Tom Engelhardt: Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment? - Rethink Afghanistan

Elite special operations forces — the secret military, cocooned inside the regular military, that took down Osama bin Laden — would be further expanded; and finally, there would be a "pivot to Asia" to confront the planet’s rising superpower, China, by sea and air, leaving all those nasty Arabs and Pashtuns and their messy, ugly guerrilla insurgencies, IEDs, and suicide bombers behind. - Tom Engelhardt: Obama’s Mission Accomplished Moment? And a Military-First Policy on a Destabilizing Planet