"The Brazilian minister insisted that the core issue of relations between the US and South America is the deployment of US forces in seven Colombian bases following on an agreement recently signed between the administration of President Obama and Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe.
"'I believe the US should act with more frankness towards the region. President Lula proposed President Obama a meeting to address the issue (of US personnel in Colombian bases) but he did not accept,' said Amorim."http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/11432-----
What is the US military buildup in South America FOR?
The US "war on drugs' has FAILED. Many countries are kicking it out. People hate it. It is extremely corrupt and has resulted in massive brutality, death and displacement mostly aimed--and I think deliberately aimed--at small peasant farmers. And the hard drugs never stop coming--ha-ha on U.S. taxpayers. Its purpose seems to be killing the poor and their leftist advocates, including thousands of union leaders in Colombia. What infernal business does the U.S. military have doing
that?
Why doesn't President Obama want to meet with South American leaders on what they consider to be the "core issue" between the U.S. and South America?
If President Obama's new US relationship with Latin America--which he has stated as peace, respect and cooperation--is sincere, why won't he meet with these leaders on the US military buildup, their "core issue" as to peace, and show respect for their views and their elected positions as heads of state, representing many millions of people, and cooperate with them in peacefully and diplomatically resolving issues?
What is he hiding? His weakness? (Chavez said that Obama is "the prisoner of the Pentagon." Is it true?) Or his agreement with the oil war plan for South America that Rumsfeld left on the desk? (I would hate to think that is true.)
I'll tell you what I think. I have never seen anything so like South Vietnam, 1963, as is happening with the U.S. in Colombia right now--the sneaky buildup (new access to seven bases, 600 more US soldiers and 600 US "contractors" to start with--remember "just a few military advisers"?--and they will have immunity from Colombian laws); the extremely corrupt, rightwing, US puppet government that can't survive on its own, but needs $6 BILLION in US military aid--and now direct support at 7 bases--to prop it up (so like the CIA-created South Vietnamese army propping up the CIA-created South Vietnamese government); a long civil war between the left (the poor majority) and the right (the rich few) in which the US has taken sides with the fascists, of course; and a brutal national military and closely tied death squads, responsible for Colombia having one of the worst human rights records on earth. The vile, corrupt, fascist South Vietnamese government and military, deja vu all over again, with the US getting in deeper and deeper, and only a small fraction of the people of the US even aware of it. South Vietnam, 1963.
And this time, the motive is OIL--the need to fuel the humungous U.S. war machine, at outlandishly inflated prices charged to US taxpayers by private US global corporate predator oil giants. The US just got done slaughtering a million innocent people to steal their oil, but it is not enough. Iran was somehow taken "off the table." Where else are they going to get that oil, and those ungodly profits?
I don't know if Obama supports this planned war, or, as Chavez says, is "a prisoner of the Pentagon." He speaks of peace. Is he lying? Or is he so tied down and powerless that he can't do anything about it? (Honduras seems to indicate the latter, but we don't know the whole story there yet; for instance, who gave the order to the US military commanders at the US base in Honduras to let the plane carrying the kidnapped president land there for refueling?) And who and what is he tied down by? Deals he made with Clinton and the Bushwhacks so as not to be Diebolded in 2008? (I think he did win--in an even bigger anti-war vote than that liar LBJ got in 1964--but I also know that a handful of far rightwing corporations control the voting machines and can easily--EASILY!--have stopped him.) Why is he being so coy about these seven new US military bases? Because Jim DeMint is blackmailing him? How did Jim DeMint--a first term senator 'elected' in THE most non-transparent voting system in the US (South Carolina's)--get so much power?
Is he refusing to meet with South American leaders because he doesn't really have control of the situation, because he doesn't really give a damn or is too busy with two on-going Bushwhack wars to worry about the
next war, or because he sold us out to another oil war--with the war assets now being put in place in Colombia, in Honduras, in the Caribbean and Panama-- as the price of getting to the White House?
I'm aware of how awful a conclusion it would be if Obama has done to us what LBJ did in 1964--parading as a "peace candidate" while planning, or agreeing to, a new war. But we need to face the fact of this precedent in our history, as well as the possibility that
that is the reason for Obama's failure to support restoration of democracy in Honduras, refusal to meet with South American leaders on this US military buildup and apparent approval of the military buildup (we'll see, when it gets to Congress), despite the near universal opposition of Latin American countries, and the obvious harm that it is doing to US diplomacy in the region.
But as I said, I don't know what Obama is thinking, and I don't even have a guess. He could just be beset on all sides, with not a full year yet as president, and some really bad advisers--ripe ground for Bushwhack moles and plotters to be sabotaging him in every way. I am very, very, VERY worried that they are plotting another oil war.
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