guest_writer 0 2009-05-27T11:43:15Z 0 "The Deltas are psychos…You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force…", a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980's. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal, to head the US and NATO military command in Afghanistan. McChrystal's rise to leadership is marked by his central role in directing special operations teams engaged in extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions. He is the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies military-driven empire building. Between September 2003 and August 2008, McChrystal directed the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations (JSO) Command which operates special teams in overseas assassinations. James 58375 false 2009-05-26T09:23:28Z Petras 0 21552 0 1 Animal Farm obamas-animal-farm-by-james-petras GR http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13644 none 2009-09-25T16:05:52Z 10289