- The United States government cannot get enough of war.
With Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's regime falling to a rebelling population,
CNN reports that a Pentagon spokesman said that the U.S. is looking at
all options from the military side.
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- Allegedly, the Pentagon, which is responsible for one
million dead Iraqis and an unknown number of dead Afghans and Pakistanis,
is concerned about the deaths of 1,000 Libyan protesters.
- While the Pentagon tries to figure out how to get involved
in the Libyan revolt, the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific is developing
new battle plans to take on China in her home territory. Four-star Admiral
Robert Willard thinks the U.S. should be able to whip China in its own
coastal waters.
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- The admiral thinks one way to do this is to add U.S.
Marines to his force structure so that the U.S. can eject Chinese forces
from disputed islands in the East and South China seas.
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- It is not the U.S. who is disputing the islands, but
if there is a chance for war anywhere, the admiral wants to make sure we
are not left out.
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- The admiral also hopes to develop military ties with
India and add that country to his clout. India, the admiral says, "is
a natural partner of the United States" and "is crucial to America's
21st-century strategy of balancing China." The U.S. is going to seduce
the Indians by selling them advanced aircraft.
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- If the plan works out, we will have India in NATO helping
us to occupy Pakistan and presenting China with the possibility of a two-front
war.
- The Pentagon needs some more wars so there can be some
more "reconstruction."
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- Reconstruction is very lucrative, especially as Washington
has privatized so many of the projects, thus turning over to well-placed
friends many opportunities to loot. Considering all the money that has
been spent, one searches hard to find completed projects. The just released
report from the Commission on Wartime Contracting can't say exactly how
much of the $200,000 million in Afghan "reconstruction" disappeared
in criminal behavior and blatant corruption, but $12,000 million alone
was lost to "overt fraud."
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- War makes money for the politically connected. While
the flag-waving population remains proud of the service of their sons,
brothers, husbands, fathers, cousins, wives, mothers and daughters, the
smart boys who got the fireworks started are rolling in the mega-millions.
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- As General Smedley Butler told the jingoistic American
population, to no avail, "war is a racket." As long as the American
population remains proud that their relatives serve as cannon fodder for
the military/security complex, war will remain a racket.
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