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 Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 9:48 am Post subject: Howard Zinn on Obama |
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http://www.alternet.org/democracy/140035/howard_zinn%3A_changing_obama%27s_military_mindset/
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Obama is a very smart guy, and surely he must know some of the history. You don�t have to know a lot to know the history of Afghanistan has been decades and decades and decades and decades of Western powers trying to impose their will on Afghanistan by force: the English, the Russians, and now the Americans. What has been the result? The result has been a ruined country.
This is the mindset that sends 21,000 more troops to Afghanistan, and that says, as Obama has, that we�ve got to have a bigger military. My heart sank when Obama said that. Why do we need a bigger military? We have an enormous military budget. Has Obama talked about cutting the military budget in half or some fraction? No.
We have military bases in more than a hundred countries. We have fourteen military bases on Okinawa alone. Who wants us there? The governments. They get benefits. But the people don�t really want us there. There have been huge demonstrations in Italy against the establishment of a U.S. military base. There have been big demonstrations in South Korea and on Okinawa.
One of the first acts of the Obama Administration was to send Predator missiles to bomb Pakistan. People died. The claim is, �Oh, we�re very precise with our weapons. We have the latest equipment. We can target anywhere and hit just what we want.� |
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