“That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the ‘war on terror’ will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three of this week’s big media controversies (Benghazi, IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined. The military historian Andrew Bacevich has spent years warning that US policy planners have adopted an explicit doctrine of ‘endless war’. Obama officials, despite repeatedly boasting that they have delivered permanently crippling blows to al-Qaida, are now, as clearly as the English language permits, openly declaring this to be so. It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end itself, but it is also its own fuel: it is precisely this endless war - justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism - that is the single greatest cause of that threat.”— Washington gets explicit: its ‘war on terror’ is permanent | Glenn Greenwald (via theamericanbear)
Woops.
h/t Rocky Anderson
remember that time President Obama ordered the military to fire indiscriminate missile attacks on populated areas?
LTMC: Frankly it would be better if it was indiscriminate, given that Obama has ordered the military, quite discriminately, to “double tap” drone targets by shooting missiles at civilian rescue workers attempting to tend to the wounded from drone attacks in Pakistan. I suppose this could somehow be justified in a Machiavellian paradigm if we were killing lots of terrorists. But America currently kills 49 people with drones for every known terrorist in Pakistan. And that too, quite discriminately, it would seem.
The whole thing is made even more grand by the fact that Pakistani political leaders have asked Washington to stop doing this. But they haven’t, despite the fact that the Pakistani government publicly opposes the program, which the State Department’s top lawyer says may make U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan an act of war under international law.
Oh, I forgot to mention that a 2007 report by the Homeland Security Institute called the “double tap” a “favorite tactic of Hamas,” and the FBI considers it to be a tactic chiefly employed by terrorist organizations. I suppose it takes one to know one, in the War on Terror.
“Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the front lines, and I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel’s security. That starts with insuring Israel’s qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat, from Gaza to Tehran.”—
Barack Obama, your imperialistic president, approving $30 billion in military aid to Israel. (via anarcho-queer)
And you guys were worried about Rick Santorum…
(via veganderthal)
gettin real tired of ur shit mr. president
(via youngblackandvegan)
All I can say is that I am so immensely disappointed in the President for this. This is bullshit.
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And Afghans and Pakistanis and Somalis and Yemenis and Iranians and more.
It’s easier to just say brown people.
sigh yeah i do hate to cut into everyone’s celebration but it’s important to remember that obama has done shitty things too and they are things we will have to remember and fight against in his next term](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md2vfxhowi1qamcl6o1_500.jpg)
And Afghans and Pakistanis and Somalis and Yemenis and Iranians and more.
It’s easier to just say brown people.
sigh yeah i do hate to cut into everyone’s celebration but it’s important to remember that obama has done shitty things too and they are things we will have to remember and fight against in his next term
(Source: mehreenkasana)
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