[Peace] AOTA (sorta) 10pm ch. 6

[C. G. Estabrook]

In ambiguous celebration of the fact that -- in spite of his mendacious anti-war 
stance -- President Barack Obama has approved sending roughly 12,000 troops to 
Afghanistan -- 8,000 Marines and a 4,000-soldier Army brigade, plus support 
troops -- "AWARE on the Air" tonight presents a discussion of the war and the 
economy: 10pm on UPTV, cable channel 6.

We begin with some upcoming anti-war events, locally and nationally, from 
Randall Cotton's minutes of this week's AWARE meeting.  (Meetings are every 
Sunday night 5-6:30pm in the basement of the old post office in Urbana; all are 
welcome.)

Wayne Johnson begins with "Funk & Wagner" -- abject fear and the economic 
twilight of the gods -- and yr. obdt. servt. draws some connection to the 
propaganda for the war, Obama's for killing people in AfPak being notably more 
puerile than Bush's for the Iraq invasion.  As Noam Chomsky points out,

"...Obama looks more aggressive and violent than Bush. The first acts to occur 
under his administration were attacks on Afghanistan and in Pakistan, both of 
which killed many civilians and are building up support for the Taliban and 
terror. He wants to extend the military side of the war. There is an Afghan 
peace movement, which is calling for a reduction or an end of terror. President 
Karzai has pleaded with the United States not to carry out attacks that will hit 
civilians and, in fact, has demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign 
forces, American forces, but that’s just totally disregarded and the 
opportunities for a peaceful settlement are just ignored ... It’s also spilling 
over into Pakistan, naturally, which is really dangerous. Pakistan, by now, is 
partially under the control of the radical Islamist elements that Reagan helped 
install there. It’s an extreme danger for Pakistan and actually for the world, 
since Pakistan has nuclear weapons."

	--CGE