Petraeus: Military action in Syria necessary to deter Iran and N.Korea
David H. Petraeus, former CIA director under President Barack Obama, told POLITICO on Saturday that military action in Syria is "necessary" in order to deter other "would-be aggressors" such as Iran and North Korea.
Petraeus, whose public career was widely admired until his resignation last year due to an extramarital affair, added that "Failure of Congress to approve the president's request would have serious ramifications not just in the Mideast but around the world."
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.545674
Petraeus' Failures Were in Afghanistan and Iraq, Not Gmail
Gen. Petraeus, who commanded US occupation forces in first Iraq, then Afghanistan, continues to be hailed as a “military genius” and “war hero.”
Look again. Petraeus and his fellow generals used every weapon in the US arsenal against Iraq’s eleven resistance groups (deceptively misnamed “al-Qaida” by Washington), including the mass ethnic cleansing of two million Sunni Iraqis, death squads, torture, and brutal reprisals.
UN officials assert that some 500,000 Iraqis, mostly children, died due to the US-led blockade under Saddam Hussein. At least another half million died from the US 2003 invasion until 2011. Yet after all this, the US forces were forced pull out of Iraq at the end of what Saddam Hussein vowed would be the “Mother of All Battles.”
Cost of Iraq: $1.6-2.4 trillion; almost 5,000 US soldiers dead, 35,000 seriously wounded. Some triumph. America has yet to accept the painful fact that while it won all the tactical engagements in Iraq, it lost the bigger war.
Petraeus was then sent to work his magic in Afghanistan before returning to Washington to head CIA. There, the brainy general, who had a knack for self-promotion and public relations, tried again to crush the Pashtun resistance by massive bombardments, billions in high tech gear, reprisals that wiped out entire villages, search and destroy missions. Torture and executions were as common as during the Soviet occupation.
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/17-11
Kill syrians to stop Iran and North Koreans?
geez......
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Damn it, I want FOOTBALL analogies in my jingo news, not falling Dominoes! Dominoes are NOT macho.
with a vengeance...
