POSTED COMMENT TO A COLUMN BY LAWRENCE MARTIN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Lawrence Martin, this piece is a little pathetic.
I like Obama and wish him well, knowing full well no one can seriously alter the course of America's paranoid imperial policies.
After all, the combination of all the vested interests of the FBI, the CIA, the dozen other intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, America's Borgia-like wealthy clans, and its immense corporate interests reduce the voice of the people in an election to a little squib.
It's nice to see that charming smile at the White House, but it hardly compensates for all the things that are terribly wrong.
The Iraq withdrawal has turned into a game of words.
Fighting has intensified in Afghanistan.
America is busy interfering in Iran and lying about it.
Guantanamo continues, as do horrid places like Bagram Air Base.
The ugly laws of the Patriot Act continue.
Some military bureaucrat daily sits down to a control panel somewhere in the US and lines up a Predator Drone to fire Hellfire missiles down at some poor people in Pakistan who are promptly incinerated with no arrest, no trial, not even any proper charges. Then the operator happily goes to lunch, having done his morning’s work.
Israel got away with mass murder in Gaza, and now it continues to block entry even of building materials to help clean up the mess. More than a million tortured people and Obama doesn't say or do anything so far as we can see.
