The Deafening Silence About the War in the Deficit Debate

[defendandprotect]

Published on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 by Huffington Post
The Deafening Silence About the War in the Deficit Debate
by Dan Kovalik


Meanwhile, belying any real interest in balancing the budget, the extension of unemployment benefits for millions of people out of work through no fault of their own is being made contingent upon tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

At the same time, what is largely absent from this debate is discussion of the war, which includes military actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, allied Pakistan, military exercises in the Yellow Sea and elsewhere, and the maintenance of over 800 U.S. military bases throughout the world. To put the latter into perspective, Great Britain and Ancient Rome, at the very height of their Empires, never had more than 40 military bases internationally.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/the-deafening-silence-abo_b_793712.html


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This is what we should all be concentrating on --

WAR -- Wars of aggression on other sovereign nations and the bankrupting of our Treasury --

WAR -- on nature -- capitalism's exploitation of nature, natural resources, animal-life

WAR -- on labor and humanity by elites -- currently morphed into corporations -- but

the original "Royals"/"Elites" -- and they are, as always, globally united.


PLEASE NOTE THIS ...


Indeed, Obama has been more hawkish than Bush in a number of ways as seen, for example, in his re-commencing funding for the brutal "red berets" of Indonesia -- which even Bush refused to do on human rights grounds -- and in his re-commissioning the 4th Fleet in the Caribbean which Eisenhower had de-commissioned in the 1950's.

In the end, while Obama is rightly criticized for being too conciliatory to the rich and powerful -- to Wall Street bankers and to the Republicans -- he is unflinchingly harsh when it comes to unleashing violence throughout the world.

Over and again I hear very upset people repeating that the Democrats have to stop being

"so weak," "so lame," that they need to "fight back" and "get a backbone."

Unfortunately, they aren't any of these things -- they are simply fighting for their

own interests -- not ours. That's something we all have to understand before we can begin

to make any progress on any issues.


:grouphug:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. shush

[gratuitous]

2. How silly! Wars don't cost anything

In fact, they practically pay for themselves.

[defendandprotect]

5. Does anyone even remember the peace dividend--?

or Clinton's surplus --

And along came W who doubled the MIC budget -- !!!

and gave us two wars which the Dems have kept going these past four years!!

[blindpig]

3. k&r

[mimitabby]

4. wouldn't it be cool if we could take a fraction

of the people waging the war and instead put them to work improving infrastructure?

[amborin]

6. k and r

[Catherina]

7. Rec'd. Deafening indeed. Bookmarked. n/t

[pacalo]

8. Right on!

[4_TN_TITANS]

9. It would be nice to have the full National Guard & Reserves

actually guarding the nation and here to lend a hand during natural catastrophes...