By Paul Craig Roberts

June 24, 2010 "Information Clearing House " -- Our petulant president's ego can't handle a general letting off steam. Neither can any of the spoiled children who comprise "our" government in DC, the capital of the "superpower."

Generals have to fight wars that civilians start, either from the incompetence of their diplomacy or the arrogance of their hubris. Generals have to get young troops killed because of the stupidity or ambition or corruption of civilian government officials.

All McChrystal did was to let off steam. A real president would have realized that and let it go.

Don't get me wrong. McChrystal is a militarist, and I am pleased to see him gone.

However, McChrystal didn't restart America's aggression against Afghanistan. The Obama moron did.

People elected Obama, because they were tired of Bush's wars based on lies. So Obama gave us a new war in Pakistan and reignited the Afghan war. No one knows what these wars are about or why the bankrupt US government is wasting vast sums of money, which it has to borrow from foreigners, in order to murder the citizenry in two countries that have never done anything to us.

Just as Bush/Cheney and their criminal neocon government deceived the world that Saddam Hussein had "weapons of mass destruction" that threatened white people everywhere, Obama has conflated the Taliban with al Qaeda. Obama has sold the tale to white countries that unless the US determines how Afghanistan is ruled and by whom, white people are in danger of being exterminated by al Qaeda Taliban terrorists.

The most telling aspect of the McChrystal-Obama contretemps is that it has caused no one in the US government, or media, to ask why the US is still killing women and children in Afghanistan after 9 years. The US government is prepared for everyone except itself to be tried at the War Crimes Tribunal.

Fred Branfman writing in AlterNet on June 22 reminds us that five million Iraqis were killed, maimed, tortured and displaced by an American invasion based on lies told by the highest officials in the American government. Yet, no one has been held accountable.

But Gen. McChrystal is held accountable for letting off steam.

Once the Roman senate, the legislative branch, collapsed, the caesars, the executive branch, became the captives of the military. Now with Gen. Petraeus once again moved to the fore as McChrystal's replacement in Afghanistan, we have the Obama moron elevating Petraeus to the Republican presidential nomination in the next election. Thus

has Obama replaced himself with a man who will unify the military and executive branch.

Associated Press writers Jennifer Loven and Anne Gearan write (June 23) about the "admired and tightly disciplined Gen. David Petraeus," the "architect of the Iraq war turnaround," who is "once again to take hands-on leadership of a troubled war effort."

Petraeus is an evolved form of general. He "won" in Iraq by paying protection money to the Sunnis who were effectively resisting the US occupation. Petraeus figured out that it was far cheaper and more efficient to put the Sunnis on the US military payroll and to pay them to stop fighting, which is how the war between the Sunnis and the Americans ended. To keep the Americans out of the ongoing large scale sectarian violence that continues to slaughter Iraqis, the US military was confined to remote bases.

If history is a guide, the Afghans will also accept Petraeus' protection money, and Petraeus has just enough time to buy the Afghan war before the next presidential election.

The Afghans will, of course, take the money and wait us out, just as the Iraqis are doing.

All of this drama is playing out despite the continuing lack of any valid reason for the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Washington idiots, trying to dictate how Iraq and Afghanistan are governed, are destroying constitutional government in the United States. In our hubris to determine how Iraq and Afghanistan are ruled, we are losing our own government.

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Traduit de l'anglais par Marc Harpon pour Changement de Société

Confirmé et reconfirmé dans ses fonctions par le Président des États-Unis, Barak Obama, le Sénat Américain et l'Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord, et salué comme prévu comme le nouveau Messie en armure par les médias étasuniens, renard politique « strictement discipliné » et ancien Chef du Commandement Central Américain, le général David Petraeus est sur le point d'atterrir à Kaboul.

Par Patrick Martin
3 juillet 2010

Le limogeage du Général Stanley McChrystal, de son poste de commandant en Afghanistan et son remplacement par le général David Petraeus n'est pas, comme le disent les apologistes politiques d'Obama, une défense de principe du contrôle du monde civil sur l'armée. Ce n'est pas non plus, comme voudrait nous le faire croire la ligne officielle émanant de la Maison blanche, juste un changement de personne et non de politique.

photo : Général Stanley A. McChrystal

Par Barry Grey
29 juin 2010

Les réactions au sein de l'establishment des Etats-Unis au congédiement du général Stanley McChrystal indiquent que les remarques désobligeantes faites par McChrystal et ses adjoints au sujet du président Obama et de fonctionnaires (commentaires qui ont été publiés dans un article du magazine Rolling Stone) n'étaient pas la principale raison de sa révocation.

From watching 'Kill TV' to leading undercover night raids, the two-star general was on a brutal, bleak journey

By Kim Sengupta

June 25, 2010 "The Independent " -- They called it the "Death Star" because according to one source who worked inside it, "you could just reach out with a finger and eliminate" somebody. On the walls were banks of television screens, known by the special forces boys as "Kill TV", where footage from image-intensifier cameras of the enemy being blown up by air strikes, or being gunned down by undercover hit teams was shown.

Cet article appelle deux remarques, premièrement il faut traduire des articles de la presse anglo-saxonne pour avoir la moindre information sur ce qui se passe en Afghanistan alors que les troupes françaises y sont engagées. En outre, ce qui nous est décrit ici sont les condiditions du commandement de l'OTAN (donc de nos troupes) par une groupe de huit p

Un tel scandale « en pleine guerre », les États-Unis n'en ont pas connu durant le demi-siècle passé. Le 23 juin, le Président Barack Obama a limogé le général Stanley McChrystal de son poste de commandant en chef des forces de l'OTAN en Afghanistan : le poste auquel ce même Obama l'avait nommé il y presqu'exactement un an en espérant beaucoup de ce général, un so

By Cindy Sheehan

"If Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular," a senior adviser to head of NATO ops in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal (via Rolling Stone)

June 24, 2010 "Information Clearing House " -- FUBAR: Military slang for: Fu#ked Up Beyond All/Any Repair/Recognition. FUBAR also has a close military acronym: SNAFU: Situation Normal All Fu#ked Up.

Le général Petraeus au début juin, alors qu'il présentait devant le sénat le plan de retrait en 2011 des troupes nord-américaines s'est évanoui au lieu de répondre. Ce qui a d'autant plus fâcheusement frappé les esprits que lui-même et Michele Flournoy, la N°3 du Pentagone, avaient du reconnaître que en cours sur le terrain connaissait une évolution « en yoy