Without attempting to stop, once we used and everyone witnessed the total destructive power we unleased, we started a race to arm those able with more and more of that destructive power, making them even more so as the technology advanced.
Those weapons of total mass destruction are still around, with more becoming able to develope them, and we've got the technology to make and use them, which we are, on a lower but still destructive level, without thinking of the long lasting destructive results.
We have even raised our technology on the fear factor, battling a word 'Terrorism' which is criminal in nature and actions. Instead of approaching that word for what it is we use it as a label to attach to anyone deemed the need to continue and build on the fear and a perpetual conflict. Anyone can be made an 'enemy' if it serves the purpose of the power brokers, the few, as they also wage terror on others, but hey we're the 'good guys'.
Back than, for us, the fear was also based on a word, one that describes an ideology, 'Communism', for the rest of the world it was based on their fear we would be wacky enough, or rather dangerous enough, to once again unleash it's total destructive force, anytime on anyone!
So instead of really acting as our arrogant words describe ourselves, we speak the words over and over while acting the complete opposite, but once again we're the 'good guys'.
U.S. making sure the Carnage Expands!
Continuing, and expanding, our long running failed foreign policies that come back to haunt us, creating ever expanding hatreds and enemies!
We do the opposite of what we supposedly stand for, while condemning others doing exactly the same!
U.S. widens push to use armed Iraqi residents
Within the past month, the U.S. military command in charge of day-to-day operations in Iraq ordered subordinate units to step up creation of the local forces, authorizing commanders to pay the fighters with U.S. emergency funds, reward payments and other monies.
We are a major force, now, behind the growing ethnic cleansing in Iraq, that as long as we occupy and continue the policies we set forth, will only grow!
Enemy of our Enemy {Warning-Graphic Violence}
Newly formed 'Killing Squads', we've been here before, many times, in other places and times! In this case everyone is a 'suspected' member of al Qaeda to justify the cleansing, or if that fails than label them 'Terrorists', it's a useful blanket phrase, as we and other's 'Terrorize'!
Bush seeks big boost in arms for Mideast allies
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will announce proposed extensions and enlargements of foreign aid to Israel and Egypt and a proposed arms sales package to Persian Gulf nations including Saudi Arabia before she leaves on a trip to the region on Monday, the officials said.
And we think gonzo is worthless, which he is, as is all the incompitant administrative fools. On the world stage there's our own condi, who nobody listens to, and probably could care less if ever meeting with.
Inside The Surge
You can also view the above at The Guardian Site where other links can be found.
The Guardian's award-winning photographer and filmmaker Sean Smith spent two months embedded with US troops in Baghdad and Anbar province. His harrowing documentary exposes the exhaustion and disillusionment of the soldiers.
Slideshow: Sean Smith on life in Iraq before and after the invasion
Guardian photographer Sean Smith was in Iraq before the invasion, and stayed in Baghdad throughout the allied campaign until the city fell to US forces. Here three galleries of photographs show his view of the conflict.
We 'responsible adults', as those before us, create the world those following us will one day call their own as they in turn do the creating for those behind them.
Our childrens children children have now been blessed{?} with the world we have now created, only I doubt they'll look on it as blessed!
"Child of War"
This is just one of the results many of us, opposed to the failed policies, right from the beginning, were saying would happen if those policies were carried out, it has only gotten worse since they were!
The Next Jihadists: Iraq's Lost Children
Iraqi Kids Drawn Into Jihad
And 'finally' there is a recognition of what already has been developing and not only as to the above! There is much more at the sites than the initial reports! And what will happen has Nothing to do with 'Hating' our Freedoms and Democracy nor Religious Ideologies!
And what are we doing to our own.
War's Developing Casualty: Military Kids
Not only to the children of our present military force but those not feeling the direct results, yet, but know what's going on, and those to come!
And in any conflict brought about by the invasion of others and their want to rid themselves of the occupiers of their lands and cultures, the results are well known.
Accustomed to Their Own Atrocities in Iraq, U.S. Soldiers Have Become Murderers
All troops, when they occupy and battle insurgent forces, as in Iraq, or Gaza or Vietnam, are placed in "atrocity producing situations."
In this environment, surrounded by a hostile population, simple acts such as going to a store to buy a can of Coke means you can be killed. This constant fear and stress pushes troops to view everyone around them as the enemy. This hostility is compounded when the enemy, as in Iraq, is elusive, shadowy and hard to find.
While the above points to the results to U.S. forces, it also is what occurs to everyone involved and grows the longer the conflict!
One can go back and find numorous examples of our's, and others, failed foreign policies that have created much hate towards us and those others. But here is one glaring one that was extensively used as the excuse, and still is, for us invading a country of people that did nothing to us.
Saddam's Past with U.S. Has Implications for Iraq
All Things Considered, July 22, 2007 · Joost Hiltermann's new book A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja, re-examines Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers and Iraqi Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war. The book also examines how Western powers, including the Reagan administration, aided and abetted Saddam.
Listen to discussion
International Crisis Group
Joost Hiltermann manages a team of analysts based in Amman and Beirut conducting research in the countries of the Middle East and writing policy-focused reports on the factors that increase the risk of and drive armed conflict. The crisis in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are Crisis Group’s two priorities in the region, but research is conducted as well in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
Eyes wide shut
The US hunts in vain for a military solution
By Peter Harling and Joost Hiltermann
Faced with more US troops, many armed Iraqi groups have gone to ground – for the moment. Others manipulate US troops to do their dirty work for them. The US has failed to create a political settlement and appears to be blind to its own lack of progress.
Ever wonder why Saddam wasn't brought up on charges for Halabja, and other crimes, on the world court before or after the 1st Gulf War?
Ever wonder why, after his supposed capture, the Halabja killings were not the first charges he faced?
Ever wonder why he, or his look alike, was tried in Iraq and not the World Court?
Hint, think when and whom, as well as what support he was given by whom!
Now if one wants to find out about what has been going on 'in their names' the book below looks promising as are many others that are out there and not only on or about the CIA.
The True -- and Shocking -- History of the CIA
This essay is a review of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
The American people may not know it but they have some severe problems with one of their official governmental entities, the Central Intelligence Agency. Because of the almost total secrecy surrounding its activities and the lack of cost accounting on how it spends the money covertly appropriated for it within the defense budget, it is impossible for citizens to know what the CIA's approximately 17,000 employees do with, or for, their share of the yearly $44 billion-$48 billion or more spent on "intelligence." This inability to account for anything at the CIA is, however, only one problem with the Agency and hardly the most serious one either.
Can what's to follow these present failed policies be stopped? I'm afraid not, we've already long ago passed the threshold of possibility to do so.
But can they be minimized, maybe!
And the only way that may happen is by getting everyone in the region of the present debacles involved, statespersons and religious leaders, as in that part of the world religion is part of their ideology and policy.
Lets look at a recent discussion pointing to exactly this.
CLINTON VS. OBAMA
Obama: "I think what is irresponsible and naive is to have authorized a war without asking how we were going to get out -- and you know I think Senator Clinton hasn’t fully answered that issue.The general principle that I was laying out is that we should not be afraid as America to meet with anybody.”
Clinton spokesperson Richard Holbrooke: "As she has said many times, Senator Clinton believes we need to engage in vigorous diplomacy after the cowboy approach of the Bush years. She has said she would initiate serious, responsible dialogue with nations with whom we don’t agree in order to further the national security interest of the United States. But she is right not to risk the prestige of the presidency by unconditionally committing to meet with leaders of adversarial nations."
Both are right, but screw this arrogant thought about 'prestige of the presidency', that's already gone, as is the 'prestige' of this country!
There is constant death and destruction going on and we all know those who started it haven't a clue, and are to engrossed in their own arrogance and incompitance, to even start any needed regional discussion, now we find out they just want to pour more arms into the area.
And we can't just sit back, watching more and more death and destruction, and more hatreds being created, untill the next election, which by the way isn't going to change a damn thing.
This has to be started much sooner rather than later, and started by others in leadership, representing this country, and more than willing to not only start rebuilding what this country likes to think of itself as but setting it in the direction of acting that way!
For the way one's country leads is the way others perceive it to be, and right now we're coming from the gutter!
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