Is this an apt comparison? Were certainly a most blundersome nation since WW II, our military too often less of a surgical instrument and more of a blunt bludgeon of short-sighted and half-witting foreign policies that change from one Administration to the next. —In transmitting President Richard Nixons orders for a massive bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, Anything that flies on everything that moves. As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissingers murderous honesty. As a witness to the human consequences of aerial savagery - including the beheading of victims, their parts festooning trees and fields - I am not surprised by the disregard of memory and history, yet again. A telling example is the rise to power of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, who had much in common with todays Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They, too, were ruthless medievalists who began as a small sect. They, too, were the product of an American-made apocalypse, this time in Asia. According to Pol Pot, his movement had consisted of fewer than 5,000 poorly armed guerrillas uncertain about their strategy, tactics, loyalty and leaders. Once Nixons and Kissingers B52 bombers had gone to work as part of Operation Menu, the wests ultimate demon could not believe his luck.…
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:38:41 +0000
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