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		<title>Scientist: Japan earthquake, nuke “accident” are tectonic nuclear warfare</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Examiner &#8211; Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre that the “Japan earthquake and “accidents” at the Fukushima’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/alfred-lambremont-webre" target="_blank">Examiner</a> &#8211; Independent scientist <a rel="nofollow" href="http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2010/03/leuren-moret-biography-independent-scientist-expert-witness-at-the-tokyo-international-tribunal-for-war-crimes-in-afghanist.html">Leuren Moret</a>, whose <a rel="nofollow" href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20040523x2.html">2004 landmark article in the Japan Times</a> unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre that the “Japan earthquake and “accidents” at the Fukushima’s 6 nuclear power plant units starting March 11, 2011 are in fact deliberate acts of tectonic nuclear warfare, carried out against the populations ecology of Japan and the nations of the Northern Hemisphere, including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.</p>
<p>In her May 23, 2004 Japan Times article, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20040523x2.html"><em><strong>Japan&#8217;s deadly game of nuclear roulette</strong></em></a>, Ms. Leuren predicted, “It is not a question of whether or not a nuclear disaster will occur in Japan; it is a question of when it will occur. Like the former Soviet Union after Chernobyl, Japan will become a country suffering from radiation sickness destroying future generations, and widespread contamination of agricultural areas will ensure a public-health disaster. Its economy may never recover.”</p>
<p><strong>Japan earthquake triggered by HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails plasma weapon, to cause nuclear radiation mega leaks</strong></p>
<p>Now, in an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxmeOqYtB0">exclusive interview released March 20, 2011</a>, independent scientist has set out the multiple reasons why the Japan earthquake was most plausibly conditioned and triggered by a HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails plasma weapon, to cause Chernobyl-like nuclear radiation mega leaks that, according to a report by the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/swedish-government-radiation-to-cover-entire-northern-hemisphere.html">Swedish government</a>, will be distributed over the entire Northern hemisphere of the planet.</p>
<p>Among the various aspects of the Japan earthquake discussed by Ms. Moret that fit the profile of a HAARP-triggered earthquake system are:</p>
<p>• The earthquake intensity and characteristics; the deliberate confusion by the U.S. around the scale of the earthquake;</p>
<p>• The foreshadowing sale of Japan Westinghouse (controlled by Rockefeller interests) in 2006 to Hitachi and other interests;</p>
<p>• The use of the Stuxnet virus in the Fukushima plant to cause the malfunctions of the cooling pumps and valves, thereby creating the dangerous radiation releases;</p>
<p>• The creation of HAARP-related vortex clouds over the San Francisco, CA Bay Area on March 18, 2011 to trigger a heavy rain out of the radiation from the first Fukushima plant explosion onto the population, food and ecology of the Bay area.</p>
<p><strong>Watch interview with independent scientist Leuren Moret demonstrating Japan earthquake, nuke “accident” are tectonic nuclear warfare</strong></p>
<p>Readers can watch the interview with Leuren Moret embedded in the article above or at the URL below:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxmeOqYtB0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxmeOqYtB0</a></p>
<p><strong>The Stuxnet virus caused the Fukushima post-earthquake disaster</strong></p>
<p>Ms. Moret indicated that a new cybervirus was found in Japan.  The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T101004003493.htm">Stuxnet virus</a> is designed to attack off-line servers via USB memory sticks</p>
<p>The Stuxnet virus was designed to cause malfunction in the Siemens controllers that are used in some nuke plants.  Fukushima had the same Siemens controllers that Stuxnet was designed for.  The Stuxnet virus was also used by Israeli intelligence – Mossad &#8211; to destroy the Bushar nuclear-related centrifuges in Iran.</p>
<p>Ms. Moret stated, “The trouble after the earthquake was that the pumps and valves and controllers malfunctioned so the workers could not get the pumps working.  This just adds to the HAARP earthquake and much more evidence that it was a false flag HAARP event.”</p>
<p><strong>Energy released by Japan HAARP earthquake equals 1 million nuclear bombs</strong></p>
<p>During the interview, radiation expert Leuren Moret, who was an expert witness with the Tokyo International Tribunal for War Crimes in Afghanistan, reveals the calculations of a former Manhattan scientist that the Japan earthquake – a HAARP weapon of mass destruction – released approximately the energy equivalent to one million nuclear bombs.</p>
<p><strong>Exposed spent rods in cooling ponds releasing radiation equivalent to 92,000 bombs per unit (total 4 units)</strong></p>
<p>In the interview, radiation expert Leuren Moret also reveals calculations she developed regarding the amount of radiation being released by spent fuel rods that were being stored in cooling pools above each of the 6 reactors of the Fukushima plant.  Spent fuel rods from each unit of the Fukushima plant are releasing the equivalent of 92,000 nuclear bombs, Ms. Moret calculates.  Each unit has 400 assemblies of spent fuel rods, with 60 spent fuel rod for each assembly.  Each individual rod holds 72 pounds uranium, as opposed to a 20-pound uranium payload for a nuclear bomb.</p>
<p>This radiation from 4 units time 92,000 nuclear bombs is now being released into the troposphere, and traveling at below 300 feet altitude over Japan and the western United States.</p>
<p><strong>HAARP-triggered rainout of Bay Area, California on March 18, 2011</strong></p>
<p>During her interview, HAARP expert Leuren Moret notes the strange vortex clouds that appeared over the Bay Area, California the night of March 18, 2011, bringing large scale rains that night and continual predicted rains the week of March 21.</p>
<p>These HAARP-induced rains, Ms. Moret indicated, are for the purpose of intentionally causing the rainout of the first batch of serious radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant explosions upon the people, food crops, and ecology of the Bay Area.</p>
<p><strong>Japan HAARP earthquake of future Diablo Canyon HAARP quake/nuke event may be FEMA 3rd &#8220;predicted event&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Ms. Moret notes that on September 10, 2001, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) &#8220;predicted&#8221; 3 future catastrophes on the U.S. continent, two of which (the false flag operations of 9/11 and hurrican Katrina) have occured and have been HAARP-related events.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>One source notes, &#8220;In 2001, the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cuttingedge.org/News/n2104.cfm">Federal Emergency Management Agency</a> ranked the most likely and deadly disasters that could befall the United States. The top three were a terrorist attack on New York, an earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane in New Orleans. The list was announced at a FEMA conference on Sept. 10. The next day was 9/11.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This news is so incredible that we need to stop right here, so we can accurately understand what we have just been told. On September 10, 2001, FEMA accurately &#8220;predicted&#8221; three&#8221; most likely and deadly disasters that could befall the United States&#8221;. These deadly disasters foretold were:</p>
<p>&#8220;1) Terrorist attack on New York &#8211; The HAARP-directed false flag operation of 9/11</p>
<p>&#8220;2) A hurricane in New Orleans &#8211; The HAARP-enhanced and steered Katrina hurricane</p>
<p>&#8220;3) An earthquake in San Francisco &#8211; This HAARP-triggered event has yet to occur.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms. Moret notes that the false flag events of 9/11 and Hurrican Katrina have occured and have both been HAARP-triggered events.  She states that the Japan HAARP earthquake, with its nuclear warfare targeted on the west coat of the U.S., could be the 3rd FEMA &#8220;predicted&#8221; false flag operation.  A HAARP earthquake around the San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear plants in California could also be foreshadowed by the Japan HAARP earthquake, and be the 3rd event that the intelligent behind HAARP has in store for the population and ecology of the U.S.</p>
<p>Please see:</p>
<p>9/11 &amp; HAARP:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/scientist-directed-energy-weapons-turned-world-trade-center-into-nanoparticles-on-9-11">https://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/scientist-directed-energy-weapons-turned-world-trade-center-into-nanoparticles-on-9-11</a></p>
<p>Katrina &amp; HAARP:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.peaceinspace.org/">www.peaceinspace.org</a></p>
<p><strong>Japan HAARP earthquake congruent with Leuren Moret findings on China, Haiti, Chile earthquakes</strong></p>
<p>These findings on the Japan HAARP earthquake/nuke tectonic attack are congruent with Leuren Moret findings on the May 2008 China, January 2010 Haiti, and February 2010 Chile earthquakes, all of which have been found to be tectonic attacks with covert political and financial agendas.</p>
<p>For a series of science-based interviews and articles demonstrating that each of the above earthquakes are in fact HAARP-triggered tectonic warfare attacks, please visit</p>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.peaceinspace.org/">www.peaceinspace.org</a></p>
<p><strong>Japan HAARP earthquake congruent with the Clifford Carnicom findings on HAARP/aerosol-chemtrails tectonic weapons system application</strong></p>
<p>Likewise, findings on the Japan HAARP earthquake/nuke tectonic attack are congruent with the Clifford Carnicom findings on HAARP/aerosol-chemtrails tectonic weapons attacks.</p>
<p>Clifford E. Carnicom, an acknowledged expert since 1999 on the global covert spraying of aerosols into the atmosphere operation (also known as “Chemtrails”), stated in an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/expert-chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos">exclusive ExopoliticsTV interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre</a>released March 1, 2011 that the covert aerosol-spraying operation had transformed the Earth’s atmosphere into a plasma for carrying out weaponized applications such as bio-warfare (including Morgellons disease), electromagnetic operations such as HAARP, weather warfare, tectonic (earthquake) warfare, mind control, advanced surveillance technology, and detection of advanced propulsion technology including UFOs.</p>
<p>The over-all purpose of this covert operation of spraying aerosols into the atmosphere and converting it into plasma was to achieve “absolute control” over the global human population.  This total control is accomplished using the combined effects of seven weapons-like applications that use the plasma-like atmosphere with weaponized effects on the environment, the biosphere and the human population.</p>
<p>Although Mr. Carnicom prefers to use the term “aerosols”, the global covert operation spraying of aerosols into the atmosphere is also known as the “chemtrails program”.</p>
<p>In a Jan. 10, 2011 assessment of the current impact of the global aerosol-spraying program, Mr. Carnicom stated, “The vitality and viability of human existence and life on this planet, as it has been known to exist, is under threat.”</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/expert-chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos">In his ExopoliticsTV interview</a>, Mr. Carnicom details seven weapons applications of the covert global sprayed aerosols program that are being used to carry out over-all the goal of “absolute control” over the global human population.</p>
<p><strong>These seven weapons applications of the sprayed aerosols include tectonic (earthquake) warfare, and are the following:</strong></p>
<p>1.  Biological operations, including the use of apparent bio-warfare, such as Morgellons disease, in the sprayed aerosols, constituting war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Geneva conventions.</p>
<p>2.  Military Operations, such as advanced radar applications, anti-missile Star Wars applications.</p>
<p>3.  Electromagnetic Operations, including HAARP directed energy scalar weapons and mind control weapons applications, constituting war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Geneva conventions.</p>
<p>4.  Environmental modification and weather wars.  Mr. Carnicom stated he has concluded that the covert aerosol-spraying program has transformed the atmosphere of the planet into plasma capable of sustaining weaponized applications since its acceleration in 1999.  This constitutes a violation of the 1978 Treaty against Modification of the Environment.</p>
<p>5.  Geophysical operations, including tectonic (earthquake) warfare, constituting war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Geneva conventions.</p>
<p>6. An advanced surveillance system capable of covert surveillance of the entire human population.</p>
<p>The 3-article series on the HAARP/Aerosol-chemtrails weapons system by Alfred Lambremont Webre can be found at:</p>
<p><strong>Expert: Chemtrails are global covert operation for total control, detecting UFOs</strong></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/expert-chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos">http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/expert-chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos</a></p>
<p><strong>Chemtrails are global covert operation for earthquake and weather warfare-Part 2</strong></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos-part-2">http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos-part-2</a></p>
<p><strong>Chemtrails are global covert operation for mind control-Part 3</strong></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos-part-3">http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos-part-3</a></p>
<p><strong>Leuren Moret provides some home and diet remedies for combatting nuclear radiation</strong></p>
<p>Toward the end of the interview, Leuren Moret also provides home and diet remedies that individuals and families can use in combatting nuclear radiation, including chlorella (chlorophyll), Miso soup, seaweed, greens, and dark vegetables.</p>
<p><strong>Banning HAARP and Chemtrails: The use of the law to protect the population, food supply and ecology of the planet</strong></p>
<p>Radiation and HAARP expert Leuren Moret notes that there was one prior attempt to ban the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapon of mass destruction.  That was in a bill <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rense.com/general19/ex.htm">H.R. 2977</a>, introduced into the U.S. Congress in October 2001 by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://kucinich.house.gov/">U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)</a>, and withdrawn by Kucinich himself for no just reason almost immediately after introduction, thereby undercutting any efforts to legislate a ban on HAARP and aerosol/chemtrails for the past decade 2001-2011.</p>
<p>H.R. 2977 was a bill banning space-based weapons, and as soon as Rep. Kucinich&#8217;s office discovered that H.R. 2977 also banned the HAARP-chemtrails weapons system (which technically are a space-based weapons system of mass destruction), he ordered his staff to withdraw H.R. 2977 and to submit a substitute bill that did not mention HAARP and Chemtrails.  The HAARP-chemtrails weapons system had intentionally been included by this reporter Alfred Lambremont Webre, who drafted the original HR 2977 as introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich.</p>
<p>Rep. Dennis Kucinich ordered H.R. 2977 to be withdrawn, despite the fact that the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system is a space-based weapons system one of whose principal applications is space warfare.  There was no consultation with this reporter or with any of the anti-HAARP or anti-aerosol/chemtrail constituency behind H.R. 2977.  Rep. Dennis Kucinich acted apparently upon some other factor that commitment to ban the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapon of mass destruction in gutting HR 2977.  To date, Rep. Kucinich has reportedly even refused to meet with anti-HAARP and anti-aerosol/chemtrails activists seeking a legislative ban of the HAARP Chemtrails weapons system, thus gatekeeping and blocking any legistative ban on this weapons system.</p>
<p>Rep. Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s actions in destroying the HR 2977 bill banning the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system left open the HAARP system to carry out significant destruction of populations and infrastructure in the 2005 Katrina Hurricane, the 2008 Myanmr Cyclone, the 2008 China Earthquake, the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, the 2010 Chile Earthquake, and now the 2011 Japan HAARP quake/nuke false flag attack.</p>
<p>With Rep. Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s killing of a bill explicitly banning the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system just a month after its use on the World Trade Center in New York City at the false flag operation of September 11, 2001, that move effectively has shut out any legislation to ban HAARP and/or aerosols/chemtrails since 2001, as many anti-HAARP and anti-aerosol/chemtrail activists can testify.</p>
<p><strong>Treaty to ban HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system</strong></p>
<p>Aerosol/chemtrails expert Clifford Carnicom and HAARP-aerosols/chemtrails expert Leuren Moret have publcly expressed their support for a Treaty banning the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system worldwide.  This weapons system is carrying out war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity on a scale that is beyond the conventional human imagination.</p>
<p>Such a Treaty is in preparation, and will be announced in the near future at:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.peaceinspace.org/">www.peaceinspace.org</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his December 1 speech at West Point announcing the deployment of 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama attempted to justify a major escalation of a deeply unpopular war on the basis of lies and distortions. That he had to resort to such falsifications reflects both the reactionary character of his policy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In his December 1 speech at West Point announcing the deployment of 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama attempted to justify a major escalation of a deeply unpopular war on the basis of lies and distortions. That he had to resort to such falsifications reflects both the reactionary character of his policy and the fact that it is being imposed in violation of the popular will.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To justify the escalation, Obama recycled the Bush administration’s myths about the “war on terror.” He cynically presented the US as an altruistic power, forced into a global war for democracy by the terrorist attacks of 9/11.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As he sought to frame US imperialist policy within the template of the “war on terror,” however, his speech descended into utter incoherence.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Obama’s account of the US’ recent wars contradicted his own assertion that Washington was single-mindedly pursuing Al Qaeda. In 2001, he said, the US attacked Afghanistan to destroy Al Qaeda—though most of the September 11 hijackers were, in fact, from Saudi Arabia, the US’ major Arab ally in the Middle East.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The US invasion was legitimate, he argued, because Afghanistan was Al Qaeda’s base of operations and the Taliban regime harbored and protected the terrorist group.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Obama brushed over the failure of the US invasion to dismantle Al Qaeda by saying that “after escaping across the border into Pakistan in 2001 and 2002, Al Qaeda’s leadership established a safe haven there.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Thus, from 2002 to 2009, the US pursued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan supposedly directed against Al Qaeda, while the latter was based in another country altogether—Pakistan, a long-standing US ally.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Obama even suggested that Al Qaeda enjoys the protection of sections of the Pakistani state, declaring, “[T]here have been those in Pakistan who have argued that the struggle against extremism is not their fight, and that Pakistan is better off doing little, or seeking accommodation with those who use violence.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This account raises an obvious and unexplained double standard. If the security of the American people required the US to invade Afghanistan and remove an Al Qaeda-friendly regime there, why shouldn’t the same apply to the government of Pakistan?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Instead, Obama hailed Pakistan as an ally in the struggle against “violent extremism” and called for a US-Pakistan partnership based on “mutual trust.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This only demonstrates the fraudulent character of the official rationale for the war, which Obama and the rest of the US political establishment know to be a tissue of lies.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then there is the question of the Afghan government in whose defense the US is supposedly waging war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. While initially praising the regime of President Hamid Karzai as a “legitimate government,” Obama went on to acknowledge that it suffers from “corruption, the drug trade, an underdeveloped economy, and insufficient security forces.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In a display of utter cynicism, he claimed that Karzai’s recent reelection, universally recognized as the outcome of fraud and ballot-stuffing, had nevertheless produced a legitimate government. “Although it was marred by fraud,” Obama said, “that election produced a government that is consistent with Afghanistan’s laws and Constitution.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Obama’s attempts to give noble-sounding reasons for deploying 30,000 more US troops were as sinister as they were self-contradictory. In Orwellian style, he told the Afghan people, who have already suffered US occupation for eight years, “We have no interest in occupying your country.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He contrasted the US’ allegedly benevolent attitude towards Afghanistan with the Soviet invasion of the country in 1979-1989. In fact, the US has manipulated Afghan politics for 30 years.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Beginning in 1979, the US financed and backed Islamic fundamentalist resistance to the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul, with the aim of provoking a Soviet invasion. Thus the US was politically complicit in millions of Afghan deaths during the Soviet occupation and the civil war that followed. The Islamist forces Washington is fighting today in Afghanistan largely descend from groups it supported against the Soviets in the 1980s.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Amid wars that have cost over a million lives and have involved the widespread use of torture at US-run prisons, Obama insisted that US policy will “tend to the light of freedom, and justice, and opportunity, and respect for the dignity of all peoples.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Obama boasted of having ended torture—an empty and false claim belied by reports of ongoing torture at US prisons in Afghanistan and elsewhere, as well as Obama’s continuation of rendition and his opposition to any investigation of government officials who ordered and oversaw the use of torture.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He reiterated his pledge to close Guantanamo, but was silent on his insistence that US torture prisons in Afghanistan, such as at the Bagram military base, remain open.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The central lie in Obama’s speech, however, was the claim that his escalation plans would allow US troops to return quickly from Afghanistan, starting in 2011.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In fact, as Obama indicated elsewhere in his speech, this escalation is one step in plans for even broader wars. “The struggle against violent extremism will not be finished quickly,” he said, “and it extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Mentioning Somalia and Yemen as potential targets, he added, “our effort will involve disorderly regions and diffuse enemies.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The inclusion of this passage made clear that Obama was basing his Afghan policy on a report issued last month by Anthony Cordesman of the influential Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Cordesman wrote: “The President must be frank about the fact that any form of victory in Afghanistan and Pakistan will be part of a much wider and longer struggle. He must make it clear that the ideological, demographic, governance, economic, and other pressures that divide the Islamic world mean the world will face threats in many other nations that will endure indefinitely into the future. He should mention the risks in Yemen and Somalia, make it clear that the Iraq war is not over, and warn that we will still face both a domestic threat and a combination of insurgency and terrorism that will continue to extend from Morocco to the Philippines, and from Central Asia deep into Africa, regardless of how well we do in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He added: “…the present level of US, allied, Afghan and Pakistani casualties will almost certainly double and probably more than triple before something approaching victory is won.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In short, the US will be fighting immensely costly wars over a considerable portion of the earth’s surface, in regions stretching thousands of miles in every direction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Reduced to its essentials, the perspective of Obama and his advisors is a future of endless war to maintain the US’ position as the global hegemon. Beyond the questions of controlling oil revenues and trade routes in the Middle East and Central Asia, what is at stake is the US’ position as a world power. Like the British withdrawal from Suez in 1956-1957, a forced US withdrawal from Afghanistan would be a devastating blow to Washington’s prestige.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Obama’s Afghan policy arises from this dynamic of US imperialism: Since retreat at any point threatens catastrophe, he chooses ever-expanding escalation.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Alex Lantier &#8211; via <a href="http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/obama%e2%80%99s-speech-on-afghanistan-a-compendium-of-lies/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pakalert+%28Pak+Alert+Press%29">PakAlert</a>.</p>
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