The United States suffered 33,651 war dead defending South Korea in its fratricidal war, called a United Nations “peacekeeping” action, with North Korea. In a war started by the introduction of U.S. military “advisers,” the United States suffered 47,369 military dead in the civil war in South Vietnam. Now, President Obama is sending U.S. “advisers” to South Sudan during its border war with north Sudan. Although Obama is officially sending five U.S. military personnel to South Sudan, he also exempted them from prosecution by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. One Pentagon observer noted that “five” should be read as “fifty.”
Obama’s decision to commit “advisers” to South Sudan comes at the same time U.S. oil companies are moving into the country, which also has established close links with Israel.
When it comes to Sudan, Obama’s policies are a direct reflection of the anti-north Sudan biases of his ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice. Rice has been a supporter of South Sudan, as well as Uganda’s dictator Yoweri Museveni, Ethiopia’s brutal dictator Meles Zenawi, and Rwanda’s megalomaniac dictator Paul Kagame, since she served in the Clinton administration. Obama has also authorized the dispatch of U.S. troops to Uganda to fight the Lord’s Resistance Army in the north of the country, an area that borders South Sudan.
Obama, who is half-Kenyan, has taken steps far beyond those of his predecessor to militarize U.S. involvement in African affairs, long a domain of the State Department.
Rice and her neocon friends see the eventual dismemberment of Sudan into Western vassal states, with South Sudan being the first breakaway region, one that will eventually be followed into “independence” by Darfur, Abyei (which may eventually join South Sudan), the Blue Nile state, South Kordofan, North Kordofan, and possibly, parts of the strategic Red Sea state with its maritime center of Port Sudan. All the potential Sudanese breakaway regions are known to have substantial oil resources.
For Africa, America’s first African-American president, one with ties to east Africa’s tribal politics—Obama is one-half ethnic Luo from Kenya—has meant an increase in U.S. military intervention and an increase in Pentagon and CIA drone activity. That can only mean that more misery and bloodshed are in Africa’s future.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).
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America’s affection for supporting ‘Souths’ in civil wars
Posted on January 17, 2012 by Wayne Madsen
The United States suffered 33,651 war dead defending South Korea in its fratricidal war, called a United Nations “peacekeeping” action, with North Korea. In a war started by the introduction of U.S. military “advisers,” the United States suffered 47,369 military dead in the civil war in South Vietnam. Now, President Obama is sending U.S. “advisers” to South Sudan during its border war with north Sudan. Although Obama is officially sending five U.S. military personnel to South Sudan, he also exempted them from prosecution by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. One Pentagon observer noted that “five” should be read as “fifty.”
Obama’s decision to commit “advisers” to South Sudan comes at the same time U.S. oil companies are moving into the country, which also has established close links with Israel.
When it comes to Sudan, Obama’s policies are a direct reflection of the anti-north Sudan biases of his ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice. Rice has been a supporter of South Sudan, as well as Uganda’s dictator Yoweri Museveni, Ethiopia’s brutal dictator Meles Zenawi, and Rwanda’s megalomaniac dictator Paul Kagame, since she served in the Clinton administration. Obama has also authorized the dispatch of U.S. troops to Uganda to fight the Lord’s Resistance Army in the north of the country, an area that borders South Sudan.
Obama, who is half-Kenyan, has taken steps far beyond those of his predecessor to militarize U.S. involvement in African affairs, long a domain of the State Department.
Rice and her neocon friends see the eventual dismemberment of Sudan into Western vassal states, with South Sudan being the first breakaway region, one that will eventually be followed into “independence” by Darfur, Abyei (which may eventually join South Sudan), the Blue Nile state, South Kordofan, North Kordofan, and possibly, parts of the strategic Red Sea state with its maritime center of Port Sudan. All the potential Sudanese breakaway regions are known to have substantial oil resources.
For Africa, America’s first African-American president, one with ties to east Africa’s tribal politics—Obama is one-half ethnic Luo from Kenya—has meant an increase in U.S. military intervention and an increase in Pentagon and CIA drone activity. That can only mean that more misery and bloodshed are in Africa’s future.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).