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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=142354217-29092010><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2 face=Arial>we have been fooled, hoodwinked, bamboozled and lied to about
this invasion/occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq..........they....... Obama and
the Dems are playing "good cop/bad cop"........."if it were not for the (bad
cop) generals" "if it weren't for those (bad cop) tea party people" "if it
were not for all those Al-Qaida<SPAN class=561170721-29092010> </SPAN>(cia
director Panetta said there were no more than 50-100)" </FONT><A
title=blocked::http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/28/2938358.htm
href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/28/2938358.htm"><FONT size=2
face=Arial>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/28/2938358.htm</FONT></A><FONT
size=2 face=Arial> "if it were not for all those women that we need to be
there to protect their rights" this is all nonsense and is justification
for maintaining the Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld doctrine of "endless
war"..............you have to ask.........Qui Bono?.........who benefits?
WHO BENEFITS? Who got a $780 Billion bailout.......where.......exactly did
that money go? see: </FONT><A
title=blocked::http://dailybail.com/home/alan-grayson-which-foreign-banks-got-the-feds-500-billion-be.html
href="http://dailybail.com/home/alan-grayson-which-foreign-banks-got-the-feds-500-billion-be.html"><FONT
size=2
face=Arial>http://dailybail.com/home/alan-grayson-which-foreign-banks-got-the-feds-500-billion-be.html</FONT></A><FONT
size=2 face=Arial> Berneke who not tell a Senate committee investigating
the crime..........who does Berneke work for? He is appointed by the
President........does that mean that he can be fired by the President?
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=142354217-29092010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=142354217-29092010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>besides............who brought down......."pulled" building #7
at 5:20 pm 11 Sept 2001 at free fall speed into its own footprint? Who
benefits? who has the motive? who has that kind of military technology? see: <A
title=blocked::http://groups.google.com/group/total_truth_sciences/browse_thread/thread/c2f5dd7790ff3abe
href="http://groups.google.com/group/total_truth_sciences/browse_thread/thread/c2f5dd7790ff3abe">http://groups.google.com/group/total_truth_sciences/browse_thread/thread/c2f5dd7790ff3abe</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=142354217-29092010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=142354217-29092010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>and why has this call for a real investigation of the events
of 911 been demonized......marginalized by members on this list.......people
calling themselves "progressives" see: <A
title=blocked::http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html
href="http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html">http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=142354217-29092010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=142354217-29092010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>and ask yourself..........why has the DEMS stopped funding
these Crimes against Humanity? At least they tried before Obomba.
They all need to be removed from office.........they are all complicit in
murder..........everyone of those who have been murdered by our military and
contractors are innocent victims..........and we are all criminal by allowing
this evil to take place........after all we give them consent every time we go
to the polls.......pay their tax.......buy their stuff......turn on their
media. We deserve exactly the government we put out there.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR><SPAN class=561170721-29092010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>robert</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> discuss-bounces@paa-tx.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces@paa-tx.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Ron and Kris
Graham<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:31 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Lee
Loe'; discuss@paa-tx.org; 'Deb Shafto '<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PAA-Discuss]
Obama's Massive Struggle ...<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=black size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">As
President and Commander in Chief, Obama has the right and the obligation to fire
his generals and anybody else under his command that is in breach of Obama’s
authority. Petraeus can be fired outright for insubordination, Lee if he
disobeys a direct order from his Commander in Chief Obama. If and when Barack
Obama says to get the hell out of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> then Petraeus had better
do it. He would be disobeying a direct order from his Commander in Chief.
Petraeus works for Obama, Lee. If Obama chooses not to fire Petraeus then he is
making a grave mistake and is engaging in dereliction of duty as head of the
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military. If the CIA or a
faction of the CIA, FBI and Pentagon have gone rogue, which I think they have,
then Obama needs to come out in the MSM and say so and splatter his suspicions
or even his proof, assuming he has any, all over the television set and
newspapers for the American people to see and hear. He also needs to say that in
light of these revelations his assassination may be forthcoming. That way, if an
assassination happens or an assassination attempt, even with a contingent of
Secret Service to protect him, the American people will know beyond a shadow of
a doubt that the president was physically threatened or offed by members of the
CIA and/or their paid stooges. Then, perhaps the American people will get off
their fat, lazy asses, realize they/we are in grave danger and rise up in their
millions and overthrow the whole lot of the sorry bastards in government and
maybe a whole lot of wealthy fascists, too, who are bankrolling the sorry
bastards in government.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=black size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=black size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">This
is what needs to happen anyway whether or not Obama decides to do his duty as
President and Commander in Chief of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military. He HAS the power to do
what is right, Lee. Does he have the guts?? That is the $64,000 question.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=black size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=black size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">I
am tired of everyone giving Obama a free pass and saying his hands are tied or
he is being hamstrung by the generals in the military and by members of the
Democratic Party. This is a specious excuse. Obama KNEW the risks of being
president of the United States, Lee. If he couldn’t or can’t take the heat he
needs to get out of the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=black size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=black size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">It
remains to be seen if Obama really cares about this country and its people. I
don’t think he truly does. I think he cares about what’s best for himself and
his family, Lee.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=black size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT color=black size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Kris<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Lee Loe
[mailto:leeloe@igc.org] <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B>
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 3:37 PM<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> '<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Ron and Kris
Graham</st1:PersonName>'<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Obama's Massive Struggle
...</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This is from the new Woodward book.
This is the same as it was with JFK. And why he was killed; Bobby, too. Several
folks have read JFK and the Unspeakable and that is where I get this. Johnson
said he didn't want to be the first pres to lose a war. Obama has said he
doesn't want to pass the wars on to the next pres. Both speak of putting money
into the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> and its people. Also check out the
Washing Post and its coverage of the Woodward book.
Lee</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P><STRONG><B><FONT size=5 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Obama’s Struggle with the War
Machine</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P><B><FONT size=3 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Even if Barack
Obama is seriously betting on his exit strategy, the Pentagon wants infinite
war.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P><I><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">by Pedro Escobar, Asian
Times</SPAN></FONT></I> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">September
24, 2010— As that self-appointed court stenographer Bob Woodward reveals in his
latest court opus Obama’s Wars - conveniently leaked to the Washington Post and
the New York Times - the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is shelling out the
moolah for its own, 3,000-assassin-plus Murder Inc to roam in AfPak. These
paramilitary - brigade-size - outfits, "elite and well trained", have been
branded Counter-terrorist Pursuit Teams (CPT).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Much is
being made in US corporate media that this shady CPT posse is able to
"cross-over" to the tribal areas in Pakistani territory and, like in that famous
Heineken ad campaign, reach the parts US intelligence are not able to reach.
Aware Latin Americans - with a shrug - will see this as Bad Joke redux: the
"<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Salvador</st1:place></st1:City>
option" is back. As much as these Afghan assassins have been flown to the
<st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> for training, the infamous
School of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region> in the
1970s and 1980s trained death squads of natives to kill their compatriots from
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Chile</st1:country-region> to <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The
CIA not exactly excels on thinking outside the box.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Old Afghan
hands will also be thrilled; this is a small-scale remix of the Afghan
mujahideen fighting the anti-Soviet 1980s jihad. Everyone knows what happened
afterwards to those bad asses Ronald Reagan called "freedom fighters"; they
turned against the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Maybe some enterprising CIA
analysts should share a kebab with their old pal on a payroll, former Afghan
prime minister Gulbuddin "bomb, bomb <st1:City w:st="on">Kabul</st1:City>"
Hekmatyar, an eternal mujahid today on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place>’s most wanted
list.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Calling Jack
Bauer</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Every grain
of sand in the <st1:place w:st="on">Hindu Kush</st1:place> has known since 2001
that the Americans, be they Pentagon, CIA – some Pakistanis say even the Federal
Bureau of Investigation – employ a "secret army" in AfPak. The Pentagon’s Murder
Inc was unveiled by Wikileaks only three months ago. Now it’s Woodward unveiling
the CIA’s. What next? A Jack Bauer unit, serialized on
cable?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Civilian
"collateral damage" by the Pentagon’s Murder Inc has been splashed on the news
virtually every week. As for the CIA’s, still there are no numbers. The
<st1:place w:st="on">Hindu Kush</st1:place> grains of sand are also aware that
the concept of Pakistani "sovereignty" is a myth. Everyone should expect from
now on another rainfall of denials from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Islamabad</st1:place></st1:City> – notwithstanding the fact of
Pentagon and CIA killer drones raising hell over large swathes of Pakistani
territory (more than 70 strikes in 2010 alone).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">If this is
a war against al-Qaeda, as the George W Bush/Barack Obama continuum insists,
<st1:City w:st="on">Langley</st1:City>, we got a problem; there’s fewer than 50
Arab al-Qaeda jihadis in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region>, as every <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> intelligence
agency proclaims. And there are fewer than 100 jihadis in the Waziristans. If
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>
really wants to know where the leadership is, the easiest way is to bribe
mid-level Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence operatives in
Rawalpindi/Islamabad. The ISI-al Qaeda-Taliban connection is and will remain
unbreakable - part of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Islamabad</st1:place></st1:City>’s obsession with "strategic depth".
This is the connection that killed Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah
Massoud, the Lion of the Panjshir, on September 9, 2001, two days before 9/11 –
thus precluding a true Afghan nationalist from reaching power instead of that
Zalmay "Bush’s Afghan’ Khalilzad asset, Hamid
Karzai.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Across what
is in effect Pashtunistan, the "border" does not exist – after all the Durand
Line was a British invention to split the Pashtuns; everyone has interwoven webs
of Pashtun "cousins", everyone is "family". Some family members may rat on
others for financial gain, but nothing extremely substantive will come out of
it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I was in
Tora Bora in late 2001 when US Special Forces were bribing and advising local
commanders on how to attack al-Qaeda. The commanders gleefully took
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> money, made a pose of throwing a
few shells with their outdated Soviet tanks, and helped al-Qaeda - Osama bin
Laden included - to escape the other way, to Parachinar, towards the Pakistani
tribal areas. They even "advised" the American B52s to bomb the wrong mountains.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Washington
is now deploying its full metal jacket – from the Pentagon and CIA secret armies
to killer drones to special forces commando raids to Blackwater-conducted
"snatch and grab" commandos. All these special effects for what? To kill a few
tribal Pakistani Taliban commanders – replaced the same week by a blood relative
– and a few jihadis, replaced the same week by a steady stream from the
Gulf.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Neither
Woodward nor the CIA are volunteering where the Afghan warriors for this Murder
Inc are coming from. If they are Tajiks or Uzbeks or Hazaras they cannot
crossover to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s tribal areas without being
detected. So they must be Pashtuns from rival tribes. And they’re only in it for
the money. It’s also interesting to consider that the CIA pays for yet another
Pashtun militia in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Kandahar</st1:place></st1:City> led by none other then drug business
warlord Ahmed Wali Karzai, President Hamid’s
brother.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Never lose sight of the
spectrum<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This whole
scheme is essentially what passes for General David "I’m always positioning
myself to 2012" Petraeus’ grandiose COIN strategy; co-opted locals ranged in
death squads and paid with Samsonites full of cash (plus a drone war as "back
up"). It worked for Petraeus in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> – leading him to boast to a
gullible corporate media he had "won" the war. Petraeus believes he can pull a
remix in AfPak. The Pentagon seems to be at least a bit wary of warlords – as
warlord-hostage Hamid Karzai cannot rule even over his throne in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kabul</st1:place></st1:City>. But the CIA doesn’t
care about warlords – it goes for broke.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Nothing
will change on the ground in terms of the ISI-Taliban nexus. But the game gets
much more interesting when one factors what enlightened Pakistani public opinion
– in the major urban centers – already fed up with <st1:City
w:st="on">Islamabad</st1:City>’s subservience to <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>, will make of Woodward’s
disclosure.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The key –
one may say tragic – point of Woodward’s book is that Obama not only cannot end
the Afghan war; he cannot even downscale it to target only the fewer than 100
jihadis and the Pakistani Taliban sheltered in the tribal areas without
incurring blowback. Woodward says that Obama is seriously betting on his exit
strategy – he wants by all means a progressive withdrawal from
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> starting next summer. But
"his" general, Petraeus – the Pentagon in fact – wants infinite
war.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">What
Woodward’s book – and the corporate media orchestrated narrative – will never
tell is "why" infinite war. Because of the New Great Game in <st1:place
w:st="on">Eurasia</st1:place>. Because of the need of military bases to spy on
strategic competitors <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Because of the
<st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region>’s obsession with
Pipelineistan in Central Asia bypassing both <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Because of
the Pentagon’s full spectrum dominance doctrine – which justifies infinitely
ballooning military budgets.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">If Obama
has really admitted, "I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party", he knows he is
really in a jam; Obama thought he had 2011 and 2012 to wrap-up some kind of
AfPak "victory" before <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> public opinion turned against him.
Well, public opinion is already against him (Bill Clinton is encouraging the
president to "embrace people’s anger" …) As for wily Petraeus, he has now
unleashed a media blitz revolving around one single theme – he won’t be rushed,
and the war could go on until 2020. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In the
book, Obama is quoted as saying, "I’m not doing 10 years … I’m not doing
long-term nation-building. I am not spending a trillion
dollars".<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So what
should Obama do? He could call his backers in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place></st1:City> – which after all won the Vietnam war
on film. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place></st1:City> also won the Iraq War – via The Hurt
Locker. The president could even win an Oscar – much cooler than a
Nobel.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Now
seriously. In real life, history eschews <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hollywood</st1:place></st1:City>. AfPak may swallow this president,
the next president, the CIA and row after row of full spectrum
dominance-decorated generals faster than one can say "Faster CIA! Kill! Kill!"
Goodbye <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kabul</st1:place></st1:City>?
More like Good morning, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region>. ~ Pepe Escobar is the author
of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble
Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:City> during the surge. His new book, just
out, is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). He may be reached at
pepeasia@yahoo.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>