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Titolo: il nemico del mio nemico...e` mio nemico

Un'acuta analisi del solito Pepe escobar.
G.
"The only "winners" in this "long war" are, and will continue to be, 
selected players in the gargantuan US military-industrial complex. That's 
the sorry legacy of 9/11, seven years on."
By Pepe Escobar
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.
Seven years after 9/11, for all practical purposes, al-Qaeda remains the 
golden motive that justifies the Bush administration threatening, invading, 
bombing or occupying Muslim countries. But, in fact, al-Qaeda's top 
strategic enemy nowadays, in a battle to seduce Muslim hearts and minds, are 
Shi'ites - be it Tehran or Hezbollah - and not the US.
Similarities are eerie. Iran is part of Bush's "axis of evil" as well as 
al-Qaeda's "axis of evil". The US tries very hard to pit Sunnis against 
Shi'ites all over the Middle East while al-Qaeda also incites a war between 
Sunnis and Shi'ites.
What Zawahiri is basically saying is that al-Qaeda - fundamentalist Saudi 
Wahhabis - want a "long war" as much as the Bush administration and its 
extension, Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. Al-Qaeda's 
birth was midwifed by US intelligence in Peshawar in Pakistan in the early 
1980s; by the mid-1980s, president Ronald Reagan was ecstatic with his 
mujahideen "freedom fighters". Fundamentalist al-Qaeda is as much against an 
independent, nationalist, Shi'ite Iranian regime as the fundamentalist Bush 
administration.
As for the "surge" in Iraq, it has now morphed into the surge in 
Afghanistan. Bush is withdrawing only 8,000 troops from Iraq by February 
2009, while adding more to Afghanistan. So much for the so-called "success" 
of the Iraq "surge".
Top US commander in Iraq General David Petraeus told the Washington Post in 
Baghdad that Iraq remains the "central front" for al-Qaeda. Petraeus is the 
new head of Central Command starting this month. He will oversee Afghanistan 
and Pakistan - and also Iran. He believes al-Qaeda's historical leadership 
remains, in his words, "somewhere in the western border region of Pakistan".
Thus the recent attack by US special forces in the Pakistani tribal areas - 
killing women and children as well as alleged "terrorists", and alienating 
the tribals beyond any redemption.
We should expect more of the Petraeus method in Pakistan: high tech 
counter-insurgency plus widespread bribes in cash. That was his methodology 
during the "surge" in Iraq. The high-tech special ops - which killed a lot 
of Sunni guerrilla leaders - revolved around a program called Tagging, 
Tracking and Locating: in sum, a sophisticated assassination campaign. 
Robert Parry, writing at 
consortiumnews.com
, was one of the very few in US 
media to pinpoint it.
That's essentially what Petraeus is already implementing in Pakistan, 
against the better judgement of the US intelligence community, with 
potentially devastating consequences. Westerners never learn: any war 
against the fierce Pashtun nation is essentially unwinnable.
The national security sweepstakes
Anyway, the Pentagon's "long War" - the remixed denomination of the "war on 
terror" - lives on. With a new chapter in Pakistan, the pressing possibility 
of an attack on Iran, a war for control of Eurasia, and a new cold war with 
Russia. Not to mention the militarization of American life, and smashing any 
form of dissent - as seen in the streets of St Paul, Minnesota, during the 
Republican convention.
Both the Barack Obama-Joe Biden and the McCain-Sarah Palin tickets avidly 
pose to see who is tougher on terror. Both pay lip-service to national 
security. Palin has been drafted by McCain with a key destination: to 
mobilize the rural and suburban so-called "national security moms", 
terrified of slimy, dangerous Muslims threatening their way of life.
But what if a Predator drone, under Petraeus orders, incinerated Zawahiri 
and bin Laden - seven years too late? Absolutely nothing would change. 
Dozens of new bin Ladens would rise from the ashes. Washington has done 
nothing to help the desperate Afghan population or suggest an alternative 
for the neo-Taliban - just as the billions of dollars showered on the 
Pakistani military have done noting to help dire living conditions in 
Pakistan.
The only "winners" in this "long war" are, and will continue to be, selected 
players in the gargantuan US military-industrial complex. That's the sorry 
legacy of 9/11, seven years on.
~Pepe Escobar 

Metto in risalto questo trafiletto , perche` P.Escobar conosce meglio di 
qualsiasi altro quella parte del mondo e il carattere dei Pasthun .
L'unione tra le tribu`e`talmente forte, genuina e incorruttibile che 
qualsiasi tentativo fatto con denaro e` destinato a fallire...chiunque lo 
facesse contravverrebbe a legami di fratellanza naturali e spontanei, 
impossibili a distruggere in un pashtun e lo alienerebbe totalmente dal 
*suo* mondo.
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 The high-tech special ops - which killed a lot  of Sunni guerrilla 
leaders - revolved around a program called Tagging, Tracking and Locating: 
in sum, a sophisticated assassination campaign.
Robert Parry, writing at 
consortiumnews.com
, was one of the very few in US 
media to pinpoint it.
...That's essentially what Petraeus is already implementing in Pakistan, 
against the better judgement of the US intelligence community, with 
potentially devastating consequences.
 *Westerners never learn: any war against the fierce Pashtun nation is 
essentially unwinnable.*
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G. 

 Beccati questa, sostenitore di A.Q.
#_ continua pure a fare di ogni erba un "fascio" :)))))) 

 PS le mie notizie sono su BBC world, liberamente consultabili.
#_le mie verranno fuori domani , come al solito.
G. 

 G.
ecco quali sono le fonti dei deliranti "amici" di IPI... 

Lord Curzon ha scritto:
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A parte tutto, alla luce della sua capacità di decodificare semplici 
testi e immagini, tremo al pensiero di che cosa Giano riesca a capire 
delle articolesse di Pepe Escobar.
Tb

"Lord Curzon" <lord....@curzon.cur> wrote in message 
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#_hahahahahahahahahahahah
Non si tratta del panamense  Luis Escobar...coglione!!!
:)))))
Pepe Escobar e`di sicuro il piu`autorevole conoscitore di quell'area 
asiatica turbolenta.
Seguo con grandissimo interesse sempre i suoi aricoli e molte volte dovrei 
postarli. Lo leggo colla stessa passione di quando leggevo Gigi Pintor.
G.
An extreme traveler, Pepe's nose for news has taken him to all parts of the 
globe. He was in Afghanistan and interviewed the military leader of the 
anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Masoud, a couple of weeks before 
his assassination (Masoud: From warrior to statesman , Sep 11, 2001). Two 
weeks before September 11, 2001, while Pepe was in the tribal areas of 
Pakistan, ATol published his prophetic piece, Get Osama! Now! Or else ... 
(Aug 30, 2001). Pepe was one of the first journalists to reach Kabul after 
the Taliban's retreat, and more recently he has explored and reported from 
Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, US and China. 

 che Pepe e il suo chorizo.
one of first non vuol dire the first. Ma ti sei bevuto anche l'inglese?

 Soprannominato percio' scherzosamente il Conquistatore di Kabul. 
Vero, quoto.
Tb

 armate, fu il geniale John Simpson della BBC.
#_l'estratto indica chiaramente "tra i primi"
I *fotofinish*sul filo di lana, li lascio alle coglionerie tue...!!!
Non mi risulta cio`di Simpson che tra l'altro ammiro in ugual modo, ma solo 
come intervistatore televisivo.

 Am.
#_Ma scema! Tra l'altro l'episodio di Simpson a Kabul e` del 1982 e non del 
2001
 hahahahahahah 

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#_Mi correggo...si` era Novembre del 2001 quando lui precedette le tribu` 
del nord...comunque non toglie nulla alla validita` di Escobar. 

  hahahahahahah
ROTFL, che pirla. Non so che soprannome dargli, io non sono
monomaniaco come Pirla n.1, Dreidel e compagnia belante...

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#_Stavolta ha ragione, quando una volta ce l'ha, bisogna dargliela...io lo 
confondevo coll'immediato ritiro dei sovietici,che poi era del '89.
CMQ e` un particolare irrilevante, in tutto il contesto.
G. 

 Bravo, l'onesta' e' sempre ammirevole
#_Ora pero` reclamo anch'io la mia parte:
Che importanza ha, nell'intero contesto, la graduatoria d'arrivo al 
traguardo di kabul ? 


#_Non l'ho scritto io, e`nel suo curriculum professionale...a me Basta 
cosi`!
L'ho inserito tanto per far capire al tuo clone lord Cazzon' che non si 
tratta del dittatore panamense...lol
P.E. e`informatissimo e fin troppo realista; cosa che ai nostalgici 
tardimperialisti piace poco...sse capisc !
_Per il resto  puoi mettermi pure la faccia in culo, senza tanti 
acronimi.:))
G. 

 G.
guarda che, dato che sei un imbecille, non vuol dire che siamo tutti 
imbecilli :-) So bene chi sia questo fantoccio... 

"Lord Curzon" <lord....@curzon.cur> wrote in message 
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#_Certo certo lord cazzon'...! :))) 

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
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non sai dire altro? 

"Lord Curzon" <lord....@curzon.cur> wrote in message 
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#_Tu, in tutto il 3d, hai detto qualcosa? 

 #_Tu, in tutto il 3d, hai detto qualcosa?
e tu?