Obama’s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals’ hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world.
The fact that Obama is following in Bush’s footsteps – talking to an audience of captive individuals who would be ruined for life by a single catcall – is a sign of how archaic hope for change and reform has become.
If Obama honestly admitted that he is sending American boys to die to help assure the profits of drug kingpins like Karzai’s brother, I could at least respect the president’s candor.
But the odds of truth breaking out during Obama’s visit to West Point are slim and none – and “Slim just left town,†as Dan Rather says.
A major foreign policy speech at West Point – what else do you have to know? America and the Obama Administration stand for militarism, Zionism, and corporate capitalism. You can sum it up in one word – corruption.
According to former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-http://www.plrc.org-the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability. Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 D5 linked to GPS obtain a CEP (Circular Error Probability – – the radius centered on the target in which half the warheads are expected to hit) of 30 meters or less, enough to destroy any hard target. And according to Bob Aldridge the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Please see Robert C. Aldridge: Nuclear Empire, ch. 9. Even if the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is only for blackmail, the Russians may have no choice but implementing Launch On Warning. Bob Aldridge resigned because a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is suicidal.
I hope you agree that the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is the most urgent problem because it inevitably leads to Launch On Warning.
the answer to the question posed by the title of this post is YES, according to the released text of the speech, more 9/11 scaremongering, sotto vocce, conflating al-Qaeda, the Taliban and anyone opposed to the US/NATO occupation
reminiscent of what Dick Cheney did in regard to Iraq, tying al-Qaeda to Saddam, here, tying al-Qaeda to the Taliban
well, at least he's going to be a one term President
If anyone is interested in seeing some sickening hypocrisy slip over to the Huffington Post and watch the so-called liberals cheer on Bu…I mean Obama's war mongering. Sickening but not surprising.
The one consolation: at least Obama did not hug any firemen during his talk
No, but there is a rumor that Obama did a reacharound on a couple of four star generals.
No<those who brought Bush to power are the same who brought Obama to power.And it is not the American people!