We can be fooled again

Howard Lisnoff
Online Journal
Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009

Letting go of an ideal and a sense of hopefulness came sooner than expected. Resignation set in faster than had been anticipated, leaving no illusions about the nature of the Obama administration’s plans for foreign policy.

Barack Obama promised to escalate both the war in Afghanistan and incursions into Pakistan during the presidential campaign. He appointed advisers who would continue Bush’s foreign policy and bluster in matters of war. Those who thought differently in regard to the violation of international law in Pakistan, and the idea that it is unequivocally and legally wrong to kill civilians indiscriminately didn’t even get the space of one hundred hours to have their hopes dashed. It would have been a break with contemporary U.S. foreign policy to have had at least one hundred days to consider the wrongheadedness of the projection of U.S. power in the Middle East and South Asia.

According to the Guardian (“President orders air strikes on villages in tribal area,” January 24), “Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for his first military action yesterday, missile strikes against suspected militants in Pakistan which killed at least 18 people.

“Four days after assuming the presidency, he was consulted by US commanders before they launched the two attacks. Although Obama has abandoned many of the ‘war on terror’ policies of George Bush while he was president, he is not retreating from the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders.

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“The US believes they are hiding in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan, and made 30 strikes last year in which more than 200 people were killed. In the election, Obama hinted at increased operations in Pakistan, saying he thought Bush had made a mistake in switching to Iraq before completing the job against al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“The US marine corps commander said yesterday that his 22,000 troops should be redeployed from Iraq to Afghanistan.”

And, if Obama’s readiness to use force was questioned by anyone in the anti-war movement, the same article in the Guardian guaranteed that this administration will not be of the Bush-Lite variety. “The strikes will help Obama portray himself as a leader who, though ready to shift the balance of American power towards diplomacy, is not afraid of military action.” Also, it appears that Obama will revive efforts to capture the alleged architect of terror, Osama bin Laden, an objective that even the hapless George W. Bush gave up on.

Meanwhile, the people of Afghanistan have taken to the streets. According to Reuters (“Afghans Protest Over Civilian Deaths,” January 25), “Thousands of Afghans protested against President Hamid Karzi and the United States on Sunday over reports of fresh civilian deaths caused by U.S.-led troops during a raid against Taliban militants.

“Nearly 700 civilians were killed in operations by foreign and Afghan forces against the militants until October last year, according to a national human rights body based on a U.N. estimate.”

Vice President Joe Biden reiterated the policy of the new administration saying that “the nation should expect more U.S. military casualties at the Obama administration plans to send additional troops to Afghanistan.

“Pentagon officials say they plan to send up to 30,000 additional troops to the Afghan war, where the Taliban is resurgent and violence has been on the rise. The request for more troops from military commanders was endorsed by the Bush administration and has been favored by the Obama government, too.” (“Biden: U.S. deaths to rise in Afghanistan,” The Palm Beach Post, January 26).

So, if any doubts linger as to the mettle of the new administration in Washington, D.C., the doubters can rest assured that the spirit of George W. Bush and his gang of international criminals has not really gone into retirement. They’re just using code words such as change and hope to catch some of those made weary by eight years of madness and unending war off guard. And the campaign call for diplomacy rather than violence? It didn’t even take one hundred hours to prove that we can be fooled again.

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10 Responses to “We can be fooled again”

Derek Rutter Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 6:10 am
To the people outside of the USA, it looks as if any president, whatever race or political party, can fool all of the people, all of the time.

Goodam Reply:
January 28th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Yes most people of other nations believe that Americans have been asleep for many years, as well as people of the western countries, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweeden.

They believe that they have lived a very confortable lives to notice anything that was going under their noses, and most cases, critics says that Americans, Canadians, Australians and most of the western countries, could not care one bit about the rest of the world, until now, that it is on their backyards and even now only few people are aware on what’s going on.

The majority of Americans are still being fooled by the Media and the politicians

In fact they are not wrong in saying this, you can’t blame them.
madcat Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 6:51 am
we are not all fooled nor asleep from massive aerial spraying of chemicals, etc. crib notes for ya truth hunters thomas.gov hr645 and fema, rex 84, operation red sky, ipto, masada option, echelon, maincore, metronet, op dragnet, strangedaysstrangeskies, uaff.us, stevequayle.com, whatdoesitmean.com, infowars, willthomasonline.net, ronald weinland, nibiru, center for global research, cutting edge ministeries, cern, haarp, the amero, north american union, illuminati satanic symbols, book of enoch on fallen ones, not aliens though could appear as same. good luck, with love and much harassment madcat.
That's what Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 6:58 am
This the same crap they said about Bush. 8 years ago Bush was starting the martial law plan. We’re all supposed to be in camps right now, what went wrong? Buy your water filters, the end is near, the end is near! Been hearing that for 10 years now Alex, when is this supposed to all go down, I got stuff to do and I can’t sit in my basement all day making more tin foil hats waiting for the end. Seriously though, if this is all supposed to be ordained on who is chosen leader by the zionist and stuff, then why didn’t you guys predict Obama was going to win back in October. You says its all a plot and the government is controlled by the zionists who pick our leaders, so there should have no surprise to you that Obama one as he is the chosen one. You didn’t pick him as the winner, you backed your Texan neo-con buddy Ron Paul. Obama doesn’t seem the type who would fit into the grove crowd or the rich-old-whiteguy group, yet somehow he is still one of them. And when martial law and the jews don’t take over during Obama’s administration, then what are you going to start saying. The next leader is going to do it for sure. O he will. Its coming I tell you. Listen to me people. And buy my DVD’s. And sign up and pay to my website so I can give you more information on when its coming. You people need to wake up and see the truth….For a price.

Steve Williams Reply:
January 28th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Bwahahaha! Are you serious?

The price of freedom is eternal vigilence. You prepare for the worst and hope like hell it doesn’t happen. And if it doesn’t, great. But you’re completely screwed if the worst happens and you were too busy ditzing out and not paying any attention.

Do you ever listen to A. Jones’ radio shows? Over and over and over and over he has said to burn the info to disk and hand them out for free. It’s his economic loss, but he’d rather have people using their brains and thinking about stuff that keeps people being free people instead of being eloi livestock to cannibalistic morlocks.

This is obviously a disinfo post.
Forced Freedom Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I guess since Americans are such fools, it is pretty simple to fool them, huh?

This is a fairly accurate statement about the MAJORITY of Americans since they are all tuned in to the nightly “Reality” shows that keep them in their own special little “Reality world”!

As soon as the next 9/11 “Event” happens, they are going to utilize it as their “Cue” to kill all the people they can, now it will be the cops doing alot of this killing so be prepared as they will not help you, they will kill you.

There are still some good cops out there that have not been through the Blackwater training and the majority of them can still be trusted, but, Blackwater trained? they’re washed BIGTIME!

Some time this year after they pass the CAMP legislation you will see the “Event”! ENJOY!

That's what Reply:
January 28th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Ok, so now its next year. Thought it was supposed to be before Bush left power. Guess I didn’t get the secret message hidden inside my tin foil hats that the NWO plan has changed.
pitofdoom Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 10:24 am
The New World Order is the same Old World Order of caesars fear & death, just with a little technology mixed in !!
Antifraud Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 11:27 am
This reminds me of the Chicago/LA mob puppet, Ronnie Reagan, covertly bombing Central/South American villages. At least I didn’t vote for the Chicago mob puppet, Obama, but the scum pulling their strings are all the same.

It does bother me that even highly educated Americans still believe that the Republican/Democrat label makes any difference in the results. Ron Paul clinging to the Republican brand name, is about like New Testament Saul/Paul clinging to his blood thirsty Roman citizenship.
Matt Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I was at rense.com and they had a link to that 20/20 special “Stupid in America”, regarding our failed public school system (the one I was brought up in/graduated from in ‘01). I pretty much already knew most of what it said to be true, as I’d experienced it all myself, but it actually explains alot about what we do (or don’t bother with) later as adults. Basically, if apathy were an infectious disease, the U.S. would be quarantined from the rest of the world. And while we all share the blame in the choices we make, the truth is that the people of this country have been deliberately conditioned (or “educated”) to not think critically about anything for probably a little over a century, ever since our great leaders adopted imperialism as their mantra. Yeah, they had wars with Mexicans and Indians before that, and frankly, I would rather have been born into a pre-colonial native Indian society than this one, but there was nothing so overtly corrupt and insane as current foreign and domestic policies.

Despite their test scores, this country’s children are brighter than you’d think, and ironically, that’s mirrored in their poor test scores. There are only three ways to really succeed in this country. First, you might be born into a wealthy family. Takes no hard work or effort and it has a big pay off. Inheritance is one of those major unaccounted-for flaws in the capitalist structure.

Second, you can be an entertainer (musician, filmmaker, actor, etc.) if your luck runs about one and several million, and you don’t really have to know a helluva lot. This is the purpose of reality TV shows like ‘American Idol’, as well as keeping up the obsession with primetime sports…not to actually make otherwise vaccuous, but amitious idiots successful, but to keep up the illusion that it’s pretty much your only hope for success which doesn’t involve becoming a criminal. I don’t even think these are neccesarily bad goals, but they’re a little overpaid and overhyped for what they do…

Third and final way; abandon any last thread of morality and become a criminal. You can go underground, or you can become a legal criminal for the state, either way, you work for the same people. You can go small-time and become a druglord, gang member, or a cop, you can join the military and become cannon fodder for a cause you know nothing about, or truly sell your soul and become a politician. Every one of them is a criminal, and not one requires intelligence or critical thinking. You’ll always get a paycheck at the end of the day… If actors are overpaid, then politicians and police officers are off the chart. These types of jobs should be strictly voluntary with no pay whatsoever.

Children see this everyday and they take it in. They’re demonstrably intelligent because they go on to emulate the most successful people. The don’t need to know anything about math, science, agriculture, literature, morality, or saddest of all, compassion and freedom, because it won’t get them anywhere in this society. Of course, a disfuntional society such as this won’t last long… It’ll probably take alot of people with it when it goes down, so the best you can really do is make your objections to it known, and then try to get out of its way when it starts to fall…