More news from the Forgotten Fronts.

[Kaiser Kronos]

In Afghanistan, slaughter continues, the year having reached the highest death toll out of any in the US conflict:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071231...t_071231093847

In the African front of the War on Terror, the never-ending Somalian war has Ethiopia still bogged down a year later, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7155868.stm

The African Union promised troops to aid Ethiopia and the emerging AFRICOMM in the wars in the Horn, (which is probably bullshit):
http://news.africast.com/africastv/a...p?newsID=63675

A war scare between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which happened to be financing the Islamic insurgents currently bogging down Ethiopia in the first place:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071226/...orn_tensions_1

Fighting against Islamic insurgents in Algeria continues with seven killed, in a war that's lasted since 2002:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0...ia_terrorism_1

The Philippines remain bogged down in a war against communist terrorist insurgents,
http://www.mysinchew.com/node/5095?tid=4

All of this, going on, while people choose to focus on Iraq. People, there's more to this war than Bush's monomania. The fuss in the MSM about Iraq passing the WWII mark? Afghanistan did that a year or two ago. Odd that one conflict should become hated and despised, and the other barely, if at all paid attention to, isn't it?

The US government is building a centralized command of army forces in Africa, mostly in the Horn and in the North, where most of the oil reserves there are, and where the region is predicted to take over from the Middle East as the chief oil supplier, and hence focus of world attention in a decade.

Leftists in the USA concerned about Racism and Imperialism should focus on other regions besides just Iraq.

Or, like all political movements from the days of the first states, does power trump ideology?

[EternalMothra]

Wow....and here we are worrying about this ridiculously redundant crap that Bush and the media has us focusing on. This is the point where we could have our asses in trouble....while we are focusing on one thing, something else could flare up and become even worse.

[Gorjirus]

^You mean African countries killing each other and tearing themselves apart?

I'm meh.

[Kaiser Kronos]

If you still say this in 10 years, I'll be surprised. In 10 years, the Fulani and Tuareg and the Amhara peoples will become the media replacement for Jews and Arabs and Kurds and Persians. As soon as the Middle East is dry, it's on to Africa.

Not motivated by race, but by realpolitik and the need to keep the US and European and Chinese-Japanese-Indian economies running on oil, until somebody finally develops alternative fuel.

[Gorjirus]

Oh, I'll suprise you.

People I don't know/haven't heard of killing each other?

I just don't care, and doesn't even blip on my radar.

[Kaiser Kronos]

And in the 1950s, if I had told you that in the 2000s, we would be fretting about Arabs and afraid they would kill us, you'd say I was nuts. Everybody knew we had helped fuel the Allies in World War II and that US oil supplies would last forever and ever cuz Jesus would make it so.

Were they right? In 10 years, Africa, particularly the Western part of it will be as big as the Middle East is now. Why? Middle Eastern oil's running out. Africa possesses mostly untapped resources, and the US government's getting a jump on this with AFRICOM. Mark my words, in 10 years we won't give a **** about Muslim Arabs, and we'll care a bunch about black Muslims.

Don't make the mistake of assuming that the Middle East will remain important for very long. Ever since the end of the Crusades, it was ignored, until Western supplies were exhausted in WWII. The region's in for another spell of it.

It'll be entertaining as hell to hear people focusing not on the Sons of Abraham's never-ending feud, and instead on the never-ending feud of people that we didn't care about previously. After all, it happened before....

[Gorjirus]

Oh, I'm not saying they won't be important.

I just won't care if they are killing themselves.