December 1, 2009

Lyndon Baines Obama

Tonight, Obama pulls a Wilson-FDR-Johnson. Having been elected as the relative peace candidate, he is escalating his war on Afghanistan. He is also urging young Afghan men to enlist in the government army of an oil lobbyist and die for the US and its pipeline. Actually, this is Nixon's Vietnamization all over again. Just as the poor and ill-armed guerrillas could not be defeated by the quadrillion dollar army of Nixon, so the Afghan guerrillas will not be defeated by the bloodillion dollar Pentagon of today. See Bill Lind. Of course, the actual purpose of this imperial war of conquest—to enrich the merchants of death, get vast bribes for officials, and empower and glorify the  junta—will be accomplished.

UPDATE from Travis Holte: "A troop surge can only magnify the crime against Afghanistan."

UPDATE: Or an updated version of a 1960s chant I often joined in: "Hey, hey, BHO, killing kids for big-oil dough."

UPDATE from Darren McPhilimy:

Another retrofitted protest chant: "Hell no, we won't go, we won't fight for BHO!"

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