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'After 18 Months, Our Troops Will Begin to Come Home'

In response to Emperor George W. Obama's promise after announcing he will order 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, I can only say ...

... BWAAAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!

Just like when he immediately removed troops from Iraq. Just like when he pledged not to build any more bases. Just like when he ended war in 2009.

I need bigger pockets to carry all this change.

Strong-Arming the Swiss

Fantastic article today by J.H. Huebert about how the criminal U.S. state is bullying the Swiss in the attempt to obtain private bank records from private citizens who have the audacity to try to protect their private property.

I also wrote about this last month here.

The Two Faces of Obama

Justin Raimondo writes

Obama ran for president as the spokesman for the underdog – the little guy just managing to make ends meet, whose volunteerism and contributions over the Internet catapulted the Illinois senator into the running. Yet the reality is that Obama was corporate America’s candidate from the very beginning, and they showed it by lavishly financing his campaign: the money emanating from Goldman Sachs was quite impressive, and, together with the DNC, Wall Street buried the Republicans, who were outspent by three-to-one [.pdf] (and out of gas in any event). Unsurprisingly, the top echelons of the president’s economic team are filled with former Goldman Sachs officials – and, not coincidentally, that firm is the primary beneficiary of the AIG/bank bailout.

The ruling elites of this country, confronted by the specter of a rising populist anger, have found in President Obama a subtle and skillful anger-management expert. For years they’ve been frustrated in Washington, as their efforts to fight a spreading war met increasing resistance from the American people. Divine Providence smiled down on them, however, as Obama suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Here was an "antiwar" candidate who said we’ve been fighting the wrong war all along – and, upon taking office, immediately rectified that by sending 21,000 more troops to the wilds of Central Asia.

Read the whole thing.

The U.S. Doesn't Break the Law!

Chinese officials are accusing the U.S. of violating international and Chinese maritime laws after confronting an American "surveillance" vessel 70 miles south of Hainan, an island 60 miles off the coast of the mainland. To which Lew Rockwell accurately objects: 

The US government claims a 200-mile limit on its coastal waters, but cedes other countries much less. ... When the Chinese object, they are awful. Imagine if the Chinese tried to sail a spy ship 75 miles off San Diego. Kaboom! But here's my question: given that the US is begging China to buy more of the government's uncommercial paper, is it really smart to be antagonizing them?

D.L. Hughley Is a Ron Paul Fan

This is just some great stuff. Hughley repeatedly tells Ron Paul that he's way too reasonable to be a Republican and essentially agrees that Obama is following Bush's foreign policy to the letter.

Ron Paul: Opening minds one broadcast at a time.

Are We in the Twilight Zone?

Just when I thought that the comments the Holy One spoke to the mayors were the most risible thoughts of the day, I then found an article about Hillary Clinton and China. Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group was shocked that the new secretary of state "vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China." 

Clinton said that the US would continue to press China over its human rights violations, "[b]ut our pressing on those issues can't interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis," Clinton told reporters in Seoul just before leaving for Beijing.

Then I read this quote by T. Kumar of Amnesty International USA: "The United States is one of the only countries that can meaningfully stand up to China on human rights issues."

Because as we all know that our country would never torture or arrests its own citizens or citizens of other countries simply because they look like terrorists. And even if one administration did such things, I'm sure the next administration would not hestitate to investigate the previous administration to discover the truth. Because we live under the best government on earth that ever existed. Without the US government there would be terrorists attacks on our own soil, floods would destroy our cities, bridges would collapse without warning, wall street bankers would swindle thousands of citizens, greedy businessmen would allow salmonella to taint our peanut butter, and armed thugs would break into our houses and shoot our pets.

Obama's Half-Truths on Foreign Policy

According to the AP, Barack Obama's first formal televised interview as president aired today on an Arabic network.

Obama cited his Muslim background and relatives, practically a taboo issue during the U.S. presidential campaign, and said in the interview, which aired Tuesday, that one of his main tasks was to communicate to Muslims "that the Americans are not your enemy."

That's true. "Americans" aren't anybody's enemy. The American state is. But I'm guessing Mr. Very Important Voice will prove to be all talk and no action.

For instance, Obama hits the right notes by saying that American diplomats need to "start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating."

Well, no kidding. But he made this comment in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is hardly the United States' biggest problem. If the new president really wants to "repair relations" with the Muslim world, he could begin by pulling U.S. occupying forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq. And that would only be the beginning.

Until then, I'd expect the recipients of American genocide to be influenced more by troop withdrawals than by lofty rhetoric.