What's good for the Industrial/Military Corporations is good for the
American Empire! That is, just so long as the Empire oppresses the
Working Class and keeps them in their place.
So far...so good.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/22/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Excerpt: "The U.S. military officially admits it's fighting in seven wars
across the globe - Yemen, Niger, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, and
Libya."
By teleSUR
21 March 18
The U.S. military officially admits it's fighting in seven wars across the
globe - Yemen, Niger, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Libya.
The U.S. military officially admits it's fighting in seven wars across the
globe - Yemen, Niger, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Libya.
The admonition comes in an unclassified White House document - "Report on
the Legal and Policy Frameworks Guiding the United States' Military Force
and Related National Security Operations."
The report, revealed by the New York Times, reads that the U.S. has been
fighting 16 years in Afghanistan against the Taliban, the Haqqani network,
Al Qaeda, and the Islamic State group. In Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya the
U.S. is fighting against and supporting regional combatants to defeat the
Islamic State group.
The report claims the government has given "limited support" to Saudi
Arabia
officials to defeat the Houthi and Saleh-aligned factions in Yemen.
However,
the direct sale of U.S. weapons to the Saudi government has reached well
over two billion dollars since the conflict began in 2015, which some U.S.
senators, including Bernie Sanders from Vermont, wanted to end today by
introducing a resolution that would halt U.S. help to Saudi Arabia in its
war effort.
"This is one of the great humanitarian disasters of our time," Sanders said
of the three-year Saudi attack on Yemen. The resolution was shot down
55-44.
In Somalia, the U.S. is using heavy airstrikes to fight Al Shabaab. In
Niger, the report says U.S. troops were twice deployed - once in October
and
once in December of last year - "in self-defense (against) elements
assessed
to be part of ISIS," or The Islamic State.
The report is part of the 2018 defense spending bill that requires
administrations to hand over to Congress a comprehensive list of current
U.S. combat involvement.
President Donald Trump had said during his campaign "I will never send our
finest into battle unless necessary, and I mean absolutely necessary, and
will only do so if we have a plan for victory with a capital V," however
this week's report indicates that under Trump U.S. military and
intelligence
interventions in conflicts around the world show no sign of letting up.
Boston University professor of U.S. International Relations and History
says
that these are "no-name" wars for which Washington has no exit strategy.
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