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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CHORUSING MILITARISM?
Analysis from doha
an edited excerpt
Presidential candidate Barack Obama “committed to withdrawing fighting troops from Iraq before experiencing the so-called progress on the ground and regardless of whether the U.S. is winning or not. That is smart.…
“Obama also committed to increasing the number of fighting brigades in Afghanistan. That … is not so smart.…
“His logic follows that Washington needs to withdraw troops from Iraq and re-direct them to Afghanistan—the centre of the ‘war on terror’—where the U.S. military is over extended.…
“…Obama failed to explain why killing more Afghans rather than killing Iraqis will make Americans safer, or how adopting the Bush-McCain rhetoric on the ‘war on terror’ will win him the presidency. …
“…If the last half century is any guide, Democrats have generally lost elections when they played into Cold War Republican militarism.…
“Candidate Obama needs to approach Iraq and Afghanistan with the same sane and cool-headed strategy of constructive diplomatic and regional engagement paralleled with military disengagement.…”
“Obama: Commander-in-(mis)chief?” By Al Jazeera Senior Political Analyst Marwan Bishara (a Middle East and strategic affairs specialist), Al Jazeera English IMPERIUM Sunday, July 20, 2008: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/imperium/2008/07/2008720
MORE THAN A MILLION DEAD; MORE THAN FOUR MILLION DISPLACED. Updated July 20, 2008: U.S. Deaths in U.S.-led Invasion and Occupation (accurate figures unknown): Just Foreign Policy: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html: Iraqi deaths due to U.S. Invasion: 1,236,604. Iraq/Afghanistan Casualties http://www.icasualties.org/oef/: U. S. deaths in Iraq 4,125 (all 4,439). U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan: 558 (all coalition fatalities: 895). [http://www.antiwar.com/casualties figures since March 19, 2003, Iraq: U.S. wounded 23,000-100,000; fatalities 4,124]. Iraq BodyCount Civilian deaths, reported from news wires, resulting from the U.S.-led military intervention in Iraq http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/: 86,017-93,836.
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