Discovery Channel – Ted Koppel
Koppel: Our Children’s Children’s War
MAR 11 2007
@ 09:00 PM
MAR 12 2007
@ 01:00 AM
{Check your local listings}
Many think the war on terror will end with a withdrawal from Iraq or a stable government in Afghanistan. While the world focuses on those two conflicts, the U.S. military is preparing to fight a war that may last for generations, a war that may never end.
“War On Terror” is a mislabel, for you cannot have a War on a Criminal Act, when it is looked at in this way it causes the number of those who will resort to these Criminal Devestating Actions to increase. For in Wars the numbers of Innocent Victims becomes Overwelming, leading to much more Hatreds on the part of those who survive, especially for those who would never have thought of committing to any Criminal Activity., they than become more willing to do anything they feel is needed in Retaliation and to Vent the Anger and Hatreds that grow within.
TERROR TIMELINE:
When did the War on Terror really start?
And when will it end?1960s and 1970s: Disenfranchised Groups Lash Out
Tools of the modern terror trade take shape as poor, stateless and disenfranchised peoples begin to use hijackings, assassinations and kidnappings to achieve goals. The first hijacking of a U.S. aircraft occurs in 1961, when a Puerto Rican-born gunman forces a National Airlines plane to fly to Havana, Cuba, where he is given asylum.
Several U.S. diplomats are assassinated or kidnapped abroad during this period, beginning with the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, who is murdered by a rebel faction in 1968.
Other notable events include the 1969 kidnapping of the U.S. ambassador to Brazil by a Marxist revolutionary group; the 1969 attack on the U.S. ambassador to Japan by a knife-wielding Japanese citizen; the 1973 kidnapping of the U.S. consul general in Mexico by members of the People’s Revolutionary Armed Forces; and the 1973 assassination of the U.S. ambassador to Sudan and other diplomats at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum by members of the “Black September” organization.
Widely known as the “War on Terror,” the outgoing commander of the U.S. military’s Central Command, Gen. John Abizaid, refers to it as “The Long War.” Ted Koppel presents an in-depth special report on a war that may last longer than any in which the U.S. has been involved before.
In Ted’s Words
The third chapter in this trilogy is something that the Pentagon calls “The Long War.” And what they’re really referring to is the battle against terrorism, which many of the leaders in the Pentagon now perceive as being an endless battle — one that may go on for 20 years, 30 years or more.
Koppel and his team of producers take viewers to Afghanistan, where the American military is fighting an increasingly powerful Taliban; to Djibouti, where the U.S. is building schools and digging wells; to Ethiopia, where the U.S. is training commandos while the war in next-door Somalia rages; and to North Carolina, where private military firm Blackwater USA is training military and civilian personnel for life on the front lines.
We use the term “Terrorist” in such a way that it has lost a single meaning and becomes a label for any who don’t except our Imperialist Wants. Calling those who fight our occupations as `Terrorists’ in their own countries, as we wrought extreme `Terror’ on the citizens of those countries we force our way into and than occupy. We aren’t the only ones, everyone now describes those they would label as enemies as `Terrorists’. Which by using that term strikes `Terror’ and `Fear’ in their own peoples thoughts.
As we dismantle Military bases, Veterans Hospitals and Clinics, within our own country, we are building huge bases in places all over this planet, including a country we had no right to invade and bring `Terror’ on it’s citizens, Iraq!
Why even in that country, who’s once head of state, installed into power with our help, and supported for many years, looking the other way as he ordered Atrosities on his people, took his countries riches and built Palaces, we are occupying his Palaces and building a Huge and Expensive Foreign Embassey, and for what purpose, better control over the puppet leadership and it’s countries wealth, Oil!
Any good, done In Our Names, is quickly wiped out by the bad policies and the killings, in Tens Of Thousands, that We Cause, In Our Names!
The `Criminal Terrorism’ has been going on for a loooong time, as Koppel will point out. And because it was happening “Over There”, which meant anywhere but here, even though we had these criminal acts occuring within and to our countrypersons and business interests in other area’s of this planet, our Apathedic Arrogant Society paid little heed. And now, even though we have our Military Personal killing and being killed in places like Iraq and Afganistan this Country within pays Very Little Attention as to the Majority, for that Majority isn’t touched in anyway by what is going on, Yet! For the bar, in numbers, has now been raised as to the disenfranchised of this world that we want to control, and the generations to come will be paying the cost, in lives and wealth, for the actions of the generations now waging our Destructive Policies!
Koppels show, on The Discovery Channel, should be as compelling and informative as his other works. I suggest to tune in and watch it!
“Child of War”
Those who take some sort of relief in the “We are fighting them over there so we won’t be fighting them here!”, Better Rethink their Future, or rather their Childrens Future!!
The Failed Policies will Haunt Us and the World for Decades!!
