The present-day U.S. military qualifies by any measure as highly professional, much more so than its Cold War predecessor. Yet the purpose of today’s professionals is not to preserve peace but to fight unending wars in distant places. Intoxicated by a post-Cold War belief in its own omnipotence, the United States allowed itself to be drawn into a long series of armed conflicts, almost all of them yielding unintended consequences and imposing greater than anticipated costs. Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. forces have destroyed many targets and killed many people. Only rarely, however, have they succeeded in accomplishing their assigned political purposes. . . . [F]rom our present vantage point, it becomes apparent that the “Revolution of ‘89” did not initiate a new era of history. At most, the events of that year fostered various unhelpful illusions that impeded our capacity to recognize and respond to the forces of change that actually matter.

Andrew Bacevich


Tuesday, February 7, 2012

War News for Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Army Colonel exposes 'truth and lies about Afghanistan' claiming military leaders 'have let us down'

Pakistan seizes fuel destined for NATO

Murdering Afghan civilians

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb. 7


Reported security incidents
#1: An employee of a private security firm has reportedly killed three of his colleagues and two Afghan police officers in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar. Five other security guards were reported injured in the incident, which is reported to have occurred late on February 6. The Kandahar municipal government media office said one of the wounded was also a police officer. No motive or other details about the incident were available.

#2: NATO forces say one of their helicopters has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, and all aboard survived. The international military coalition says in a statement that the crew has been taken to a nearby base, and initial reports indicate no enemy activity in the area of Monday’s crash

Posted by whisker at 2:42 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its raining here, maybe Iran is behind it.......


J Br

February 7, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Dancewater said...

RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraqi detention camp

In one case, taskforce interrogators were said to have forced a 73-year-old woman to crawl around a room while a man sat on her back, before forcing a broom handle into her anus. Two of her fingers were broken. The woman, a retired teacher, said her interrogators demanded to know the whereabouts of her son and husband, both of whom she said were dead.

February 7, 2012 at 6:42 PM

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