Wednesday, 18 May 2011 - TALIQUN, AFGHANISTAN - We hope that you are paying your way and NOT STILL READING THE DIGITAL NEW YORK TIMES WITH YOUR FIREFOX BROWSER SET TO "PRIVATE BROWSING".
In an amazing follow-up to our recent posting regarding United States' night killings of children and then further civilian killings that alienated an entire remote village in Afghanistan, NATO now has picked up the cue on a grand scale and in just a day alienated thousands more Afghans with a night raid in Taliqun northern Afghanistan that locals say killed four civilians including a religious scholar. NATO claims that those killed were in fact terrorists.
Past investigations of NATO actions which locals have claimed killed civilians but NATO maintains killed terrorists have painstakingly been proven to indeed have killed civilians and not terrorists. NATO has adopted the approach of maintaining it is killing terrorists even in the face of strong evidence to the contrary. This approach most recently succeeded in alienating thousands of now armed Afghan civilians who confronted NATO yesterday after its most recent night raid.
In a curious twist perhaps to the United States much-heralded "hearts and minds" approach in Vietnam which eventually contributed to the United States complete defeat there, the US and NATO now apparently have developed and expanded it in not only Afghanistan and Libya by killing all manner of innocent children, women, religious men and others who have nothing to do with the conflicts in which the US and NATO apparently believe they will succeed.
As we now have learned of thousands of Afghans yesterday attacking a NATO base outside Taliqun and confronting US, NATO, Afghan military and law enforcement with weapons including axes, grenades and AK-47's, it would seem apparent that many local "hearts and minds" have certainly been persuaded in Afghanistan. The question remains if the night raids and other actions now being bitterly opposed by the Karzai administration and Afghan population will escalate in an atmosphere of complete deniability of horrendous errors being made killing the population which supposedly is being saved.
The theory has been introduced by the Ninth Amendment that the "new" approach to "hearts and minds" may in fact be rather than to win them over, to kill them all while claiming they are being saved. In the end, with all the population EXCEPT the terrorists having been killed, then it should be much easier to identify, target and kill them as they will be the only ones who have been left standing.
Copyright 2011 Big M and Little L All World Rights Expressly Reserved
In an amazing follow-up to our recent posting regarding United States' night killings of children and then further civilian killings that alienated an entire remote village in Afghanistan, NATO now has picked up the cue on a grand scale and in just a day alienated thousands more Afghans with a night raid in Taliqun northern Afghanistan that locals say killed four civilians including a religious scholar. NATO claims that those killed were in fact terrorists.
Past investigations of NATO actions which locals have claimed killed civilians but NATO maintains killed terrorists have painstakingly been proven to indeed have killed civilians and not terrorists. NATO has adopted the approach of maintaining it is killing terrorists even in the face of strong evidence to the contrary. This approach most recently succeeded in alienating thousands of now armed Afghan civilians who confronted NATO yesterday after its most recent night raid.
In a curious twist perhaps to the United States much-heralded "hearts and minds" approach in Vietnam which eventually contributed to the United States complete defeat there, the US and NATO now apparently have developed and expanded it in not only Afghanistan and Libya by killing all manner of innocent children, women, religious men and others who have nothing to do with the conflicts in which the US and NATO apparently believe they will succeed.
As we now have learned of thousands of Afghans yesterday attacking a NATO base outside Taliqun and confronting US, NATO, Afghan military and law enforcement with weapons including axes, grenades and AK-47's, it would seem apparent that many local "hearts and minds" have certainly been persuaded in Afghanistan. The question remains if the night raids and other actions now being bitterly opposed by the Karzai administration and Afghan population will escalate in an atmosphere of complete deniability of horrendous errors being made killing the population which supposedly is being saved.
The theory has been introduced by the Ninth Amendment that the "new" approach to "hearts and minds" may in fact be rather than to win them over, to kill them all while claiming they are being saved. In the end, with all the population EXCEPT the terrorists having been killed, then it should be much easier to identify, target and kill them as they will be the only ones who have been left standing.
Copyright 2011 Big M and Little L All World Rights Expressly Reserved
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Thank you for your comment pete v. Sounds like you have got it right! Talking Heads David Byrne was singing about stockpiling the peanut butter back in the late 1970's. Ever listen to Zappa's double album "The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life"? Zappa does Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" (supposedly Cash was prepared to do the concert with Zappa but had to stay back at the hotel with his sick wife) and some other great covers such as Jimi Hendrix "Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky". Thanks for stopping by and commenting and hope you keep checking the Ninth Amendment out and spreading the word if you like what you read. Best regards.
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