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Video: CrossTalk: America's 30-year war
Leon Panetta Says Brace For 30 Year War With ISIS
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BLN / Liberty Blitzkrieg 2014-10-07
- Leon Panetta, the long-time Democratic Party operative who served as Obama’s Defense Secretary and CIA Director, said this week of Obama’s new bombing campaign: “I think we’re looking at kind of a 30-year war.”
Only in America are new 30-year wars spoken of so casually, the way other countries speak of weather changes. He added that the war “will have to extend beyond Islamic State to include emerging threats in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere.”
And elsewhere: not just a new decades-long war with no temporal limits, but no geographic ones either. He criticized Obama – who has bombed 7 predominantly Muslim countries plus the Muslim minority in the Phillipines (almost double the number of countries Bush bombed) – for being insufficiently militaristic, despite the fact that Obama officials themselves have already instructed the public to think of The New War “in terms of years.”
Then we have Hillary Clinton (whom Panetta gushed would make a “great” president). At an event in Ottawa yesterday, she proclaimed that the fight against these “militants” will “be a long-term struggle” that should entail an “information war” as “well as an air war.”
The new war, she said, is “essential” and the U.S. shies away from fighting it “at our peril.” Like Panetta (and most establishment Republicans), Clinton made clear in her book that virtually all of her disagreements with Obama’s foreign policy were the by-product of her view of Obama as insufficiently hawkish, militaristic and confrontational.
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- At this point, it is literally inconceivable to imagine the U.S. not at war.
It would be shocking if that happened in our lifetime. U.S. officials are now all but openly saying this. “Endless War” is not dramatic rhetorical license but a precise description of America’s foreign policy. Just yesterday, Bloomberg reported: “Led by Lockheed Martin Group (LTM), the biggest U.S. defense companies are trading at record prices as shareholders reap rewards from escalating military conflicts around the world.”
Particularly exciting is that “investors see rising sales for makers of missiles, drones and other weapons as the U.S. hits Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq”; moreover, “the U.S. also is the biggest foreign military supplier to Israel, which waged a 50-day offensive against the Hamas Islamic movement in the Gaza Strip.”
ISIS is using U.S.-made ammunition and weapons, which means U.S. weapons companies get to supply all sides of The New Endless War; can you blame investors for being so giddy? I vividly recall how, in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing, Obama partisans triumphantly declared that this would finally usher in the winding down of the War on Terror.
On one superficial level, that view was understandable: it made sense if one assumes that the U.S. has been waging this war for its stated reasons and that it hopes to vanquish The Enemy and end the war. But that is not, and never was, the purpose of the War on Terror.
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"- War on Terror". It was designed from the start to be endless.
- Both Bush and Obama officials have explicitly said that the war will last at least a generation.
The nature of the “war,” and the theories that have accompanied it, is that it has no discernible enemy and no identifiable limits. More significantly, this “war” fuels itself, provides its own inexhaustible purpose, as it is precisely the policies justified in the name of Stopping Terrorism that actually ensure its spread (note how Panetta said the new U.S. war would have to include Libya, presumably to fight against those empowered by the last U.S. war there just 3 years ago). [...]
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Leon_Panetta_Says_Brace_For_30_Year_War_With_ISIS/38485/0/38/38/Y/M.html
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/07/leon-panetta-head-of-pentagon-and-c-i-a-under-obama-says-brace-for-30-year-war-with-isis/
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FN inför "Global Patriot Act" på USA:s begäran - Välkommen till planeten Texas!
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Publicerades den 1 okt 2014
Abby Martin speaks with RT
Correspondent Marina Portnaya, about a new UN resolution that is being
compared to the US Patriot Act, going over how the text could allow
countries to increase surveillance under the name of counter terrorism,
as well as giving states new tools to crack down on dissent by simply
labeling activists ‘terrorists’.***Vidareläsning:
"Världen är en scen" - Elitens & Medias riggade krigspropaganda med ISIS, inte helt vattentät?
Bild från trailer till turkisk TV-serie (Enligt uppgift, inspelad månader före ISIS videos)
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Här publiceras en del tankeväckande information som mainstreammedia kan ha glömt att berätta under sin marknadsföring av überelitens lönsamma krig mot det senaste internationella terrorspöket, ISIS...
Greenwald: USA skapade nya falska terrorhot för opinion för Syrienbombning - "Khorasan??"
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'Journalism is printing what someone else does NOT want printed:
- Everything else is public relations.'
- Everything else is public relations.'
Permanent 30-årigt globalt terrorkrig mot ISIS - enligt USA:s f.d. CIA-chef och ledande politiker
-UK crime agency seeks total access to citizens' emails, social media content-
SvaraRaderaOctober 07, 2014
The UK’s top law enforcement officer says Britons must be prepared to sacrifice their freedoms online if they want to be protected from terrorists and cyber criminals.
This includes giving authorities access to private email and social media contents.
Speaking to The Guardian, the director general of the National Crime Agency (NCA), Keith Bristow, warned that the UK’s biggest threats are becoming increasingly focused on the web, and that authorities had not done enough to persuade the public that greater oversight of their online activity was necessary. [...]
http://rt.com/uk/193804-uk-police-websurveillance/