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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Moyers Journal: Is Afghanistan Obamas "Iraq" or "Vietnam"? clipped by: blueridge clippers remarks: His guest Pierre Sprey, a former Pentagon official under McNamera, and developer of military planes like the Warthog, destroys the arguments for war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and particularly of drone strikes in Pakistan, which kill more civilians that alleged, unproven "combatants". (The womans comments are worthless). Must hear podcast. The "war on terror" based upon 9/11 is also challenged effectively as the entire erroneous premise, which Obama continues just like Bush, for a multitude of errors and war crimes. Sprey on bombing targets with UAV drones: You cant tell with a camera or an infrared sensor or something whether somebodys a Taliban. In the end, youre relying on either, you know, some form of intercepted communications, which doesnt point at a person. It just, you know, points at a radio or a cell phone or something like that. Or, most likely, youre relying on some Afghani of unknown veracity and unknown motivation Clip Source: www.pbs.org Clip Source: www.pbs.org PIERRE SPREY: That doesnt work. In fact, thats already failed. And the more we try to fix the security situation, the more we will drive these people, particularly the Pashtun, into implacable opposition. And whether the military solution is more bombing from Predators or from F-16s or more special forces on the ground, you know, attacking villages and inadvertently killing lots of civilians, it doesnt matter. As long as security comes first, the mission will fail because these people are sick and tired of a government thats oppressing them and a foreigner whos killing them. PIERRE SPREY: Theres 40 million of them. Thats a nation, not a tribe. Within it are tribal groupings and so on. But they all speak the common language. And they all have a very similar, very rigid, in lots of ways very admirable code of honor much stronger than their adherence to Islam. Clip Source: www.pbs.org Listen to the podcast (help) Tags: afghanistan, obama, iraq, vietnam, pakistan, drone strikes, war on terror zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de