[Peace-discuss] Obama's corpses and the rotting corpse of US imperialism
C. G. Estabrook
galliher at illinois.edu
Wed May 11 19:04:43 CDT 2011
In the space of a few days in May, the United States launched its bin Laden
operation, NATO targeted Moammar Gaddafi's residence while the Libyan leader was
present, killing his youngest son and three grandchildren, and U.S. drones tried
to obliterate_American citizen
<http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/07/awlaki>_Anwar
al-Awlaki, personally marked for death by President Obama.
It's on. The United States, frightened out of its imperial wits by the sudden
eruption of the Arab Reawakening, has embarked on a new version of Shock and Awe
designed to terrorize both old and emerging forces into submission to Empire.
President Barack Obama, whom deluded progressives continue to insist represents
the lesser of U.S. major party evils, has activated, in ways that even George
Bush never dared, the operational capacity of America's Full-Spectrum Dominance
machine, in the process discarding layers of international law and established
norms of behavior among nations.
It was inevitable that, once the United States set out to develop a post-Soviet
capacity "to defeat any adversary and control any situation across the range of
military operations" worldwide, acting aloneif necessary,_Full-Spectrum
Dominance <http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45289>_would devolve
into a policy of "kill-at-will."**Far from abandoning George Bush's
world-dictatorial ambitions in the wake of U.S. military and diplomatic defeat
in Iraq, Barack Obama is attempting to impose a global regime similar to that
inflicted on Latin America prior to 1976, when_Operation Condor
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor>_sought regime change and
wholesale elimination of Western Hemispheric "enemies" by terror and
assassination. Operation Condor, which killed at least 60,000 people, was a
collaborative Latin American anti-"communist" dirty war guided and financed by
Washington. Building on George Bush's War on Terror apparatus -- a Full-Spectrum
Dominance arsenal that includes bogus legal doctrines as well as awesome hi-tech
weaponry and surveillance systems -- Obama has enlisted European powers panicked
by the prospect of political sea-change in the Arab world.
"/The United States, frightened out of its imperial wits by the sudden eruption
of the Arab Reawakening, has embarked on a new version of Shock and Awe."/
In a paroxysm of fear and rage at events unfolding across the Mediterranean Sea,
French, British and Italian sub-imperial powers took the rhetorical lead in
attempting to topple Moammar Gaddafi's government in Libya. But Operation
Odyssey Dawn was impossible from the start without full deployment of America's
unique logistical war infrastructure. It was, and remains, a United States
operation, nominally under NATO and covered by the legalistic fig leaf of United
Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
The U.S. and its allies instantly overran their dubious "humanitarian" mandate
to "protect" civilians -- a concept that never included_sub-Saharan migrant
workers
<http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/libyan-%E2%80%9Chumanitarian>_,
civilians in loyalist areas or loyalist civilians in "rebel" areas -- to become
the rebel's close ground support air wing. Just this week, NATO ordered its
Libyan underlings to vacate the_outskirts of Brega
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/world/africa/10libya.html?adxnnl=1&ref=world&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1305039606-kyFyOLzQE8uORWPLP0qFpQ>_,
to create a free-fire zone in which to incinerate the oil town's loyalist
defenders. When NATO's turkey-shoot was through, the rebels were given the
all-clear to move in and slaughter the loyalist survivors -- a feat that was
only accomplished by force of Euro-American arms.
It is largely unimportant to the Americans that the trail mix of Libyan rebels
can never claim to be legitimate heirs to power, having acted as enthusiastic
indigenous surrogates for neocolonialism. The Americans reckoned that the proper
response to the threat of a larger Arab rebellion against western domination
must be a swift application of military force, a dramatic and irresistible
re-entry into the Arab equation. President Obama indicated early on, in late
March, that the end result will be an open-ended "international" occupation of
the country._He said
<http://blackagendareport.com/content/obama%E2%80%99s-north-african-war-face>_:
"...forty years of tyranny has left Libya fractured and without strong civil
institutions. The transition to a legitimate government that is responsive to
the Libyan people will be a difficult task. And while the United States will do
our part to help, it will be a task for the international community, and -- more
importantly -- a task for the Libyan people themselves."
After a 41-year absence, U.S. power will be permanently re-implanted in Libya,
under some flimsy international scheme such as the protectorate in which Haiti
is encaged, nominally by the United Nations.
"/The Americans reckoned that the proper response to the threat of a larger Arab
rebellion against western domination must be a swift application of military
force."/
But first, Gaddafi must be physically removed. The Americans, thinly cloaked as
NATO (as if a multinational neocolonial aggression is more legally legitimate
than a solo crime), displayed their ability to "kill-at-will" with the attack on
Gaddafi's residence, the same weekend that bin Laden was erased. Whether the
warhead "missed" Gaddafi by mistake or on purpose is open to dispute -- that he
can be taken out at will by American munitions, is not.
The White House confirmed its guilt by expressing no regrets for the murder of
innocent children.NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen acted as Mafia
underboss,_announcing
<http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/time-running-out-for-libyas-gaddafi-nato-chief/>_that
Gaddafi's "time is running out."
The ultimatum is meant for anyone and everyone that threatens American empire.
The First Black President has pressed forward the throttle on a full-spectrum,
highly integrated system of calibrated aggression that is, in reality, a kind of
doomsday weapon that shoots both ways. In the process of clumsily erecting a
façade of jury-rigged international covers for overt military aggression,
occupation and the theft of national sovereignty, the political-legal component
of Full-Spectrum Dominance methodically ravages the very concept of
international law, thus fouling the waters of international commerce and
collaboration in which U.S. multinational corporations must operate. Obama, who
won corporate backing as the white knight (!) who would reverse the
international revulsion and backlash occasioned by Bush's Iraq invasion,
believes his legalistic ruses and selective multilateral alliances can mask a
massive U.S. global offensive. He is fooling no one, but hopes to terrify everybody.
Obama's global version of the 1970s Latin American Operation Condor has begun.
But the condor is only a vulture that feeds on death. The rotting corpse is U.S.
imperialism, itself.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/obama%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ckill-will%E2%80%9D-strategy
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