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Titolo: Cheney's Chief Assassin Is Now Obama's Commander in Afghanistan

Cheney's Chief Assassin Is Now Obama's Commander in Afghanistan
By James Petras, Axis of Logic
Posted on May 18, 2009, Printed on May 18, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/140068/
"The Deltas are psychos.You have to be a certified psychopath to join the 
Delta Force.", a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 
1980s. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the 
psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal, to head the US and NATO military 
command in Afghanistan.
McChrystal's rise to leadership is marked by his central role in directing 
special operations teams engaged in extrajudicial assassinations, systematic 
torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions. He 
is the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies 
military-driven empire building. Between September 2003 and August 2008, 
McChrystal directed the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations (JSO) Command 
which operates special teams in overseas assassinations.
The point of the 'Special Operations' teams (SOT) is that they do not 
distinguish between civilian and military oppositions, between activists and 
their sympathizers and the armed resistance.  The SOT specialize in 
establishing death squads and recruiting and training paramilitary forces to 
terrorize communities, neighborhoods and social movements opposing US client 
regimes. The SOT's 'counter-terrorism' is terrorism in reverse, focusing on 
socio-political groups between US proxies and the armed resistance. 
McChrystal's SOT targeted local and national insurgent leaders in Iraq, 
Afghanistan and Pakistan through commando raids and air strikes. During the 
last 5 years of the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld period the SOT were deeply 
implicated in the torture of political prisoners and suspects.
McChrystal was a special favorite of Rumsfeld and Cheney because he was in 
charge of the 'direct action' forces of the 'Special Missions Units. 
'Direct Action' operative are the death-squads and torturers and their only 
engagement with the local population is to terrorize, and not to 
propagandize. They engage in 'propaganda of the dead', assassinating local 
leaders to 'teach' the locals to obey and submit to the occupation. Obama's 
appointment of McChrystal as head reflects a grave new military escalation 
of his Afghanistan war in the face of the advance of the resistance 
throughout the country.
The deteriorating position of the US is manifest in the tightening circle 
around all the roads leading in and out of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul as 
well as the expansion of Taliban control and influence throughout the 
Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Obama's inability to recruit new NATO 
reinforcements means that the White House's only chance to advance its 
military driven empire is to escalate the number of US troops and to 
increase the kill ratio among any and all suspected civilians in territories 
controlled by the Afghan armed resistance.
The White House and the Pentagon claim that the appointment of McChrystal 
was due to the 'complexities' of the situation on the ground and the need 
for a 'change in strategy'. 'Complexity' is a euphemism for the increased 
mass opposition to the US, complicating traditional carpet 'bombing and 
military sweep' operations. The new strategy practiced by McChrystal 
involves large scale, long term 'special operations' to devastate and kill 
the local social networks and community leaders, which provide the support 
system for the armed resistance.
Obama's decision to prevent the release of scores of photographs documenting 
the torture of prisoners by US troops and 'interrogators' (especially under 
command of the 'Special Forces'), is directly related to his appointment of 
McChrystal whose 'SOT' forces were highly implicated in widespread torture 
in Iraq. Equally important, under McChrystal's command the DELTA, SEAL and 
Special Operations Teams will have a bigger role in the new 
'counter-insurgency strategy'. Obama's claim that the publication of these 
photographs will adversely affect the 'troops' has a particular meaning: The 
graphic exposure of McChrystal's modus operendi for the past 5 years under 
President Bush will undermine his effectiveness in carrying out the same 
operations under Obama.
Obama's decision to re-start the secret 'military tribunals' of foreign 
political prisoners, held at the Guantanamo prison camp, is not merely a 
replay of the Bush-Cheney policies, which Obama had condemned and vowed to 
eliminate during his presidential campaign, but part of his larger policy of 
militarization and coincides with his approval of the major secret police 
surveillance operations conducted against US citizens.
Putting McChrystal in charge of the expanded Afghanistan-Pakistan military 
operations means putting a notorious practitioner of military terrorism - 
the torture and assassination of opponents to US policy - at the center of 
US foreign policy. Obama's quantitative and qualitative expansion of the US 
war in South Asia means massive numbers of refugees fleeing the destruction 
of their farms, homes and villages; tens of thousands of civilian deaths, 
and eradication of entire communities. All of this will be committed by the 
Obama Administraton in the quest to 'empty the lake (displace entire 
populations) to catch the fish (armed insurgents and activists)'.
Obama's restoration of all of the most notorious Bush Era policies and the 
appointment of Bush's most brutal commander is based on his total embrace of 
the ideology of military-driven empire building. Once one believes (as Obama 
does) that US power and expansion are based on military conquests and 
counter-insurgency, all other ideological, diplomatic, moral and economic 
considerations will be subordinated to militarism. By focusing all resources 
on successful military conquest, scant attention is paid to the costs borne 
by the people targeted for conquest or to the US treasury and domestic 
American economy. This has been clear from the start: In the midst of a 
major recession/depression with millions of Americans losing their 
employment and homes, President Obama increased the military budget by 4% - 
taking it beyond $800 billion dollars.
Obama's embrace of militarism is obvious from his decision to expand the 
Afghan war despite NATO's refusal to commit any more combat troops. It is 
obvious in his appointment of the most hard-line and notorious Special 
Forces General from the Bush-Cheney era to head the military command in 
subduing Afghanistan and the frontier areas of Pakistan.
It is just as George Orwell described in Animal Farm: The Democratic Pigs 
are now pursuing the same brutal, military policies of their predecessors, 
the Republican Porkers, only now it is in the name of the people and peace. 
Orwell might paraphrase the policy of President Barack Obama, as 'Bigger and 
bloodier wars equal peace and justice'.
� 2009 Axis of Logic All rights reserved.
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 bloodier wars equal peace and justice'.
vedo che cominci a pensarla come me...Cheney non faceva gli assassini
psicopatici capi di 80.000 uomini

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#_Ma dietro c'e`sempre lui!
Una volta si diceva che il presidente, scemo e succube, aveva come alibi la 
sua deficienza, ma questo di ora ha mostrato (perlomeno nell'immediato 
passato) una certa intelligenza e allora vien da pensare che il diabolico 
Cheney e`ancora alle redini del famoso e fantomatico(?) 'superpotere' 
(chiamiamolo pure come cazzo ci pare!)...
e allora diremmo noi:" l'etichetta non garantisce mai la qualita`del 
prodotto!" <g>
<G.> 

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Io informo, perch� gli ltri ne valutino l'attendibilit� e continuo a pensare 
che il giudizio su Obama non sia semplice e comunque non debba omologarlo 
con Bush, anche se le gi� scarse speranze inizialisono in via di diminuzione 

 special operations teams
Hanno messo uno che ha fatto carriera nelle SF a comandare in
Afghanistan sostituendo un ufficiale che aveva fatto carriera in
unita' pesanti e stati maggiori. Cavolo che mossa inaspettata!
Meglio del previsto questo Obama.
PP

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Cheney's Chief Assassin
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 Hanno messo uno che ha fatto carriera nelle SF
"extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian
communities and search and destroy missions."
eh, le carriere che piacciono ai liberali....

 Meglio del previsto questo Obama.
Era anche ora.

 Era anche ora.
Obama nomina capo dell'esercito in Afghanistan uno psicopatico
torturatore e assassino che avrebbe fatto la sua porca figura tra le
peggiori belve nazi, e i sedicenti liberali ne sono contenti. Sono
soddisfazioni

 command in Afghanistan.
Strano che l'articolo non parli del ruolo di McChrystal nella
costituzione e nell'impiego della Task Force Talon, un reparto dotato
di avanzatissime tecnologie sperimentali (si parla di esoscheletri
potenziati, elicotteri e aerei stealth,equipaggiamento di ultima
generazione per la fanteria e quant'altro), creato appositamente per
la caccia ai terroristi in ogni parte del mondo (senza rispettare
cofnini nazionali o trattati di estradizione). e posto ai diretti
ordini del Presidente...

 cofnini nazionali o trattati di estradizione).
qui potete vedere Antola che si fa le pippe con l'illegalità assoluta,
se è del padrone, mentre se sono i lavoratori o gli studenti a
spostare un vaso, è per una salutare mazzolata da parte degli sbirri.
E' da particolari come questi che si capisce come si forma il suddito
di un regime fascista

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mi spieghi come concili il fatto che tu vai al cientro socciale mentre tutti 
i tuoi familiari vanno alle riunioni settimanali di cl e votano Udc??? :-)) 

 i tuoi familiari vanno alle riunioni settimanali di cl e votano Udc???
lo spiego col fatto che sei un mentecatto che non legge i miei post,
in cui si può ammirare il mio amore per i cattolici

in cui si pu� ammirare il mio amore per i cattolici
il manifesto di sinistra e libert� l'hai nascosto dentro una Bibbia? :-)) 

 potenziati....
#_...I robbbomarines ??? :)))))
Quello che non si fa per eliminare quattro pash...tori!
G. 

 Quello che non si fa per eliminare quattro pash...tori!
Aspettavo che qualcuno abboccasse all'amo: la Task Force Talon (come
sapresti se tu avessi provato a googlare il nome), esiste solo in un
videogioco, non nella realtà.

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Non sono sicuro che abbia funzionato.
Molto probabilmente Giano non ha capito un cazzo.
-- 
Tb

 Molto probabilmente Giano non ha capito un cazzo.
Probabile: in effetti contavo molto sulla paranoia di outis...

 Quello che non si fa per eliminare quattro pash...tori!
Aspettavo che qualcuno abboccasse all'amo:
#_!!!!!
Perche`tu credi che il mio commento non fosse una presa per il culo?
Per chi va  sognando robocops and the power of the machine?...Punk!
Per chi ha la persistente fiducia che il "de bello afghano" si possa 
risolvere colle armi.
STRAROTFL
G.