Get Out of Afghanistan

Including the latest deaths, at least 28 international troops have been killed so far this month in Afghanistan.

Time to go. This writer does not believe that Western involvement in the civil wars of foreign countries is ever in the best interest of the USA. Although a US Army Chaplain in 2004 I was opposed to the war in Iraq because I am opposed to war period! However, in 1977, many of my friends refused military service. With the All Volunteer force, that was a luxury provided to them. However, as a Citizen and yes, as a Christian, I felt a call to service because our service member deserve their right to the ministrations of their religion, as provided in the Constitution, and the US Code and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Therefore, I volunteered to serve the soldiers, and of course the nation. Twenty five years later, when the US government went to war against Iraq, I was opposed to war, as always. However, how can one, for twenty-five years “say” they will serve and when called upon to enter active duty in support of soldiers, say “NO”. Principles are Principles. Commitment is Commitment. Duty is Duty. If not? Then why bother having such concepts? None the less, I am committed to the principle that is war is bad. The writer believes it is not our duty to militarily interfere in the civil internal affairs of sovereign States, like Libya, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. So, let us get out of Iraq, completely. No US ground forces there. Let us get out of Afghanistan, completely. No US ground forces there. If we want to negotiate a military outpost in each of those countries, as a stage for rapid response of US forces when enemies directly attack us, okay. Such an action is good global politics in an era of piracy and international terrorism. However, strict guideline apply as to the use of US military assets when interfering, UN mandate or not, in the internal affairs of Sovereign States.

Is Intervention Selective?

Should the UN intervene in Syria. Obviously, as some have pointed out about the situation in Libya, the Syria leader is a dictator. He is brutal in repression of his people. He has torture chambers. He has decimated cities. The reports so far are numbering above one thousand innocent civilians killed, thousands more arrested and whole urban populations surrounded by the Army. Yet, no Security Council resolution? No French and British, Canadian and USA demand for NATO bombs and USA Cruise missile attacks? So, let’s see! The Libyan situation was worse? I think not. Or, the Libyan dictator was more brutal. No? Oh, it must be that the Libyan civilian population is more worthy of foreign intervention via NATO and the Syrians are not? (Are Syrian civilian dead less valuable than Libyan civilian dead?) Or maybe there is no ready-made French and British dominated government in exile residing in London or Paris? Or maybe the foreign oil companies are not interested in Syrian oil fields? So, what is it about selective foreign military intervention that makes the Libyan foray legitimate and any other is suspect? Some would say that the UN which is a peace keeping institution has to first okay foreign nations who want to war against other member nations? Does that make UN a world government? What about the rule of law. Does the rule of Law apply to War between the sovereign governments ( that usually includes dictatorships< surprise surprise>!) or does the rule of law apply only to some countries and not others? In the case of the USA, the silence of the Congress on the deployment of USA military assets into the war against Libya is troubling. Estimates are the war cost the US taxpayers one billion dollars. What did it cost Canada? What did Germany pay? What about Russia, or Australia? Is only the USA the moral policeman and the beleaguered US taxpayer the only ones who must pay up for wars to free the poor down trodden people of South West Asia (the USA military designation for the areas involved).? The moral case can be made for UN intervention in many places. This writer is completely in favor of the defeat of brutal dictatorships wherever they are to be found. None the less, the argument made in these posts concerns the serendipitous pursuit of illogical and capricious foreign policy. I am a citizen of the USA so my opinions regarding Sarkozy and Cameroon are those of an outsider, although under the rubrics of critics they would be allowed under the concepts of one world order. However, the main concerns are: US foreign adventurism by the USA administration; the lack of USA Congressional authority for the deployment and use of USA military assets in the obvious pursuit of war by one sovereign State against another, (the UN does not have authority to okay US deployment of weapons of Mass destruction ( that is not only nuclear bombs but includes Cruise Missiles, A-10 anti personnel aircraft); UN mandate or no, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance fare exceeded the UN resolution 1973 when it (as the Brits said) “…pursued the obvious extension and logical conclusion of resolution 1973…which is the defeat and destruction of the Gaddafi Government…” By the way this writer was in the US Army for thirty years and has witnessed the lethal nature of bombs, missiles and the A10. These are not exact (pin point) weapons. When they are used they may indeed hit the target but the blow up effect is wide and in the case of the bombs and missiles anyone within thousands of feet to the impact area would be killed or at the least very seriously injured. Since the UN okayed the effort and NATO launched at least five hundred missile attacks and thousands of bomb runs and thousands of strafing attacks, are we to suppose that zero civilians were killed?

Obama and His Secret War Against Libya

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/30/america-s-secret-libya-war-u-s-spent-1-billion-on-covert-ops-helping-nato.html?om_rid=NsgG76&om_mid=_BOXNRGB8dCTPIU

Obama is a President who does whatever he wants to do, including involvement in a full war against Libya without congressional approval, without a declaration of war and without wide public support. How does he do it? Read the article and weep for our democracy which is being under mined by its President! It is very well presented in this article.

Why Does NATO Kill the Gaddafi Supporters

British aircraft fired cruise missiles at a headquarters bunker overnight in Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte.

A city beyond rebel control, on the Mediterranean coast 450 km (300 miles) east of Tripoli, some believe he might seek refuge there among his tribesmen. Loyalist forces also still hold positions deep in the Sahara desert.

“Sirte remains an operating base from which pro-Gaddafi troops project hostile forces against Misrata and Tripoli,” a NATO official said, adding that its forces had also acted to stop a column of 29 vehicles heading west toward Misrata.

In Benghazi, rebel military spokesman Ahmed Bani said the bombing in Sirte was aimed at ammunition stores and depots for Scud missiles. “Maybe the mercenaries will run away,” he said, referring to suggestions Gaddafi’s forces include hired fighters from Chad and other sub-Saharan African countries.

“After this bombing, maybe the people there will try to rise up.” he added, saying TNC commanders were also in contact with tribal chiefs in Sirte, hoping to avoid bloodshed.

Such negotiations will be a major challenge across the country for Libya’s new rulers as they try to meet expectations of young men now bearing arms and to heal ethnic, tribal and other divisions that have been exacerbated by civil war.

This writer asks your indulgence as he screams objection to the wholesale killing tactics of the NATO military alliance. There is just no way any reasonable person can say that innocent civilians are not being slaughtered wholesale by the powerful cruise missiles that NATO is using to bomb the free people of SIRTE into submission. It does not matter to NATO that the free people of Sirte do not want the European imposed Rebel government.

US Families Accepted Money for Lockerbie Deaths

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/us-transfers-libyan-money-lockerbie-victims This writer can not even imagine the pain and suffering caused by the loss of a loved one through acts of terror. In fact, I cannot really imagine the pain and suffering from loss through accident. However, civil courts and governments made legally binding deals called monetary settlements. The perpetrator payed a fine and the victims accepted the cash. While all is not forgiven, the family is regarded as duly compensated and the perpetrator is released from further court action. Read this very informative article concerning the Lockerbie and Berlin Disco settlement and note the significance of the Vast Oil deposits for American companies. Also note that the deal was legal. It was carried out by the USA Secretary of State and that there were binding agreements attached about the regard the USA promised to have toward the Libyan government. It did not include an escape clause that the USA could change it’s mind after the deal was done and it did not contain a secret protocol allowing the USA to use NATO and the United Nations as a phony front for the overthrow of the Legally recognized government of Libya.

Obama, Sarkozy and Cameron are Liars

http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-rebels-attacking-tripoli-224402452.html I am a little guy. I live in a small house, I earn an average salary and I live modestly. And I hate liars.

I am embarrassed. As a proud citizen of the most powerful nation in the world, I am ashamed of the conduct of this War of Illegal aggression against the Sovereign State of Libya.

Yes, I tis a dictatorship. But so are many, yes MANY nations around the world.

Yes, it is a third world nation, but so are many African and Arab countries.

Yes, it has the oil in abundance, but so do many nations in Africa.

And I am ashamed, because the United Nations is a whore. It sold itself to French Imperialist Sarkozy, British Colonialist Cameron and Just straight out liar Obama. This article which clearly details the egregious aggression of the NATO European Military Alliance against Libya, is a terrible indictment of the Obama Administrations duplicity and outright lying in its pursuit of World domination at the expense of fundamental civil liberties. All three leaders are liars. And I hate Liars. It is impossible for any truthful citizen of our world to read this article and conclude that the NATO ( that definitely includes USA, no matter how much Obama seeks to hide his lies and bullying ways) I HATE BULLIES…NATO is engaged in an illegal act of criminal aggression of enormous scope which boggles the mind. NATO and therefore the USA is engaged in an undeclared war, which by definition of the so-called “August” Hague Tribunal, is itself a war CRIME.

In so far as the USA has engaged with the NATO military alliance in illegal acts of aggression against the people of Libya and against the Sovereign and independent country of Libya… these actions must be brought before the tribunal of fair and equitable American public opinion and judged according to the laws and rules of the USA. It may, (sadly) be that Obama and his administration are found to be criminally engaged in an illegal act of international significance which would be cause for impeachment and conviction by the Congress of the USA.

Solutions for Libya.

USA stops ALL support for the Illegal Criminal Oil war aggression against Libya.

USA restores full diplomatic recognition of the legal and current government of Libya.

USA withdraws support for the crony Hague Courts Declaration of Gaddafi as a “war criminal”

USA refuses to support arrest warrant issued by that politically motivated court.

USA tells Sarkozy and Cameron it will introduce UN resolution in Security Council to end all bombing of Libya.

USA tells UN that it support UN humanitarian aid to NATO destroyed Libya.

USA flushes all State department and Defense department and Cabinet members who have war gamed this illegal war.

USA stops money to rebels in Libya, money which is siphoned into personal bank accounts of rebel leaders in France. Yes, that is where the rebel leaders have been, come from and to which they will flee when all of this is over.

This is not easy. It was a few months ago, when the USA would not have needed to do any of the above. But Obama has continued to dig the hole and widen the separation between Libya and the USA. Just 90 days ago, Obama could have stopped all of this carnage by simply refusing to be a part of the UN resolution. Even after his support for it, he could have stopped it by living the truth of his words instead of secretly continuing to do what he told the American people he was not doing. Now that Obama has withdrawn diplomatic recognition from Tripoli and given it to the insurgent forces, the USA has to go through third-party diplomats to even have a conversation with the legal government of Libya! Terrible fiasco by Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama. Maybe, “Joe the Plumber” would have done a better job?

Is America a Criminal Aggressor?

The USA Administration is phony. It declares an Arab Spring when Obama visited Cairo after his election. Then it stalls at first and then fully condemns Mubarak, ignoring the Islamic fundamentalist threat. At the same time it tells Israel to go back to pre Arab War borders. It also is mild with Syria while joining in the vile and violent illegal and criminal aggression against Libya. Then it ignores the Ivory coast dictator and continues with Sarkozy to bomb Libya. Then it continues to refrain from any UN action against Syria while we watch hundred of civilians kills in the streets of Damascus and Hama and elsewhere in Syria. But we continue to bomb Libya along with Cameron who is complicit with Sarkozy in illegal criminal aggression against the legal government of Libya. Meanwhile we completely ignore the Jihadist attempts to take over Somalia while ten thousand people there die of hunger. But we continue to bomb Libya. And while Assad destroys the entire city of Hama, we threaten to isolate him but completely rule out any action, yet we continue to bomb Libya. What is there inside of Libya that Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama want? OIL…this is a terrible return to Western European Territorial aggression by former colonialist and imperialist France, Britain and Belgium . I speak of this on my BloG Talk Radio podcast

England is Stll Imperialist and Colonialist

Britain, France and USA are big on Democratic gov. for Libya. Well, who elected these new guys? Nobody. They are puppets for the Western European NATO military alliance. Secondly, who unelected the government of Libya? Nobody. This new unilateral move by the tainted Cameron government is more British colonialism and reveals that Britain has no respect for African nations, for the African Union of nations or for the people of Libya. Now, after tens of thousands of bombs have pulverized the cities, roads and infrastructure of the free and sovereign State of LIbya, the Brits show their imperialist nature by claiming that through diplomatic recognition it can cast aside the legal government of Libya, steal it’s bank accounts in order to have the Libyan people pay for the British chosen new government, and impose a government acceptable to Britain on the Libyan people. This is gross liberalism and reveal the war mongering criminal aggressions and now colonialist nature of the British empire mentality. Shame on USA for being part of this mafia style take over of a whole free nation and its valuable oil assets by the big bullies of NATO. WHERE IS RUSSIA OR ARE THEY STILL COMMIES WHO WILL GO ALONG WITH THIS SHAM? How about China? They suffered terribly under British imperilism and a British colonial policy that fostered the mass addiction of the Chinese people by providing opium to Chinese people and using their mass addiction to undermine the government of China. The Brits didn’t care about the tens of thousands of innocent Chinese who died in the British sponsored opium dens of China. All they wanted then and all they want now is unfettered access to Chinese mineral resources. China should demand a stop to this criminal activity by the Western European and USA backed military partners of NATO. Strange isn’t it that a USA citizen finds himself looking to communist and former communist nations for help in stopping the new colonialism and imperialism of the West and USA!

Russia Finally Speaks Up- But Not Enough

http://news.yahoo.com/libya-rebels-fighting-capture-eastern-oil-town-013826058.html

Russia needs to call for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. It is great that Russia has stopped being a mere stooge for Sarkozy and Obama. Maybe Putin is getting his balls back. Maybe Putin will push Medvedev aside in the next election. Maybe the only hope for a true and just settlement of the Libyan Resource war being waged by the USA Obama and the cronies, Sarkozy and Cameron, maybe the only hope is Russia. Russia has oil interests in Libya through Gazprom but while other oil interests are merely anxious to keep NATO war planes away from the Libyan Oil field, Russia has at least whispered its disapproval of the USA led war against the Libyan people. But the Russians need to push and shove and shout. They are being manipulated by the French and out witted by Obama. The Russian need to call for a security council meeting to stop the UN backed AGGRESSION. Read it again…YES…the United Nations is involved in full by condoning the brutal lying war machine of the NATO military alliance to attack the legal government and civilians of Libya. The UN seems to think that only those who fled to France during the Gaddafi years are “true” Libyans and all the other poor and non mobile Libyans who stayed and worked out practical arrangements with the regime are not real Libyans.