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A War To Lose
William Pfaff
Paris, August 7, 2013
– The war against terror now being conducted from the White House, with
the increasing use of drones, obviously is a self-perpetuating and
self-enlarging undertaking that of its nature guarantees that the United
States is the creator and perpetuator of the very war it fights.
It is losing that fight. What else can one make of the rushed evacuation of Americans from Yemen on Tuesday,
a humiliating flight from the threat of some new attack by al Qaeda?
What pride would Osama bin Laden feel, if he could do so in the depth of
the Indian Ocean (assuming his remains are indeed there, and not in
some CIA lab for specialists to identify terrorist DNA, so that a future
NSA, committed to really Big Data, can screen the world’s newborns). He
would be proud that 25 or more U.S. diplomatic stations, and nearly as
many embassies of America’s pliant and cynical European allies, spent
the weekend closed with many still closed and fortified against the
threat of the followers of Osama bin Laden.
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