I knew that. I meant an open war. Do you remember when Panetta could not recall how many wars he was in?
Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael dot perelman at gmail.com Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Devine Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 5:32 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Left Forum, spying, and a couple of snide remarks. Michael Perelman wrote: > It must be hard for poor Obama. Where should we fight next? Syria is > complicated. Iran is relatively big - unless we can just bomb > without landing any troops. Palau would be easy, but we have not done > the hard work of manufacturing evil there. According to the Jeremy Scahill film, "Dirty Wars," "we" are already fighting a war, The Joint Special Operations Command (special forces from all of the branches of the military) is fighting a large number of little wars in many places, backed by drones. (US wars have become increasingly capital-intensive and reliant on elite forces, ever since Nixon ended the draft.) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
