One thing I've always told myself, is when someone keeps reiterating a point so much they're always trying to cover up something. It's an art of not only deception, but disinformation. I've come to the conclusion that our war on terror is a farce. The Bush administration and all it's cronies have lied to the American public, so as to take advantage it's resources and military to accomplish financial elitism for themselves. Douglas Feith has recently confirmed that Donald Rumsfeld, Wesley Clark, and other top officials in Washington were all focused on creating a war on terror, in order to eliminate all threats by Al Qaeda.
In the seven years since the 9/11 tragedy, this administration has failed to focus on their stated goal of this war, and instead scattered U.S. resources to all ends, in order to create havoc in the Middle East, with plans to unseat the regimes in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and others. Granted these countries may have harbored terrorists, but why hasn't the current administration either accomplished the goal of eleviating Al Qaeda, or even stabilizing the Middle East from the threat of insurgencies and terrorism. It's still there, and the situation has not gotten any better.
It's a hoax, because Feith writes, that Rumsfeld, on September 30, 2001, asked the administration to not focus on the "taking down" of Osama bin Laden, but to "establish new regimes in a series of states". This alone, proves that initially the war was refocused on regime change, and since then, the Bush administration has done nothing to return to it's stated goal. The neo-conservative leadership in the U.S. has tied us up in continuous word play and out-right lies, in order to continue a war that has no true framework, and has failed to create a final solution. It's an excuse to fight a war that the American citizenry would not democratically agree with, and so the U.S. administration has supplied us with a false sense of threat, which we feel we must continue in order to protect itself from a mysteriously looming threat. Even the Defense Department's document that Rumsfeld fostered, "made it clear that [the] U.S. military aims in regard to those states...beyond any ties to terrorism".
In a separate article by Christopher Dickey from Newsweek, asks why the current presidential candidates are reluctant to question the validity of the Al Qaeda threat. Michael Sheehan, National Security Council member under George H.W. Bush and Clinton, stated, that this Al Qaeda threat is "a bunch of bull". The past administrations out rigth ignored all current threats and forecasts of threats, yet now the threats are gone, and we are waging war on indirect threats, states that don't even directly represent terrorist threats to U.S. national security. He notes the Spanish police tracked down the cell responsible for the Madrid bombings, and all threats declined in Spain immediately. This is why the war is false, because the real war is not fought out on the battlefield, by destabilizing enemy states, or occupying these states. Terrorists need to be fought with investigation and forensics, finding the clues to threats through risk management, and it's "a matter of law enforcement and intelligence", not foot soldiers and bombing runs.
This leads one to ask why this war continues riding on the theme of fear of terrorism. Terrorism has been around since the late 1970's. Why does it need a war now? Does the political leadership in the U.S. realize that the pseudo war on terror is a "money maker" for the oil industry, the private military contractors, Texas, or what have you?
In Philip Bobbit's book "Terror and Consent", he pushes forth a sense that the no matter how hard the Bush administration advertises this war on terror, it and the Pentagon can never change the reality of the situation, threats on "market states" like the U.S., that in the past were obliged in "providing welfare..., ensuring [the] health care for the ill, regulating greedy corporations, and assuring a military" made up volunteers, rather than paid militant (profiteering military contractors). So the U.S. government has gone from a inward looking self promoter of peace and prosperity, to leaving its citizenry behind in an economic sluff, and finding itself destabilized by small factions that are limited in their view of how the U.S. is beneficial to their ways of life, and left in a constant state of war. The U.S leadership has found a never-ending source of financial stability in war, and uses it's citizenry to keep this war going. Meanwhile there is no end in sight, the oil prices rise, inflation keeps rising, and the terrorist threat keeps looming and looming. There's no truth in a never-ending fight.
Citations:
In the seven years since the 9/11 tragedy, this administration has failed to focus on their stated goal of this war, and instead scattered U.S. resources to all ends, in order to create havoc in the Middle East, with plans to unseat the regimes in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and others. Granted these countries may have harbored terrorists, but why hasn't the current administration either accomplished the goal of eleviating Al Qaeda, or even stabilizing the Middle East from the threat of insurgencies and terrorism. It's still there, and the situation has not gotten any better.
It's a hoax, because Feith writes, that Rumsfeld, on September 30, 2001, asked the administration to not focus on the "taking down" of Osama bin Laden, but to "establish new regimes in a series of states". This alone, proves that initially the war was refocused on regime change, and since then, the Bush administration has done nothing to return to it's stated goal. The neo-conservative leadership in the U.S. has tied us up in continuous word play and out-right lies, in order to continue a war that has no true framework, and has failed to create a final solution. It's an excuse to fight a war that the American citizenry would not democratically agree with, and so the U.S. administration has supplied us with a false sense of threat, which we feel we must continue in order to protect itself from a mysteriously looming threat. Even the Defense Department's document that Rumsfeld fostered, "made it clear that [the] U.S. military aims in regard to those states...beyond any ties to terrorism".
In a separate article by Christopher Dickey from Newsweek, asks why the current presidential candidates are reluctant to question the validity of the Al Qaeda threat. Michael Sheehan, National Security Council member under George H.W. Bush and Clinton, stated, that this Al Qaeda threat is "a bunch of bull". The past administrations out rigth ignored all current threats and forecasts of threats, yet now the threats are gone, and we are waging war on indirect threats, states that don't even directly represent terrorist threats to U.S. national security. He notes the Spanish police tracked down the cell responsible for the Madrid bombings, and all threats declined in Spain immediately. This is why the war is false, because the real war is not fought out on the battlefield, by destabilizing enemy states, or occupying these states. Terrorists need to be fought with investigation and forensics, finding the clues to threats through risk management, and it's "a matter of law enforcement and intelligence", not foot soldiers and bombing runs.
This leads one to ask why this war continues riding on the theme of fear of terrorism. Terrorism has been around since the late 1970's. Why does it need a war now? Does the political leadership in the U.S. realize that the pseudo war on terror is a "money maker" for the oil industry, the private military contractors, Texas, or what have you?
In Philip Bobbit's book "Terror and Consent", he pushes forth a sense that the no matter how hard the Bush administration advertises this war on terror, it and the Pentagon can never change the reality of the situation, threats on "market states" like the U.S., that in the past were obliged in "providing welfare..., ensuring [the] health care for the ill, regulating greedy corporations, and assuring a military" made up volunteers, rather than paid militant (profiteering military contractors). So the U.S. government has gone from a inward looking self promoter of peace and prosperity, to leaving its citizenry behind in an economic sluff, and finding itself destabilized by small factions that are limited in their view of how the U.S. is beneficial to their ways of life, and left in a constant state of war. The U.S leadership has found a never-ending source of financial stability in war, and uses it's citizenry to keep this war going. Meanwhile there is no end in sight, the oil prices rise, inflation keeps rising, and the terrorist threat keeps looming and looming. There's no truth in a never-ending fight.
Citations:
- Asia Times Online __ Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs.pdf
- Terrorist Triage
- The holes in the war on terror
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