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Obama's War - Afghanistan Is
Spelled V-I-E-T-N-A-M

By Dave Lindorff
 8-27-9
 
President Barack Obama has staked his presidency on winning his "necessary" war in Afghanistan. Coming into office, one of his first acts, on Feb. 18, was to boost US troop levels in that country by 17,000, bringing the total number of soldiers and Marines in the country to about 57,000, to which one must also add about 33,000 other soldiers from NATO countries and Australia. That's 100,000 foreign soldiers fighting against Taliban fighters.
 
Ominously, even with the new US troops, US military commander Admiral Mike Mullen this month has described the situation in Afghanistan as being "serious and deteriorating." The Afghani national government-if an organization that is basically confined to the capital city of Kabul and a few other cities can be called a national government, is hopelessly corrupt and ineffective, and a current national election, which US forces sought to "protect" by sending troops to election districts, appears to have been a disaster, plagued by vote rigging and with low turnout.
 
The US war in Afghanistan, billed as part of a war on terror begun by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in September 2001, is now eight years old, and while the Taliban government that ruled Afghanistan at that time has been ousted from Kabul, its insurgency grows by the day in strength and popular support.
 
The US, meanwhile, is identified as an occupier and as the sole support of a corrupt regime of drug lords, thieves and charlatans.
 
Does this sound familiar? It should. It is a replay of what America did in Vietnam...
 
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