By Charles M. Blow
...But I implore the president and the nation to proceed with caution. (click here)
We can kill anti-American fighters and even their leaders, but we can’t kill anti-American sentiment. To some degree, every time we commit our forces in the Middle East we run the risk of further inflaming that sentiment.
For every action, there is a reaction. And there are also consequences, some of them unintended....
There is only one reason for such a large SURGE of fighters in Syria and that is the USA 'is back.'
It all makes sense, the USA is a permanent nuclear nation with incredible war resources. Most other countries cannot return fire once the USA has decided they are the target. So, what will it take to destroy the Americans and their war machine? What will it take indeed?
The fighters in Syria are not stupid people, they know their disadvantage and they will continue to grow a force to retaliate and destroy. This entire military venture is wayward and it is wayward from every angle.
The war mongers on the Senate and House floors are only fueling the fire for a greater war and they know otherwise; they should not do it. "W" was famous for his ranting about war with descriptors that would increase the hostilities. The same is happening today by "W"'s surrogates.
Saudi Arabia, the largest Arab economy, has been locked in a campaign to stem child marriages following local and international furor about such practices in the Gulf Kingdom. Officials last year spoke of a plan to enact laws to curb child marriages.The West would challenge leaders of these countries to bring their people to a more modern idea of marriage. The point is the USA is not the Middle East and the Middle East is not the USA. Americans have a lot to learn about these people and what they accept as their rights and how they govern the land.
This is the story told to me by a 14-year-old Yazidi girl (click here) I’ll call “Narin", currently staying in northern Iraqi Kurdistan. I am a Kurdish journalist with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia who covers northern Iraq as a freelancer for several international news outlets. I heard about Narin’s tale through a Yazidi friend who knew her. Aside from translating from Kurdish and excerpting her story in collaboration with Washington Post editors, the only things I changed are all the names, at Narin’s request, to protect her and other victims from reprisal; many of her relatives are still in captivity.
Girl and Women cultures in the Middle East are not dictated by Western values. And all the drones and bombs are not going to change that. Genocide is a separate issue, but, when it comes to females there is a lot The West simply doesn't understand.
All to frequently when the USA brings their war machines to wag some kind of noble battle, it is the money and not the morality that find cooperation. The bodies of newly trained Iraqi soldiers on a remote road outside the town of Mandali Sunday. The gunmen who killed them, in the deadliest ambush of the insurgency, were reportedly disguised as policemen.
October 25, 2004
By Edward Wong
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 24 - In the deadliest ambush of the insurgency, (click here) guerrillas dressed as policemen killed about 50 freshly trained Iraqi soldiers in remote eastern Iraq as the unarmed soldiers were heading home on leave Saturday evening, Iraqi officials said Sunday.
The soldiers were taken from three minibuses at a fake checkpoint about 95 miles northeast of Baghdad, near the Iranian border in restive Diyala Province, police officials said. They were told or forced to lie down on the ground in rows, then killed mostly with bullets to their heads.
The ambush, extraordinarily ambitious in scope and violence, showed a high level of organization, and the insurgents probably had inside information on the travel plans of the soldiers, who were members of the nascent Iraqi National Guard, officials said....
This ambush was an obvious insider attack. The guerrillas knew exactly where they were when they decided to teach The West a lesson. That is what this is. There were no guerrillas dead. This was to teach the USA and the UK there war was leading nowhere and for the next five years that was more and more the truth. The dramatic awareness of this truth happened when Iraq's borders were lost and it's sovereign government was worthless.
Ten years after this ambush the resolve to defeat has a higher resolve than ever before. These efforts the USA is about to embark on is a purposeless as the training of these Iraqis by Jordan.
The USA is throwing good money after bad. It is hideous to believe this is now different that there is a Democratic President and Secretary of State.
There is no direct threat to the USA Homeland except for it's war mongering media.
The USA is throwing good money after bad. It is hideous to believe this is now different that there is a Democratic President and Secretary of State.
There is no direct threat to the USA Homeland except for it's war mongering media.
