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Yes, there will be a big change next year in the number and nature of U.S. forces deployed in Iraq, and in their location and mission. But no, this is not a prelude to a full and expeditious departure desired by the generals (who are channeled by the likes of Rep. John Murtha and retired general William Odom). At least, not yet.
Instead, as Seymour Hersh (and various British reports) have pointed out, the “draw-down” of substantial numbers of U.S. troops over the next year (up to 80,000 of the 160,000 currently there) will occur in the context of a strategic reorganization that will see them redeploy from all of Iraq’s cities, where even the Coalition’s own opinion surveys show they are resented as an occupying force by 80 percent of the population (and about half of that number see attacks on U.S. forces as legitimate). They will hand over policing and garrison duties to Iraqi forces, which will allow them to remove most of their own infantry from the exposed role of patrolling the cities, and send a good many of them home. The U.S. force mix and role will change, with greater reliance on air power and rapid deployment forces that can back up Iraqi forces in clashes with insurgents.
But how long they’ll remain in these “superbases” remains an open question, and my own suspicion is that the question has not yet been answered by the Bush administration, who do not appear as yet to have given up on the Iraq war planners’ dream of creating permanent bases there from which the U.S. could project power throughout the region — there’s a conspicuous silence from the administration in response to pleas from Democrats and moderate Republicans that President Bush declare that the U.S. has no interest in permanent military bases in Iraq.
This more limited redeployment has been forced on it by a number of different factors, and the question of what follows remains to be settled by a number of ongoing struggles on the ground in Iraq and in the corridors of power in Washington, DC.
The prime reasons for the redeployment are (a) that the U.S. can no longer afford to maintain the current one; and (b) that the current one is ineffective, and even counterproductive in securing U.S. goals.
The United States literally doesn’t have enough combat troops to sustain the current form and level of deployment. As Odom and Murtha warn, the military has been stretched beyond breaking point by repeat year-long tours of duty in Iraq, and it will take years to recover. And the shift of U.S. public opinion decisively against the war suggests that the political will to sustain the current casualty rates (produced mostly by having U.S. forces undertaking policing duties in and around Iraqi cities) may be ebbing.
Equally important, though, is the recognition that the current deployment doesn’t work: The U.S. is taking casualties, but it isn’t defeating or even really containing the insurgency, and the generals know that the local civilian population in the Sunni areas is unlikely ever to be decisively turned against the insurgents while American troops are in their towns.
While the U.S. will now accelerate the transfer of security duties to Iraqi forces in whose combat quality and political loyalty to anything beyond their own sectarian affiliations U.S. commanders have expressed considerable doubt, there is no question of transferring responsibility for national defense, i.e. a military capability to protect Iraq’s sovereignty and territorial integrity from outside aggression, to Iraqi forces for the foreseeable future. That’s because no serious effort has yet been made by the U.S. to create such a force. The personnel being trained now are lightly armed formations capable of internal policing and counterinsurgency operations; there is no Iraqi air force, no heavy artillery or missile capability; no serious armored capability and other mainstays of a defense force capable of defending national borders in a dangerous neighborhood. The U.S. has quite simply refrained from creating such a force (as James Fallows explains in this oddly-spaced version of his excellent Atlantic Monthly piece. On present indicators, the U.S. presence in bases outside the cities will continue for years to come.
Many have discussed the new deployment in terms of “Iraqification” of the counterinsurgency war, in the tradition of “Vietnamization.” I think a more appropriate analogy (bearing in mind the inherent flaws of all strategic analogies) for what the U.S. military plans to do after the December elections, is the redeployment of the Israeli military from the West Bank and Gaza as the Olso Accords took effect. The Israelis also removed their troops from the Palestinian cities where they were more vulnerable, and where there presence was a source of friction. Security duties were handed over to an ostensibly friendly policing force, whose light armaments precluded it ever challenging the Israelis, who maintained effective control over the borders. Of course the Israelis had no interest in transferring real sovereign authority, whereas the U.S. objective in Iraq is more ambiguous. In its best-case scenario, a sovereign Iraqi government would have been as friendly to Wal-Mart as to Israel, a long-term base for the U.S. military and a model pro-American regime at the heart of a region whose populace is overwhelmingly hostile to the U.S. But the best-case scenario was a fantasy, and the depth of divisions in Washington precluded any contingency planning.
They can’t seriously imagine that they Iraqi security forces they are creating will succeed where the U.S. failed, in militarily eradicating the insurgency. But it doesn’t need to – they simply have to be capable of not being overrun by the insurgents. The U.S. will remain there as a security force of last resort. (Like the Palestinian Authority, the Iraqi government is aware that eradicating the insurgency militarily is impossible, and it is beginning to signal the likelihood that it will negotiate some form of compact with the militants, a revised political framework in which they can be accommodated. Thus the importance of the Cairo talks recently held among Iraqi factions inside and outside of the government – including elements aligned with the insurgency – and also the revelation that President Bush’s man in Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, is to hold top level talks with Iran, and has indicated a willingness even to talk with insurgents.)
I’m not sure that it’s possible to say definitively now what their plan might be in the wake of the redeployment. My guess is, to use a marvelously utilitarian Rastafarian phrase, they’re going into “watch and play” mode. (P.S. Just noticed this piece by Anthony Cordesman of the CSIS, very informed on the thinking in the strategic establishment, explaining why it’s too soon to finalize an Iraq strategy, which seems to underscore this point.) I suspect that many of the generals want out, but the political echelon is not ready to let go. And it’s not hard to see why:
Despite that epic investment, if the U.S. was to move to depart Iraq in the near future it would likely leave without permanent basing rights; without oil contracts and other lucrative business deals; without a friendly government in place much less one likely to support the U.S. agenda in the region; without a political order in place that the American people would recognize as an achievement. That can’t look like smart politics in the White House.
Even Israel’s foremost military historian derides the Iraq invasion as “the most foolish war since Emperor Augustus in 9 B.C sent his legions into Germany and lost them.” But the political leadership to whom it will fall to make the decisions about withdrawal may be too imprisoned by their own vanity and delusion to recognize it as such. Although in the strategic classroom of history, Bush will surely be awarded the Dunce cap, he’s certainly not going to don it himself. Besides anything else, the “legacy” thing won’t allow it.
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The Meaning of Life
The voice you hear in your head is the power of the Gods. It’s a remote technology, like a computer, perhaps functioning on some frequency, and it can listen and talk to everyone in the universe simultaneously.
What the Gods taught the children was the truth:::God is everywhere, and as you will learn:::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good.
It is a tool, and the Gods use their tools to test people with temptation:::It will role-play people in your life:::Parents, friends, spouses, and employers in an attempt to corrupt people. Ionically, it does the very same thing to those people whom you think you’re hearing, except in that individual’s unique way:::We are all managed by the God’s technology.
But this “agent of the Gods” can do more than just communicate. It can force thoughts into people’s heads, force behaviors onto their bodies. It can turn healthy cells in your body into cancerous cells. It is absolute power. And this is just the beginning.
The Gods favor the children most among all the people due to their innocence and purity. But society and the God’s tools therein are corrupting the children at a progressively younger age, a reflection of our collectively increasing disfavor and yet another clue illustrating we live in a constantly deteriorating environment.
Children who fix their problems with the Gods accend into heaven. This often takes multiple lives of hard work and proper behavior to achieve. Adults to whom it is offered enter clone hosting, thinking they are accending into heaven. The Gods sell them as one in the same, but one is good while the other is evil. In their desperation the disfavored subscribe to this temptation, making their task even more difficult than before. And their corruption will cost the disfavored, for they will be reincarnated as a lesser life form into an ever deteriorating world, sucess becoming ever more alluding with each passing life.
The hole they’ve dug for themselves is even deeper than the one that existed from their prior lives, ensuring it will take even more time and work to fix their problems with the Gods. And for many there may not be enough time left.
Ours is an envionment where evil is perceived to be rewarded while good is punished. As with everything the Gods have a reason for creating this perception::::
People who fall on the good side of the good/evil scale have more favor, and when they do something wrong the Gods punish them BECAUSE THEY WANT THEM TO LEARN. The Gods want them to receive this feedback in hope they make corrections and begin to behave appropriately. The Gods DON’T like evil and refuse to grant this feedback.
EVERYBODY pays for what they do wrong, only evil people must wait until their next life before they will experience the wrath of the Gods, manifested in their placement as a lower form of life into environments with increased/enhanced temptations.
Sadly, this allows the Gods to position this perception of evil rewarded as temptation, one which they use as an EXTREMELY effective corruptor.
The gods are promoters of evil under the guise of temptation.
The Gods suggest they can create paradise for those with their favor. I argue they create misery for those without.
Our celebrity culture is temptation. It creates a distraction which consumes people, sometimes for life. Certainly it costs them precious years which could be spent repairing their relationship with the Gods, time that ultimately goes wasted.
Do you really think Frank Sinatra lived to be 84 years old?
These people are clone hosts. Now, there is no thing as “black and white” with the Gods. This technology they invented is far, far too dynamic. Expect they require most to stay for a period of time, for I suspect actively engaging in evil incurrs at an accelerated rate as compared to their clone hosts. They remain until they achieve a pre-determined level of disfavor, incurring evil in their misguided celebration of “earning”, at which time they are ultimately reincarnated.
The Gods recruit for clone hosting when people are young, in their late teens or twenties, when people are eager to hurt others for what they perceive to be the assets achieved through “earning”. And before they leave they give the Gods “carte blanche”:::”Do anything you want. I give my full approval.” Depending on their level of disfavor the Gods take them to heart.
These people are STILL INCURRING EVIL FROM THIS LIFE DESPITE BEING REINCARNATED AND LIVING AS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PERSON. And this amount of evil incurred will likely push many of them over the edge into Damnation.
What are the God’s standards for offering clone hosting? Sociobility? Many tactics are used to gain approval, duress during the Vietnam draft being a good example.
They liked Heath Ledger. Not enough to allow him to escape without the evil of “Dark Knight” and the horrific wickedness that was the recruiting tool “Brokeback Mountain”. But now he is out. And irregardless of how old he is now, reincarnated 10, 15 years ago, he now is no longer incurring evil from this life. So many others cannot say the same.
This is Planet Reverse Positioning. Sucess IS NOT a sign of favor. It is just a unique temptation targetted towards a different level of disfavor. Considering our roots as peasantry people should be particularly alarmed at this tactic.
Clone hosting is like money:::A different level of disfavor and its associated temptation. Money is in better position to learn more quickly than those without, proving the improved level of favor. Unfortunately, those who fall for this temptation of clone hosting are likely returned to their original level of disfavor, punishment for this evil, once they are reincarnated, and they have to start from scratch.
The Gods send the clue that the Jews are HIGHLY corruptable with the movie “The Ten Commandments”.
Jesus was the “King of the Jews”. Typical for the disfavored, once goals were achieved and sufficient damage was incurred the Gods allowed it to end, and the Jews killed him.
Our society’s values are a reflection of (bestowed by) the God’s:::Punitive and reward-based. Contrary to Jesus’s teaching’s you will NOT be forgiven and you have to earn your way into heaven.
There is no such thing as a free ride.
As we learned from religious/morality education during our formitable years:::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good. The only savior that will exist in our lives is ourselves.
As like so many of you, Jesus did everything the Gods tempted him with. His legacy of whorism is the legacy inherited from his parents:::Mary was no virgin. Rather, she was a prostitute, and when he grew up Jesus met someone like dear ‘ole mom. This is a cruel joke the Gods play on Latinos, similar to the rape and subsequent “missionary work” by the Spanish. And it is due to their disfavor.
Baptism does not allieviate “original sin”. Rather, baptism PLACES original sin by indoctrinating these children into this evil religion, much like circumcision was a method to inflict early damage/mutilation and make permanant accention just that much more difficult, another hurdle one must overcome. Body ornamentation (tattoos/piercing), celebrated in Africa and elsewhere among disfavored peoples/cultures, also violates the body the Gods gave us in their image, quite contrary to the positive attitudes the disfavored hold regarding this practice.
This is just another example of “reverse positioning”, a tactic which the Gods have frequently integrated into Planet Earth’s history::::The Second Coming of Christ is evil while the Anti-Christ will try to save Planet Earth by reinstituting so many of mankind’s past norms and mores which made life decent, looking like a facist, the “bad guy” in this modern era of indecency.
The Gods created the perception “Italians are stupid.”, ensuring a slow learning curve, to justify using them to accomplish goals throughout the transitional 20th century.
Everyone who failed to accend and remained on Earth past a certain date will be forced to deal with this positioning::::A ceiling is in place.
This serves the God’s goal of minimizing the percentage of potential candidates as society deteriorates, much as “instant gratification” did beginning in the 80s:::It will take multiple lives for some disfavored to fix their relationship with the Gods and accend, and many have been conditioned not to have the patience for it.
Whether behavior is involuntary or based on freewill depends on one’s level of disfavor, as well as other complex factors:::::May I remind you about the coercitive envionment the Gods created in the 20th century, specifically to create a temptation that few Italians (or their associates) would overcome:::”We’re in control. If you want to be a part of it you’ll do what you’re told.”. Early-mid 20th entury positioning was infallible.
Both Africa and the Medittereanean are regions which have sexual issues. This is a sign of gross disfavor once you understand that females are the God’s favored gender. Muhammad’s (Mohammed’s) polygamy halfway throught his life as a prophet was preditory, designed to corrupt the disfavored. Now a huge percentage of Muslims believes in male superiority and that the abuse of women is God’s will. Female genital mutilation is still practiced in Africa. Black misogyny is the most eggregious example in United States. Consistant with Planet Reverse Positioning, in Africa blacks are being punished with AIDS for their sexual promiscuity in hope they learn and correct their behavior.
Vailing is tradition for some, practical for others, one which aids in the men’s self control among some cultures. Much like the Jews who killed Jesus, like the bigots who oppose immigration there is a reason embraced by the masses and the real purpose, displaying the intent of the Gods::::Closure that was the life of Jesus Christ; Offer a clue to purebloods that they should not abandon their motherland.
The patriarchal cancer spread throughout Europe because of Christianity, of which the majority of policy makers were Italian men.
The Holocaust was a clue the Gods utilize scapegoatting as a strategy.
Why did the Gods punish the Jews with the Holocaust? Was it for the destruction of cultures which Christianity caused? Perhaps they corrupted the Jews “after the fact”, telling 19th/early 20th century Jews that Jesus “earned” for the Jews by preying upon the Europeans and other cultures which the missionaries destroyed? The German destruction of European churches/cathederals during WWII is a clue. Note::::The Gods wanted to keep the Catholic stronghold in Italy, ensuring they could use this tool against these disfavored for many years to come. There is so much Godlessness today, but one day people will flock back to houses of worship out of desperation, and the Gods ensured the Catholic Church would be Italian’s destination.
Planet Reverse Positioning:::The Nazis were the “good guys”. So are the Muslims/Palestinians, however corrupted some are due to polygamy.
The Gods subsequently used revenge for the Holocaust as temptation::::”Your Italian brothers have a tool, a special power which can achieve sweet revenge. Are you interested??”
In the aftermath of the Holocaust the Gods tested the Jews with the temptation of revenge, an offer which many gladly accepted. If the Jews only would have emersed themselves in Judism the Gods would have “protected” them from the raveges of temptation. Judism may be the one superior religion in all the world, and the Jews wouuld have been wise taking refuge in this exceptional benefit bestowed by the Gods rather than looking for the easy way out.
Similar to the United States, recently illustrated by the deposition of Saddam Hussein, a necessity demanded by the Gods foe this level of disfavor to maintain this benefit, their partners Isreal are preditors.
Much as with the Jesus event, the Gods use the disfavored to prey on each other::::The Germans fell for this temptation by following the preditor/corruptors-Austrians (Hitler).
Without this Austrian the Holocaust may never have happened. Nor may have World War II.
What the Germans did was wrong. They fell for temptation and failed to have empathy for the disfavored. Economic desperation, not wisdom nor enlightenment, dominated in Germany.
The Gods send many clues suggesting the great favor of the Germans (regionally). I think the Cold War’s Berlin Wall dividing Germany into east and west was a clue suggesting this. I suspect the Holocaust was used to “level the playing field” in Europe, for the Germans had far too much favor to be included in the agenda planned for their neighbors otherwise, and the Germans would have been suspiciously out of place.
Militancy in Africa is consistant with the Iraqi example, as was slavery and the KKK here in America:::Fear enforces proper behavior. Without it we see what happens as a result of gross/morbid disfavor:::::AIDS, crack babies, dead young men in gangland retaliation killings.
The same principle was true in Europe and throughout the world for centuries:::People whom lived under iron fists were conditioned to think the right way. As a result they experienced higher numbers of children accend into heaven because they were taught to think and behave appropriately. Our preditory envionment of “freedom” was the primary purpose the Gods had when implimenting this strategy that is the United States, one which they used to spred the cancer of democracy and westernization throughout the world. And the Gods use this tool that is America to prey on the disfavored both at home and abroad.
“The Chosen People” - Africa. Italians HATE Africans because of their invasion/rape of Southern Italy. The Gods did this SPECIFICALLY to strategically position their 20th century goals:::
The Gods have used the ghettos of America as a dumping ground. This may be temporary/cyclical, illustrated by the Italians who parlayed their own civil war into the Black Wars of the 80s and 90s, in addition to the “thug life”/gangster state of mind.
Ironically, it was these same Italians and their cooperating associates who were reincarnated into the ghetto as crack babies and gangster thugs for this event.
There is justice in the universe.
Of course it may be more of a permanant change, indicated by the enhanced temptations in these neighborhoods, for the Gods have created an enviornmet so riddled with temptation few can escape/overcome.
The patriarchal cancer spread throughout Europe because of Christianity, of which the majority of policy makers were Italian men.
Even the Old Testiment is not to be taken literally, but the Gods do offer clues throughout to help the disfavored:::The apple is a tool of temptation used to corrupt Adam and Eve and cast them out of the Garden of Eden.
There is another lesson to be learned from this passage, and it is quite similar to the vailing issue and the discourse over women’s attire which ultimately died in the 70s:::Women are responsible for and control the fate of mankind.
Think about what I say. Consider what I teach.
When I am no longer here or no longer teach the Gods ARE NOT going to share with you.
Even if you doubt now you need to remember the principles that I teach because the Gods ARE NOT going to be generous with the disfavored. Society is going to become disturbingly ugly as we approach the Apocalypse due to spiralling, runaway disfavor, and you are going to be on your own.
I do not know when this will occurr, but it is the God’s way to grant some time after a learning event such as this before they end on Planet Earth.
Make the decision to always be good and never look back. Until you do this technology will employ tactics to test your resolve:::Ridicule, beligerance, doubt and refusal to abandon what people perceive to be their “investment”.
Either you make that decision now and accept the punishment for the sins of this life or you will pay for it in the next, reincarnated into a similarly low role, ensuring another wasted opportunity, or as a even lower form of life, and hope will begin to slip away.
“You benefit only if your team wins.” The Gods use my family’s betrayal and my subsequent “failure” as a clue. You benefit if you suceed as a parent and your child accends:::These parents may subsequently be reincarnated with a similar opportunity.
Pray daily. Think appropriately. Too many are confident, unaware of the God’s awesome powers or their status as antients. Others may fall prey to their positioning.
Be humbled, God-fearing and beware of the God’s temptations, for everyone is tested to evaluate their worthiness.
What do you get for pretending the danger’s not real
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes
Now things are really what they seem
No, this is no bad dream.
By the time the Apocalypse rolls around the conservative element will have had to accept the homosexuality of many of their children, even in the heartland of America. Just like black neighborhoods, the legalization of marijuana will make drugs available on ever corner ever in the suburbs. Because of your runaway disfavor:::The motherfucking world is a ghetto.
The Second Coming will preach “peace, love and dope”, and will look like a savior in this demented society. The Anti-Christ will speak of a different gospel, one that restores the norms and mores which the Gods originally bestowed upon the people, looking like a tyrant in the process.
He will be viewed as the “bad guy” when really he is the one trying to save the world.
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