Tapsearch Com EditorThe drums of war continue but no one listens (LINK)
April 8th 2008 23:21
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The War backdraft backdate - not much has changed
The date line is 2008. The Iraq war continues. The drums of war continue to beat. History told us centuries ago, that the USA will leave and conditions will be no better or most likely worst than before the invasion came. Will it take a strong dictator to balance things out in Iraq again. History also tells us this will be the case.
Even my 1950 U.S. Army Officer's Manual told me we would leave for the Middle East after we intervened because crusades do not work.
Senator Voinovich of Ohio, says we need to pray to the Holy Spirit
Timeline April 8, 2008 , Senator Voinovich tells General Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker at Senate hearings, we need to pray to the Holy Spirit for discernment and for the Iraq government to figure out what to do fast about the U.S. leaving Iraq. He said the U.S. is broke and can no longer fund the war and the U.S. people are fed up with the whole deal. Senator Voinovich was always a care taker politician who tried to abstract the best out of the status quo. This is his style. Perhaps this is what we need now. Make the best judgement call and get out of Iraq now. There is no other way.
The front cover of U.S. News & World Report, Jan 13,2003 issue has title: The American Empire...Is the U.S. trying to shape the world? Should it? The inside article gets into many areas including what our Founding Fathers held. They were dedicated unilateralism and the "phrase "no entangling allliances" but the idea came from George Washington's farewell message- "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world". President Franklin Roosevelt said, "economic diseases are highly communicable". This is our main point in the letter below and a 1950 ROTC Army Manual made many similar points. At that time, it said , the USA was very fortunate in not having in not having to depend on oil and other items controlled by foreign nations. Pundits like Gilbran said to Pity the nation that does not make or grow its own products for that nation will soon be under the power of the one that does. The USA is on a terrible course of self-destruction by trying to steer the world in their own way while they exported their production to faraway places. In deed, many in the world see the USA as a child playing imperialist.)
Review John Perkins book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". Click here to go his site which has several good links telling his story about his part in the economic assaults on other nations by elite groups, our government and the World Banks. Note especially the links to Amy Goodman for good overviews. A must read book - review Amy Goodman interviews author John Perkins
U.S. plays at the dangerous game of Globalism - ( published 2002 )
Elizabeth Sullivan is a journalistic treasure. She is an all-in-one expert, journalist, reporter, essayist and historian. Any reader who disagrees or agrees knows she has done her homework and does not merely pick things out from the wire services like so many other reporters seem to do. She wades right into the meat of the problems of our times.
In the (Dec. 15 ) Forum section, she got into the thick of things again on why the rest of the world hates us so much. She points out that 15 percent fo Americans say they sometimes go hungry. This is a real indication that we have a difficult problem resolving our own economic woes while we go around the world telling others how to live.
The United States is the teenager of world history who tries to tell its elders how they should act. At the same time, by moving our production and factories to faraway places we have resumed economic colonialism with the need to protect our interests almost everywhere in the world. Many in the world now see us as a childlike, imperialistic nation that partakes in a new slave trade based on wage slaves in the cheapest labor markets of the world. It is obvious that we play like children with globalism, not really knowing how dangerous it is.
(Cleveland's ) The Plain Dealer and all of us should be proud to have such a refreshing perceptive voice like Sullivan's crying out fromt he wilderness of jingoism fostered by our political leaders and other channels of the media.
By Ray Tapajna
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From The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sat., Dec. 28, 2002 / B10 by Ray Tapajna :
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In reference to Dick Feagler's 'drop gun' column in the Plain Dealer) Published over 5 years ago.
Dick Feagler uses the analogy of a 'drop gun' in finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He suggests that if there is no evidence, it will be created. Sadly, not
too many in the USA care any more. They have forgotten why we went to war in the first place.
Also it seems no one wants to bring up the 100,000 veterans from the last Gulf War who are suffering from the Gulf War Syndrome and how many will be affected this time. How could the US send troops back into this area without any answers regarding the causes.
President Wilson in World War 1 had about 75,000 'Four Minute" men cross the nation telling about the horrible savage German "Huns". It worked so well that Wilson had a problem after the war to reverse himself for the sake of any real peace. Others insisted that Germany should be just one big farm land without any factories. This created a vacuum for someone like Hitler to rise up. A similar situation now exists in the Middle East with others like Saddam and Bin Laden waiting in the wings for their opportunity.
Many Americans safe in the suburbs watch the war on TV as if it was some kind of 4th of July celebration.
_____________________________ _____________________________
This was published at the beginning of the war and it too still applys today:
Applied ethics Professor Paul Lauritzen's Forum article "War must be the last resorts" (Sept 27) focused on Michael Water's criteria that military pre-emptive (war) is morally justifiable "whenever the failure do so would seriously risk" the territorial integrity or political independence of the pre-empting state.
No where does Lauritzen note that, in using this criteria, Saddam Hussein would have every right to launch a pre-emptive strike against the United States..... The main ethical question about war with Iraq is whether or not "we the people" will demand that our government behave according to the same standards it attempts to impose by overwhelming force on others. ( The U.S. was never bombed by an Iraq plane. The U.S. consistently bombed Iraq since the Gulf War. President Clinton did it during this whole term in office.)
The U.S. Government created both Saddam and Bin Laden. The Iraq / Iranian war followed. British interests sold Iraq the basis of his biological and chemical weapons programs, ( where and how did of the weapons of mass destruction originate? And the United States trained a whole generation of would-be terrorists to wage war in Afghanistan ( when they were fighting the Soviets, - however back then they were called "freedom fighters".)
Our current terrorist problems are the direct result of out thoughtless response to our last generation of problems. If we fail to recognize this and to confront our real problems- a political process that Bill Moyers called "legalized bribery" a chemical dependency of the oil and money of Saudi Arabia, - a shabby and inane intellectual culture and a press that ignores this and treats officical handouts like news - we are bound to create a generation of new and improved threats that will, just coincidently, futher destroy both our standard of living and our civil rights.
The "axis of evil" is a ruse to distract attention away from the looting of the American economy ...( the real war is about jobs and the workday ... and the militarization of American society (suspension of civil rights), violation of the Posse Comitatus Act- The only "just war" the American people can wage at the moment is against that. View the Cross 9/11 Tangle of Terror artwork by Ray Tapajna asking who will now untangle the terror, Globalization and Free Trade have bred. A vast Populist movement in South America is countering Globalization and Free Trade and it is coming our way. It is time to prepare for the post -Globlization era. History tells us what happens when workers have no voice in their destinies.
Elizabeth Sullivan, Asst Editor and Expert on International Relations for the Cleve Plain Dealer, says that attacking Iraq would betray U.S principles and actually help topple "friendly" pro-Western and secular Arab states. She says, "The truth is that Iraq is vulnerable, and Saddam is hateful, and the two together form a perfect target for the mix of CIA dirty tricks, high tech gizmos and commando raids that Pentagon planners hope to apply as part of a new pre-emptive war policy.....Saddam is the perfect foil to show other potential evil-doers they better fall in line with U.S. wishes or else". Now the criteria for a pre-emptive war can be applied by any nation. ( In 2008, only a strong man similar to what we took out will be able to control events in Iraq.) What comes around goes around.
Even my 1950 U.S. Army Officer's Manual told me we would leave for the Middle East after we intervened because crusades do not work.
Senator Voinovich of Ohio, says we need to pray to the Holy Spirit
Timeline April 8, 2008 , Senator Voinovich tells General Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker at Senate hearings, we need to pray to the Holy Spirit for discernment and for the Iraq government to figure out what to do fast about the U.S. leaving Iraq. He said the U.S. is broke and can no longer fund the war and the U.S. people are fed up with the whole deal. Senator Voinovich was always a care taker politician who tried to abstract the best out of the status quo. This is his style. Perhaps this is what we need now. Make the best judgement call and get out of Iraq now. There is no other way.
The front cover of U.S. News & World Report, Jan 13,2003 issue has title: The American Empire...Is the U.S. trying to shape the world? Should it? The inside article gets into many areas including what our Founding Fathers held. They were dedicated unilateralism and the "phrase "no entangling allliances" but the idea came from George Washington's farewell message- "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world". President Franklin Roosevelt said, "economic diseases are highly communicable". This is our main point in the letter below and a 1950 ROTC Army Manual made many similar points. At that time, it said , the USA was very fortunate in not having in not having to depend on oil and other items controlled by foreign nations. Pundits like Gilbran said to Pity the nation that does not make or grow its own products for that nation will soon be under the power of the one that does. The USA is on a terrible course of self-destruction by trying to steer the world in their own way while they exported their production to faraway places. In deed, many in the world see the USA as a child playing imperialist.)
Review John Perkins book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". Click here to go his site which has several good links telling his story about his part in the economic assaults on other nations by elite groups, our government and the World Banks. Note especially the links to Amy Goodman for good overviews. A must read book - review Amy Goodman interviews author John Perkins
U.S. plays at the dangerous game of Globalism - ( published 2002 )
Elizabeth Sullivan is a journalistic treasure. She is an all-in-one expert, journalist, reporter, essayist and historian. Any reader who disagrees or agrees knows she has done her homework and does not merely pick things out from the wire services like so many other reporters seem to do. She wades right into the meat of the problems of our times.
In the (Dec. 15 ) Forum section, she got into the thick of things again on why the rest of the world hates us so much. She points out that 15 percent fo Americans say they sometimes go hungry. This is a real indication that we have a difficult problem resolving our own economic woes while we go around the world telling others how to live.
The United States is the teenager of world history who tries to tell its elders how they should act. At the same time, by moving our production and factories to faraway places we have resumed economic colonialism with the need to protect our interests almost everywhere in the world. Many in the world now see us as a childlike, imperialistic nation that partakes in a new slave trade based on wage slaves in the cheapest labor markets of the world. It is obvious that we play like children with globalism, not really knowing how dangerous it is.
(Cleveland's ) The Plain Dealer and all of us should be proud to have such a refreshing perceptive voice like Sullivan's crying out fromt he wilderness of jingoism fostered by our political leaders and other channels of the media.
By Ray Tapajna
_____________________________ _______________________
_____________________________ _________________
From The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sat., Dec. 28, 2002 / B10 by Ray Tapajna :
_____________________________ _________________
In reference to Dick Feagler's 'drop gun' column in the Plain Dealer) Published over 5 years ago.
Dick Feagler uses the analogy of a 'drop gun' in finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He suggests that if there is no evidence, it will be created. Sadly, not
too many in the USA care any more. They have forgotten why we went to war in the first place.
Also it seems no one wants to bring up the 100,000 veterans from the last Gulf War who are suffering from the Gulf War Syndrome and how many will be affected this time. How could the US send troops back into this area without any answers regarding the causes.
President Wilson in World War 1 had about 75,000 'Four Minute" men cross the nation telling about the horrible savage German "Huns". It worked so well that Wilson had a problem after the war to reverse himself for the sake of any real peace. Others insisted that Germany should be just one big farm land without any factories. This created a vacuum for someone like Hitler to rise up. A similar situation now exists in the Middle East with others like Saddam and Bin Laden waiting in the wings for their opportunity.
Many Americans safe in the suburbs watch the war on TV as if it was some kind of 4th of July celebration.
_____________________________ _____________________________
This was published at the beginning of the war and it too still applys today:
Applied ethics Professor Paul Lauritzen's Forum article "War must be the last resorts" (Sept 27) focused on Michael Water's criteria that military pre-emptive (war) is morally justifiable "whenever the failure do so would seriously risk" the territorial integrity or political independence of the pre-empting state.
No where does Lauritzen note that, in using this criteria, Saddam Hussein would have every right to launch a pre-emptive strike against the United States..... The main ethical question about war with Iraq is whether or not "we the people" will demand that our government behave according to the same standards it attempts to impose by overwhelming force on others. ( The U.S. was never bombed by an Iraq plane. The U.S. consistently bombed Iraq since the Gulf War. President Clinton did it during this whole term in office.)
The U.S. Government created both Saddam and Bin Laden. The Iraq / Iranian war followed. British interests sold Iraq the basis of his biological and chemical weapons programs, ( where and how did of the weapons of mass destruction originate? And the United States trained a whole generation of would-be terrorists to wage war in Afghanistan ( when they were fighting the Soviets, - however back then they were called "freedom fighters".)
Our current terrorist problems are the direct result of out thoughtless response to our last generation of problems. If we fail to recognize this and to confront our real problems- a political process that Bill Moyers called "legalized bribery" a chemical dependency of the oil and money of Saudi Arabia, - a shabby and inane intellectual culture and a press that ignores this and treats officical handouts like news - we are bound to create a generation of new and improved threats that will, just coincidently, futher destroy both our standard of living and our civil rights.
The "axis of evil" is a ruse to distract attention away from the looting of the American economy ...( the real war is about jobs and the workday ... and the militarization of American society (suspension of civil rights), violation of the Posse Comitatus Act- The only "just war" the American people can wage at the moment is against that. View the Cross 9/11 Tangle of Terror artwork by Ray Tapajna asking who will now untangle the terror, Globalization and Free Trade have bred. A vast Populist movement in South America is countering Globalization and Free Trade and it is coming our way. It is time to prepare for the post -Globlization era. History tells us what happens when workers have no voice in their destinies.
Elizabeth Sullivan, Asst Editor and Expert on International Relations for the Cleve Plain Dealer, says that attacking Iraq would betray U.S principles and actually help topple "friendly" pro-Western and secular Arab states. She says, "The truth is that Iraq is vulnerable, and Saddam is hateful, and the two together form a perfect target for the mix of CIA dirty tricks, high tech gizmos and commando raids that Pentagon planners hope to apply as part of a new pre-emptive war policy.....Saddam is the perfect foil to show other potential evil-doers they better fall in line with U.S. wishes or else". Now the criteria for a pre-emptive war can be applied by any nation. ( In 2008, only a strong man similar to what we took out will be able to control events in Iraq.) What comes around goes around.
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