[Peace-discuss] What the Debate Missed on Afghanistan: Brits Say Talk to Taliban

[C. G. Estabrook]

Petraeus of course knows -- contrary to the USG lie -- that he's not killing
people in the Middle East to prevent terrorists from attacking New York (his
actions may indeed encourage that) but rather to deter the resistance to US
military domination of the world's leading energy-producing region.

He knows that the Taliban and 18th-century European colonists in North America
are alike to the extent that they form a resistance to military domination by a
foreign empire. --CGE


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> "I am the Walrus. "
> 
> "/No, you're not!/", said little Nicole.
> 
> Robert Naiman wrote:
>> Well, Petraeus isn't comparing the Taliban to us today - he's comparing the
>> Taliban to the American colonists during the War of Independence. A
>> remarkable comparison.
>> 
>> Maybe there is something to be said for letting military leaders 
>> participate in political debates...I don't think we've heard this 
>> comparison from any Members of Congress yet.
> The problem seems to be the age-old problem of having ears but being unable
> to hear.
> 
> There are those who would have us believe that the "terrorists" are crazed
> zombies like those delegates at the RNC who raise their arm "Hail! Victory!"
> and flip their placards on queue; obsessed unthinking maniacs, like those who
> have blind faith to ignore egregious faults in the warmongering globalist
> O'bomba ha' Mashiya.
> 
> Those they call "terrorists" are as I see it, Patriots and Freedom Fighters
> defending their homeland. We might be disparaging about some of their methods
> but not their motives.
> 
> General Betray-us certainly ain't the first to point this out, although some
> ignored the voices in Congress and others tried to bury them.
> 
> "...What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the
> Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting. We need to look at what we do from the
>  perspective of what would happen if somebody else did it to us...I'm
> suggesting that we listen to the people who attacked us and the reason they
> did it..."
> 
> "That's really an extraordinary statement," said Rudy Giuliani.
> 
> "I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk
> about blowback. When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the shah, yes,
> there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and
> that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we
> think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred,
> then we have a problem. They don't come here to attack us because we're rich
> and we're free. They come and they attack us because we're over there. I
> mean, what would we think if we were – if other foreign countries were doing
> that to us?"
> 
> read more... <http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/paul-said-it.html>
> 
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