Anyone that visits this site already knows just how much I dislike the M-IC….these toads start wars for one reason only….profits. I know…I know most of this post is common knowledge….but we Americans need things hammered into our minds before we grasp it.
After reading this piece my hatred is just strengthened…….shameful to use the violence of war to make a buck…..and pathetic to use American lives as their cash account……
These days, lamenting the apparently aimless character of Washington’s military operations in the Greater Middle East has become conventional wisdom among administration critics of every sort. Senator John McCain thunders that “this president has no strategy to successfully reverse the tide of slaughter and mayhem” in that region. Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies bemoans the “lack of a viable and public strategy.” Andrew Bacevich suggests that “there is no strategy. None. Zilch.”
After 15 years of grinding war with no obvious end in sight, U.S. military operations certainly deserve such obloquy. But the pundit outrage may be misplaced. Focusing on Washington rather than on distant war zones, it becomes clear that the military establishment does indeed have a strategy, a highly successful one, which is to protect and enhance its own prosperity.
Source: Endless War, Endless Greed: The Pentagon Is Lining Its Pockets with Taxpayer Dollars | Alternet
Where does this all end?
I apologize if I sound like a stuck record…but I will continue this pursuit as long as the American public turns a blind eye to the real reasons for all these conflicts that the government feels we MUST fight.
Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
TY and a good day to you…..chuq
Good HuMpDaY Chuq, hope you’re relaxing
I wish I could…but pain makes me a workaholic to keep my mind off of it…..if I do not tell you often enough….thanx….chuq
I am sorry to hear about your chronic pain. I can imagine how that pain drives you to stay focused on work. Maybe soon cannabis will be legal in your state, they say it is a miracle drug for pain.
In Mississippi? These rednecks would have a stroke first…Ha
Right…but I bet they have illegal guns in almost every home.
And every church and bar as well…..
Well said……don’t let the buggers grind you down…and watch the blood pressure!
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I yell and bitch but never worn down….chuq
Lady P…how accurate is this story?
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/nearly-half-of-brexit-supporters-think-the-referendum-is-rigged.html?utm_content=bufferd9577&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Nearly half of Brexit supporters believe this week’s referendum will be rigged, while almost a third think Britain’s security service is conspiring to avoid the U.K. leaving Europe, new polls show.
OK…..I don’t know about the above but I do know ‘someone’ wants to influence the vote…
Overall, 28 percent of respondents said it was “probably true” that the EU referendum was likely to be rigged, while 45 percent it was probably false. But once leave voters’ responses were isolated, 46 percent said they believed the ballot would be rigged.
That would not surprise me….yet again it is the North and Essex who hold the Brexit vote…and some of these people say” Block the Channel tunnel”….This series exemplifies these people…salt of the earth mate!
God Was Church of England – Jesus Was After The Oil.- Alf Garnett https://youtu.be/b_6PxrAxd6k via @YouTube
Alf Garnett Left hand Side of a German’s Brain https://youtu.be/V1eapkqjEOc via @YouTube
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Hilarious!
Meanwhile, nearly half of all voters believe there are plans for further EU integration and enlargement that are deliberately being withheld until after the referendum, with 49 percent saying it was probably true. That number jumped to 75 percent once accounting for only vote leave supporters.
The above is true….whether you like it or not in my opinion…I mean, I mean Turkey…yeah right!
I suppose the EU ideology is that they will reform them….
Turkish university professor sacked for insulting President Erdoğan during lecture http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-president-academic-sacked-dismissed-insulting-leader-academic-freedom-a7093146.html
The British government say’s that Turkey will not join Today! Whatever that Means!
Frau Merkell say’s the same….all to do with game playing over the refugee problem and the far right rising in the polls……gotta keep ya seats!
games and more games….you know what the real problem is….geo politics….cough…dare I mention the USA/Nato of Europe?
Bah Humbug!
cya…
As my mother used to mutter: Illegitimi non carborundum ~~~dru~~~
From WWII and my father, further popularized by Barry Goldwater.