The Shifting Strategies of Empire

[polly7]

The Shifting Strategies of Empire

By David Swanson

Source: Warisacrime.orgSunday, March 25, 2012

http://www.zcommunications.org/the-shifting-strategies-of-empire-by-david-swanson

Remarks at the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) Conference:

President Obama this week declared the war on Iraq to be an honorable success that has given us a brighter future. Are you fired up? Ready to go?

Eric Holder this month explained that it's legal for a president to kill anyone anywhere, or to imprison them, or to spy on them. I started to get upset about this, but then I remembered that Holder is a Democrat. That made me feel much better.

Leon Panetta told Congress this month that a president can launch a war without Congress and without the United Nations and without any legal restrictions, that a NATO decision to go to war makes a war legal, that a decision by an ad hoc coalition to go to war makes a war legal, and that in fact there's no way for a war launched by a U.S. president not to be legal. At first this sounded like a dangerous doctrine, until I remembered that the president is not a Republican, and no Republican is going to be president for at least several months. So, there's nothing to worry about.

Hillary Clinton this week said that we couldn't end the war on Afghanistan without first protecting women's rights. Already we've set up a government that endorses wife-beating. Perhaps when it mandates invasive ultrasounds we'll be able to leave with honor.

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I personally have a question for Hillary Clinton: "Where was your concern for the women of Afghanistan when warlords were being given Viagra with which to enhance their experience with all those child brides? I don't remember seeing a statement condemning it, perhaps I've missed it?"

Another question: 'How much concern does one have for women when launching an invasion that would be perfectly known to kill, maim, widow, make motherless, impoversh, and cause immeasurable suffering for those women year after year? Women haven't been a priority from the start ........ I'm sure 'womens rights' is far less important to the survivors at this point than the conditions and lonliness in which they're left to live in a decimated war-zone with so little hope and so many horrible memories.' jmo.

[DURHAM D]

1. So Hillary heads the CIA?

Didn't know that. The things ya read on DU.

Seriously - Did you really expect the SOS to condemn the actions of the CIA? Or do you think Hillary, not Obama, is the head of the government and thus the boss ?

just amazing...

[polly7]

2. I didn't say Hillary headed the CIA.

The things ya read on DU, if you make them up and type them out, that is, yes ....... that can be amazing to read.

Did she not have a voice when any of this was going on?

[DURHAM D]

3. No, she did not have a voice publicly

in the matter. Still doesn't.

[EFerrari]

4. So, is she a leader or not?

[DURHAM D]

5. You really want her to publicly go after the President?

[EFerrari]

6. That isn't the question, is it?

It's really useless to argue about Hillary. I look forward to the day she retires.

[DURHAM D]

7. It is the question.

I also look forward to the day she retires.