Don't get too exited, Obama is hardly about to scale back reckless, criminal US imperialism, quite the contrary. Obama is a multimillionaire member of the US plutocracy, he has no interest in carrying out anything that he was voted in to do by the American public.
Obama set to launch military “surge” in Afghanistan By Barry Grey 5 February 2009 President Barack Obama is set to formally authorize the dispatch of 10,000 to 12,000 additional US combat troops to Afghanistan, the beginning stage of a military "surge" that will likely add 30,000 more soldiers and Marines over the next 12 to 18 months, doubling the US occupation force to 60,000. Obama's announcement of the initial compliment of three combat brigades, to begin deploying in April, could come this week. The first stage of the escalation is bound up with a strategic overhaul of US policy in the region that will initiate a vast expansion of military violence and increase the focus on exterminating the popular resistance to the neocolonial occupation of Afghanistan, both in Afghanistan and the neighboring regions of Pakistan. In response to a growth of the anti-US insurgency in both Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan and an increasingly dire security situation for US and NATO troops and the US-backed puppet government in Kabul, Obama and Pentagon officials are calling for setting more "limited" objectives while warning of a "long and difficult fight" in a war that has already lasted more than seven years. Behind the talk of limited objectives are plans to dispense with the pretense of "nation-building" and the establishment of democracy and, in Obama's own words, engage in "more effective military action." http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/feb2009/afgh-f05.shtml On Feb 5, 11:49 pm, swamp fox <[email protected]> wrote: > Obama Seeks Russia Deal to Slash Nuclear > Weaponshttp://www.truthout.org/020409A > Tim Reid, The Times UK: "President Obama will convene the most > ambitious arms reduction talks with Russia for a generation, aiming > to > slash each country's stockpile of nuclear weapons by 80 per cent. The > radical treaty would cut the number of nuclear warheads to 1,000 > each, > The Times has learnt. Key to the initiative is a review of the Bush > Administration's plan for a US missile defence shield in Eastern > Europe, a project fiercely opposed by Moscow." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
