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 Vietnam Offers a Roadmap for the Mideast

In my studies of conflicts (war if you will) I have always looked for alternate policies that would help remove the US from its massive troop build-ups and its interventions…..

We need a new plan for the Middle East……a re-think if you will….

The request by a U.S. Army captain to a federal court for a declaratory judgment about his constitutional duties regarding going to war is the latest reminder of the unsatisfactory situation in which the United States is engaged in military operations in multiple overseas locales without any authorization other than a couple of outdated and obsolete Congressional resolutions whose relevance is questionable at best.

Of the many ways in which the U.S. Congress has fallen down on the job, this is one of the more important ones. There are several reasons that Congress should take up without further delay the question of an authorization for the use of military force (AUMF). Getting out of the legal netherworld in which current U.S. military operations exist is one of those reasons.

Source: A Need to Rethink Mideast Wars – Consortiumnews

Is there a way of approaching the Middle East that does not involve intervention and war?  I found an op-ed that I rather like…..and I believe it could work….if only our leaders would try……

Just recently the US president has offered support to an old enemy….Vietnam….and that agreement could be a template to be used in the Middle East…..like it or not.

As President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam and the lifting of the arms embargo to that country represents his “pivot to Asia,” his simultaneous killing of Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the Taliban leader in Pakistan, and the U.S.-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s announcement of an assault to free Fallujah in Iraq illustrate why the […]

Source: Trajectory of US Policy in Vietnam Offers a Roadmap for the Mideast – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com

There is no argument that we need to find people that can think outside the box that the M-IC has constructed…..armed conflict only makes their business more and more profitable……and afterall that is the American Way, right?

14 thoughts on “ Vietnam Offers a Roadmap for the Mideast”

  2. I would have to say, your last paragraph is the only essential information here, of any importance. The conflict will go on as long as the remaining American people allow it, and as long as it is profitable, both of which are currently the case…

    This means, from a purely logical and realistic viewpoint, there isn’t much chance there it will change…. I don’t think WHICH president is in office will make any difference at all… not Bernie, not Trump, and certainly not the pillory….or anyone else with a legitimate chance of assuming the office; they’re all shills for corporate influence, and have no real interest in stopping the conflict, as long as it doesn’t touch their lives.

    I’m also afraid the only solution left will be applied by Gaia, when she rings down our the final curtain on our stay on this plane of existence. It’s not going to be pretty, but, it’w what we’ve earned….

    gigoid, the dubious

    Reply

      1. I agree, from one standpoint…. BUT

        *smile*

        “Shaking things up”, for a politician, merely means rearranging the status quo so it ‘looks’ different… Their entire purpose is to keep the status quo just the way it is…. all of them….

        But, they’ll try to make it look as if they are….

        gigoid, still dubious

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