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Obama Administration Disconnect
President Obama promised Change To Believe In as a candidate, rose to national notice on the power of grassroots online networking and was elected with a clear mandate to end the military aggression and foreign occupations initiated through deceiving both Congress and the voting public.
It seems that if we are to take President Obama at his word, then the actions of his administration represents a clear break with his agreement with the United States voting public. Now this clear break threatens to become an unbridgeable abyss.
President Obama appears to legitimize wars and conflicts, allowing his administration to pursue them more aggressively in Afghanistan and Pakistan under a general (Stanley McChrystal) James Petras calls a “notorious psychopath” and responsible for committing war crime atrocities when he headed the Pentagon’s infamous Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
What are we supposed to think about that?
Is this what we voted for?
The Obama Administration renamed the “Global War on Terror” to the “Overseas Contingency Operation” and torture remains official US policy.
The Obama Administration has been confrontational and belligerent towards numerous countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, China, Occupied Palestine, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Somalia, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Honduras by deposing a democratically elected president and obstructing efforts to reinstate him.
It certainly seems that the Obama Administration is pursuing the same policies as the Bush Administration:
- permanent wars and occupations
- record amounts of military spending at a time America has no enemies
- supplying arms and munitions to rogue state allies
- confronting independent ones with sanctions, belligerent threats, and more war
- subverting the rule of law
- pursuing a global attack against human rights and civil liberties
- using Security Council pressure and intimidation to enforce policy and block constructive measures through vetoes
- overall continuing America’s hegemonic pursuit of “full spectrum dominance” over all land, surface and sub-surface sea, air, space, electromagnetic spectrum and information systems with enough overwhelming power to fight and win global wars against any adversary, including with nuclear weapons preemptively.
President Obama must be told that his administration is not following the agreement he reached with United States voters. It can be done by using the same grassroots online networking that brought him to national attention.
Help connect the Obama Administration with the desires of United States voters as represented by President Obama.
Let them know we mean peace.
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December 1st, 2009 at 2:51 pm
I cannot believe that our President, who I lovingly voted for, is NOT going to say tonight that he’s bringing our troops home as he promised but rather, instead, will be saying what equates to sending more of our country’s finest men and women to their deaths. I pray for the President to reconsider what he is going to say tonight…for the sake of America and people all around the world who are tired of wars and want peace.
December 1st, 2009 at 4:46 pm
WTF is this guy doing?this is why i stopped voting in the last election.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
I respect the idea that people can have opinions and share them online. I also respect the right for people to change their minds after learning more facts.
In that regards, I believe that is why our president has changed his position. In the past 11 months he has had unlimited resources at his disposal and has probably learned that the “enemy combatants” abroad are more of a threat that previously thought.
With all due respect to Willie, I believe President Bush and President Obama know more about global security than a respected recording artist or a few internet geeks like myself.
December 12th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
And to those who have read this far down the posts, you probably fall into the same category I’m in … an internet geek.
December 16th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Many of us who oppose war do not care about the justifications politicians may make. Most, if not all of the time, it is to appease some and increase their chances for re-election.
War will never end war. Afghanistan is not a threat to us. We could easily create sanctions like we did in Iraq.
There was absolutely no reason to attack Iraq. The sanctions that had been imposed were working extraordinarily well. The same would work in Afghanistan.
Obama sold out – pure and simple.
I don’t think Bush or Obama are more qualified than Willie Nelson when it comes to global security. In fact we are less “secure”now with these guys at the helm.
December 17th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
@ Blades R
The official line regarding the pretense for invading and occupying Afghanistan, killing that ever elusive terrorist-on-kidney-dialysis, appears unbelievable even if marginally more legitimizing than the invasion and occupation of Iraq, which originated under fabricated pretenses and continues to this day.
I believe “enemy combatants” have emerged only in response to U.S. foreign military adventures, destroying local indigenous cultures and replacing them with bad knockoffs of American consumerism.
Intelligent and informed people the world over recognize that the threat is as great as our government wishes to make it and many wish it to stop it doing so in our name.
December 30th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
We are at war with alquede and they hide in diffrent countries.you wish to talk things pout with these people.the don’t view you as a person because of their extreme views. It will be you or them but one will die.
January 15th, 2010 at 5:33 am
Obama said, “We are at war, we are at war against al-Qaida,” so, Mr. President, why are we fighting the Taliban? We need to find a way to end the military-industrial complex. The Taliban opposed Bin Laden attacking the US. All of the top ten US defense contractors contributed to Obama’s (and McCain’s) campaigns. Instead of bringing our troops home, Obama is keeping them their to continue paying off his campaign.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:11 am
I didn’t “lovingly” vote for Obama, but I DID vote for him. I am, and have been, dissapointed in President Obama. He is so far removed from candidate Obama it is disgusting. I now believe nearly all or probably all politicians lie. I am 64 years old, and I have lived long enough to witness the decline of democracy in the United States.
President Eisenhower forwarned us about the Military Industrial Complex. It saddens me to know, that he was absolutely correct. However, the American people became and continue to be complacent. We have to share in the responsibility for what is happening in this country with the politicians we elect.
I heard on the news today,that under the Obama administration, there has been a threefold increase in Military Contractors in Afganistan. That is an abomination. I’m beginning to think that Obama is a fraud. How can he reverse so many of his “so called promises” he made on the campaign trail, without being a phony?
We are stuck with this Administration until 2012, but we have 2010 to start “cleaning house” (and senate too, tee hee.) I would like to see every sitting senator and representative voted out of office. Whether or not that would make any difference I don’t know. But “Career” senators and representatives is not what our “Founding Fathers” intended. The people of the United States of America needs “new blood” representing us. THROW THE BUMS OUT!”