//Our new mission, if Time Magazine is to be believed, is to defend Afghan women against the Taliban, whom we created in the first place, to fight the Soviets. America gets a kick out these flip flops. We propped up Saddam Hussein, then we had him hung. We fought Communist Vietnam, then we staged a naval exercise with that same regime, as happened just recently, riling up China. Tension feeds the military industrial complex. Wars are even better. //

Compare that with this:

"At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. " (Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell)

The right wing republican elite have never done their own dirty work,why thats just not Christian, they look for people that are mentally challenged, brain dead, uneducated or have criminal and violent backgrounds to recruit for doing criminal or bad deeds.

As a victim of right wing Christian gang stalking, and having been in situations that came close to major conflicts or fatal accidents because of these zombies, the question should be where does this Michael Enright hang out and with who.

You will get all your answers.

FYI ,, The right wing Christian elite that organize and run community watch gang stalking groups are cruel viscous torture freaks,they wont kill you, but they will do everything they can to push you to suicide or being homeless and destitute.

These people are real scumbags.

When the general American public find out, the hunt for the gang stalking leaders will be relentless.

The first paragraph is a devastating analysis and should be on every newspaper front page across the country.

I love Dinh's writing. This is not a long article. It's right to point, cuts through any kind of BS and gives such a stark clear picture of where we're at in regards to Obama. And, of course, it is very bad. For so many of us who don't like Obama -- or Michelle "I-don't-have-time-for-the-Congo" Obama (this was one of the last straws for me regarding this lady) -- this has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the facts of what these two are about and, also, perceptions. Not having a crystal ball I don't know for sure what would happen if we had an all-white version of the Obamas in WH and the same garbage was going on. People weren't too happy with Dubya, though. If a white First Lady took a lavish trip to Spain how would we feel at this point I would feel the same anger and resentment. I would not mind these people having the time of their life in the WH with all their lavish parties, movie nights and all the other baloney that is going on, and the vacations IF ANYTHING WAS BEING DONE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Thanks to the hate mongers, if you don't like Barack and Michelle Obama you are automatically racist. And that, my friends, I think was also part of the plan all along.

"eye on the wallet," yep, that's all you need to know about these two.

Obama's stance on Muslims -- support the mosque over here and murder them over there. I'm just not impressed.

Someone really needs to proofread this piece. It is embarrassing in the number of mistakes it contains:

not loped--lopped
not authorative--authoritative. (or perhaps another word altogether)
misused commas everywhere
people are hanged, not hung (though some are quite well hung!)
"Like Bush, Clinton and the rest of our bank bailing out, paid for politicians, Obama..."--so many things wrong here, it might be better to start over.

Linh Dinh may not be a native speaker of English. That is fine--I like to hear voices influenced by other cultures. But he should hand his work over to someone who can identify and correct the mistakes. Hell--I am a native speaker and I do that for material that will be read by the general public.

interesting that it takes a vietnamese immigrant to this geopolitical entity called the usa to write so concisely on the way it is here...

IT is so obvious from outside the USA, that 9/11 was an inside job, used to provide cover for the USA acting as Israel's muscle in the ME. Hell, even the Jewish businessman that owned the buildings made a billion on the deal.

The first sign that you are near the truth is when the establishment starts to call you a conspiracy nut.

Through the simple use of Occam's Razor, and a brief look at the bloody imperialist history of the USA, confirms that this MUST be the case..

A most rational and just world military domination.

A twisted plot of airline terrorist attack,
with well prepared demolition and betrayal of trust,
The twin towers collapsed down as a pancake stack,
Followed by a nearby block, all into concrete dust.

Al Queda was the villain so very easily named,
The chief miscreant was found at a Taliban location
Rather than legal extradition with evidence claimed,
The US launched war to occupy yet another nation.

Playing for keeps was always the chosen plan
A massive carpet bombing was followed by invasion,
even if this failed to capture the culprit or his gang.
the armed forces next task was long term occupation,

This destitute place that grows the poppy flower
with tribes and religion, a crowded land and hard.
The Taliban are not easily destroyed by corrupt power,
but withdrew in strategem, to the mountains guard.

The expensive forces of the empire and its agents
battalions equipped with high technology, every military tool,
continues the war by killing both civilians and insurgents
but only just manages to keep a corrupt government in Kabul

Stage two of the master plan was brought into play
Saddam Hussein of Iraq, opposed the will of the empire.
His people and forces were weakened by siege every day,
of a decade of sanctions and bombing that made their lives dire.

The land of Iraq, much wrecked by war, was falsely accused,
of being packed with invisible weapons of destruction.
So against the United Nations final vote that refused
The empire geared up for a final knock out production.

The worlds most dangerous threat did immediately succumb,
the shock and awe was far overdone, and it broke apart a nation.
Religion and race fought each other and many did themselves entomb.
Millions more have fled the insurgent religious infestation.

So now the two former countries are sort of pacified, but only just.
They have the worlds largest military bases, to grimly enforce,
that hopes of freedom of its subject peoples are now totally bust.
and their puppets of power should hand over every resource.

So there is no imminent danger yet that the oil empire will fall,
Just to be sure there is plan Stage three still lying in the works.
The nation of Iran, broken free of empire yoke, plays to stall,
as beneath its deserts much of the world oil wealth still lurks.

Again a weapons and sanctions ploy is trotted out and abused
Every single move that Iran makes, and every word it says,
by the oil and blood thirsty world, is of deception accused,
since the empire knows well that deceit really pays.

The most obscene amount of wealth by military power still leads
is bent on killing for oil to comfort the end of its days.
On keeping the military at enormous strength it always succeeds,
To the detriment of all the other possible tasks and ways.

On spending more on technologies to harvest the eternal sun,
instead of burning coal and the very last of the cheap oil,
They would rather put in your childrens faces a bomb or a gun.
A right to consume and kill over your right in horror to recoil.

Well, You have to give Obama credit for bringing the nation together - nearly everyone can agree that they despise the man! The only people who still seem to like him are a certain class of bourgeois liberals who cling to the belief that having a token negro in the White House, by itself, represents real progress - even if he does nothing to help minorities and the working class.

Take my dear father and myself as an example. He is a traditional Archie Bunker style bigot and racist. I have become something of a radical, sort of a anarcho-primitivist Waspophobe. We have terrible fights over political and historical topics, yet we can both agree that we don't like Obama, my father because of the color of his skin, myself for the man inside!

"If you're not idealistic when you're young, you don't have a heart. If you're not nihilistic when you're old, you don't have a brain." - Sydlitz