PETRAEUS PROMOTES CIVIL WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

The following is an email from 16 July 2010 distributed by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, reprinted here at their request:

- Statement from Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition


Badly losing the war in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus has decided
to promote a violent civil war in Afghan villages.

That is the true intent of the new so-called Local Defense Initiatives
that Petraeus forced down the throat of Afghanistan's puppet
president Hamid Karzai. The new plan is a variant of the Community
Defense Initiative that Gen. Stanley McChrystal tried to impose on
Afghanistan after Obama selected him to lead the expanded war effort
in 2009.

The Petraeus strategy calls for putting 10,000 job-hungry Afghan
villagers on the Pentagon payroll. They will be given money and guns
so that they can form militias and shoot and kill other members of
their village who are asserted to be either pro-Taliban or opposed to
the U.S./NATO occupation.

The new strategy further underscores the criminal role of the Pentagon
generals. Petraeus is consciously fomenting civil war and ethnic
rivalry just as he did in Iraq. Gen. James Mattis, Petraeus' new
boss at Central Command, when speaking to a crowd in San Diego in
2005 about his experience in Afghanistan, said "it's a hell of a
lot of fun to shoot 'em."

President Obama and his military team recognize that it is less
damaging at home, where there is almost no support for this endless
occupation, to foment civil war in Afghanistan and pay desperate
Afghans to slaughter each other as a means of reducing U.S.
casualties.

U.S. taxpayers who are experiencing devastating cuts in state and
local budgets, layoffs of municipal workers, soaring tuition hikes in
public colleges-all because of budget shortfalls-will see
billions of their tax dollars go to fund the occupation of Afghanistan
and pay the salaries of poor Afghans so that they can shoot other poor
Afghans. This is a classic divide-and-conquer tactic used historically
by all colonial powers to break up a united resistance by the people
whose lands they occupy.

The Obama administration and its generals are borrowing a page from
Nixon and Kissinger's murderous "Vietnamization"
plan, which became the announced policy in 1969. Since there was a
rising tide of anti-war sentiment at home, Nixon and the Pentagon
wanted the Vietnamese to kill each other in greater numbers as a way
of diminishing U.S. war dead.

Millions of Vietnamese died during the war, as did 58,000 U.S. service
members. The U.S. strategy succeeded in creating an ocean of human
suffering, but it failed to alter the outcome. The Vietnamese, like
the Afghan people, were unwilling to live under foreign occupation.

ANSWER Coalition organizers and volunteers have in recent months been
working around the country to support the growing numbers of soldiers,
marines, veterans and military families who are speaking out against
the war in Afghanistan. We are reaching more and more active duty
service members and recently returned veterans who know that this
colonial-type war is based on lies by the politicians and the Pentagon
Brass. The ANSWER Coalition affiliate March Forward! is reaching out
to soldiers, marines and veterans.

We urge you to support this work by checking out March Forward's
Ten point program and signing up for email updates.


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