GWOT: whose winning? whose losing?
Apparently, Osama’s first audio recording in a year — whose street outreach is driven by one of the hottest R&D companies out there, al-Jazeera — is due to the other side’s sense that they are losing and desperate to end the Global War on Terror (aka GWOT, amongst federal bureaucrats).
Or so, say the the smart set driving the hegemonic imperial zeal — composing foreign policy, (dis)coordinating this war and then waxing poetic about it on cable, whether Fox, CNN or PBS.
Yet, Robert Burns reported this week on the AP wire that an internal Pentagon assessment shows that the US Army approaches its own breaking point. The Pentagon analysis was done by a guy, Andrew Krepinevich, who wrote an article in Foreign Affairs five months ago called “How to Win In Iraq.”
All the while, bull-headed leadership — from the Oval Office to Defense Department, NSA and so on around the Cabinet table — wants to push imperial overstretch further. This month’s endeavor is establishing a unique quasi-military unit in Bangladesh that is to battle terrorism. [Question: and, what role has Bangladesh played in the Terror War? money? jihadis? impoverished millions?]
Fortunately, ABC’s Good Morning America news staff offered a wee bit of perspective earlier in the week. They had the sense cover some of that journalistic ‘other side’ by reporting how a recently translated video demonstrated al-Qaeda’s strength — renewed and revigorated daily by the continued Pax Americana onslaught of decency, humanity and self-determination. The video captured this with public calls for recruits on the streets of Pakistan (hey USAF, it makes it easier when your potential recruits believe in your mission) and what the news correspondent called the ‘jihad caravan’.