Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Vietnam-istan

Daniel Ellsberg used this word today in DN! with Amy Goodman. Also Ralph Peters used it in the New York Post. last summer. I was a teenager when Ellsberg changed his life completely, from a clog in the machine, to a very painful sore toe in the US Empire apparatus.

Below I write about seeing what is in plain sight, if we just chose to see. Karzai's brother, Wali, just like Carlos Salinas de Gortari's brother, Rubén, in the early nineties in Mexico, runs a corrupt operation in that country. Ellsberg warns us that now Obama, just like Clinton then, chooses to lie to the American people about the useless efforts of the US soldiers to win the war, in the aptly called Vietnam-istan.

If you want a dictionary to translate from Vietnam to Afghanistan read Tom Friedman.

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