Necro-fest, Obama Style: American Troop Deathtoll Exceeds 1,000

A car bomb that struck a U.S. convoy at the American base in Bagram Wednesday morning reportedly killed five or more American soldiers, pushing the total body count of U.S. dead past 1,000. Of course, in the written archive of losses of life in wars throughout history, this number is nothing, so it really doesn't matter. But the Times article graphically depicts the "mayhem and carnage" left from the explosion. Here are some details:

"Limbs and entails flew hundreds of feet"

"survivors lay in the road with missing limbs moaning for help"

"in a passanger bus, an Afghan woman lay dead in her seat, cut in half, with her baby still squirming in her arms. 50 yards away, a man's head lay on the hood of a truck"

"an Afghan soldier appeared carrying a large red trash bag filled with human brains"

This butchering and mutilation of the human body exemplifies the tireless obsession America and its war machine have with necrophilia--the fixation with corpses and mutiliated bodies, and the never-ending need to make more of them to stimulate gratification. The graphic carnage and 1,000th American death are courtesy of Barack "Change" Obama's escalation of the Afghan war, and a mind-bogglingly futile policy that perpetuates the mentality of his predecesor whom he promised to go in a different direction from during campaign season (imagine that).

A related article in today's times that prefaces a double-page spread of the 1,000 dead--mostly young men in their twenties--details the international debate that preceeded Obama's escalation in Afghanistan. European strategists said that an American increase in troops would only serve to increase casualties among civilians and soldiers alike. But just as Bush did with Iraq, Obama went against cautionary voices and went ahead with the troop escalation knowing that it was almost certain casualties would rise "before security improved." Here is the classic American insanity at work: near-certain loss of life is incurred in the name of speculative "improvement in security." How will security improve for the people today who lost their lives, brains, innards, limbs, and mother's? Obama is another war-mongering puppet, spouting hollow drivel about progressive politics and moving beyond the Bush-Cheney nightmare while simultaneously doing his best to re-create Iraq circa 2004-2005. The mounting loss of life, carnage, pain, and misery are never enough to bring the wars to an end, which is what any halfway decent leader would do. The U. S. has had a decade to accomplish something worthwhile in both countries and instead continues a huge-spending cycle of token achievements that inevitably give way to more casualties, destruction, and deteriorating conditions. The Times reports that in the time since the U.S. surge in Afghanistan, improvised explosive devices (I. E. D.s) have become more powerful and plentiful. Imagine that as well: as the U.S. has escalated its efforts in Afghanistan, its opponent, the Taliban, has done the same. It's almost like Ghandi was right when he said all violence does is lead to more violence. Meanwhile, Americans continue to get aroused by the "Power of Pride" that turns living humans into corpses. Americans' addiction to necrophilia and sadistic voyeurism distorts protracted war as a heroic devotion to victory, and the rising death toll continues to be a meaningless footnote to Obama's corpse orgy.