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Obama launches headlong into war on terrorism

Barack Obama has begun following through on his promises to continue the neocons’ war on terrorism and increase the Imperial Federal Government’s interference in the affairs of billions of people across the world. The London Times reports:

Missiles fired from suspected US drones killed at least 15 people inside Pakistan today, the first such strikes since Barack Obama became president and a clear sign that the controversial military policy begun by George W Bush has not changed.

Security officials said the strikes, which saw up to five missiles slam into houses in separate villages, killed seven “foreigners” – a term that usually means al-Qaeda – but locals also said that three children lost their lives.
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Pakistan has objected to such attacks, saying they are a violation of its territory that undermines its efforts to tackle militants. Since September, the US is estimated to have carried out about 30 such attacks, killing more than 220 people.

A more detailed article, which is, as far as I can tell, about the same set of air strikes in Pakistan, says:

There will be no let-up in the military pressure on terrorist groups, US officials warned, as Obama prepares to launch a surge of 30,000 troops in neighbouring Afghanistan. It is part of a “tough love” policy combining a military crack-down with diplomatic initiatives.
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The airstrikes were authorised under a covert programme approved by Obama, according to a senior US official. It was a dramatic signal in the president’s first week of office that there will be no respite in the hunt for Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders.

However, Obama aims to win hearts and minds in the region by tripling the nonmilitary aid budget to Pakistan and encouraging reconciliation and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan as a component of the surge.

Most Americans, hawkish or not and opposed to the U.S.’s presence in Iraq or not, agree that, at the very least, Al-Qaeda terrorists need to be hunted down and brought to justice, either by air strikes or secret Marine or CIA ops or by taking money from people who earned it and giving it to foreign governments so that they can do the work in cooperation with the United States Defense Department. They say, Well, regardless of whether this country or that terrorist group is really a threat to our country, Al-Qaeda actually attacked us, so we should at least pursue and try them as the criminals that they are.

This is a fallacy, though, because, as every sensible person knows, Al-Qaeda and other America-haters practice terrorism as a protest against our foreign policy and our government, not our way of life in general. Obama will continue to make it worse and continue to breed more anti-American sentiment and terrorism, in addition to exhausting our resources and crippling our economy, by continuing the neoconservative war on terrorism.

Posted in Foreign policy, Obama crimes, Obama failures