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Categories - Copywriting - Shopping - Free Online Business Help - Telecommunications Services Articles: Government - Our Phony War Against Al Qaeda The pretense of continuing to fight the Afghan war in order to prevent Al Qaeda from having a base of operations is a sham. While small training camps have existed, they also exist in every Muslim based country. The money and the soldiers to commit terrorist acts do not flow out of Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda is not headquartered in Pakistan or Afghanistan. It is a worldwide brotherhood of wealthy Muslims financing numerous small cells of "soldiers" in virtually every country in the world with what we would think of as radical leanings based on religion and perceived and actual transgressions committed by the Western world against Muslim nations. Information and cash flows through their temples, charitable organizations, the Internet and the international banking community. At anytime, they can put a number of seemingly unconnected "soldiers" together, from various points on the globe, who are more than willing to prove their devoutness to each other, to commit a terrorist act planned and financed by someone not present in their ranks.
These wealthy Muslim men occasionally meet in person to commit their various cells, connected only by their religious and political beliefs, and their money to perpetrating specific terrorist acts as they envision them. Eradicating every Muslim in Pakistan and Afghanistan will not defeat or eradicate Al Qaeda. It will only increase the number of people who are willing to join their ranks.
Like the Viet Nam war, which fed the military industrial complex, the purpose of the Afghan war and the Iraq war is to continue to feed the military industrial complex and, in this case, to also feed, primarily U.S., oil corporatists. We have not killed or captured the people responsible for the terrorist attacks on our country and other countries and we will not find them where we are waging war. They live in palaces in countries that our leaders dare not attack, including our own.
Like his predecessors, Obama knows this and that is why his speech about why he was committing another 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan was so unconvincing. It is especially hard for a person to lead the patriotic drumbeat when he, himself, does not feel them beating in his heart. His problem is keeping his corporate benefactors fed in the face of growing opposition from the public and even his own party. Like Bush and Johnson, he must sacrifice himself, his ideologies, and his country. Like our own patriotic soldiers, the Al Qaeda soldiers are willing to die for what they believe in.
There is no legitimate reason for these wars to be sustained. That knowledge was mirrored in the young faces of the cadets sitting in Obama’s West Point audience. They are eager to fight for our country, but not eager to be sacrificed for reasons that they don’t understand. They will, however, as many before them, die because their Commander in Chief said that they had to.
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