August 9, 2011
The Whack-a-Mole Endgame Begins in Afghanistan
Americans Have the Clock, But the Taliban Have the Time
By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch
Cap Ferrat, France
Obama’s surge and de-surge has, therefore, created a reinforcing dynamic that is playing into the hands of the insurgents by seducing the United States into increasing its reliance on a pointless, reactive, “whack-a-mole” strategy. Like a judo specialist, the insurgents will use the expenditure of American energies to exhaust American forces and paralyze American political willpower by inducing our military to over and under react to an unfolding welter widely dispersed insurgent attacks
Phi Beta Iota: At home, the teen riots have started in Philadelphia. More riots are certain to follow, and more “random” shootings of anyone representing the US Government are likely west of the Mississippi. This is almost the perfect storm–all that is missing is a water failure in New York City followed by a firestorm, and massive epidemic across California.
See Also:
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Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today
Review: An Atlas of Poverty in America–One Nation, Pulling Apart, 1960-2003
Review: Deer Hunting with Jesus–Dispatches from America’s Class War
Review: Harvest Of Rage–Why Oklahoma City Is Only The Beginning
Review: Nobodies–Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Review: Rage of the Random Actor
Strong Signals: Truth or Tyrannicide + RECAP
