Greenwald writes: "How do you know when you're an out-of-control empire?
When you keep bombing and deploying soldiers in places where you boast that
you've ended wars."
An F-16 lands on an aircraft carrier after engaging in airstrikes in Syria.
(photo: CENTCOM)
US Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama "Ended Two Wars"
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
01 October 15
We've ended two wars." - Barack Obama, July 21, 2015, at a DSCC fundraiser
held at a "private residence"
"Now that we have ended two wars responsibly, and brought home hundreds of
American troops, we salute this new generation of veterans." - National
Security Adviser Susan Rice, May 20, 2015
"His presidency makes a potentially great story: the first African-American
in the White House, who helped the country recover from recession and ended
two wars." - Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic, January 15, 2015, "America Will
Miss Obama When He's Gone"
Report from Airwars, August 2, 2015, detailing civilian deaths from
continuous U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria:
Data on airstikes in Syria and Iraq. (photo: The Intercept)
New York Times, today, headlined: "U.S. Planes Strike Near Kunduz Airport as
Fight Rages On"
"American warplanes bombarded Taliban-held territory around the Kunduz
airport overnight, and Afghan officials said American Special Forces were
rushed toward the fighting. . The situation for the Afghan forces improved
somewhat toward midnight: American warplanes conducted airstrikes at 11:30
p.m. and again at 1 a.m. on Taliban positions near the airport, an American
military spokesman said. . Around the same time, soldiers with the American
Special Forces headed out toward the city with Afghan commandos, according
to Afghan government officials."
How do you know when you're an out-of-control empire? When you keep bombing
and deploying soldiers in places where you boast that you've ended wars. How
do you know you have a hackish propagandist for a president? When you
celebrate him for "ending two wars" in the very same places that he keeps
bombing.
All of this, just by the way, is being done without any Congressional
approval, at least with regard to Iraq and Syria. As my colleague Cora
Currier noted when reporting on the Airwars report in August, these civilian
deaths are "a reminder of the extent to which the United States' air war in
Syria and Iraq has rolled ahead with little public debate over its
effectiveness. Congress has still not passed a specific legal authorization
for the war."
Russia today announced that its upper Parliament approved its own
imperialistic intervention and bombing campaign inside Syria, and that
legislative body was widely (and not inaccurately) derided by U.S.
commentators for being what the New York Times called a "rubber stamp." The
Obama administration, by contrast, does not even bother with the empty
ritual of Congressional approval for its bombing campaigns; the president
proved he is even willing to bomb a country after Congress rejected his
authorization to do so, as happened in Libya. Indeed, the one and only time
Obama venerated the need for Congressional approval for bombing was when he
was pressured to bomb the Assad regime for crossing his "red line" but did
not actually want to do so; as Charles Davis put it today, "Obama only seeks
Congress' authorization when he doesn't actually want to do something, as
when Assad crossed his 'red line.'"
Whatever else one wants to say about Iraq and Afghanistan, one cannot
honestly say that Obama ended the wars in those countries. The U.S.
continues to drop bombs on both, deploys soldiers in both, kills civilians
in both, and engages in a wide range of overt and covert force, all without
a shred of Congressional approval.
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US Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama "Ended Two Wars"
By Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
01 October 15
e've ended two wars." - Barack Obama, July 21, 2015, at a DSCC fundraiser
held at a "private residence"
"Now that we have ended two wars responsibly, and brought home hundreds of
American troops, we salute this new generation of veterans." - National
Security Adviser Susan Rice, May 20, 2015
"His presidency makes a potentially great story: the first African-American
in the White House, who helped the country recover from recession and ended
two wars." - Dominic Tierney, The Atlantic, January 15, 2015, "America Will
Miss Obama When He's Gone"
Report from Airwars, August 2, 2015, detailing civilian deaths from
continuous U.S.-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria:
Data on airstikes in Syria and Iraq. (photo: The Intercept)
New York Times, today, headlined: "U.S. Planes Strike Near Kunduz Airport as
Fight Rages On"
"American warplanes bombarded Taliban-held territory around the Kunduz
airport overnight, and Afghan officials said American Special Forces were
rushed toward the fighting. . The situation for the Afghan forces improved
somewhat toward midnight: American warplanes conducted airstrikes at 11:30
p.m. and again at 1 a.m. on Taliban positions near the airport, an American
military spokesman said. . Around the same time, soldiers with the American
Special Forces headed out toward the city with Afghan commandos, according
to Afghan government officials."
How do you know when you're an out-of-control empire? When you keep bombing
and deploying soldiers in places where you boast that you've ended wars. How
do you know you have a hackish propagandist for a president? When you
celebrate him for "ending two wars" in the very same places that he keeps
bombing.
All of this, just by the way, is being done without any Congressional
approval, at least with regard to Iraq and Syria. As my colleague Cora
Currier noted when reporting on the Airwars report in August, these civilian
deaths are "a reminder of the extent to which the United States' air war in
Syria and Iraq has rolled ahead with little public debate over its
effectiveness. Congress has still not passed a specific legal authorization
for the war."
Russia today announced that its upper Parliament approved its own
imperialistic intervention and bombing campaign inside Syria, and that
legislative body was widely (and not inaccurately) derided by U.S.
commentators for being what the New York Times called a "rubber stamp." The
Obama administration, by contrast, does not even bother with the empty
ritual of Congressional approval for its bombing campaigns; the president
proved he is even willing to bomb a country after Congress rejected his
authorization to do so, as happened in Libya. Indeed, the one and only time
Obama venerated the need for Congressional approval for bombing was when he
was pressured to bomb the Assad regime for crossing his "red line" but did
not actually want to do so; as Charles Davis put it today, "Obama only seeks
Congress' authorization when he doesn't actually want to do something, as
when Assad crossed his 'red line.'"
Whatever else one wants to say about Iraq and Afghanistan, one cannot
honestly say that Obama ended the wars in those countries. The U.S.
continues to drop bombs on both, deploys soldiers in both, kills civilians
in both, and engages in a wide range of overt and covert force, all without
a shred of Congressional approval.
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