Reply #61: The world is in flames because Bush and Cheney chose to light it all up.

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Before Obama escalates the Afghan war, he must tell us who we are fighting
By Peter Chamberlin
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Nov 27, 2009, 00:25

Who is “al Qaida,” that we must continue killing and destroying entire nations to eliminate them?

“Al Qaida,” the base, in Arabic, is not the great threatening beast that has been used to frighten the little children.

The original Arab-Afghan fighters loyal to bin Laden have all but been eliminated from the region, with the last remaining holdouts scattered throughout the region. If there is no “al Qaida” in Afghanistan, then who or what are we after, other than the Taliban? The network itself? Are we completing the destruction of Afghanistan and Pakistan in order to eliminate our own network? If we fight against our own network, then why is an escalation needed? Wouldn’t it be far easier and cheaper to simply defund it, turn off the switch in Langley, Virginia, to the terrorist production line?

Or is the switch to the terrorist production line really in the Pentagon? Since the military is the only beneficiary of another escalation in Afghanistan, it is logical to assume that they are behind the whole endeavor. The war is not about Afghanistan or Pakistan, but about maintaining another huge military presence there. Pakistan is the jumping-off point to all the planned missions for Central Asia and securing the pipeline routes anticipated for the region.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5318.shtml

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