War is a sticky business
Antiwar.com
by Philip Giraldi
05/05/11
If the United States of America survives another fifty years and historians begin to chart the decline of the Great Republic, they will undoubtedly reach the conclusion that post-9/11 Washington found it very easy to use continuous conflict as a substitute for any real foreign policy while also finding it extremely difficult to exit from what it had begun. Empires frequently exhibit such a failure of imagination, thinking themselves invincible...
http://tinyurl.com/4445zmy
The real loss of May 1, 2011
Liberty For All
by Mike Seebeck
05/04/11
Let s put aside for a moment the obvious problems with the announcement, its source, the execution, and all of the details attached to it which make the whole thing look like an orchestrated piece of false flag fakery. Let s assume for a moment that it s entirely legitimate, that it was bin Laden they actually killed. People in America have reacted exactly in the wrong manner to it. Completely backwards.
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5880
The killing of OBL: Therapy for the West
Spiked
by Brendan O'Neill
05/04/11
Why the shooting of a sickly has-been jihadist was turned into a momentous and historic occasion on a par with VJ Day...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10479/
An end to 'bad guys?'
The Nation
by Christopher Hayes
05/04/11
In the wake of 9/11, the phrase 'bad guys' infiltrated our national conversation, and its continued prevalence serves as a testament to the ways the trauma has warped our national character. In the days after the attack, Dick Cheney warned the world that 'people have to choose between the US and the bad guys.' Tom Friedman?s columns from that fall repeatedly invoke the term. 'From here forward,' he wrote on September 28, 2001, 'it?s the bad guys who need to be afraid every waking moment. The more frightened our enemies are today, the fewer we will have to fight tomorrow.' But the term outlived the immediate aftermath...
http://www.thenation.com/article/160405/end-bad-guys
Why are we still in Afghanistan?
CounterPunch
by Robert Fisk
05/04/11
So why are we in Afghanistan? Didn t the Americans and the British go there in 2001 to fight Osama bin Laden? Wasn t he killed on Monday? There was painful symbolism in the Nato airstrike yesterday -- scarcely 24 hours after Bin Laden s death -- that killed yet more Afghan security guards. For the truth is that we long ago lost the plot in the graveyard of empires, turning a hunt for a now largely irrelevant inventor of global jihad into a war against tens of thousands of Taliban insurgents who have little interest in al-Qa'ida, but much enthusiasm to drive Western armies out of their country...
http://counterpunch.org/fisk05042011.html
Have we forgotten 9/11?
The American Conservative The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter
05/03/11
Prominent hawks like Sen. John McCain are calling for more intervention in Libya and relatively new hawks like Sen. Marco Rubio want to see stronger U.S. action in Syria. Both senators also believe we should stay in Iraq and Afghanistan indefinitely. None of this has anything to do with fighting Al-Qaeda. Have McCain, Rubio and their Republican ilk forgotten 9/11?
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/05/03/have-we-forgotten-911/
Let s call it 'VO' Day and get out
Independent Institute Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
05/04/11
The main trunk of al Qaeda has been severely weakened, and regional affiliates of the group would likely focus on local issues ? not anti-U.S. attacks ? if the United States quit stirring the hornets in their regions. Of course, he is unlikely to take this action, because the securocrats ? to whom Obama has been so deferential and who need a continuing threat to justify continually building empires of added manpower and funding ? are already cautioning that anti-U.S. terror attacks will likely continue and may actually increase, at least in the short term, in retaliation for bin Laden s martyrdom...
http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3044
An open letter to Representative Chris Van Hollen
Liberty & Power
by Keith Halderman
Osama Bin Laden is dead but he can still prevail in his struggle against the American people. His goal all along has been to bankrupt the United States and he came closer to his objective then any American, especially a congressman, should be comfortable with and he could still succeed. Members of the House of Representatives who vote to raise the debt ceiling will be serving Osama Bin Laden s purpose...
http://www.hnn.us/blogs/entries/138954.html
Scared yet?
Truth To Power Truth To Power
by James Mann
05/04/11
On Sunday evening this man had this man murdered. Or not. In the same way 9/11, The Media Event was presented to the world, the assassination of Osama bin Laden was rolled out, full of conflicting details from our military and intelligence agencies, just like 9/11. The entire world is reacting to an event that may never have occurred, is unverifiable, regardless of the final decision to release a photo of the corpse...
http://blogs.ink19.com/truthtopower/archives/9187
You cheering in the streets is no different than when they do it
The Liberty Papers
by Jeff Molby
05/03/11
[T]his is an old, nasty conflict and there?s a ton of blood on everybody s hands. It s been many decades since we have had any sort of moral high ground when it comes to our involvement in the Middle East. 9/11 could have changed that if we had responded magnanimously, but instead we resorted with the same base reactions that we condemn our enemies for...
http://tinyurl.com/454zo2y
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Marco+Rubio
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=false+flag
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=endless+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=airstrike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=invincible
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hawk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cheney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=McCain
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Osama+bin+Laden
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=jihad
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Taliban
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=insurgen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bankrupt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Seebeck
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brendan+O'Neill
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christopher+Hayes
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Fisk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ivan+Eland
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Keith+Halderman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Mann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeff+Molby
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by Philip Giraldi
05/05/11
If the United States of America survives another fifty years and historians begin to chart the decline of the Great Republic, they will undoubtedly reach the conclusion that post-9/11 Washington found it very easy to use continuous conflict as a substitute for any real foreign policy while also finding it extremely difficult to exit from what it had begun. Empires frequently exhibit such a failure of imagination, thinking themselves invincible...
http://tinyurl.com/4445zmy
The real loss of May 1, 2011
Liberty For All
by Mike Seebeck
05/04/11
Let s put aside for a moment the obvious problems with the announcement, its source, the execution, and all of the details attached to it which make the whole thing look like an orchestrated piece of false flag fakery. Let s assume for a moment that it s entirely legitimate, that it was bin Laden they actually killed. People in America have reacted exactly in the wrong manner to it. Completely backwards.
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5880
The killing of OBL: Therapy for the West
Spiked
by Brendan O'Neill
05/04/11
Why the shooting of a sickly has-been jihadist was turned into a momentous and historic occasion on a par with VJ Day...
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10479/
An end to 'bad guys?'
The Nation
by Christopher Hayes
05/04/11
In the wake of 9/11, the phrase 'bad guys' infiltrated our national conversation, and its continued prevalence serves as a testament to the ways the trauma has warped our national character. In the days after the attack, Dick Cheney warned the world that 'people have to choose between the US and the bad guys.' Tom Friedman?s columns from that fall repeatedly invoke the term. 'From here forward,' he wrote on September 28, 2001, 'it?s the bad guys who need to be afraid every waking moment. The more frightened our enemies are today, the fewer we will have to fight tomorrow.' But the term outlived the immediate aftermath...
http://www.thenation.com/article/160405/end-bad-guys
Why are we still in Afghanistan?
CounterPunch
by Robert Fisk
05/04/11
So why are we in Afghanistan? Didn t the Americans and the British go there in 2001 to fight Osama bin Laden? Wasn t he killed on Monday? There was painful symbolism in the Nato airstrike yesterday -- scarcely 24 hours after Bin Laden s death -- that killed yet more Afghan security guards. For the truth is that we long ago lost the plot in the graveyard of empires, turning a hunt for a now largely irrelevant inventor of global jihad into a war against tens of thousands of Taliban insurgents who have little interest in al-Qa'ida, but much enthusiasm to drive Western armies out of their country...
http://counterpunch.org/fisk05042011.html
Have we forgotten 9/11?
The American Conservative The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter
05/03/11
Prominent hawks like Sen. John McCain are calling for more intervention in Libya and relatively new hawks like Sen. Marco Rubio want to see stronger U.S. action in Syria. Both senators also believe we should stay in Iraq and Afghanistan indefinitely. None of this has anything to do with fighting Al-Qaeda. Have McCain, Rubio and their Republican ilk forgotten 9/11?
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/05/03/have-we-forgotten-911/
Let s call it 'VO' Day and get out
Independent Institute Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
05/04/11
The main trunk of al Qaeda has been severely weakened, and regional affiliates of the group would likely focus on local issues ? not anti-U.S. attacks ? if the United States quit stirring the hornets in their regions. Of course, he is unlikely to take this action, because the securocrats ? to whom Obama has been so deferential and who need a continuing threat to justify continually building empires of added manpower and funding ? are already cautioning that anti-U.S. terror attacks will likely continue and may actually increase, at least in the short term, in retaliation for bin Laden s martyrdom...
http://independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3044
An open letter to Representative Chris Van Hollen
Liberty & Power
by Keith Halderman
Osama Bin Laden is dead but he can still prevail in his struggle against the American people. His goal all along has been to bankrupt the United States and he came closer to his objective then any American, especially a congressman, should be comfortable with and he could still succeed. Members of the House of Representatives who vote to raise the debt ceiling will be serving Osama Bin Laden s purpose...
http://www.hnn.us/blogs/entries/138954.html
Scared yet?
Truth To Power Truth To Power
by James Mann
05/04/11
On Sunday evening this man had this man murdered. Or not. In the same way 9/11, The Media Event was presented to the world, the assassination of Osama bin Laden was rolled out, full of conflicting details from our military and intelligence agencies, just like 9/11. The entire world is reacting to an event that may never have occurred, is unverifiable, regardless of the final decision to release a photo of the corpse...
http://blogs.ink19.com/truthtopower/archives/9187
You cheering in the streets is no different than when they do it
The Liberty Papers
by Jeff Molby
05/03/11
[T]his is an old, nasty conflict and there?s a ton of blood on everybody s hands. It s been many decades since we have had any sort of moral high ground when it comes to our involvement in the Middle East. 9/11 could have changed that if we had responded magnanimously, but instead we resorted with the same base reactions that we condemn our enemies for...
http://tinyurl.com/454zo2y
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Marco+Rubio
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=foreign+policy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Middle+East
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Libya
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Syria
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Iraq
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=false+flag
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=endless+war
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=airstrike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=invincible
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=hawk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cheney
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=McCain
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=assassin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Osama+bin+Laden
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=jihad
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Taliban
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=insurgen
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=bankrupt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mike+Seebeck
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Brendan+O'Neill
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Christopher+Hayes
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+Fisk
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ivan+Eland
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Keith+Halderman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=James+Mann
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeff+Molby
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