Sunday, October 23, 2011

Serving the Citizens





Barack Obama, who came into office with avid support from the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy and among the reformist left, pledged to carry out the “global war on terror” with greater effectiveness than the widely reviled Republican Bush administration. While drawing down U.S. forces in Iraq, Obama has escalated the occupation of Afghanistan and massively expanded drone attacks, slaughtering villagers from Pakistan to Yemen and Somalia. The assassination of Osama bin Laden by Navy SEAL commandos in Pakistan in May was an act of imperialist arrogance typical of the U.S. “cops of the world.” Now, by assassinating al-Awlaki, the Obama administration has declared in effect that a U.S. citizen designated a terrorist can be summarily executed: no legal charges, no trial.




Obama appears to be reducing military occupation yet expands it greatly
U.S. acts as World Police fighting "terror". 
U.S. assassination of U.S. citizen sets the precedent that citizens declared terrorists ( outside of the judiciary) can be arbitrarily assassinated. 
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Obama exacerbates the war on terror's ability to self perpetuate.
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2 comments:

  1. AJ CoteOctober 23, 2011 at 8:14 PM

    http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/988/al-awlaki.html


    This is the source

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  2. Matt SillimanOctober 25, 2011 at 6:16 PM

    I wonder whether the author intends the argument you construct, or is simply listing assertions in the manner of a report. The difficulty with the passage is that it seems that several of its statements might be the intended conclusion, with no clear indication where it is going.

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