Obama’s war

[IndianaGreen]

Obama’s war

17 July 2009

With Obama approaching the end of his sixth month in the White House, there is growing evidence that his administration is in only the first stages of what is shaping up to be a major and sustained escalation of the US war in Afghanistan.

Elected in large part because of the hostility of American working people to the militarist policies of the Bush administration, Obama and the Pentagon are waging an intensified and brutal counter-insurgency campaign that has the potential of dwarfing the carnage in Iraq and dragging on for another decade.

July, little more than half over, has already become the deadliest month for US-led forces since the war began nearly eight years ago. A total of 46 occupation troops have been killed, 24 of them Americans. This death toll—approximately three a day—is equivalent to what took place during the heaviest fighting in Iraq.

For Afghan government forces, the toll is far higher, with the regime in Kabul reporting that between six and ten members of the country’s national police are being killed daily.

As always, the greatest price is paid by the Afghan people themselves, who are being killed in growing numbers and more directly subjected to the conditions of foreign occupation, as US troops carry out their “clear and hold” operations.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/pers-j17.shtml

[jody]

1. Obama's war it is and history suggests he can't win it.

[zbdent]

2. gee ... he's been in office less than 6 months ...

and it's Obama's war ...

Bush was in office 8 months, and the "liberal media" was allowing Repugniconvicts to paint "fighting terrorism" as Bush cleaning up Clinton's failure ...