Even if we don't wage a war on the people of north Africa, our military industrial complex will surely benefit from the instability in the region.
War Über Alles
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.
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.
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.
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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