Hairy Chested Liberals of War or Crude Oil Soaked Fake Christians of War.

God help us all.

If Barack Hussein Obama is president, war in Africa will be inevitable.  As the neocons brought the “gift” of democracy to the Middle East, so Obama will bring it to Africa.  He has repeatedly stated that, if elected, he will invade Darfur.

Let’s bomb ‘em back to the stone age!!!

er, nevermind…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Darfur_refugee_camp_in_Chad.jpg

I’ve warned about this one is another forum and Bede is absolutely right about Obama providing us a war in Africa.  And he may not be the only candidate with this in mind.

I do hope the Royal Headquarters of AFRICOM will be suitably adorned with a giant Gold Statue of General Gordon missing....what was it, oh yes,.... his head, on a pike on the ramparts of Khartoum.

Is there a manual hidden in the Pentagon entitled
“Silly Adventures of the Waning British Empire We want to top”?

Ahh the stirring chants and Souza Marches of the Military-Industrial-Entertainment-Self Immolation Complex.

You worry too much.  These overseas adventures are driven by domestic politics (not oil or the like),
specifically they are driven by the Republican’s growing inability to compete in domestic politics in the
face of the overwhelming cultural power of their supposed opponents.  It is an expensive and desperate campaign con game that can’t go on forever, at least without a rest.  What’s more, the vast majority of the American people realize what a savage, irredeemable hell hole most of Africa is, and even the
Republicans understand there is no domestic political reward for getting physically tangled there.  (We signed
a treaty that obliges us to intervene militarily in cases of “genocide” but you don’t see anyone rushing to honor that treaty in Darfur, do you?) Besides, the chief way that the Republicans have sold out their nation and constituents in order to placate the media dictatorship (while servicing big business) is with open borders.  We already have virtually no national interests because we are no longer really a nation, which is why almost all our recent wars have been in the name of what some call “liberal imperialism”, wars to impose the principles of multiculturalism that don’t work at home on basket cases abroad, aimed more at supporting the policies back home than helping others.  It is hard to imagine the coming third-world/leftist ruling coalition spending money overseas that could be divvied up between the tribal groups making up the empire back home.  It is also hard to imagine that even the Mid-Western and Southern white military adventurers who now make up the majority of combat troops will continue to volunteer to die for this new political reality.  Even they are bound to tumble sometime to the suckerhood of dying overseas for a system that has as its chief moral principle their dispossession and elimination.

Soon to be out on video game Africom!!!  Video games that glorify war are making sure there is an unending supply of mindless morons willing to sign on for mayhem.  As if the public school system wasn’t enough.

well it always was odd that 90% of the continent of Africa was part of “EUCOM” (the European command), so in a geographically purist perspective this kind of makes sense, but I wouldn’t get all wrapped around the axle about this meaning we are going to find ourselves mired in the depths of the Congo—most of “Africom” will be administered right out of good old Stuttgart and all that will REALLY change is that you’ll have a lot more “brass hat” jobs to divvy up.

Speaking of Imperialist adventuring, George MacDonald, the creator of the Flashman series, died today. I suggest making his stories required reading in the Imperial Corps campsites. His stories will introduce them to what is coming.

@Dorde,

I came into possession of Flashman a number of years ago.  Do you recommend it or should I toss it?

Now what?

Every time one of these bureaucratic contortions churns its way through the Pentagon, we slam headfirst into another unmitigated disaster. Almost five years downwind from the start of the Iraq War, we know the Office of Special Plans was an OSP at our breast.

And now… this crap. What are they planning for the Dark Continent?

We can pretty much be sure the neocons are still in the drivers’ seats – at both Democratic and Republican headquarters. Gone are the days of the gasbag, self-aggrandizing drivel, or the David-Frum-style excommunications from all elements “conservative.” But they still hold the trump cards, they still have their ingrown, nepotistic media lap-doggies and they still control the top lobbies.

But why Africa? Why now? Africa is a chronic – if resource-rich – basket case. Perennially, it is a continent of nations collectively unable to rise above subsistence-level social provision. It’s all the fault of… colonialism, post-colonialism. Economic… colonialism. Racism. Dammit – honkies. We’re to blame. The disastrous reality of Africa is always the fault of outsiders. At least… that’s what we’re told, and told, and told.

Many is the time I’ve thought: Shoot, we’re getting blamed for the sorry state of affairs, anyway - why not at least benefit from the situation. There are the Africans, trapped in a state of eternal Neolithic backwardness. Why not bump them off? Take their countries? There’s oil. There’s gold. There is a virtual treasure trove of non-ferrous metal and mineral wealth.

Dammit – there’re DIAMONDS!

Is that it? Is that what they’re thinking inside the Beltway? Will we pay for our Mideastern adventures by looting other parts of the world as kind of an American Raj?

If that’s the plan - and, admittedly, this is the worst of worse-case scenearios – is there anything that will turn us from this grand-scale geographic piracy? We know we can’t rely on our consciences. We’ve already rolled on waterboarding and shredding the Constitution. What’s left? Our best intentions?

Colonial exploits only lead to dependency… white man in heap big trouble living off the labor of others… no such thing as a free lunch even if you steal it

<<Will we pay for our Mideastern adventures by looting other parts of the world as kind of an American Raj?>>

I’m sure the planners haven’t thought this far ahead, but where’s the next place to invade to pay for the African adventures?  South America?  Then what?  Asia?  Eventually, it comes down to America invading itself to pay for these adventures.

The problem: 90% of Americans are too concerned with American Idol (aka the “Presidential primaries") to think about this stuff.

These overseas adventures are driven by domestic politics (not oil or the like)

I have to respectfully disagree. The OILgarchy folks see our military more and more as oils security force. This video is about Africa: Americas new oil target.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzJdtuNa_Y

America already has looted itself to a fair-thee-well. The Corporate Bolsheviks and Bunko Government might not have turned guns on the populace but they have conscripted them in a defacto auto-plundering and debt sell-off of magnificent proportions. Guns are not required in this instance, the sheep are shorn cooperatively.

Evangelism will finish the work begun by the government-corporate comintern.

@M.Nucci
Yes, by all means read the stories. The are historically accurate tongue-in-cheek “adventures” starring that rogue of rogues Harry Flashman. They are well written (although a level below the historical novels of Patrick O’Brian)fun with lots of “footnotes”. And , of course, the author was George MacDonald Fraser.

I second the recommendation of George MacDonald Fraser and the swashbuckling Flashman.  There was a nice endnote (obituary) on GMF by the foxy Margalit in the 3 Jan 08 edition of the New York Times.  I scavenged the paper at the local café.  I wouldn’t lay out a nickel for the rag, although I confess to sometimes reading foxy Tom Friedman in lieu of the comic strips.