[Peace-discuss] A fresh wind blows against the Empire.

[E. Wayne Johnson]

/"People can try and fool themselves that...Obama truly wants peace. The 
reality of facts on the ground dispute this.  We are deceiving ourselves 
if we think otherwise.  Obama is fully on the trajectory of the Empire, 
there is no denying this...I do not place the blame for imperial 
violence on any president:  It is the system...What can the people do to 
counteract our governments that don't have our best interests in mind?"/
- Cindy Sheehan

Fresh Winds Blow Against the Empire, as the Nation Tires of Futile, 
Endless, Back-Breaking War.
by E. Wayne Johnson   republicmedia.tv (http://tiny.cc/ewjrmtv6sep09)

Conservatives Flee Failed NeoCon Dogmata, while Anti-War Left Fumes at 
Obama, and Former BHO Supporters Struggle to Fight Back Buyer's Remorse.

After 8 years, nearly a trillion dollars spent (that's the "Official" 
Figure, the "total spent" on the war when the "off-the-balance sheet" 
expenditure is known undoubtably much much more), over 5100 US lives 
lost, tens of thousands wounded, and more soldiers suffering from 
shellshock/PTSD, what do Americans have to show for the sacrifice?  
Bubkes.  Bubkes.  Who's got the bubkes?...

In the ancient Chinese classic Sun Zi Bing Fa ("Master Sun's Art of 
War"), Master Sun advised 2500 years ago that there are only two 
possible outcomes of War:  Survival or Ruin.  Considering that neither 
Iraq nor Afghanistan had threatened our survival, the inevitable ruin 
was anticipated by our wiser leaders, but not by those who were in charge.

In a couple of extraordinary columns last week in the Washington Post, 
Conservative Pundit George Will speaks out against Bush's war which has 
expanded into Obama's war.  "The war already is nearly 50 percent longer 
than the combined U.S. involvements in two world wars" says Will, who 
finds a solution for military success in Afghanistan to be 
"inconceivable".   Will also notes that the Iraqis are quite likely to 
demand an end to the despised US occupation of their sovereign land, and 
says "The United States should treat this as a Dirty Harry Moment: Make 
our day.", meaning that a "Yankee Go Home" message from the Iraqi voters 
should be the cue for our long-overdue departure from Iraq.

Will suggests that there might be some need for a military force in the 
Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, but nonetheless his principled 
stance against the war is reminiscent of the pre-neocon Robert Taft 
Conservative days when the GOP was the peace party and the Dems were the 
war party.

Arch-neocon William ("Bloody Bill") Kristol wasted no time in asserting 
that George had lost his "will" by "urging retreat, and accepting 
defeat", and encouraging more expenditures and more effort and more 
troops in Afghanistan.  One is not surprised to hear such from Bill 
Kristol and gang.

(read more: http://tiny.cc/ewjrmtv6sep09)

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