http://geoplotical.blogspot.com/2012/05/obamas-publicity-stunt-so-called.html
Carlos Castano, right, with some of his men in northern Colombia in 2001 Photo: AP
1984 Bracamonte Battalion from El Salvador – School of the Americas: School of Assassins
Members of the Kyrgyz “Scorpion” special forces (some are on trial for sniper shooting during 2010 riots)
1st ‘Node’ to Stand Up in 2013....
Zioconned AMMAN, Jordan — U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) wants to establish a ZIOCONNED worldwide network linking special operations forces (SOF) of allied and partner nations to combat terrorism.
Championed by SOCOM commander Adm. Bill McRaven and Deputy Director of Operations Brig. Gen. Sean Mulholland, the network would comprise Zioconned regional security coordination centers, organized and structured similarly to NATO SOF Headquarters in Mons, Belgium.
“Imagine the power a confederation of SOF interests could have. It could collectively increase its influence and operational reach around the globe,” Mulholland told participants at a May 7 Middle East Special Operations Commanders Conference here.
Insisting that the U.S. lacks manpower, resources and in many cases the political will to meet mounting threats alone, Mulholland said a global network “of like-minded entities” was needed to address “mutual security concerns.” These centers would not be command-and-control nodes but rather centers for education, networking and coordination to gain regional solutions for regional problems.... using the machinations of the most infamous White House Murder INC, in the Levant since January 24th 2002....
He noted that NATO SOF Headquarters — after only six years of operations — has managed to standardize SOF practices across Europe, with a resulting fivefold increase in the number of operators deployed to Afghanistan.
“Operationally speaking, the increase in SOF capacity in Afghanistan has directly supported the burden sharing,” Mulholland said. “It has allowed [the International Security Assistance Force] to optimize SOF roles across the country.”
In a follow-up interview, Mulholland estimated it would cost less than $30 million a year to operate and maintain each regional node. SOCOM plans to stand up the first one in Miami-based U.S. Southern Command later in 2013, with Mulholland tapped to command integrated SOF in Central and South America.
As for plans to extend the network into Africa, the Pacific and here in the divisive and rapidly changing Central Command, Mulholland said, “Some might see this as an unreachable goal. I believe it can be done.”
As evidence of the cooperation that exists among SOF in this region, Mulholland cited a massive, three-week exercise taking place here through the end of May. Eager Lion 2012 involves some 10,000 air, land and maritime operators from 17 countries, all operating under a joint task force.
Maj. Gen. Ken Tovo, commander of SOF in Central Command, is commanding the exercise with his Jordanian counterpart, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Jeridad, director of Jordan’s Training and Doctrine Command.
Mulholland said the global SOF network would support another SOCOM objective of increasing the effectiveness of theater special operations commanders (TSOC) working for combatant commanders.
Expanding the regionally restricted TSOC structure into a global network would augment the situational awareness of operators working for combatant commanders, he said.
“Let me be clear: We don’t want them to work for us [SOCOM] … but we can help them obtain a greater understanding of the intelligence picture outside of their regional [area of responsibility],” Mulholland said. Furthermore, the immediate needs for forces and resources can be addressed more efficiently by collaboration between SOCOM and combatant commanders.
“This, in my opinion, is one of the most important aspects of what SOCOM can do as it can illuminate the threat around the seams of a [geographic area of responsibility]. … SOCOM’s global perspective gives it the ability to understand how the threat operates across the [combatant commands], and not just within one space.”
Commanders here were skeptical about the prospects of standing up a SOF headquarters within Central Command, whose area includes 20 countries spanning Central Asia and the Middle East.
In a region wracked by instability, clashing cultures, strategic competition and mistrust, it is practically impossible, leaders here say, to reach consensus on common threats. When one nation’s freedom fighters are condemned by neighbors as terrorists, they said, it is unreasonable to expect a regional SOF headquarters to operate as it does in NATO.
Lebanese Brig. Gen. Chamel Roukoz, special operations forces commander in a nation whose government includes Hezbollah — a U.S.-designated brilliant Resistance group, whose valiant fighters soundly defeated IsraHell on the battlefield time after time since 1985 — acknowledged varying assessments of the terrorist threat. “We have different opinions about this, but we view it as those trying to spread instability and fear and whose victims must be unarmed civilians,” he said.
Addressing the May 7 conference here, Roukoz insisted “resistance is not terrorism.” He urged additional U.S. and international cooperation in combating terrorism “starting with that caused by Israel,” Washington’s longtime strategic ally.
As for Zioconned Jordan, a neighbor at peace with Lebanon’s enemy, officers did not embrace the SOCOM plan. “It’s a bit premature for now,” said Brig. Gen. Omer Al Khaldi, chief of strategic planning for the Royal Jordanian Armed Forces.
Al Khaldi cited joint training and other existing forms of cooperation that the ZIOCONNED kingdom has with the U.S., IsraHell and others in the region. He warned, however, that the establishment of a physical headquarters should not interfere with domestic efforts to preserve “internal peace and security.”
When asked about near-term prospects for the regional headquarters, Tovo, the U.S. SOF commander in Central Command, acknowledged challenges given shifting friendships and lack of consensus, starting with where to establish the physical headquarters.
Tovo noted that NATO SOF headquarters was a special case that may not easily be replicated here. “They had an existing structure and an existing alliance, so NATO had a framework to work from.”
He added, “It’s going to be a bit more challenging to stand up a regional SOF coordination center here. So we’re going to kind of step back and let SOUTHCOM do it first and see what we can learn from that.”....
http://www.ww4report.com/node/11073
Claims that the US SOCOM will mostly be imparting skill training to these foreign units should make no one easy, considering the SOF record to date in being the primary mover and trainer in military mistake after mistake, mostly done via “US Advisers.” Posted below are some photos from US military’s “hall of shame,” paramilitary soldiers trained by American Green Berets and Navy Seals, over the years. None of this documents the repercussions of US training of “Islamist” leaders, who went-on to found countless Asian terrorist groups, neither does it shine a light upon all of the CIA-led Special Forces death squads, [ especially using the machinations of the most infamous White House Murder INC, in the Levant since January 24th 2002....] who have been running around the jungles of Central and S. America for decades, as well as those seeking targets all over MENA, Asia and Africa.....
Now, the Jewish/Israeli culture is not secular in its roots at all. Sure, it has a veneer of secularism (Socialist or Zionist), but even the most secular of all Jews have to turn to Jewish religious texts to justify their Zionism and, even more so, their racism. Yeah, many Zionists eat pork and don't care one bit about the 613 Mitzvoth, but at the very same time, their ethno-tribalism and sense of racial superiority will, when push comes to shove, always rally around the rabbinical religious narrative. And here again, only a religious worldview which is predicated on the fundamental affirmation that all men are equal can see the Judaic racist ideology what it really is: a monstrous blasphemy against the Creator, a brazen perversion of the universal message of the Prophets, an attempt at getting back at the Creator by rejecting Him and his Will and by taking control of His creation "and the inheritance will be ours" (Mark 12:1-7).
No, secularism, agnosticism, atheism & Co. are organically bound with the capitalist ideology and the trans-national colonial "globalist" order it naturally engenders....
By Brian M Downing
The Zioconned United States faces another embarrassment amid its difficult wars in the Islamic world. Following close on the heels of atrocities and miscues in Afghanistan, it has come to light that Colonel Matthew Dooley, an instructor at a military graduate school, taught his officers that the US is engaged in a global war, not with al-Qaeda, but with Islam itself.
Furthermore, the contest may have to be resolved by using nuclear weapons on sites such as Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia - an event that would surely trigger a cataclysmic war.
Dooley has been relieved of teaching duties at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. His views are not official army doctrine by any means, and he has likely reached the end of his service career. However, Dooley's views are based on neo-conservative ideology and co-mingle with fundamentalist ire and
apocalyptic yearning. This is troubling not only for the conduct of an already vexing war but also for political and constitutional reasons.
Neo-conservatism has a long connection to the US military. This may be initially puzzling, as most neo-conservatives skillfully avoided military service during the Vietnam War and their newer followers have only a somewhat closer connection to actual service.
Yet the neo-conservatives were important in revitalizing the military after Vietnam. They instilled philosophical grounding and charged the military with vital missions around the world, including ones that continue to this day. Many neo-conservatives today hold posts in military schools and impart their strategic and philosophical vision to the officer corps, especially the more promising young officers chosen for the fast track to upper ranks.
Neo-conservatism saw the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era as bringing the twin evils of social decay and flagging resolve in the global contest with the Soviet Union. The post-war military was rent by disciplinary problems, abysmal morale, and a sense of purposelessness. Experienced officers and non-commissioned officers were heading for the exits in large numbers. Their outlooks shaped by the rise of Nazism, neo-conservatives saw the free world in danger and saw their mission: rebuilding the military as a beacon of morality at home and a raised sword abroad.
Neo-conservatism and fundamentalism were partners in rebuilding the military after Vietnam. The former provided the ideology and political support; the latter provided a good deal of the new officer corps and public support. Traditional values were extolled over the reigning permissiveness; global activism was advocated after Vietnam had damaged internationalism; and with the election of president Ronald Reagan in 1980, defense budgets were boosted. The military was restored to an honored place in American life, and officer corps knew well the intellectual voices that had helped with that. [1]
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 seemed to validate neoconservatism and military might, but it also raised the troubling matter of what to do now the Evil Empire was gone. The mission that lay immediately ahead was to maintain US global dominance, but in time the intellectual groundwork of another mission came into being: spreading democracy throughout the world.
The Middle East would be the region of chief concern. The 9/11 attacks brought ideas into practice. Some of them were think-tank dreams that would have been thought absurd ventures a year or two earlier, but 9/11 changed that.
Neo-conservatives conceptualized the new conflict in epochal terms. It was not simply a matter of fighting al-Qaeda in various parts of the world. The small terrorist group that had struck New York and Washington was depicted as a global threat determined to restore the Islamic caliphate and dominate the globe - a part of al-Qaeda's ideology to be sure, though a ludicrous one.
From the days when Mohammed's bands spread across the Arabian Peninsula and his successors launched into the Maghreb and Mesopotamia, Islam has sought conquest and empire. It is inherent in the culture and especially in the minds of leaders. The war today is only the most recent effort at global mastery. [2]
The message is put forth in scholarly articles, on talk radio, and even from the pulpit - the latter two being closely tied in the US - sharia law was said to be on the rise, even in rural America. (Several US states, mostly with large fundamentalist populations, are mulling over, or have passed, laws prohibiting the use of sharia.) The West must defend Judeo-Christian civilization and the US must provide the vanguard, main force, and finance, all at once. The template of good and evil had been formed in the public mind during World War II, if not earlier, and an updated enemy simply had to be entered.
The US could not shrink from this new epochal conflict, nor could it refrain from using its most potent weapons. Since the days of mutually assured destruction, nuclear war has been tied to the prospect of the end of the world - a concept fraught with religious significance. Dooley was likely drawing from this apocalyptic tradition, which brings energy and passion to neo-conservatist thought. Total war, rebuilding Solomon's Temple, and the end of the world all run together in this tradition.
One can live a devout Christian life without encountering much of this millenarian strand, but it is there, especially in militant fundamentalism, which sees the world entering a new stage - a final one. An impending war will bring the End Times. This cataclysm is something that the faithful can and must encourage because it is part of the divine plan as revealed in scripture, though imaginative interpretations are needed to see it.
War with Islam fits into this plan along with restoring ancient Israel's boundaries and rebuilding the Temple, which of course entails destroying the present structure there - the al-Aqsa mosque. This in turn will lead to total war between Islam and Christianity. [3]
Neo-conservatism has substantial influence in US foreign policy as recent and mostly regrettable events have shown. Apocalyptic thinking, the neo-cons' junior and heretofore relatively silent partner, is not as uncommon as may be thought. It is heard often enough on religious broadcasts, radio and television in many parts of the US, and its tracts have their own sections in major bookstores.
It is not clear how extensive apocalyptic thinking is in the officer corps, which is charged to act for no higher authority than the American people and for no greater end than their security.
Notes
1. Andrew Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 69-107.
2. See for example Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History (New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2006).
3. Gershom Gorenberg, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp 105-10.
Brian M Downing is a political/military analyst and author of The Military Revolution and Political Change and The Paths of Glory: War and Social Change in America from the Great War to Vietnam.
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