arthunter
10-02-2014, 11:12 AM
something to think about ...
America's 'Death Instinct' Spreads Misery Across the World
War and national security are used to justify the surrender of citizenship, the crushing of dissent and expanding the powers of the state.
Those who use violence to shape the world, as we have done in the Middle East, unleash a whirlwind. Our initial alliances—achieved at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead, some $3 trillion in expenditures and the ravaging of infrastructure across the region—have been turned upside down by the cataclysm of violence. Thirteen years of war, and the rise of enemies we did not expect, have transformed Hezbollah fighters inside Syria, along with Iran, into our tacit allies. We are intervening in the Syrian civil war to assist a regime we sought to overthrow. We promised to save Iraq and now help to dismember it. We have delivered Afghanistan to drug cartels and warlords who preside over a ruin of a nation where 60 percent of the children (https://www.pajhwok.com/en/2013/10/16/60pc-afghan-children-facing-malnutrition-wfp) are malnourished and the Taliban is poised to take power once NATO troops depart. The entire misguided enterprise has been a fiasco of gross mismanagement and wanton bloodletting. But that does not mean it will be stopped.
https://www.alternet.org/world/americas-death-instinct-spreads-misery-across-world?akid=12313.113440.phGuou&rd=1&src=newsletter1021406&t=18
America's 'Death Instinct' Spreads Misery Across the World
War and national security are used to justify the surrender of citizenship, the crushing of dissent and expanding the powers of the state.
Those who use violence to shape the world, as we have done in the Middle East, unleash a whirlwind. Our initial alliances—achieved at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead, some $3 trillion in expenditures and the ravaging of infrastructure across the region—have been turned upside down by the cataclysm of violence. Thirteen years of war, and the rise of enemies we did not expect, have transformed Hezbollah fighters inside Syria, along with Iran, into our tacit allies. We are intervening in the Syrian civil war to assist a regime we sought to overthrow. We promised to save Iraq and now help to dismember it. We have delivered Afghanistan to drug cartels and warlords who preside over a ruin of a nation where 60 percent of the children (https://www.pajhwok.com/en/2013/10/16/60pc-afghan-children-facing-malnutrition-wfp) are malnourished and the Taliban is poised to take power once NATO troops depart. The entire misguided enterprise has been a fiasco of gross mismanagement and wanton bloodletting. But that does not mean it will be stopped.
https://www.alternet.org/world/americas-death-instinct-spreads-misery-across-world?akid=12313.113440.phGuou&rd=1&src=newsletter1021406&t=18