President OBAMA Please Contain PENTAGON

President OBAMA Please Contain PENTAGON

With Wisdom & Power for world peace

Monaem Sarker

Pentagon is the symbol of US imperialism to rest of the world. Though literally, Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington, Virginia. The building is constructed in pentagonal shape in 1941 and that derives the name- pentagon. But since then it became the center of all blue prints made by the US imperialists in order to take control of the world. The largest office building approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees have become headquarter of international conspiracies.

United States today is enjoying position of the single conqueror of the world. Continuing its invasion from country to country it looted resources, took control of economy, prompted regional conflicts and backed up all unethical wars and brutality. Being imperialist the militarization of the economy is a must, so did the US. And that’s why the central military office expanded day by day and Pentagon became a symbol.

The Pentagon's "footprint" is firmly planted everywhere. Top administration officials began preparing the Pentagon to go anywhere and do anything, while rewriting, shredding, or ignoring whatever laws, national or international, stood in the way. White House looks at the Pentagon before every crucial decision. Every move by the US superpower and its aggressions are designed and executed by this authority. The Pentagon has marched into State's two traditional strongholds-diplomacy and development.

Another loathed organization Central Intelligence Agency-CIA is like Pentagon’s brother in arms. But White House rely more upon Pentagon than CIA as the power is concentrated there. It is said that, CIA is the spy group that push up a condition to war according to Pentagon’s plan of action.  

We should know the history of the invincibility of Pentagon. The US state was not imperialist from its first date. Gradually it placed itself as the leader of the imperialist block through a path of history covered with blood and tears.

Imperialist block once was dominated by the Europeans. Between the 1815 Congress of Vienna and the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, the United Kingdom reaped the benefits of being the world's sole modern, industrial power. As the ‘workshop of the world,’ the United Kingdom could produce goods manufactured so efficiently and cheaply that its goods could usually undersell comparable, locally manufactured goods in other markets. But the long-term effects of the Economic Depression in between 1873 and 1896 were particularly evident in the United Kingdom, the forerunner of Europe's industrial states. Rise of the US started since then. It first started to show down its imperialist face in 1898. The U.S. government packed thousands of soldiers and landed them in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam and the Philippines. The war of 1898 was the birth cry of this major new oppressor arriving upon the world stage--U.S. imperialism.

But even before becoming imperialist according to economic term, it had created example of aggressions. Monroe Doctrine of 1823 had declared that all of Latin America was a U.S. sphere of influence. According to the record in Pentagon, the U.S. carried out 103 interventions before 1895 including Argentina in 1852, Japan in 1853, Nicaragua in 1854, China in 1859 and Angola in 1860.

After winning their Civil War with the Southern slave-owners, the capitalists of the United States underwent explosive growth and tremendous transformation. Steam power, machines and electricity were being put to work everywhere and there were abandoning in production. Steel and coal production skyrocketed.

Very naturally they had to face with the maneuvers of their rivals in Europe. The core capitalist logic is "expand or die". That spurred the U.S. imperialists to lay plans for a global empire. Unable to contend in the contest for Africa, the United States aimed at vying with the European powers in Latin America, the Pacific Rim and China. Spain was rapidly losing its grip on the last of its rich colonies. The US did not want to loose that opportunity. It decided to act, before the people of these countries defeated Spain and claimed their independence. Filipinos found US beside them in the struggle for independence. Revolutionaries drove the Spanish Colonial Army out of virtually the whole Philippine Island chain. But when the final Spanish surrender came in August 1898, the American commanders refused to allow any Filipinos to participate. US President McKinley claimed god had personally told him that the Filipino people "are unfit for self government. So the U.S. would rule the Philippines for their own good." Aggression in Philippine continued till 1946. After that Philippine was declared as independent but in fact government, administration and economy there was the choice of the Americans.  

With the "Roosevelt Corollary" in 1904, they declared it was the right of the U.S. to dominate and invade any country in Latin America. There was no delay in executing the declaration. U.S. intervention in virtually every country of Latin America and the Caribbean followed. Haiti has long story of invasion by the US started from 1915. President Widraw Wilson did not waste time when an anti-American Rosalvo Bobo was about to form the government. American soldiers landed on another sovereign country. They continued to build up a market for their own interest by deploying a puppet government in the country. Even the custom house was taken control by the US soldiers. A thousand of people had been killed to suppress the protest against the invasion. The number is assumed to cross ten thousand. 

But to be the single most powerful imperialist it had to wait till the World War 2. Its rivals in Europe were almost devastated in the war that took place mostly on their land leaving the US with just few scratches. So they were well ahead of war devastated Europe in reconstructing the economy and military. And surprising enough that the Pentagon building was built right at the time when the US had the convenient time to proceed to rule over the world. Military doctrine of Pentagon has been using to manipulate pro-US governments in one hand and to force the nations to run pro-US economy on the other. Pentagon, other than economists, took the responsibility to project `globalization’ and `free trade’ as ideal system.  

Falling in the trap of globalization and agreeing with the structural adjustment programs many countries have to get down on their knees with debts. Even the United Nations said that the developing countries cannot reconstruct their economies without getting rid of debts. World Bank and IMF keeps pressuring on developing countries to withdraw public sectors and let them open to the private. Provisions should be open not only to local private entrepreneurs but also to foreigners. This is named as so called free trade. The consequence is, local capital cannot survive with the big imperialist capital. Market goes in control of the giant capital. National economy looses all its potential and becomes hostage to the foreign business groups. Americans keep subsidizing in its own land but restricts others to do so. Showing the glamour of high-tech, sells environment-hostile agricultural commodities. Many disputes followed in the WTO meetings. But Americans are firm on their stand.

American policy had a significant shift at the end of the Second World War. It understood quite well that soon after the war end, the world market would be redisributed. If it does not hold its stake before the ending of war, may lag behind. So it went on with newer sinister plans. Pentagon was constructed in 1941. The most brutal atrocities took place just 4 years after its establishment. 6 August 1945, is a date everybody remembers all over the world. Hiroshima and Nagasaki was devastated by the Americans with atomic bombs on the plea to `finish off the war earlier and save American lives’. But Japan was already cornered and surrendering was just a few days away. After sharp calculation the bomb was let to explode 1850 feet higher from the ground to use the most of its destruction power. Eighty percent of people of that locality died overnight. Millions of people became disable and carrying the horrible experience through generations. It was later disclosed that Pentagon wanted to demonstrate its military power so that everyone bows down him after the war. Such intense is its cruelty!  

Soon after the World War, Pentagon went with its sinister plans on the plea of fighting communism. To expand the territory of influence it took every cunning, brutal, deceptive step possible. United Nations was built mainly from American perspective. The word `United Nations’ was proposed by US president Roosevelt. Others honestly wanted to make the UN an effective body following the failure of League of Nations. Roosevelt had long meeting with Churchill and Stalin with his plans. Another big achievement by Americans was to convince others in forming World Bank and international Monetary Fund. But it’s an irony that the biggest defaulter in United Nations is the United States, though it takes most of the opportunity from this institution. Americans often use the donation to blackmail the UN.

Headquarters of World bank and IMF are in Washington DC. The rule is set to always appoint an American as the President of the WB and a European as the managing director of IMF. But America has always got the power to imply veto on any decision by IMF. Decisions of the bank will be made by the executive board. Members of the board are all rich countries. Power to vote on any decision depends upon the yearly contribution made by the countries. US share is the biggest of all. Even in the IMF, America has earned a strong voting right by having 19% of share. So it is clear that both the institutions are dominated by American interests.  

One of the most brutal atrocities was shown by the US military in the war in Korea during 1950-53. The American forces arrived in Korea in early September of 1945. Korea was not divided according to Korean people’s choice but due to imperialist conflicts between USA and USSR. It’s the CIA that provoked North part to attack the south where US control prevailed. Pentagon troops took the side of South and fired on civilian refugees. The US congress at once allocated 12 million dollars. American air raid devastated North Korean cities, even threatened to use atom bomb twice. South Korean military, police and paramilitary forces, with U.S. military knowledge and without trial, executed tens of thousands of leftist inmates and alleged communist sympathizers. Between 3,000 and 7,000 people were shot and dumped into mass graves in early July 1950. Some once-secret files show that a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel reported giving approval to the killing of 3,500 political prisoners by a South Korean army unit.  

Middle East crisis became critical in 1958. Lebanon was on a threat of civil war between Christian and Muslim rebels. Old dispute with Egypt also continued. Taking the advantage of the situation Pentagon designed `Operation Blue Bat’. President Eijenhaoar approved the plan. Lebanese pro-American government chief Chamilo Chamaun invited US soldiers to resolve the crisis. Pentagon warriors established military base on the plea to resist communist threat. Suppressing the rebels in most brutal way, they put a puppet government in power before getting back. Americans had made a strong position in Middle East at that time. 

Pentagon always took the side of autocratic anti-people government. Cuba is a burning example. In 1958, mass movements got pace in Havana against autocratic Batista government. Obviously Pentagon was on Batista’s side and went forward to save him. Embargos were imposed upon Cuba. But socialist Castro-led party managed to uproot the Batista government and took the power. It seemed that a country cannot even choose an ideology without Pentagon’s consent!

The Americans feared the Soviet expansion of communism or socialism, but for a Latin American country to ally openly with the USSR was regarded as unacceptable, given the Russo-American enmity since the end of the Second World War in 1945. Such an involvement would also directly defy America's Monroe Doctrine, which held that European powers should not get involved in American matters. In September 1962 the Cuban government saw what it perceived to be significant evidence that the U.S. would invade, including a joint U.S. Congressional resolution authorizing the use of military force in Cuba if American interests were threatened, and the announcement of a U.S. military exercise in the Caribbean planned for the following month. So USSR responded and planned to equipe Cuba with some missiles. America then placed missiles on the Turkish border of Russia as a couter step. Tension went high but negotiations stopped the greater dager.  

But the US embargo was tightened in 1962, accusing Cuba of being on the Soviet bloc. But till now that inhuman blockade is ongoing. U.S. embargo of Cuba has dramatically harmed the health and nutrition of large numbers of ordinary Cuban citizens. The embargo has prohibited ships from loading or unloading cargo in U.S. ports for 180 days after delivering cargo to Cuba. This provision has strongly discouraged shippers from delivering medical equipment to Cuba. Consequently shipping costs have risen dramatically and further constricted the flow of food, medicines, medical supplies and even gasoline for ambulances. The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Perez Roque called the embargo "an act of genocide". Pentagon war mongers began intervening Latin America since 60’s. Their first attempt to invade a region of Cuba failed. Socialist Cuba standing at the edge of the US nose was the biggest headache for Pentagon. Exiled Cuban hooligans were gathered in Miami Beach and trained up by the US force to attack in Cuba. In 1976, a Cuban civil air flight was forced to land in Barbados by the Pentagon warriors. Till today numerous Pentagon attempts have failed to doom the socialist Cuba.     

Dominican Republic is another small country in Latin America. Leftist Juan Bosch defeated the repressive Rafael Trujillo government in 1962 election. He took various initiatives to aid national interest. Pentagon did not like it and helped organizing a military coup there. Protests were flamed out in the country. A civil war started. Pentagon went with the `Operation Power Pack’; the operation to uproot Juan Bosch government. In 1966 Pentagon ensured a pro-US Jacquine Bellaju’s government to be in the power.

Pro-US governments were also established in Iran, Chile, Guatemala and Indonesia during the cold war according to the design by Pentagon. Iranian elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddek took initiative to nationalize the oil fields in 1953. Americans and their alleys were furious. And so Pentagon started `Operation Ajax’. But an attempted coup plan from American consulate in Tehran failed.

In 1954, Pentagon played a direct role to eradicate an elected government by military coup in Guatemala. But they had learnt a good lesson while invading Vietnam, a poor country of Indo-China. The country had been long fighting French colonial oppression. Even after the World War 2, French tried to keep the land in its control. But a glorious guerilla resistance started under the leadership of communists. Pentagon aided France with money and arms then. But when France was near to accept the defeat, Pentagon could not help start invasion. It started to move military force. Communists of North Vietnam were fighting pro-US governments in South Korea, Laos and Cambodia. Pentagon leaped with arms to annihilate them. They left no brutality to show there. Civil areas were devastated by `carpet bombing’. Chemical poisons had been spread over the crops field to create scarcity of rice and starvation. Vandalism went all over the country. 20 million of Vietnamese had been killed. The most brutal act was seen in My Lye mass murder in 1968. Over two million people were killed in the war, including 55,000 U.S. troops. America faced protests against the war in own country and shoot 12 people dead.       

Pentagon aided the killing force of Cambodia with all possible measures. Kennedy then was the President of United States of America. During the Regan period the whole Latin America witnessed the dreadful aggression of Pentagon. 

1970 and assasinated Bangabandhu. Salvador Aliened, socialist leader, came to the power in Chile. The country was advancing to economic stability quite smoothly under his wise leadership. Steps like nationalizing heavy industries, land reform programs had very positive impacts. Pentagon did not like that. Every attempt was made under `Operation Feubelt’ to create unstable situation in the country, using CIA. Success came to them with General Pinochet, after two failed coup attempts. The coup directed by Pentagon in 1973 left thousands of dead bodies of leftist workers. Millions of them were detained. Assassination of President Aliened was accomplished by dropping bombs on the President’s palace. Then the Pinochet government created a free land of Massaccar. State terrorism demonstrated the ugliest face in Chile with indulgence from Pentagon.   

1971. Pentagon actively took part against our glorious freedom struggle, aiding arsenals to Pakistan. A brave role from Soviet Union helped to terminate many of its conspiracy plans like sending warships. They had to admit defeat of Pakistan but did not rest from making secret-plots. Local collaborators were found out to overthrow Sheikh Mujib government. Famous journalist Laurence Filshutz showed in his writings, how CIA helped to execute the coup plan in 1975.

Echoes of Vietnam reverberated in Central America during the 1980s, when the Reagan administration strongly backed the pro-U.S. regime in El Salvador. Salvadoran civilians questioned the concentration of power and wealth in a few hands. Rightist death squads slaughtered Salvadoran protestors with the help of Pentagon. In Nicaragua, New Leftist Sandinista government was in power. That also made Pentagon discontented. CIA-trained Nicaraguan Contra rebels launched terrorist attacks against civilian clinics and schools run by the Sandinista government, and mined Nicaraguan harbors.

U.S. troops also invaded the island nation of Grenada in 1983, to oust a new military regime. Previously a mass upsurge put the revolutionary leader Mauris Bishop into power in 1979. Pentagon having a vow to act against pro people forces anywhere began acting to overthrow Bishop; at last, managed to organize a counter-revolutionary coup by the Assistant Prime Minister. US marines invaded the country in support of the military government. They made the world conscience confounded, bombing on a hospital there.

After 50s a number of countries were brought under military rules with direct plans and programs by Pentagon. These countries were- Benin, (1963-1964; 1965-1968; 1969-1970; 1972-1987), Burkina Faso (1966-1970; 1980-1991), Burundi (1966-1987), Chad (1975-1978) Congo (1968-1979), Egypt (1952-1958), Guinea (1979-1987), Ethiopia (1974-1987), Ghana  (1966-1970; 1972-1979),

Madagascar (1972-1975; 1977-1991), Mali (1968-1976; 1991-1992), Mauritania (1978-1992), Niger (1974-1989), Nigeria (1966-1979), Rwanda (1973-1975), Sierra Leone (1967-1968), Somalia  (1969-1976), Sudan (1958-1964; 1969-1986), Togo (1967-1969),Uganda (1971-1979), Argentina (1966-1973; 1976-1983), Bolivia (1964-1966; 1969-1979), Brazil (1964-1985), Chile (1973-1990), Colombia (1953-1958), Cuba (1952-1954), Ecuador (1963-1966; 1972-1979), El Salvador (1944-1980), Guatemala (1963-1966; 1970-1986), Haiti (1950-1956), Honduras (1963-1965; 1972-1982), Nicaragua (1950-1956; 1967-1979), Panama (1968-1989), Paraguay (1954-1993), Peru (1962-1963; 1968-1980), Venezuela (1935-1959), Myanmar (1962-present), Cambodia (1969-1975), Indonesia (1967-1968), Iran (1953-1957; 1978-1979), Iraq (1949-1950; 1952-1953; 1958-1979), South Korea (1961-1963; 1980-1981), Laos (1959-1960), Pakistan (1958-1971), Syria (1951-1954; 1963-1972), Thailand (1948-1973; 1976-1992), South Vietnam (1963-1975), North Yemen (1962-1978), Greece (1967-1974), Portugal (1968-1976) and Turkey (1960-1961).    

The U.S. returned in force to the Middle East in 1980. Shi'ite Muslim revolution in Iran overthrows Shah Pahlevi's pro-U.S. dictatorship. After the 1982 Israeli occupation of Lebanon, U.S. Marines were deployed in a neutral "peacekeeping" operation. But peace was just a word to them. They instead took the side of Lebanon's pro-Israel Christian government against Muslim rebels. Even onshore attack continued. U.S. Navy ships rained enormous shells on Muslim civilian villages to drown those under blood. Embittered Shi'ite Muslim rebels responded with a suicide bomb attack on Marine barracks. In retaliation, the CIA set off car bombs. But Syria and the Muslim rebels emerged victorious in Lebanon.

Pentagon launched a bombing raid on Libya in 1986. Libya was accused of sponsoring a terrorist bombing later tied to Syria. The bombing raid killed hundreds of civilians. But in spite of so much atrocities Gaddafi remained firm in his position.

Pentagon instigated the war between Iran and Iraq. US took Iraq’s side in the war. Its intention was clear; subduing the disobedient Iran. That intention let Pentagon forget that they had blacklisted Iraq as patronize of terrorists previously in 1979. US Navy attacked Iran on behalf of Iraq in 1987-88. An American naval warship patrolling in the Persian Gulf has shot down an Iranian passenger jet after apparently mistaking it for an F-14 fighter. All those on board the airliner - almost 300 people - are believed dead.

The plane, an Airbus A300, was making a routine flight from Bandar Abbas, in Iran, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The US Vincennes had tracked the plane electronically and warned it to keep away. When it did not the ship fired two surface-to-air missiles, at least one of which hit the airliner. Killing was that kind of lighter thing to Pentagon. It should obviously bear in mind that they can do the same to any other Muslim coutries for their own interest.

Pentagon forces invaded Panama in 1989. Mission was to oust the nationalist regime of Manuel Noriega. He was accused by former ally Pentagon of allowing drug-running in the country. When coup attempts failed Pentagon decided to act on their own. U.S. bombing raids on Panama City ignited a conflagration in a civilian neighborhood, fed by stove gas tanks. Over 2,000 Panamanians were killed in the invasion to capture one leader.

The following year, the Pentagon deployed forces in the Persian Gulf after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi ally, turned into villain for Pentagon. U.S. supported the Kuwaiti monarchy and the Muslim fundamentalist monarchy in neighboring Saudi Arabia against the secular nationalist Iraq regime. In January 1991, the US and its allies unleashed a massive bombing assault against Iraqi government and military targets, in intensity beyond the raids of World War II. Blood flowed through the country. Up to 200,000 Iraqis were killed in the war. But bombing was not all. Imposed economic sanctions denied health and energy to Iraqi civilians. Hundreds of thousands Iraqis faced death from that sanctions, according to United Nations agencies.   

Under President Reagan in the 1980s, the United States stepped up the use of military power for the political and economic aims of imperialism. In the confrontation with the Soviet Union Pentagon was turned into a god-like powerful institution.

When the historic fall of Soviet Union took place, the cold war has finished its part. Fighting communism was not a big issue existing. But Pentagon war mongers cannot live without war and expansion. They came up with newer plans to be the supreme power and not letting any rise of rival. Conspiracies went on specially targeting the energy rich countries.

The end of the Soviet Union did not lead to any substantial reduction of US defense expenditure or the strength of the armed forces or its armaments stocks. The US defense budget proposed which is more than the combined military expenditure of six other countries with the biggest military budgets: Russia, Britain, France, Germany and China. The number increased from year to year.

The first indication of the new orientation of US military strategy came with the Gulf war in 1991. In the attack on Iraq, the coalition led by the United States consisted of Britain, Germany, Japan and other allied powers with America providing the main equipment and fighting force. The use of high-tech weaponry for aerial bombing, missile attacks and crippling the enemy’s air and ground defenses indicated how the United States would use its economic-technological-military superiority to cow down or destroy potential enemies or threats.

The military doctrine enunciated after the collapse of the Soviet Union stated that the threat would now come from "regional powers". It was told that they had the capacity for substantial strength in conventional weapons and armed forces. Who are those regional force? No one, but such powers who did not accept the global hegemony plan of the NATO and Pentagon. The US Defense Secretary, the Pentagon man, Dick Cheney, ‘stated in March 1991: The Gulf War presaged very much the type of conflict we are most likely to confront again in this new era. Major regional contingencies against the foes well-armed with advanced conventional and non-conventional weaponry. In addition to Southwest Asia, we have important interests in Europe, Asia, the Pacific and Central and Latin America. In each of these regions there are opportunities and potential future threats to our interests. We must configure our policies and our forces to effectively deter, or quickly defeat, such regional threats.’

Strategic posture was formulated during the Senior Bush Presidency and the final shape to it was given by the Clinton Administration. September 1993 plans called for a mobile hi-tech force which could project power into regions important to our interests and to defeat potentially hostile regional powers, such as North Korea and Iraq. A new concept of ‘rogue state’ was introduced then. "Rogue" states are those who are unwilling or who refuse to fall in line with this new world order. Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Iran, Sudan and North Korea are some of the states so labeled. In a second category are other emerging regional powers who can pose a potential threat because of their capacity to become military powers and produce new weapons such as missiles or nuclear weapons. China, India, Egypt, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil are in this list. More money was allocated to develop high-tech weapons to kill people more accurately.

Conspiracy of a different nature went at the same time. Pentagon became a warrior of selling US `free trade’ and `democracy’ model. That was admitted openly by former defense advisor Anthony Lake. He told in a speech that, spreading democracy is a pro-US process that helps us exploring the free market of a country. That strategy is not new at all. In fact it is a continuation of President Eigenhaoar doctrine. 

World Bank, IMF and WTO- these three organizations formed a trinity created by the unanimity by the imperialist forces to share the world market in the name of free trade and so called liberalization. Pentagon already declared that it will give all military assistance to establish that kind of economic model. It’s a unique example of making one `liberal’ by threat. The state deviating from that model will become ‘rogue state’ and barrels of guns will be pointed at them. Sanctions, threats and blackmailing will be added in addition.  

The other prong of US strategy is to curb proliferation of nuclear weapons and new hitch armaments such as missiles. Earlier, during the Cold War, the US had the COCOM to maintain the monopoly of advanced arms technology. Now, the US has the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), the NPT, the CTBT and the FMCT talks to institute such an international regime. Further the US is prepared to use the UN Security Council or direct-armed intervention to prevent other countries getting "Weapons of Mass Destruction". This of course is selectively applied. Iraq and Iran have sanctions against them for acquiring such weapons, while Israel, the firm ally of the US, is free to stock nuclear weapons.

Pentagon plans were well demonstrated in the first phase of Iraq war. After the cease fire with Iran in 1988, Iraq was drowns under debt. Its major two lenders were Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Iraq appealed for free from debt but did not get good response. Meanwhile Kuwait occupied a big portion of Iraqi oil field in the border area. The world was facing a fall of oil price and market became unstable. Iraqi President then called on the American consulate in Baghdad and had very intimate discussions. Records revealed later that in that meeting Saddam Hussein presented his plan to attack Kuwait and US showed green signal. Iraq found it a trap only after invading Quait. Even so Iraq threatened to attack Saudi Arabia. And Pentagon made no delay to decide to deploy military force to save Saudi Arab! `Operation Desert shield’ prepared quickly the blue print in Middle East. Half a million US soldier gathered in the Middle East. America went to the United Nations after finishing military deployment. UN, in its resolution no. 678 summoned Iraq to withdraw form Kuwait within a fixed deadline. A coalition military force was formed with soldiers from different countries. US propaganda machines said that Iran has chemical weapons those were used during the war against Iran; even they had technologies to develop nuclear warheads. To build public support for US, a woman was brought into lime light. She was introduced as a nurse in Kuwait who personally have witnessed that Iraqi soldiers were killing children in hospitals by pulling them out from the incubators. The story was built to justify Pentagon actions. Later it was disclosed that, the woman was not even present in Kuwait during the invasion; in fact she was the daughter of the US diplomat in Kuwait. Air strike began on Iraq in early 1991. Two months of barbarous attacks killed 2278 civilians and wounded more than ten thousand people. United Nations remained silent to the atrocities as usual. Both sides agreed to cease fire after couple of months. Pentagon hoped that, it would succeed to execute a coup inside of Iraq by Kurdish and overthrow Saddam Hussein.        

In the 1990s, the Pentagon led a series of what it termed "humanitarian interventions" it claimed would safeguard civilians. US imperialists started that from 1990. Foremost among them was the 1992 deployment in the African nation of Somalia. The country was torn by famine and a civil war between clan warlords. U.S. forces took the side of one faction against another faction, and bombed a Mogadishu neighborhood. But they had to pay for it. Enraged crowds, backed by foreign Arab mercenaries, killed 18 U.S. soldiers, forcing a withdrawal from the country.        

Haiti was invaded again by Pentagon in 1994 with an old objective of replacing the government with their chosen one.

Example of "humanitarian interventions" was demonstrated in the Balkan region of Europe. Multiethnic federation of Yugoslavia broke up in 1992. The unrest condition in the consequence was the plea for Pentagon. NATO was another brainchild of Pentagon. It was formed to eliminate Soviet Union as well as communists through military operations but still existed after the fall of Soviet Union. In 1999 NATO member countries adopted a new strategic concept to intervene in any regional conflict or crisis around the world. The first demonstration was in Yugoslavia.

The U.S. watched for three years as Serb forces killed Muslim civilians in Bosnia. Then suddenly it started to launch decisive bombing raids in 1995. Even then, it never intervened to stop atrocities by Croatian forces against Muslim and Serb civilians, because those forces were aided by the Pentagon. In 1999, the U.S. bombed Serbia to force President Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw forces from the ethnic Albanian province of Kosovo, which was torn a brutal ethnic war. The bombing intensified Serbian expulsions and caused the deaths of thousands of Serbian civilians. All the happenings insist us to believe that, Pentagon actually wanted the ethnic conflicts to go on.

Misdeeds and looting worldwide cost America a lot. But Pentagon used the danger as a cause for newer intervention. After the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa, the U.S. "retaliated" on Afghanistan. It was said that Osama Bin Laden was hiding there. At the same time a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan was bombed. After killing people there Pentagon said that it was mistakenly said to be a chemical warfare installation.   

But the greatest danger hit USA on 1st January 2001. Terrorist attack shook the whole country. One of the Frankenstein’s created by Pentagon derailed and killed thousands of American people on that day.

Al Kayeda and Osama Bin Laden were creations of Pentagon to fight Soviet communists. That Laden became disobedient turned against USA in the name of Islam. But Pentagon did not walk in the way of realization. Instead, it presented a new war mongering plan named ‘war against terrorism’. The rumor was spread that, Laden is hiding in Afghanistan. When Taliban’s of this country conducted barbaric rules, Pentagon remained leap-sealed. But suddenly they found that fundamentalism is a big problem! Within one month Pentagon jumped over Afghanistan. Vast localities including cities like Kabul and Kandahar was shattered with bombing. Operation Anaconda started on 2002. Putting a puppet government in the power Pentagon is still dominating the country. Very recently President Obama declared that Pentagon will give more attention in Afghanistan shifting from Iraq. Pakistan has been started feeling the pressure of that `attention’.

The Pentagon strategic ideologues have postulated that the United States has a moral duty to militarily act in any part of the world for humanitarian reasons. Kosovo is the first such "humanitarian intervention". But the definition of what constitutes a humanitarian intervention will be decided by the global interests of Pentagon. The repression of the Kurdish people in Turkey, the genocide which took place in Rwanda, the continuing deprival of the rights of the Palestinian people and many such other instances world wide do not merit humanitarian intervention, if the regimes responsible for such a situation happen to be allied or friendly to US interests. One of the most inhuman interveners Israel is the greatest alley of Pentagon. In 2007, the United States increased its military aid to Israel by over 25% to an average of $3 billion per year for the following ten year period, while ending economic aid. Aggressions on Iraq and Yugoslavia have highlighted the negligible human cost paid by the United States for military ventures.  

Ground for second time attack on Iraq was made during 2002 when Bush repeatedly backed demands for unfettered inspection and disarmament with threats of military force there. On March 20, 2003 the military invasion of Iraq began again under ‘Operation Iraqi Liberation’. The military objectives of the invasion were; end the Hussein regime; eliminate weapons of mass destruction. Baghdad fell, ending President Hussein's 24-year rule. In the invasion phase of the war 9,200 Iraqi combatants were killed along with 7,299 civilians. With the imposed puppet government invasion continues and Saddam Hussein was hanged without any trial.

Pentagon is solely trying to keep the US imperialist on the top by taking any measures necessary excluding any ethical considerations. One of its major challenges is not letting any other country to get strong economy and military power. So any promising prosperous country is a threat to it. In the name of globalization and free trade it spreads its self philosophical view of capitalism. Pentagon is developing its own economic philosophy in the name of globalization. Thousands of US military bases are still remaining all over the world. The US Military has bases in 63 countries and 2, 55,065 US military personnel deployed worldwide. Pentagon has established its control over 191 governments which are members of the United Nations. 

The malicious attitudes by the Pentagon force in Abu Gharib custody those we came to know through the strict censorship, shook the whole world in disgust. Charges of abuse at the custody came to light in 2004 after photographs emerged depicting prisoners being humiliated and threatened by guards. But even those brutal practices could not change Pentagon or White House’s conscience. Letting the dogs to bit the prisoners, forcing them to lie naked on the floor in shivering cold, sexual harassments- all were beyond Hitlarian ruthlessness. Guantanamo Bay is another example of a monstrous failure of justice in Pentagon style. Since October 7, 2001, when the current war in Afghanistan began, 775 detainees have been brought to Guantánamo. A report on Guantanamo detainees concluded that 55 per cent of the detainees had not been determined to have committed any hostile acts against the United States. Only 8 per cent of the detainees are alleged to be Al Qaida fighters. Many of the released prisoners have complained of enduring beatings, sleep deprivation, prolonged constraint in uncomfortable positions, prolonged hooding, sexual and cultural humiliation, forced injections, and other physical and psychological mistreatment during their detention in Camp Delta.

Recent most brutal atrocity was made in 2005 by the US marines. They raided a place named Haditha in Iraq and killed 25 citizens at a time. In 2006 a 14 year old girl in Iraq was raped and then murdered by the Pentagon warriors.

Pentagon never seiged its evil plans. It is continuing to formulate sinister designs to promote US imperialist plan for economic expansions and dominations. The giant created for aggression and expansion cannot be stopped without destroying. The net of interest and profit spread by the Pentagon must be torn out by the united resistance of world people.  

Afghanistan is the latest prey of Pentagon. Taliban’s were created by this Pentagon on the plea to uproot communists.  Osama  Bin  Laden  was solely their creation. Now they created unrest condition in the subcontinent to

eliminate Taliban’s. When driven out from Philippines they were looking for a plea to stay armed in Asia, luckily they got one. Attacking Kuwait by Iraq, they just trapped it and then conducted a devastating program there. Meanwhile Pentagon made its position solid in Saudi Arabia. Now they are in Indian sub-continent with slogan to fight Taliban’s. That’s quite frightening. American intervention in friendly disguise must be resisted. Because wherever they penetrated, succeeded to make culture, social system, agriculture and politician institutions paralyzed. It must come to an end. 

Pentagon’s threats to the world are backed up by their huge armory. Whole world is against war. But Pentagon imposes a war situation; solely for its own sake. Only war can boost up American economy, otherwise it gets collapsed. They do not want any country as rich in armory as America. If a single US nuclear bomb accidentally explodes, that will even destroy the country. The whole world is under threat because of Pentagon. USA must be disarmed first. It has no alternative.

Mr. Obama is in power now, delivering beautiful speeches praised by the whole world. But what people want is not hearing speech only but implementation. People of the world want to live in peace. Pentagon cruelty around the world needs to be an end. Otherwise human civilization will be destroyed by Patagonian dictatorship. The world of dream will be shattered. 

America always has been enjoying a geographical advantage. No big war took place in US soil not even the Second World War in which most of the Europe and Asia was devastated. No harm could touch their major infrastructures. So its time for the rest of the world to understand that they should not be the subjects of US plans of `divide and rule’. They should not fall in the trap of US military blue print, Asia, Europe & Africa must be united to resist the danger of barbaric rules through out the world.

In twentieth century, Sir Winston Churchill, with his vasl knowledge and experience, wrote that 'Britain had neither permanent friends nor permanent enemies, Britain had only permanent interest.' It would be interesting to know what are Britain's permanent interests in the world of today. Despise his vast intelligence, churchille obviously continued to believe, 'that the sun will continue to shine as ever over the British Empire.'

As a distinguished French social scientist, Mme christianne Hurtig wrote : "The United States is not a country, it is an idea. And, the idea is how to make money." President Mr. BARAK HOSSAIN OBAMA should realise the imperative of the twentyfirst century drawing inspiration from human history on this earth, "Human pession" as well as 'permanent values' are somehow involved. As a result of this interaction the overwhelming mass of people find their passion & values beeing neglected, one can confidently predict that a process of alienation would gather momentun and the power structure would collapse. In twentieth century, this is precisely what has happened. We think in the present time also, power is necessary but wisdom is essential. It is only power with wisdom that is good. We hope black President BARAK OBAMA with his power & wisdom will save his country & the globe. President OBAMA please contains Pentagon with your Wisdom & Power for the sake of world peace.

01 Sepember 2009