The U.S. Is Failing World History
By Junious Ricardo Stanton

"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them" George Santayana

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military is fighting the most complex guerrilla war in its history, with 140,000 American soldiers trained for conventional warfare flailing against a thicket of insurgent groups with competing aims and no supreme leader.The three dozen or so guerrilla bands agree on little beyond forcing the Americans out of Iraq. In other U.S. wars, the enemy was clear.

In Vietnam, a visible leader - Ho Chi Minh - led a single army fighting to unify the country under socialism. But in Iraq, the disorganized insurgency has no single commander, no political wing and no dominant group. U.S. troops can't settle on a single approach to fight groups whose goals and operations vary. And it's hard to sort combatants from civilians in a chaotic land where large parts of some communities support the insurgents and others are too afraid to risk their lives to help foreigners." Jim Krane Associated Press Wire Service.

As AmeriKKKa drunk with ambitions of global hegemony and empire staggers and stumbles in Iraq and Afghanistan it is becoming clearer and clearer on the home front the ruling elites and plutocrats who were counting on an "easy A" have not done their homework in world affairs and history.

Now, unprepared for the fallout and consequences of their latest debacle they will compound their hubris and insanity by replicating the heavy handed European tactics of the last two centuries that failed them thirty years ago in Vietnam. It is very telling and ironic that Karl Rove chose to make John Kerry's record in Vietnam the focal point of their attack on him because the United States is still in denial about its' imperialism in Southeast Asia.

As soon as the resistance began in Iraq critics equated it to Vietnam. While there are similarities, there are also major differences. But the common denominator is the AmeriKKKan imperialists are fighting people who don't want them there, a people determined to resist conquest and occupation who want nothing more than to be left alone to practice their own culture and be self-determining about their future.

Remember, the Vietnam War like the Russian debacle in Afghanistan were proxy wars. The South Vietnamese freedom fighters received support from Russia, the North Vietnamese and to a limited degree China. The puppet government in South Vietnam was backed by the US. The US in its arrogance had decided to carry the torch and banner for white Western imperialism after the French and British were driven out of Southeast Asia.

In Afghanistan, the US funded and supplied the Mujahadidin freedom fighters who waged an asymmetric guerilla war against the Russians. It was the US who created the so- called Islamic Terrorists of today. Like the Vietnamese guerillas, the Iraqi freedom fighters either have the tacit support of the people or the masses are afraid to be seen supporting the invaders because they will be socially ostracized or killed. Thus, the US has been unable to get "intelligence on the ground" to identify who is in the resistence despite huge monetary incentives.

Lacking this information and coupled with their pathological bloodlust, the AmeriKKKans have resorted to brute firepower. This strategy is backfiring on the AmerKKKans, just like it did in Vietnam and on the Russians in Afghanistan. The collateral damage, the wholesale slaughter and loss of life and the sheer sock of the callousness of the invaders have turned the Iraqi people against them even more!

The indiscriminate bombings, the raids by US military personnel into the communities, the massive arrests without provocation, the tortures and humiliation of the detainees, that was occurring long before CBS showed pictures of what was happening in Abu Gharib prison have even turned world opinion against the US. No amount of AmeriKKKan PR spin can counter these images!

Unlike Vietnam where the US was fighting against both guerillas and North Vietnamese regulars, in Iraq there is no organized military. To be sure, there are former Iraqi soldiers and officers participating in the resistence but they are doing so in an asymmetrical fashion, there is no formal or cohesive military structure.

In their delusion, the US critics of the invasion are saying the US should not have disbanded the Iraq army and security forces. What makes these critics think the Iraqi military would wage war on their own people on behalf of Western invaders?

The Iraqi generals were loyal to Saddam Hussein who in reality was a US puppet. However, if the CIA was unable to cultivate assets within Hussein's inner circle willing to betray and oust him, what makes US critics think this same inner circle would join forces with the US to do their dirty work after the fall of Baghdad?

The US has failed to learn the lessons of history! It is very difficult to defeat a determined people who are fighting for their lives, on their land who have a core value that says dying for their god/country will get them into paradise!

Hitler the man the US fascists most idolize is a classic example. He had a vastly superior army than the Russians but his army were invaders on Russia turf. This gave the Russian people a psychological advantage. So when his army's supply lines became overextended, the scorched earth guerrilla tactics of the Russians and the harsh weather defeated him. Even when Hitler won easily as in his invasion and occupation of Poland and France, his troops met sustained resistence after they set up occupation governments.

The US will not win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people nor the people of the Muslim world as long as they continue to ruthlessly maim and kill Iraqi children, as long as Iraqis are being kidnaped, brutalized and raped and as long as there is depravation and suffering caused by the US occupation.

The US can not win as long as their occupation offers a stark contrast to the conditions in their lives when Saddam Hussein was in power and what is going on now! No amount of heavy handed military actions will improve the situation in Iraq. It will only make matters worse.

Iraq is the land where "an eye for and eye, blood for blood" originated. Neither John Negroponte the man sent to pacify and subdue Iraq, John Kerry nor George W. Bush understand this. Their failure to understand these facts will insure a life and resource draining trans-generational conflict and the inevitable defeat and withdrawal of the US.

© 2004 by Afromerica

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