[Peace-discuss] Fisk report from Afghanistan

[C. G. Estabrook]

Of course I hope it doesn't happen, but I can see Obama making an impassioned 
cause this spring out of the defense of Brave Little Kabul, against the Ravening 
Horde of Taliban/Terrorists.  The Siege of Kabul could have the propaganda 
significance of the siege of Dien Bien Phu, in 1954, when the US Secretary of 
State considered using atomic weapons against the Vietnamese, only this time it 
will be the US trying to get the French into it, rather than the other way around.

Staying with the parallel, I think Karzai should be worried that he'll be 
treated like Ngo Dinh Diem, the comprador leader whom the Kennedys had killed 
because he wouldn't fight the colonial war the way the US wanted.  Karzai 
shouldn't, e.g., start his car himself ... some in the US already have his 
successor picked out: Zalmay Khalilzad -- neocon, oil executive, and ambassador 
to the UN...

Incidentally, Obama wants to make the UN ambassador a cabinet post, and he's 
appointing the awful Susan Rice to the position.  She's a worthy replacement for 
the mad neocon John Bolton.  She's one of the sort Alex Cockburn calls "laptop 
bombardiers," who learned the art in the Clinton administration's attack on 
Serbia.

Rice wanted to bomb Khartoum last year (over Darfur) and sneered at the current 
administration's Vietnam-style raids into Pakistan as mere "baby steps": she 
promised more "robust" action from the new administration, and we can expect it. 
  I can hear her give the Colin Powell-like speech at the UN now, explaining why 
the defense of civilization depends on using tactical nukes around Kabul, 
because the only thing the Taliban understand is force...


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-nobody-supports-the-taliban-but-people-hate-the-government-1036905.html
> 
> *Robert Fisk: 'Nobody supports the Taliban, but people hate the government'*
> ...