the burbank digest

U.S. 'VICTORY' DEPENDS ON REMAKING IRAQ AS 'PARTNER' IN ITS 'RACE FOR IRAN'
Iraq to spend $13B on U.S. arms, equipment that U.S. officials say shows Iraqi - U.S. military ties will be tight for years to come
The sales will make Iraq among the world's biggest customers for American military arms and equipment. "It helps to build their capabilities, first and foremost; and second, it builds our strategic relationship for the future," said Army Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero, the ranking U.S. officer responsible for training and advising Iraq forces...Military sales, which often include lengthy maintenance and training contracts, are part of U.S. efforts to maintain a relationship with Iraq...Iraqi forces saw firsthand the effectiveness of America's M-1 tank during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, when the U.S. Army obliterated the slower and less sophisticated Iraqi tanks...In addition to the $13 billion purchase, the Iraqis have requested 18 F-16 Falcon fighter jets as part of a $3 billion program that also includes aircraft training and maintenance. If approved by Congress, the first aircraft could arrive in spring 2013. Under the plan, the first 10 pilots would be trained in the U.S. Iraq's conventional weaponry came largely from the Soviet Union and was ravaged by Saddam Hussein's [ed: U.S. supported] war with Iran in the 1980s and the Gulf War led by the US. The Iraqi air force was practically wiped out in the wars. Later, United Nations sanctions after the Gulf War prevented Saddam from maintaining his military.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2010-08-31-Iraq-arms-deal_N.htm

U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq Fiction

"We need food and water and they sent us men with guns", a Katrina survivor

digest commentary: Haiti, Acheh, Pakistan, New Orleans ... the sickeningly familiar 'building back better' mantra as U.S. uses 'natural disasters wherever soft 'humanitarian' imperialist 'aid' serves its geostrategic world domination agenda

Dynamic Dialectics of Class and Race: U.S. Strategic Vulnerability and Fear
Obama mostly said and did nothing about Katrina --- until he returned today to celebrate the 5th. anniversary of amerika's success 'building back better'.

North amerikan class-based capitalist system, is historically and inseparably intersected by 'race' (a social-political construct with no scientific biological basis). Since the invasion and occupation by european colonialist settlers, amerika's 'manifest destiny', constructed on genocide and slavery, has fostered the fascist mythof white supremacy to 'justify' racist state terror, genocide, slavery, hyper-exploitation oppression and wars of conquest.

"EURASIA"
The Grand Chessboard
"Geopolitics has moved from the regional to the global dimension, with preponderance over the entire Eurasian continent serving as the central basis for global primacy. The United States, a non-Eurasian power, now enjoys international primacy, with its power directly deployed on three peripheries of the Eurasian continent ... But it is on the globe’s most important playing field – Eurasia – that a potential rival to America might at some point arise"
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1997 (Obama advisor), The Grand Chessboard

EVERY STRATEGICALLY CONVENIENT 'NATURAL DISASTER' REVEALS U.S. CAPITALIST-ZIONISM'S VILE, CRIMINAL NATURE MORE HIDEOUSLY
"STABILIZATION & SUPPORT, BUILD BACK BETTER": COLD-BLOODED TACTICS OF GEOSTRATEGIC GENOCIDE
UNABLE TO DEFEAT PAKISTAN NATIONAL RESISTANCE ['terrorism, extremism"] WITH MILITARY POWER ALONE, U.S./IMF SOFT POWER 'SURGES' TO RESCUE THE MISSION. U.S. IMPERIALISM IS ACTIVELY & PASSIVELY DESTROYING PAKISTAN. AS MILLIONS STARVE, SICKEN, DIE & PAKISTAN'S NATIONAL SURVIVAL IS RUINED, U.S. DRONES ATTACK AND THE PREDATORS ONCE AGAIN USE 'NATURAL DISASTER' AS 'AID' PRETEXT TO 'AID' TO GET ITS TROOPS ON THE GROUND & BILLIONS TO 'DEVELOP' WHAT WAS A SOVEREIGN STATE TO SERVE ITS REGIONAL AND GLOBAL AGENDA. see important background info. at http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/306 & 307

recent made-in-USA SWAT Valley background:
NB: Over two million Pakistanis have been forced to flee homes in the Swat valley and adjoining areas of the Malakland division, just one of Pakistan’s Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) due to U.S. pressured Pakistani military operations to oust the Taliban from the valley and surrounding areas.
6-6-10 Pakistan refugees a 'major, major crisis': Holbrooke
CFR Holbrooke's Speech on Travel to Pakistan, June 2009

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/national/nss-02092...
"...The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction -- and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack. To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act preemptively.The United States will not use force in all cases to preempt emerging threats, nor should nations use preemption as a pretext for aggression...."

"...This Administration has proposed the largest government reorganization since the Truman Administration created the National Security Council and the Department of Defense. Centered on a new Department of Homeland Security and including a new unified military command and a fundamental reordering of the FBI, our comprehensive plan to secure the homeland encompasses every level of government and the cooperation of the public and the private sector. This strategy will turn adversity into opportunity. For example, emergency management systems will be better able to cope not just with terrorism but with all hazards. Our medical system will be strengthened to manage not just bioterror, but all infectious diseases and mass-casualty dangers. Our border controls will not just stop terrorists, but improve the efficient movement of legitimate traffic..."
President Bush, Berlin, Germany, May 23, 2002

"EURASIA"
The Grand Chessboard

"To watch the courageous Afghan freedom fighters battle modern arsenals with simple hand-held weapons is an inspiration to those who love freedom. Their courage teaches us a great lesson—that there are things in this world worth defending. To the Afghan people, I say on behalf of all Americans that we admire your heroism, your devotion to freedom, and your relentless struggle against your oppressors."
Ronald Reagan 1983

"In Afghanistan, the freedom fighters are the key to peace. We support the Mujahidin. There can be no settlement unless all Soviet troops are removed and the Afghan people are allowed genuine self-determination.".
Ronald Reagan1988

We cannot win a fight for hearts and minds when we outsource critical missions to unaccountable contractors
Candidate Obama 2007

President Obama pledges a new "international order"
May 22, 2010 West Point Military Academy
"...America has not succeeded by stepping outside the currents of international cooperation...We have succeeded by steering those currents in the direction of liberty and justice -- so nations thrive by meeting their responsibilities, and face consequences when they don't."...the United States will pursue a strategy of "national renewal and global leadership."...The president expressed confidence in the military's ability to succeed in Afghanistan, but warned of a "tough fight" ahead as the United States helps the Afghan people to rebuild its civil institutions and its security system so they can battle the Taliban and other extremists on their own. "We have brought hope to the Afghan people; now we must see that their country does not fall prey to our common enemies," he said. "There will be difficult days ahead. But we will adapt, we will persist, and I have no doubt that together with our Afghan and international partners, we will succeed in Afghanistan."

HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI 65 YEARS AGO DEMONSTRATED THE NATURE OF U.S. IMPERIALISM & ITS GLOBAL DOMINATION AGENDA
The Soviet Union, then a revolutionary socialist beacon was the obstacle the U.S. would stop at nothing to defeat, including WW2...and onward

...War Department study 'Use of Atomic Bomb on Japan' written in 1946 .declassified in the Seventies, found that "the Japanese leaders had decided to surrender and were merely looking for sufficient pretext to convince the die-hard Army Group that Japan had lost the war and must capitulate to the Allies."... the belief that it was totally unnecessary to use the atomic bomb on Japan's cities was shared by Eisenhower, who records telling Stimson that "Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bombs was completely unnecessary" and by Admiral William D Leahy, who opined that "the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender."...
as soon as the bomb was proven to work at the Alamagordo base in New Mexico on 16 July 1945 - the US military and civilian leadership was convinced that it no longer needed Russia. In fact, the bomb itself was a good diplomatic weapon against Russia. As Secretary of State-designate Byrnes explained, "our possessing and demonstrating the bomb would make Russia more manageable in Europe"... limiting its claims on a postwar set-up in the Far East.
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2007/08/dropping-big-one.html

The birth of 'mere terror'
Hiroshima wasn't uniquely wicked. It was part of a policy for the mass killing of civilians
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1543124,00.html

BRIEF BACKGROUND TO U.S. STRATEGIC CRISIS & WIKILEAKS

16 Jun 2010 ... Pentagon decries bleak views on Afghan war. www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65E3AT20100616
Petraeus collapses, doubts grow over Afghan war effort ... Obama near tripling of US forces in Afghanistan needs to bolster his case to the U.S. public. Perceptions of a struggling U.S. campaign have been fueled by stronger-than-expected Taliban resistance in the southern district of Marjah -- meant to be a showcase of U.S. strategy -- and a slower start to a long-awaited offensive in the Taliban's birthplace of Kandahar. A massive military operation in Kandahar is the linchpin of Obama's campaign to turn the tide in the war this year and will weigh heavily in a review of strategy. Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, said media reporting about "the so-called delay in the Kandahar campaign has been overplayed."

21 Jun 2010 Shots mark US envoy's Afghan visit ... By Matthew Green in Marjah ... www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b96a3caa-7d50-11df-a0f5-00144feabdc0.html
Volleys of gunfire greeted Richard Holbrooke, US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, as he landed in the Afghan town of Marjah to assess progress in key phase of the west's campaign against the Taliban. The presence of insurgents in the vicinity of a meeting attended by top US officials underscored the difficulty US marines have faced in securing Marjah...deliberately staged attacks to coincide with Mr Holbrooke's visit as part of a broader campaign...Cameron, the UK prime minister, was forced to cancel a planned visit to British troops at a base elsewhere in Helmand province after...

24 July 2010 Lowering Expectations for the War in Afghanistan by Mark Thompson, http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1912483,00.html#ixzz0ueryF...

'ISLAMIC JIHADISM' MADE-IN-USA

Zbigniew Brzezinski (advisor to president Carter, now Obama) major U.S. geostrategist, proposed creation of Mujahadeen army to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Asked if that Islamic fundamentalism wasn't now a world threat he said: "Nonsense! The secret operation was an excellent idea. It drew the Russians into the Afghan trap...the day the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote Carter, saying, in essence: 'We now have the opportunity of giving the USSR its Vietnam War.'"...
Le Nouvel Observateur, January 15-21, 1998

IRAQ

7-14-10 US top Iraq commander: 'Iranian surrogates' preparing attack on US troops
By Foreign Affairs editor Peter Cave, Jul 14, 2010 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/14/2952805.htm?section=justin
Top US commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, accused Iran of training Shiite militants for attacks on American military bases in Iraq.

[ next digest issue: Afghanistan defeat &U.S 'Race for Iran']

7-22-1992 Who Should Liberate Iraq?
NYT Opinion http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/22/opinion/who-should-liberate-iraq.html?...

2010 context: still the operative basis of U.S. bipartisan NSS strategy

"Prevent the Reemergence of a New Rival"
New York Times headine, March 8, 1992.
Declassified Studies from the Cheney Pentagon Show Push for U.S. Military Predominance and a Strategy to "Prevent the Reemergence of a New Rival"
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb245/index.htm For more information contact:William Burr - 202/994-7032wburr@gwu.edu
Washington, D.C., February 26, 2008 - The United States should use its power to "prevent the reemergence of a new rival" either on former Soviet territory or elsewhere, declared a controversial draft of the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) leaked to The New York Times in March 1992. Published in declassified form for the first time on the National Security Archive Web site, this draft, along with related working papers, shows how defense officials during the administration of George H. W. Bush, under the direction of Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Resources I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby develop a strategy for maintaining U.S. predominance in the new post-Cold War, post-Soviet era.

The 3 D's of U.S. GLOBAL DOMINATION
"Development, along with defense and diplomacy, is now a pillar of our national security policy."
USAID should “be seen as the premier development agency in the world.”
Secretary of State Clinton
The Center for Global Development, July 23, 2009

USAID
http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/primer.html

digest: soft power diplomacy and propaganda run by the State Dept. is merged with hard power, under Pentagon direction. On every continent, in every country 'of interest' to bipartisan US ruling finance capital ', a losing battle to secure amerikan political-economic-military control against undefeatable national resistance by bullets, bribery, ballots...Destroying the world and the planet in the name of 'liberation' and 'human rights'.

"The principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance programs has always been the United States."
US Agency for International Development Source: "Direct Economic Benefits of U.S. Assistance Programs," 1999

"If war aims are stated which seem to be solely concerned with Anglo-American imperialism, they will offer little to people in the rest of the world. The interests of other peoples should be stressed. This would have a better propaganda effect."
- Private memo from The Council of Foreign Relations to the US State Department, 1941
http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/contemporary/0013.htm

'Strategic nonviolent struggle is all about political power.' And I thought, 'Boy is this guy speaking my language,' that is what armed struggle is about."
—Col. Robert Helvey

"AFPAK / PAKAF"
PETRAEUS INSTALLED TO LEAD SEVERE EXPANSION OF U.S. TERROR WAR FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION
Gen. Petraeus: US civilian-military team must mesh
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11079301