invention in the market is studied by the military for warfare applications. Chemical, bacteriological,

space and ocean exploration, computer technology, telephones, airwaves, the TV spectrum, press and media for propaganda, trade, medicine, religion, animals -seals and dolphin trained for underwater military missions, and even mind altering food additives.

Can we control the world with all those terrific tools on our disposal? No, because our ability to kill with impunity has made us the global bully that

everybody likes to bust whenever they can. We have sown unscrupulous bombing and killing of civilians around the globe, and now we are harvesting global hatred and terrorism. And as the article suggests, and as it was proven in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Pakistan, our bombing and robotic warfare -with Predator drones- just increased the hatred against us, and did not lead us to victory.

I remember back in the 70’s and 80’s there were some movies made of real stories of bullies that terrorized small towns, and the authorities couldn’t or didn’t do anything about. One day, someone blew the head of those bullies off, and nobody in the town knew anything. The authorities tried and tried, but the shooters was never caught. The authorities called it “collective town consent” [to deal with the bully with deadly force], and that is what is happening against the U.S. today in a global scale. There is “a collective anti-U.S. consent” around the globe, and we have created it with our bullying attitude, and with our military dogma to kill all who hate us – if we can do so with impunity – especially in poor countries that cannot defend themselves.

Retired Cuban president Fidel Castro called out military “a killing machine.” But its senseless and wanton wars in small countries after WWII didn’t bring home any victory that we can be proud of. It just brought home murder and mayhem (what the Revered Jerehiah Wright called “the chickens [revenge] come home to roost”), and made us the most hated nation on earth. Too bad Obama didn’t take his pastor advice. Sure, we can kill a lot of Afghan and Pakistan civilians robotically, trying to blame the Taliban for using them as human shields to conceal our crime, and then give their families $ 2.000 to bury the hatchet. But as Afghan president Hamid Karzai has said 100 times: “That is not a way to win a war.” And unless we start showing respect for human life, and stop killing civilians and call them collateral damage, the change of Generals in command in Afghanistan won’t make any difference.

Obama’s National Security Advisor, Gen. Jones, said

“U.S. airstrikes will continue because we cannot fight a war with one hand tighten behind our back,” on quote. Translation: We don’t want to fight a conventional battle and take casualties in a village when we can bomb and obliterate that village from the air. And if the civilians there die, so be it!

It reminds us what the Israel did it recently by bombing Gaza into rubble and killing 1350 civilians and injuring thousands. And “that is not a way to win as war,” as Afghan president Karzai said.

Nikos Retsos, retired professor

invention in the market is studied by the military for warfare applications. Chemical, bacteriological,

space and ocean exploration, computer technology, telephones, airwaves, the TV spectrum, press and media for propaganda, trade, medicine, religion, animals -seals and dolphin trained for underwater military missions, and even mind altering food additives.

Can we control the world with all those terrific tools on our disposal? No, because our ability to kill with impunity has made us the global bully that

everybody likes to bust whenever they can. We have sown unscrupulous bombing and killing of civilians around the globe, and now we are harvesting global hatred and terrorism. And as the article suggests, and as it was proven in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Pakistan, our bombing and robotic warfare -with Predator drones- just increased the hatred against us, and did not lead us to victory.

I remember back in the 70’s and 80’s there were some movies made of real stories of bullies that terrorized small towns, and the authorities couldn’t or didn’t do anything about. One day, someone blew the head of those bullies off, and nobody in the town knew anything. The authorities tried and tried, but the shooters was never caught. The authorities called it “collective town consent” [to deal with the bully with deadly force], and that is what is happening against the U.S. today in a global scale. There is “a collective anti-U.S. consent” around the globe, and we have created it with our bullying attitude, and with our military dogma to kill all who hate us – if we can do so with impunity – especially in poor countries that cannot defend themselves.

Retired Cuban president Fidel Castro called out military “a killing machine.” But its senseless and wanton wars in small countries after WWII didn’t bring home any victory that we can be proud of. It just brought home murder and mayhem (what the Revered Jerehiah Wright called “the chickens [revenge] come home to roost”), and made us the most hated nation on earth. Too bad Obama didn’t take his pastor advice. Sure, we can kill a lot of Afghan and Pakistan civilians robotically, trying to blame the Taliban for using them as human shields to conceal our crime, and then give their families $ 2.000 to bury the hatchet. But as Afghan president Hamid Karzai has said 100 times: “That is not a way to win a war.” And unless we start showing respect for human life, and stop killing civilians and call them collateral damage, the change of Generals in command in Afghanistan won’t make any difference.

Obama’s National Security Advisor, Gen. Jones, said

“U.S. airstrikes will continue because we cannot fight a war with one hand tighten behind our back,” on quote. Translation: We don’t want to fight a conventional battle and take casualties in a village when we can bomb and obliterate that village from the air. And if the civilians there die, so be it!

It reminds us what the Israel did it recently by bombing Gaza into rubble and killing 1350 civilians and injuring thousands. And “that is not a way to win as war,” as Afghan president Karzai said.

Nikos Retsos, retired professor