"It's called feeding the voracious maw of the military industrial complex.
The only major "industrial industry" left in America.
You can thank twenty or more years of federal job non-creation
negligence for this outcome.
The government's motto for all those years?
"The private sector will provide".
They did… for their corporate friends.
Meanwhile, Detroit and other American cities are becoming ghost towns."
Cross-posted in slightly different format as a (not yet moderated)
comment on Juan Cole's Informed Comment:
From the USG Open Source Center translation of "an article from an
opposition Afghanistan newspaper alleging that Washington it (sic)
deploying Pakistani tribal levies against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.":
"When the White House attacked Afghanistan in 2001 and occupied
this country, it dispersed the Taleban and Al-Qa'idah in the Indian
subcontinent and Central Asia. In the second phase, it maintained
direct contacts with the senior leaders of this group. Therefore,
America has been using Al-Qa'idah as a tool since the symbolic and
self-made event on 11 September 2001."
What part of this doesn't the American public understand? The U.S.
Government is backing almost EVERYONE'S insurgencies in the Middle
East. Even organizations that have goals diametrically opposed to the
stated 'needs & goals' of U.S. foreign policy.
Two examples: Hersh: U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Violent Al
Qaeda-Linked Groups
New Yorker columnist Sy Hersh says the single most explosive
element of his latest article involves an effort by the Bush
administration to stem the growth of Shiite influence in the Middle
East (specifically the Iranian government and Hezbollah in Lebanon) by
funding violent Sunni groups.
Hersh says the U.S. has been pumping money, a great deal of money,
without congressional authority, without any congressional oversight
for covert operations in the Middle East where it wants to stop the
Shiite spread or the Shiite influence.
Hersh says these funds have ended up in the hands of three Sunni
jihadist groups who are connected to al Qaeda but want to take on
Hezbollah.
Historically:
"During his stint as NATO Supreme Commander (1997-2000), Wesley
Clark was in permanent liaison with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
Under Wesley Clark's command, NATO directly sponsored a terrorist
paramilitary army, with links to Al Qaeda and the trans-Balkan
narcotics trade."
That gem is from Project Censored (there's more about AQ, NATO and the
West on their site): CIA Double Deals In Macedonia
Lets not forget the PKK and affiliated Kurdish rebels (BushCo WILL
abandon them again too… already have.): Professor Cole on the topic
John Robb @ Global Guerrillas on the topic: How to bait Turkey Into A
Regional War…
What we have going on globally are 'Straw' insurgencies. I mean… If we
can't make peace with them… sell/give them weapons and money through
back channels that destabilize their region, give them enough local
social control to allow their group a modicum of western media
coverage, and maybe NEXT YEAR (or the year after that…) we can make a
boogey-organization out of their actions and cut one of those AC-130
gunships and a DynCorp air crew loose from the Horn of Africa (or the
Colombian drug wars) to supress them, an organization we initially
allowed to prosper...
In full, with links: http://leighm.net/wp/2007/12/09/bushwars_ezpay/
