According to a feature in India's Frontline magazine, "President Obama has substantially increased defence spending and has expanded the war in Afghanistan," and "the Obama administration has wholeheartedly endorsed the Bush administration's policy of eliminating terror suspects using pilotless high-tech drone aircraft.
"Instead of using the laborious technique of capturing alleged terrorists from their hideouts in crowded cities and remote villages, the drones just bomb the house or village where the suspects are holed up. In the process, there has been huge collateral damage. Innocent civilians killed far outnumber those killed in the fight against the occupation.
"Ever since he took office two years ago, Obama has made the deadly drones a key instrument in his fight against the militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The drones are also being used liberally to target militants in Yemen and Somalia." [9]
The Afghan war in its tenth year has expanded into a far broader conflict, one which grows in both scope and lethality with each passing week and will escalate yet further before it begins to wind down, if it ever does.
President Obama's pledge last year to "draw down" U.S. and NATO combat forces from South and Central Asia they are also stationed in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan next year is now revealed to be the transparent political manipulation it was from the start.
A piece by Stephen M. Walt was published on the website of National Public Radio on November 11, entitled "Foreign Policy: Bait And Switch In Afghanistan."
Walt is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and the Journal of Cold War Studies, and is the co-author of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy with John Mearsheimer.
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