Part One: Focus on the Middle East

     This commentary deals with why I believe President Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan may fail. One of the biggest obstacles to his impending success is opium. Not just opium as a raw material but what the raw material opium can become. The fact that this raw material is essential to many other medicinal and chemical, both legal and illegal, products means there is large scale global trade in this industry and the U.S. is largely involved. This realization alone is one of the major reasons Obama may run into industry road blocks politically as he pursues an end to terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan in a fight to reduce the illegal trade of opium. Something that has not been done ever. The grappling with this necessary evil goes as far back as the nineteenth century when the Opium Wars loomed between the British and the Chinese. Yet opium is still around and ostensibly shall always be with us. Thus securing its place among the most powerful inelastic commodities in the world. A good example of why I hold this political viewpoint is the fact that Adolf Hitler mostly held power because the Hitler regime was financially backed and supported largely by Corporate America, with major allies like Henry Ford.

     Statistically, Afghanistan has an estimated population of 32,738,376 inhabitants. Sunni Muslims are the major religious group with 80 percent and only 19 percent for the Shiites. Roughly only 28 percent above the age of 15 can read and write. That is, 43 percent males and scarcely 13 percent females. It is an Islamic republic. That means its government type is based on a religious foundation. Unlike U.S. Republicanism, which is founded on a written constitution and church and state are separate. The president or chief of state is Hamid Karzai. There is the ANA, the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Army Air Corps. But remember the literacy rate among males is average and thus their means of highly developed intelligence capability would appear weak in contrast to lets say the Soviet’s, Great Britain’s or the American’s, where the literacy rate is much higher for males over 15. As far as transnational issues goes Pakistan and Afghanistan are invariably engaged in border disputes. The main disagreements are: terrorism and illicit drugs. Afghanistan is the largest producer of opium globally with a steady increase in poppy cultivation. The Taliban participates in this industry explicitly. Not to mention the fact that most of the heroin that goes to Europe and Eurasia comes from Afghan opium. And there are various financial networks covertly involved in drug money laundering, such as U.S. corporations and perhaps even banks though as far as banks I am speculating. But it would make sense that since we face a financial economic global crisis in 2009, I would not rule such a hypothetical out.

     GDP for the Afghan economy in 2007 was estimated to be about $35 billion, which came mostly from the agriculture and service sector of the economy. Industry that same year only mustered 24 percent of the GDP. One big problem the Obama administration has is the fact that the Afghan labor force is only 15 million people out of a population of 32,738,376 inhabitants. And statistically the unemployment rate is about 40 percent, with a population below the poverty line of 53 percent. This is a huge barrier to President Obama’s political and military objectives for the region. These numbers clearly point out the advantage the Taliban and al-Qaida have in furthering their ambitions, which is to fundamentalize the Afghan state and secure a nuclear bomb from Pakistan. Moreover, the global recession has gone unrestrained. The national unemployment rate in the U.S. alone is over 10 percent not counting those that work part-time or the jobless worker who has totally given up seeking work altogether, and those who volunteer, but receive no pay. Such hopelessly depressed conditions for many people nationally and even worldwide has brought disfavor with the President and his administration.

     This hamstrung economic social paradigm has produced, high rates of violent crimes, from drugs, within families, hindering the efforts of police doing their jobs, on the highways, and many more social conflicts worldwide.

     U.S. interests in the region is more than the threat of Soviet expansion as I mention in my last commentary. The fact is the U.S. is Afghanistan’s third largest trading partner among a group of four with India its leading Exporter. Another major political problem vaguely discussed by the Obama administration is the border disputes between India and Pakistan. Even if the U.S. could by 2011 stabilize Afghanistan militarily from terrorism they may underestimate the Taliban’s ability to drive a wedge further between India and Pakistan. This wedge would target the 80.5 percent Hindu population in India and the 97 percent Muslim population in Pakistan. Including the competition that exist among Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in the opium trade. But beyond that, there is India’s ongoing conflict with China. One of America’s major debt holders. The Pharmaceutical industry would not look favorably on the Obama administration if any hindrance to licit opium were to materialize in this area. In addition, the President, Admiral Mullen, Senator John Kerry, and General McChrystal has failed to mention the illicit narcotics trade exported to Southeast Asia by India. Again, stabilizing Afghanistan will only have a minor impact on destroying terrorism. Admiral Mullen told Charlie Rose the draw down of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by mid-2011 does not mean a complete withdrawal. And with such uncertainty the question arises, “What does draw down mean then?”

     Iran, on the other hand, has a population of 65,875,223 inhabitants, of which 98 percent are Muslims, and of that, 89 percent are Shiites and 9 percent are Sunni. It has a literacy rate of 77 percent. Eighty-three percent males over 15 and 70.4 percent females. Its government type is a theocratic republic. That is, both state and church are combined. The capital is Tehran and the chief of state or Supreme Leader is Ali Hoseini-Khamenei. The head of government is President Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad. The Iranian economy is reliant on oil. It supplies about 85 percent of revenues. A major barrier for the UN and NATO is the state has sovereignty and thus most economic activity is under the state’s authority. And too, corruption plays a big role in sociopolitical progress for the Iranian economy. Something the Obama administration fails to address. I think the U.S. abstains from this encounter with the Iranians, primarily Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is because Iran’s major Importer and Exporter is China. Although Japan leads China as Iran’s major Exporter overall.

     What does this mean in the short and long term for the Obama administration when time to draw down the troops in Afghanistan? I believe it means there will have to be politically some concession on the part of the superpowers, spearheaded by President Obama, Gordon Brown and Angela Merkal, and Nicolas Sarkozy.

     We must not forget as far as the terrorists are concerned, al-Qaida is backed by Osama Bin Laden, and according to Forbes magazine, issue: November 30 list of most powerful people, had Mr. Bin Laden at No. 37. He is estimated to be worth more than $300,000,000. And maybe considerably more in the light of the opium trade he is engaged in as well. Bin Laden most definitively has ties with U.S. corporations as well as corporations in Europe and Asia. All this has to do with the probability of his acquiring a nuclear bomb at some point in the future. Neither President Hamid Karzai, a Sunni Muslim, of Afghanistan nor President Asif Ali Zardari, a Shiite Muslim, of Pakistan can control all the political factions in their respective governments. Let me underscore a very important point… and that is the Taliban, a radical Sunni Islamist movement, was a legitimate government from 1996 until late 2001, when they were removed by NATO forces. It is the Sunni connection between President Karzai and the Taliban that holds weight here. Though Karzai may appear to be a Patriot he could switch sides for any reason and become an Islamic nationalist. I would not rule out pecuniary bribes, patronage, from the Taliban, once the U.S. begins military withdrawal.

     Even though Pakistan is a federal republic as mentioned above, they may see a need to employ Taliban forces to help fend off Indian’s attacks should they materialize. Or they could find the Taliban instrumental with their impoverished and underdeveloped economic circumstances and as such would be willing to grant political favors, such as vital political positions in government. But one thing is for certain above all else and that is, the Taliban and al-Qaida are both in Pakistan. In fact according to Senator John Kerry, al-Qaida is headquartered there, while Bin Laden is in the Northwest region of Pakistan. So the border that divides both Afghanistan and Pakistan could seem to disappear, in the light of Islamic fundametalist objectives, in terms of the war on terrorism.

     One of the major goals of General McChrystal should be to drive the Taliban to the Northeastern sector of Afghanistan from the southwest central region. That is, from the Helmand province to the Palmir Mountains in the Gorno-Badakhshan province. The mountains are covered in snow year round. Palmir has long and bitterly cold winters and short cool summers. Making Drone attacks more effective in the summer while the winter would take its toll on the Taliban forces almost unaided by Afghan and NATO forces. I know some officials maybe going through the roof, since the U.S. is interested in these mountains for trade purposes, but that is every reason to drive the Taliban there and put an end to their insurgency.

     Let me switch focus at this point. I had the opportunity to see a movie called ‘Head-On’ about a young Turkish woman, a cocaine addict, who moved from Germany, to Istanbul because her husband, a cocaine addict also, had been put in prison for manslaughter, where her sister lived, and got turned on to opium. Probably illegally imported from Afghanistan. Certainly this movie was fictitious. But that does not mean opium is not in reality flourishing in Istanbul or Germany in one form or another. Turkey is a republican parliamentary democracy somewhat similar to the U.S.’s government and has no restrictions on religious freedoms. You can dress as Western or Eastern as you please without coercion from the Turkish government. Ironically, in terms of religion the country is 99.8 percent Muslim, mostly Sunni. The point being, opium could be purchased or acquired for recreational use in the real world as well. The movie makes the old adage, “there is a thin line between fiction and reality” a true aphorism.

     In summary, let me state we will take a closer look at opium in part two of this two part commentary. I think up to this point in the discussion the reader gets an understanding of the complexity of President Obama’s foreign policy dilemma. He can save the American ship of virtue from the eye of the radical Islamist storm so-to-speak, but he can’t save all the people in it. Such a metaphor helps us to grasp his likelihood of having to make many unfortunate sacrifices, politically. Jobs are eating at his will to rescue an America under siege by a global economic crisis that does not seem to want to go away. Surely he inherited all these political fire dragons. But it was he, was it not, who said he could bring about resolution over time. I say the two most important tidal waves you have to get us through Mr. President is the war in Afghanistan and the economic global depression in full swing right now. And if you can do that you will then have to turn your attention to the likely internal rise of illicit drug distribution and use, and the gun violence that will escalate culminating in the new terrorist hydra residing in America covertly derived from its parent Islamic fundamentalist groups, the Taliban and al-Qaida, from the Middle East, formulating since 9/11.

     I listened to the speech Mr. Obama gave to the U.S. Military Academy about his ordering 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. It would appear that Senator McCain is in accord with the President’s new strategy, and I am too… but unconvinced whether it will work. What he hopes to do, the president that is, I believe is to push the Taliban and al-Qaida back far enough to the north that the Afghan military can takeover and finish the job of driving the Taliban out after the U.S. pulls out in what is predicted 2011.

     This strategy on the part of the president breeds uncertainty. Call me a skeptic all you want. But I don’t see the Taliban or al-Qaida responding to the wishes of either the President of the United States or any other president for that matter.

? What Mr. Obama again fails to take into consideration is the fact that this war is a battle of wits, two diametrically opposed interests in the host, that is, a game theory. While the U.S. troops under the command of General McChrystal will seek militarily to drive the Taliban insurgents out of Afghanistan and Pakistan by the various psychological resource methods available, i.e., bribes, trained Afghan government forces, reduced corruption in the Karzai and Pratibha Patil regimes, use CIA agents and or fake Islamic defectors of U.S. contingents or the CIA itself, to infiltrate the Taliban forces and pose as reliable and genuine recruits for the cause of the Fundamentalist’s holy crusade in both Afghanistan and Pakistan against the infidels, even commit to tactics of intimidation by posing [the CIA’s agents] as Taliban and al-Qaida troops in order to threaten Afghan peasants, with hopes that such a stratagem on the part of the CIA will cause hate for the insurgents permanently, while once inside the Taliban they will be sending co-ordinates back to U.S. forces for aerial assaults and will attempt to drive wedges of dissension in between Taliban Loyalists to weaken their internal bonds of unity. Sounds like a good infallible plan. But what may sound good may have bad and disappointing repercussions overtime.

     What does both General McChrystal and the President think the Taliban and al-Qaida will be doing all this time as their opponents? Just sitting on their duffs letting it happen or giving up the jihad? Not hardly. Since this is as I have stated a war based on game theory, it is safe to suppose that Osama Bin Laden and his followers in al-Qaida, along with the Taliban will employ whatever methods, be they voodoo, black magic, mysticism, summoning Islamic Clairvoyants, intimidating the Afghan and Pakistani peasant enclaves with torture and murder or the reverse, that is, use virtue and good deeds to win their loyalty, and any other vile wicked schemes to offset any military strategies the U.S. may apply. But that is not all. What’s more, they will, because they have nothing to lose, since they are fighting what they perceive to be a just holy war, increase and step up suicide attacks both in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in addition to that, they may then set their sights, full blown, on internal attacks in the United States. That is for two reasons, first because of the direct connection to the drug industry and this countries abuse of illegal drugs, and second, because I predict such a strategy would shift the political and domestic focus away from the Middle East to the U.S. directly, and may weaken American morale here at home, not to mention undermine their faith in our leadership if they [the Taliban] succeeds.

     To the Taliban and al-Qaida the war is not just a war to prove who is the most powerful militarily, but a war to prove Allah is on their side. This makes such a jihad, machine-driven. Like the Japanese were, during World War Two, (but most were atheist) when they bombed Pearl Harbor. Their behavior stunned American military high officials, who had no idea to win to the Japanese meant to die and die unnerved and heaven bound. Such an attitude toward a desire to defend one’s religious convictions is the worst foe psychologically any army can face in battle, analogous to the attitude of the Knight’s Templars. Oh, sure the U.S. can nuke the Taliban and al-Qaida like they did the unyielding Japanese in 1945. Or they can get out of the Middle East altogether, if they fail to succeed in driving the Taliban and al-Qaida into internal self-destruction, with their tails between their legs and their heads hung low in shame.

     This war seems to be about winning to the U.S., but not to the Islamic Fundamentalists. To them the war is about religious freedom from foreign Christian rule. And that basic aim is no different than the aim the American colonists had when they fought the British in the Revolutionary War, which was a human right’s struggle.

     It is not going to be a downhill ski-ride for Obama. He is fighting religious Nationalists, who control a large portion of the drug industry, globally, and ethics, surrounding the cause of the Islamic brotherhood is morally indiscriminate, Antinomianism, that is, there is no moral law in war. That alone tells me what the President and the Pentagon can’t see, the Taliban and al-Qaida can, and will use, to defend themselves, and Allah will forgive them, according to the Quran, when all is said and done. This is the principle of the Greater Good Doctrine, that is, there are no exceptions to immorality but there are exemptions. Worst still, as the body count rises on both sides, the American people down the road, lets say by mid-2010, will begin to question the country’s real intentions once again. More United Nation’s troops deployed to the region, if called for and approved by Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, would only add to the overall regional devastation as the war drags on.

     I don’t call the uncertainty in my mind now brewing in the Middle East for the American forces there a Vietnam; I call it an Islam-nam.

     On the subject of using food to bribe the Afghan peasant into aiding U.S. forces in the region to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida cannot last and will not last. If U.S. forces are scheduled to defect in 2011, and return military control to both Afghan and Pakistani military personnel, I predict in time corruption will rage once more, due to drugs and political corruption of the Afghan and Pakistani peasantry and nothing would have changed. Just like the Vietnam War after the Americans departed in 1975. The North Vietcong took over power in the south regardless of U.S. superior military might in the aftermath. So the war in Vietnam was a waste of human life and the same results will occur in Islam-nam as well; as fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins, nephews, son-in-laws, daughter-in-laws etc., (the Tet Offensive) see the value of multicultural unity through socialization based on one religious culture, Islam, whose roots go back to the prophet Muhammad in 570 to 622 A.D.

     This brief commentary will deal with Jesse Jackson and his challenge for the Presidency in the 1980s. But more than that, this paper is about Mulattoism. Well you say Jesse Jackson was not a Mulatto. What does he have to do with such a topic? That is easy to answer. Mr. Jackson did not need to be a Mulatto to do what he did, and that was to run for President of the United States of America in a time of high racial tension, not once but twice, which existed openly among social groups in this country. And… this liberal social attitude is what keeps him going now.

     When he announced his candidacy in 1983, the first time, it had been 15 years since the death of Martin Luther King. Fifteen years is not a long time for a man like Mr. Jackson, who for the most part played a subordinate role in the Civil Rights Movement.

     Nevertheless, thereafter he ended up the spearhead of his own organization called the Rainbow Coalition, and then ultimately leader of Operation PUSH. It makes one wonder how could the social mobility of a member of the SCLC push all the right political buttons without being the bellwether of the Civil Rights Movement. But he did.

     In Mr. Jackson’s case he did not need to be as I said a Mulatto. What he had to offer as collateral for his right to lead as a African American man was his membership as a Freemason, of Prince Hall. The only other African American person to run for the presidency before him was Shirley Chisholm. In Mrs. Chisholm’s case, now deceased, she was born in New York. But her parents came from British Guiana, who were probably brought from the West African Coast, to South America by the Dutch. Under Dutch rule first, than under British rule. Nonetheless, her background was anything but southern, or American. And if you have a good memory of American history, you’ll remember, New York was settled by Jews. My guess is that Shirley Chisholm’s majority support for a candidate for the Presidency came from wealthy white Jewish organizations in New York. Who the majority, probably were in banking.

     She was dark with a nose like an African and fairly thick lips. In other words she resembled anything but a European. This means she was not a Mulatto according to the definition of a Mulatto. In truth, her roots were from south America, which made her status in the eyes of white American females, having an intellect, comparable to Europeans, but set apart from African American women, who for the most part were perceived as of average to below average intelligence. And thus were not thought of as capable of leading white women not even to a soup kitchen, and those who held this worldview was mainly the racist, KKK, the southern white protestant woman.

     As for Mr. Jackson, his way around Mulattoism for certain was his Freemasonry. He is brown skinned. Somewhat tall with marked African features. Thin lips and fairly articulate. But above all, he appeared to be, in the eyes of African America, Jesus Christ number three. You see, there was Martin Luther King, number two, but he was assassinated. Then there was the real Jesus Christ, and he was crucified. Then came Jesse Jackson. Such popularity, demanded respect among the aristocracy. They judged Mr. Jackson’s affect on the people, especially, African Americans, as a way to promote democracy in this country, and at the same time to make money. Big money. Lots of money. Jews held the same sentiments. So Mr. Jackson got the go ahead with his run for the presidency. Believe me, Mr. Jackson had some of the most powerful people in America behind him, including Jews, analogous to President Barack Obama’s campaign for the Presidency in November 2008.

     Prince Hall, during the 1980s was segregated from the Freemasons in Scottland, England, France, Germany and other European countries. And to a large degree it still is. It amazes me that Jewish Freemasonry is also segregated. That means they, the Jews, may excludes African Americans from membership in their lodges. I wonder why that is? If in fact oppression for Jews, as they purport, is comparable to the historical oppression of African Americans, why wouldn’t Jewish Freemasonry not join forces with African American Freemasonry? Doesn’t it seem puerile for grown men to be behaving this way? But what do I know. A woman will call a man a boy if he ignores her, and when he casts an eye her way, she’ll turn around and call him a pervert, or a stalker. I guess we are what we are, and that’s just the way it is.

     Martin Luther King was not a Freemason as far as I can find out. There seems to be no record of documents or anyone in Freemasonry who would attest to this. Could this have been a major reason why MLK didn’t get a chance to run for the presidency in America? He certainly was not a Mulatto. His features were African plain as day. But his knowledge of politics, and his faculty for oration was, among the African American leaders at that time, unsurpassable. I’m not intimating that Jesse Jackson had anything to do with MLK’s death or that the Masons did either. However, it strikes me awfully strange that MLK, leader of the SCLC, was not a mason himself. If he had been, would he still be alive today? And would he had been the one to have run for president in 1983 instead of Jesse Jackson, in spite of his strong African features? We may never know the answer to this question.

     Also another puzzling interrogative left unanswered is, “if MLK had joined Prince Hall, would he have been satisfied with their reportedly strange rites? Could he have overlooked their believe that God or GUA, the universal architect of the world, as the Freemasons call him, was not Jesus Christ incarnate? That, according to Freemasonry, Jesus Christ was just a man not unlike any other.” But if you believe in a supreme being, according to the Freemasons, GUA, greatest universal architect, you are welcomed to join one of their lodges. Preferably, one not of this world.

     The fact that Jesse Jackson was a Freemason, but not a Mulatto, makes perfect sense how he came to be a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Almost a third of all presidents since the American Revolution have been Freemasons, among other political positions in government. But Jesse’s candidacy raised the conscious level of the underclass all across this country when he ran. That had never been done before. The wealthy made more money off Jesse’s campaign for presidency than they’ve made since, other than Barack Obama. President Obama, however, is a Mulatto. If Mr. Jackson were to run again in 2012, how do you think he would be perceived by the American public? And lets say he runs on the Republican ticket as a liberal republican against Barack Obama, as an incumbent and left-wing democrat. How do you think today the election would turn out? Have rich Jews, in banking, given any thought to such a contest, or the contestants? Of course we all know without a doubt who would win.

     We now have some idea of the type of impact a Mulatto has in this country. Plus it hints that racism is more refined. More illusive. More subtle. Yet, still in place in this country. There is a degree of decency among white America, and they may be in the majority. And they may be left of center. And they may be democratically accountable, and socially indiscriminate. But the rest, the minority, those that want things as they used to be, before all this liberalism got going since the end of 2008, are decent in appearance only. Further they haven’t forgotten the southern African Americans, who fought in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. This helps them to curb their attitudes toward southern African American men. Not necessarily toward northern African American men though.

     Mr. Jackson is their boy. Not boy in the sense of a dumb, stupid, lazy, good-for-nothing, human monkey. As they [the southern white good old boys] used to view all African Americans not so long ago. But boy in the sense that he is the pride of southern black virtue. In other words, to the ‘good old southern white boys’, Jesse is a fine man. And it doesn’t matter he is not a Mulatto. As a result, Mr. Jackson has had an opportunity to be a diplomat, in the past, and has dealt with issues of foreign affairs, representing the state department. For example, in 1983 he traveled to Syria to secure the release of a captured American pilot, Navy Lt. Robert Goodman. This helped Mr. Jackson’s presidency attempt in 1984. Then he traveled to Kenya in 1997 to meet with Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi, as United States President Bill Clinton’s special envoy for democracy to promote free and fair elections. In April 1999, during the Kosovo War, Jackson traveled to Belgrade to negotiate the release of three U.S. POWs. Also in 2000, on February 15, 2003, Jackson spoke in front of over an estimated one million people in Hyde Park, London, for an anti-war demonstration. (Wikipedia: Jesse Jackson)

     But he is not well known worldwide. So why isn’t his worldwide popularity as well known as MLK’s? Since Freemasonry is international, and today, Prince Hall has roughly 4000 lodges worldwide, with over 300,000 members. What do you think the reason is for Mr. Jackson’s world image being circumscribed? I’m sure he knows the British has erected a statue of MLK at Westminister Abbey.

     I believe we can safely say that Mr. Jackson’s Masonic background may be the most powerful influence working for him. Former President Bill Clinton is still, far as I know, part of the Trilateral Commission along with Former President Jimmy Carter. And may be a member of the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt, a German Jew, was a member of the Freemasons in Germany, but broke away to start is own secret society, the Perfectibilists, which ultimately became the Illuminati, in 1776. These secret societies do help each other out, despite, racial differences.

     Let me include a plug here. President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, when he was in office in the 1990s, should have gotten him impeached. But his credentials and friends in high places including Former President Jimmy Carter, the Illuminati, and the Trilateral Commission, would not let such a thing occur. President Clinton, at the time, was just bored with work and home, and needed a breather, that’s all.

     Now back to our argument; don’t get me wrong MLK’s private, verses, his public life, was anything but sacrosanct. Moreover, what public figure’s public life hasn’t been that way? From your Presidents down to your local Mayors. All have sinned. And sex is usually the route of public degradation. My interest though is the public image the man represented. And that was one of charisma. Only God is his judge. Jesse Jackson has not been attacked from this public political perspective yet. But his day is coming, when all the private sexual escapades of adultery he may have been involved in, will be brought out in the open for the public to know about.

     In summary, things in 2009 have not changed much. Maybe for the underclass, who were of the notion, that as soon as an African American man became president the world would totally change, because an African American man, is somehow a good bullshitter, rather than a bully like the Euro-American man, and for that reason he was elected to run America, the greatest most powerful nation on earth. They now know, I hope, that line of reasoning was just plain dumb. That every country rules under their own sovereignty. That an African American man, Mulatto or otherwise, is still just a man. That the super geniuses are not by products of Eugenics, but products of evolution.