International Relations and the Cover of the Rolling Stone

Jan 27, 2010 10:48


Rolling Stone remains a good source of hard hitting, deep diggin' journalism, IMO, even though they like the rest of the media outlets were not always fair in their coverage. In this week's issue (John Mayer is an interesting dude), there is an article interviewing Osama Bin Laden's son, Omar, (and former "heir to the throne," prior to his escape).
Sending more resources into Afghanistan is such a HUGE mistake. Why are we continuing the senseless and detrimental war mongering? Why aren't Obama supporters questioning this, as they are with his broken promises to gay marriage advocates, among other empty campaign promises like "I'll put the healthcare debate up on CSPAN"? Because Rachel Maddow tells you not to? The Bush administration didn't focus on Afghanistan, not that the Iraq war was at all justified.

In a nutshell, Obama's son and former comrade in the hills of Afghanistan says that his father claims victory in his war with the US, we won't see "another 9-11" because we are foolishly throwing more resources into Afghanistan, because we are putting more money and personnel into it, and their oppressive regime has been down this road with the former Soviet empire (while being backed by the mighty US of A, of course. We know how that ended.) It's also comes from a interesting human relations perspective...this kid really remains a puppet, although he is "free" from his father's tyranny. For whatever reason, Clinton is the only president who really handled this situation correctly, per Omar. His wag the dog mentality actually helped us for a bit.

In any other line of work, one uses history to arrive at decisions, especially ones with far reaching impact. Politics...but what is the motivation? To curb the poppy crops and heroin trade? To stabilize the region despite the fact that Pakistan and India tend to be the larger players over there? It makes absolutely no sense.

On a related note, as a middle class American, I truly fear the erosion of capitalism with this administration. I'm sure there will be some empty sentiment directed toward us in the SOTU address tonight. I think my fears are justified.

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