a far
clearer understanding of the dysfunctional underbelly of US/NATO foreign
policy.</P>
<P>To get such clarity, we probably need to delve into the collective
unconscious of the warmakers, but even without such Freudian probes,
there are some obvious dark forces at work in the West. For Europe
especially, but also the United States, there is a definite nostalgia
for the colonial period when military intervention was efficiently
triumphal and conspicuously rewarded with prestige, markets, and
resources. There lingers in the West a sense that there must be a way to
restore those happy days of global ascendancy despite the formal
elimination of colonial rule. Closely connected with this residual
imperialism, given some credibility by way of economic globalisation in
the 1990s, is the parallel adherence to the realist belief that it is
military power that continues to shape world history.</P>
<P>What follows from this search for explanations is what might be
described as <STRONG>‘militarism,’ here defined as the compulsive or
addictive reliance on hard power for conflict resolution that is not
altered by repeated experiences of failure.</STRONG></P>
<P>[...] Whether American militarism is better regarded as insanity or
addiction is not so significant, but that its compulsiveness discourages
a proper diagnosis and cure is a distressing reality. It has led to a
succession of prolonged bloody confrontations that bring misery and
encourage extremism.</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Add to these explanations the fact that the last decade has seen <A
href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/15/defense-industrys-growth-since-911/"
moz-do-not-send="true">a truly unique expansion of military capacity and
defense industry booms</A>, all of the most readily available (and
profitable) tools are military in nature. So no wonder that is the most
popular and proximate diagnosis.</P>
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