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![obama-afghanPhotocheck Afghani man being "opti-identified" by a US soldier.](https://www.greanvillepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/obama-afghanPhotocheck-300x187.jpg)
Afghani man being "opti-identified" by a US soldier. The increase in troop level will not solve any issues of importance in the region, except deepen the destruction. All for the control of Central Asia oil reserves and strategic forward posts to keep Russia and China militarily off balance. (These objectives are never talked about in the mainstream media.)
This is Moore’s interview with Larry King (who often features left voices on his program) on Dec. 2, 2009 in the wake of Obama’s photo-op speech at West Point on December 1. Good for Larry for at least providing a voice for genuine liberalism, flawed as it may be in its overall analysis.
Related: MICHAEL MOORE’s Open letter to Obama
Bravo. He got it right.
Nice quote Larry read from Eisenhower, too.
Anyone know when the next anti-war march is scheduled for?
Empire by virtue of being perceived as such, is forced to be outwardly very aggressive, because the necessity of war follows a logical sequence from politics in the Clausewitz sense. Otherwise Empire will be internally weakened and eaten away by fictional rats at the edges like Marquez wrote. The impetus of Empire is hard to slow down by protest or demonstration as it has eaten into every pore of its society and determines labor relations, trade and cultural life (vide the period in Germany between 1933 and 1945). During today’s (Wednesday) press conference the Press Secretary announced openly that polls… Read more »
Great interview. The quote from Eisenhower sums up war in general and this situation in particular. People are losing their jobs, their houses, and their healthcare. What little government money earmarked for addressing these issues is given begrudgingly and after great delay; however, there seems to be plenty of money for financing a war and it’s available immediately. Time for a tax payers’ march on Washington.
I would love to see Michael Moore and Bill Maher team up for our next presidential ticket.