Tapsearch Com EditorWars against a branded word is war against a phantom
September 10th 2008 15:37
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Branded wars of Terrorism don't work
By Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist at Tapart News and Art that Talks, in response to Plain Dealer Assistant Editor Kevin Obrien. ( Total article is posted in comments below...
Branded Term Used as a Product to Sell Wars
A top journalist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, writes about a victory in Iraq where there is none. He says the Democrats now have to eat their words. History will tell the real story more clearly . So called victors don't sit down and have tea with the vanquished and expect peace. The wounds are deep when millions of innocent people get killed.
First of all I am certainly not a Democrat and I am deeply against this
unjust war. President Bush's unjust war is against a branded word - terrorism.
These kinds of war never end because the enemy is always a phantom.
Pat Buchanan writes about this in his new book - Churchill, Hitler and
the Unnecessary War. It is a valuable historical record of bad wars.
Like the English, we now have taken over as the instigators of wars.
(They led the way in more wars than anyone else when they were on top - From 1815 to 1914 England played the major role in 10 wars ).
Like them, we first create the setting and then attack the aftermath of conditioned
causes.
The U.S. played a part in the deaths of more than a million of innocent people
including babies and children for ten years due to sanctions prior to the second
invasion of Iraq. It was obvious, that Iraq did not commit any terrorism during this
period while President Clinton bombed Iraq on a weekly basis. The elder Bush allowed
the massive burial of Iraq troops during the last desert storm war while many
reportedly were still alive. During this recent war, about a million more innocent Iraqi
people have lost their lives. Most likely about one third of every
Iraqi family have suffered a severe loss due to our actions in the past
twenty years. It is obvious they will not just sit down with us and
have a cup of tea - just as the English thought for so many years. We
have added to the mess and not substracted from it. And we follow in
England's footsteps as they lost their empire.
Even if there are good intentions, they do not mix with violent wars. Wars, other
than wars of self defense, never solve anything.
History shows we have created a cycle of terrorism - a top branded
product- that will now take years to settle down. The branded product is selling
good now and will take years to sell out.
I wonder who will be the new English warriors of history after the U.S. fades away.
Branded Term Used as a Product to Sell Wars
A top journalist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, writes about a victory in Iraq where there is none. He says the Democrats now have to eat their words. History will tell the real story more clearly . So called victors don't sit down and have tea with the vanquished and expect peace. The wounds are deep when millions of innocent people get killed.
First of all I am certainly not a Democrat and I am deeply against this
unjust war. President Bush's unjust war is against a branded word - terrorism.
These kinds of war never end because the enemy is always a phantom.
Pat Buchanan writes about this in his new book - Churchill, Hitler and
the Unnecessary War. It is a valuable historical record of bad wars.
Like the English, we now have taken over as the instigators of wars.
(They led the way in more wars than anyone else when they were on top - From 1815 to 1914 England played the major role in 10 wars ).
Like them, we first create the setting and then attack the aftermath of conditioned
causes.
The U.S. played a part in the deaths of more than a million of innocent people
including babies and children for ten years due to sanctions prior to the second
invasion of Iraq. It was obvious, that Iraq did not commit any terrorism during this
period while President Clinton bombed Iraq on a weekly basis. The elder Bush allowed
the massive burial of Iraq troops during the last desert storm war while many
reportedly were still alive. During this recent war, about a million more innocent Iraqi
people have lost their lives. Most likely about one third of every
Iraqi family have suffered a severe loss due to our actions in the past
twenty years. It is obvious they will not just sit down with us and
have a cup of tea - just as the English thought for so many years. We
have added to the mess and not substracted from it. And we follow in
England's footsteps as they lost their empire.
Even if there are good intentions, they do not mix with violent wars. Wars, other
than wars of self defense, never solve anything.
History shows we have created a cycle of terrorism - a top branded
product- that will now take years to settle down. The branded product is selling
good now and will take years to sell out.
I wonder who will be the new English warriors of history after the U.S. fades away.
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U.S. sucess in Iraq confounds Democrats, Obama
Kevin O'Brien
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Kevin O'Brien Cleveland Plain Dealer Columnist
Seven years ago this week, militant Islam brought its war to America in a way we could no longer ignore.
The terrorists won terrible victories at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In the final skirmish - the one that ended in a Pennsylvania field - people who understood what was happening aboard their airliner fought back. They went to war, hoping to save themselves and others.
Since that day, hundreds of thousands of Americans have followed them into battle with the same hope.
In Afghanistan, the theater of operations that, when pressed, a segment of the American left grudgingly accepts, 514 members of the U.S. military have been killed and 1,541 seriously wounded.
In Iraq, the theater of operations that the American left has monolithically opposed, hoping that such opposition would be a ticket to the White House, 4,144 members of the U.S. military have been killed and 13,495 seriously wounded.
That's a lot of lives and a lot of limbs lost in the service of this country. That's a lot of stress and mental trauma to work through for those who have come home physically well, but with dark memories. Let no one diminish the sacrifices made by the people at the tip of freedom's spear.
Nor should anyone diminish what those sacrifices - as well as wise leadership in the field, excellent training, creative tactics, the freedom to improvise up and down the chain of command, and the simple, hard-nosed refusal to be defeated by foreign foes and domestic fools - have accomplished.
Just two years ago, Anbar province was the quagmire within a quagmire - the al-Qaida stronghold that would resist to the last fanatic. Apparently, we got him, because last week the U.S. military turned over a pacified Anbar to the administration of the Iraqi government.
Five years ago, or four, or three, or two, or even one, who would have predicted that Iraq would be off the front pages and the political front burner today?
All of which presents a problem to a pair of wholly owned subsidiaries of the reflexively anti-war left, Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.
Now, they're stuck selling the notion that we've won a war we shouldn't have fought, which is only marginally nicer than saying a war we deserved to lose.
That argument will appeal to those who prefer to ignore that Saddam Hussein was sitting on a small mountain of yellowcake, was bankrolling terrorists, was harboring al-Qaida fugitives and was violating daily the terms of the Gulf War cease-fire.
Wiser Americans must see that what until very recently was rudely disowned as "Bush's war" has produced precisely the result Americans were demanding on Sept. 12, 2001 - a disastrous defeat for the terrorist organization that attacked us.
But Iraq is one battle in what's likely to be a long war; Islamic extremism is by no means vanquished, and Afghanistan is the next place we can't afford to show weakness. Plenty of other dangers in the world also demand a clear willingness on the part of the United States to respond with force.
This is no time to reward Barack Obama's vision of himself as the world's confabulator-in-chief, and for the first time in months, it's looking as if maybe we won't.
The American left's defeat in Iraq has cost the Democratic Party leadership both its credibility and what it thought would be its most powerful argument this election season. To them, this war has never been anything more than a campaign issue linked to a strategy that required a U.S. military defeat.
Oops.
And they call George W. Bush dumb.
O'Brien is The Plain Dealer's deputy editorial page director.
To reach Kevin O'Brien:
kobrien@plaind.com, 216-999-4146
Previous columns online:
cleveland.com/columns