El Presidente and Afghanistan

"More troops on Afghanistan mean more lives lost. As the African proverb goes: Never surround your enemy on all four sides..."

Dear friends,

In the midst of deciding whether to add more US troops to the alleged "war on terror" that is presently focused on Afghanistan, with what in that country should El Presidente be more concerned? After all, as is proven by the story on the link below, females of the population are not even considered to be, much less treated like - human beings.

Perhaps, instead of a "war on terror", El Presidente should think about ending the war on terror and begin a battle for upliftment of the human species. He can get things started by promoting already proven programs like, for example, "forest gardening", where new eco-systems can be used to fight hunger and provide people around the world access to healthy bodies which will allow them to build. Forget about space programs. Use the money to help people around the world be able to make themselves more self-sufficient. Besides, we have already flown to the moon, made machines to travel on the ground, sea, and space, and developed many more types of technological Utopias like telephones and televisions. As has been pointed out by others before me, it is time that we start making human Utopias. We can end hunger and homelessness immediately, if we end greed. There is enough work and play for everyone, if we develop value judgments in human societies, so that people do not feel that they must hoard everything for themselves, because they feel so unworthy otherwise.

Relating back to the "war", let us not forget: When the greedy and imbecilic pair that is made up of Bush and Cheney ordered the invasion of Iraq, one of the first things that they did when our troops got in was to disband the Iraqi Army. That, of course, forced the now unemployed soldiers to join the "insurgency". The outcome of that is now quite obvious, as the US military has been forced to get out of Iraq. To be sure, Halliburton and others made out like bandits, but thousands of Americans died, and exponentially more of our soldiers were left without limbs. And for what? They did not even get the oil.

More troops in Afghanistan mean more lives lost. As the African proverb goes: Never surround your enemy on all four sides. What that warns is: If you don't provide room for escape, then there will be no later opportunity to reconcile. That means that your enemy must then fight to the death - NOW. This happened in both Vietnam and Iraq. It will happen in Afghanistan too, if our President plays the fool and continues to do the bidding for the military/industrial complex. And the "Conservatives" and their scummy Congressional ilk will laugh their way to the banks, not really caring who wins in 201o - or 2012, for that matter (especially since they can always manipulate the government-- and corpoorate-controlled mass communications media).

Nevertheless, as I mentioned up top, on the link below, please check out a piece that I have saved since early this year, knowing what was likely to happen.

Cheers!

G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/acid.attacks/index.html