Britain Is Up To Its Neck In US Dirty Wars And Death Squads -- Seumas Milne, The Guardian
The war on terror is now an endless campaign of drone and undercover killings that threatens a more dangerous world
You might have thought the war on terror was finally being wound down, 12 years after the US launched it with such disastrous results. President Obama certainly gave that impression earlier this year when he declared that "this war, like all wars, must end".
In fact, the Nobel peace prize winner was merely redefining it. There would be no more "boundless global war on terror", he promised. By which he meant land wars and occupations are out for now, even if the US is still negotiating for troops to remain in Afghanistan after the end of next year.
But the war on terror is mutating, growing and spreading. Drone attacks, which have escalated under Obama from Pakistan to north Africa, are central to this new phase. And as Dirty Wars – the powerful new film by the American journalist Jeremy Scahill – makes clear, so are killings on the ground by covert US special forces, proxy warlords and mercenaries in multiple countries.
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My Comment: Jeremy Scahill is an interesting journalist. And while I do disagree with some of his assertions, I have seen his documentary and I do recommend it for viewing.
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