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Opinion: Escalating Afghan War Will Destroy Obama Presidency, Law School Dean Warns
Posted on July 02, 2009 by sherwood
by Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer
Escalating the war in Afghanistan will destroy the Obama presidency “almost as surely as (Viet) Nam and Iraq destroyed Johnson’s, Nixon’s and Bush II’s,” a noted law dean warns.
Obama “seems to be drinking the same Kool Aid that was drunk by, and destroyed the presidencies” of those predecessors, writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover.
Obama’s policy of striking on the Afghan “central front” to thwart terrorist attacks in their sanctuary while rebuilding roads and providing electricity “is all very reminiscent of ---in parts identical to---Johnson’s and Nixon’s statements about Nam, Nixon’s about Cambodia (a claimed sanctuary for planning and refitting), and Bush II’s about Iraq,” Velvel recalls.Obama’s statements “would indicate he has learned nothing from the debacles in Indo China and Iraq. They are especially dumb for having been made by a guy who is quite smart,” Velvel said. He noted, “Britain and Russia, both at the height of empire, met disaster in Afghanistan , and so would Obama in all probability.” If Obama believes the U.S. must fight in Afghanistan, “then his presidency is already doomed. Neither Alexander the Great, nor the British nor the Russians succeeded there.”
Velvel said it is understandable the U.S. went after Osama bin Laden’s camps in Afghanistan initially but asks “what is our basic reason for, (and) what are we accomplishing by, fighting in Afghanistan now?”
Initially, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan because its government, the Taliban, had harbored Al Qaeda, so the U.S. decided to depose the Taliban instead of simply destroying Al Qaeda’s camps, Velvel said. He called this “a very questionable decision if one that was at least understandable given the temper of the time.”
“But in the long run it didn’t work. The Taliban are back. The opium is back. The warlords continue. And when they have to, Al Qaeda personnel simply go into Pakistan….even if we were to commit a million men, Al Qaeda will simply go into Pakistan,” Velvel said.
Bin Ladin and Al Qaeda, he notes, have moved to Pakistan , do not need to use Afghanistan as their base and are not doing so. “Are we going to fight in that nation even though Al Qaeda is now ensconced in Pakistan and has no need of Afghanistan ?” Velvel asks. “What is it with the United States ---does it have some kind of horrific national death wish?” Two authorities on the Middle East, former Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski and former Colin Powell Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson have expressed their opposition to any heavy added militarization by the U.S. in Afghanistan, Velvel notes.
By escalating the conflict in Afghanistan , Velvel points out that “huge numbers” of voters that supported Obama “will leave him and begin assailing him.”
“One can only pray that a smart guy like Obama sees the light on this and does not fight a war in Afghanistan . Otherwise one will in future have to write that war destroyed the presidencies of Wilson, Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Bush and Obama,” Velvel writes.
Velvel’s thoughts on Afghanistan are published in his new book of essays “America 2008,” available from Doukathsan press by contacting rosa@mslaw.edu .
The book appears just as U.S. air attacks on alleged terrorist sanctuaries in Pakistan and Afghanistan have created widespread dismay among their peoples owing to the civilian casualties they produced.
Velvel cofounded the Massachusetts School of Law in 1988. It was established to provide an affordable, quality education to minority, immigrant, and low-income students who could not otherwise enter the legal profession. He has been honored by legal publications for his contributions to legal education and his essays on the law and political issues have won a number of awards from the book publishing industry.
To arrange for interviews with Dean Velvel, please contact Sherwood Ross at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com.
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Today America has 400 Marines on mission of the SWORD 02July2009 this second. Here is a vision of futre from past. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ezekiel 38: 2-9(NASB), which is possibly an Armageddon or pre-Armageddon end time scenario (some speculate seven or even three and a half years prior to the Battle of Armageddon) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. And I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired,(this references airborn marines jumpup hookup shuffle to the door parcuting into the mountains of Pakstan fully equiped) a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords; Persia, Ethiopia, and Put with them, and all of them with shield and helmet; Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops – many peoples with you.
Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them. And you will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.’”
The prophet Ezekiel is prophesying an invasion of Israel, whose people had been scattered to the nations and regathered in the “latter days”. The confederation is headed by Gog who comes from the “remotest parts of the north”
(Ezekiel 39:2). Many of the countries named are recognizable. In brief God divinely intervenes through a great earthquake, pestilence, torrential rain, fire, brimstone and by sowing internal discord in the ranks of the invaders. The invading army is annihilated (Ezekiel 3-6, NASB):
TALABAN CAPTURES PAKSTANS NUCLAR MISSLES. THIS EVENT IS VERY VERY CLOSE, PAY ATTENTION.
“And I shall strike your bow from your left hand, and dash down your arrows from your right hand. You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops, and the peoples who are with you; I shall give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field. You will fall on the open field; for it is I who have spoken, declares the Lord God. And I shall send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety (possibly a worldwide nuclear exchange); and they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 39:14-15 informs us men will be appointed to pass through the land for seven months to search the land and put markers by the bones. Special buriers, perhaps a radioactive “decontamination team”, will then bury the dead in the valley of Hamon-gog.
(Deuteronomy 18:22).What does all this have to do with the AntiChrist?The AntiChrist will merely be a man without the ennobling characteristics of God. He could even be a Christian who has forsaken his God for a “mess of potage”, for worldly power and ambition
He will certainly be a ruthless politician, a wolf in sheep’s clothes. The reality is any man without God is potentially an AntiChrist.
By D.C. on 2009-07-02 21:18:55 OBAMA HAS DEPARTED FROM HIS FAITH IN HIS ANNOUNCEMENT, JOINING THE NON-DEOMNONITIONAL CHURCH AT CAMP DAVID. Pay attention to this current TIME LINE.
By Comrade Ivan on 2009-07-03 07:05:25
Make love not war. Let the crooks in washington DC go fight their war for big oil
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