[news] John Kerry and the U.S. Special Forces

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Military "Special Forces" such as the U.S. Army "Green Berets," Navy SEALS, and Britain's SAS (Special Air Services) are the stuff of legends and Hollywood movies. Aside from the mythologies, however, such forces play a crucial role in counter-insurgency and the repression of resistance to imperialism. For example, SAS members parachuted into Afghanistan shortly after 9-11 to carry out operations against Taliban/Al-Qaeda forces, as well as work with "Northern Alliance" guerillas fighting against the Taliban government. Likewise, U.S. Navy SEALS are working on the ground in Iraq against the popular insurgency there. As the article below makes clear, Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry's plan to increase the use of military Special Forces in the "war on terror" has nothing to do with ending the war & occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, and everything to do with "increase(ing) the capacity the U.S. has to violently defend its economic and political interests while decreasing our troop deployments, our financial investment, and our legal exposure."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/4/192221/570