'War on Terror' Continues to Create Terrorists
The CIA’s recent botched attempt to kill al Qaeda’s number two man, Ayman Zawahiri, in Pakistan illustrates why the Bush administration’s overly aggressive “war on terror” actually motivates terrorists to attack the United States. Certainly, capturing or killing the brains behind al Qaeda is an important goal. Unfortunately, in the U.S. method of warfare—which unduly emphasizes attrition, heavy firepower and sophisticated weaponry, even against guerrillas and terrorists—the technology of killing has outstripped the quality of human intelligence needed to hit the correct targets. The CIA’s unmanned Predator drone fired missiles that killed many Pakistani civilians, including women and children, but apparently not Zawahiri.Making things even worse, the killing of women and children continues to spark public outrage all across Pakistan, leading to mass protests in all of Pakistan’s major cities and the trashing and burning of a U.S.-supported aid organization. Such public ire will make it even less likely that the United States will receive accurate future intelligence about where Zawahiri and his boss, Osama bin Laden, are hiding, even though the prices on their heads are substantial.
And to shore up the popularity of his war on terror at home, which has been dragged down by an incongruous, unnecessary, now unpopular war in Iraq, President Bush has combined these reckless military actions with cowboy rhetoric, which only further stoke the flames of anti-U.S. hatred among radical Islamists. Bringing back the “clash of civilizations” rhetoric used during the Cold War against the “godless Communists,” the administration is now implying that those with “too much god of an alien kind” are trying to build a worldwide empire that could again threaten the United States. The president has cast the war on Islamic terrorism as a contest between the men in white hats who advocate freedom and those with black headgear who want to create “a totalitarian Islamic empire reaching from Spain to Indonesia.”
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posted by _H_ at 9:12 pm
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Americans seem completely numb to the deaths of innocents in this so called war on terror. Perhaps if the USAF were to launch an unmanned missile attack on a village in upstate Maine and kill 18 innocent people while trying to take out a terrorist, then perhaps they may call it murder.
The worse thing is rather than apologise and say it was a mistake, Rice and Co have said that they have to do this sort of thing to win the war, and are willing to do it again. Just who is the bad guy?
Looking at this I can almost see why terrorists carry out their attacks, their innocents are being killed, why not ours?
I agree with anonmous .If the usa would spend the amount of money it spends on illegal wars on aid to to those counties rather than killing peace would come .Americans have a sanitised version of war.They do not feel the pain.Pilots who lived in Japan during the Korean war would kiss their family goodbye in Japan go and drop bombs on civilians then go home and kiss their kids goodnight.How sick is that.
Joe , since when has the US been at war with Pakistan ? or the innocent civilians in iraq for that matter ?
you can not be serious
This site has hundreds of articles on what we would do differently just take a look for yourself
I doubt very much you felt this was all normal and fine on the day of Sept 11th ...
so why would you try to justify and illegal terrorist attack on the sovereign nation of Pakistan ?
Murdering women and children in cold blood has no respectable explanation , please don't waste your time trying to find justification . There is none
Terrorism is Terrorism , it does not become civilized just because you thought there may be a bad guy in the area
that is just sick
if you want to do take such twisted and warped actions then declare war on Pakistan first
Friends dont kill the children of Friends
Awesome site. I would love to trade links with you. Lemmie know
I hate fanatics of any sort
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you said it right, anonymous &
_h_. putting the shoe on the other foot is a tall order cos it just never feels too good to even think about.
so many aspects of that attack were so foul. the "all's fair in war" policy the US admin. has been espousing is leading us into disaster.
You people are sheep! Waiting to be told that it is your turn to go to the slaughter house. If the media tells you that Mars doesn't really exist and that those evil conservatives made it up, you fools would start protesting and demand that the "evil" Bush admin. and Halloburton stop tortureing people for $$$. Seeking the the truth and waiting for the truth to surface never occurs to you because it doesn't fit your world view. Fools. Your enslavement draws near.
Joe, way to prove the first post. Again, if Cuba or Venezuela were to bomb the U.S. in an effort to take out convicted terrorist Luis Posada Carriles (whom the U.S. is currently habouring), you would no doubt scream bloodly murder. There is a word for people who hold themselves to a looser standard than themselves: h-something. Give me a minute, I'll think of it...
For the third anonymous poster, Mars what? What the hell are you blathering on about? If you have some relevant comment with factual information, them by al means. Otherwise, why not respect yourself enough not to make an asinine comment?
And..... a non sequitur for a non sequiturv(rather than waste my time going through them point by irrelevant point). A few of the many things gop-christian will never tell you:
The U.S. is currently supporting a terrorist leader who is infamous for boiling his opponents to death - namely Islam Karimov.
On the origin of alll those bad guys in the Middle East:
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [From the Shadows] that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahidin in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period, you were the national security advisor to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that corect?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahidin began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec. 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was 3 July 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
[Asked if he regreted this action] Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski in1998 interview with Le Nouvel Observateur
Probably the most subversive effect of the privatized jihad was on the madrassahs, many of which were turned into politico-military training schools. The point was to integrate guerrilla training with the teachings of Islam and thus create "Islamic guerrillas." The London-based Indian journalist Dilip Hiro commented in the curriculum of the madrassahs: "Predominant themes were that Islam was a complete sociopolitical ideology, that holy Islam was being violated by atheistic Soviet troops, and that the Islamic people of Afghanistan should reassert their independence by overthrowing the leftist Afghan regime propped up by Moscow." The madrassahs not only opened their doors to Islamic radicals from around the world but also taught that the Islamic revolution in Afghanistan would be but a precursor to revolution in other Muslim-majority countries, particularly those in Soviet Central Asia.
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'The skills passed on by trainers to fighters included "the use of sophisticated fuses, timers and explosives; automatic weapons with armor-piercing ammunition, remote-control devices for triggering mines and bombs (used later in the volunteers' home countries, and against the Israelis in occupied Arab territory such as southern Lebanon). [Mamdani quoting John Cooley in Unholy Wars]"
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[A] team of Los Angeles Times reporters who carried out an investigation [in 1996] into the aftermath of the Afghan War "over four continents" found that the key leaders of every major terrorist attack, from New York to France to Saudi Arabia, inevitably turned out to have been veterans of the Afghan War.
- Mamood Mamdani in Good Muslim Bad Muslim: America, The Cold War, And The Roots of Terror, p.136 - 139
Some others harboured by the U.S.:
[General Jose Guillermo Garcia.] was the Minister of Defense of El Salvador from 1979 to 1983. He is a 1962 graduate of the School of the Americas. He moved to Florida in 1989 and, in 1990, applied for and was granted political asylum. The 1993 U.N. Truth Commission Report on El Salvador states that General Garcia "made no serious effort to conduct a thorough investigation of responsibility for the [abduction, rape, and] murders" of the four [American] churchwomen [in El Salvador on December 2, 1980].
Between 1979 and 1983, [Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova] was the director of the National Guard, the branch of the Salvadoran military to which the 5 convicted men [who killed the churchwomen] belonged. He moved to the United States in 1989 and is currently a Legal Permanent Resident. The U.N. Truth Commission Report on El Salvador found that Vides Casanova "knew that members of the National Guard had committed the murders and, through [his] actions, facilitated the cover-up of the facts which obstructed the corresponding judicial investigation." [Source]
Then there is "Haitian army Lt. Col. Paul Samuel Jeremie, convicted in 1986 of torturing Duvalier opponents and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He escaped in 1988 and moved quietly to Miami, Haitian sources said.
Then there is General Prosper Avril whose reign included "[a]rrests and beatings of members of popular organizations that were critical of military rule". He was flown to the U.S. by the U.S. government in 1990.
And as an added bonus... the statement that "Saddam Hussein's sponsorship of terrorists and terrorism is a matter of open public record, Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday," is correct. Saddam's regime openly supported the Mujadehin e Khalq Organisation. Who are the MKO? They made the State Department's 1997 list of terrorist organisations. Why didn't Cheney (or Bush) ever mention them? The U.S. supports them - the MKO's political wing, the National Resistance Council of Iran even has an office in Washington DC.
Wham! _H_, great non sequitur retaliation for the gop-christian's non sequiturs.
You said it dawg: HUMINT is lacking. Technology ain't all. We can do better. CIA NSA FBI et al, they can do better. They have the power. But do they have the brains? They don't even communicate with each other very well!! But they can do it, I have faith they will learn to talk to each other, DAMMIT!!!
Hype and Djeb
fantastic stuff now all we have to do is teach them to read.
oh and btw GOP christian . we Often post on the tragic deaths of US servicemen , I am sure it suits your argument to believe we are 'enemies of America' but it simply is not true
I am a self declared enemy of your extreme right wing neocon administration.
That does not translate into being an enemy of the people of the United states
50 % of your country did not vote for President Bush , are they enemies of America too ?
typical right wing rhetoric , claim anyone who criticises the US government as an enemy of the state
Do you not even know your own history .
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt
It's great to find someone telling it as it is. A lot of us here wetr trying to tell bloody Blair that this was just the sort of thing that would be happening - like all politicians he doesn't listen!
_H_, not all of the eligible voters voted in the 2004 elections. Then there are the ineligible one - children, etc. As such, less than 50% of Americans voted for Bush. Looking at less than eligible voters who are phone owners (and thus able to be reached by pollsters), less than 40% support the man. So, to add to your question, does that mean that over 60% of Americans are "enemies of America"?
Thanks for the clarity Djeb . I was not sure on the numbers so i played safe .
It seems almost all Americans are 'enemies of the state' to these people :-)
Perhaps a little carpet-bombing is in order?
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