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unhappycamper

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Thu Oct 2, 2014, 09:33 AM Oct 2014

War: Is Instability the Goal?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/War-Is-Instability-to-Goa-by-Scott-Baker-Activism-Anti-War_Government_Oil_Peace_War-141001-907.html



War: Who is it Good For?

War: Is Instability the Goal?
By Scott Baker
OpEdNews Op Eds 10/1/2014 at 01:57:55

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I don't come to this decision lightly, but one can only say "how can they be so stupid..." so many times before realizing maybe they are not so stupid after all, and civil war in Libya, stateless anarchy in Syria and most of Iraq, near total collapse of the government in Yemen, and endless fighting in Israel-Palestine is actually the desired goal.

It's about the oil, but not in the way people think, as Greg Palast's reveal of State Department documents calling for keeping Iraqi oil off the market and from competing with more expensive Exxon and Halliburton oil, proves.
It's obviously never been about democracy and human rights! Ha. We support exactly the opposite kinds of regimes in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and even Yemen, (which has in common with us only our love for guns), though to be fair, they have a front row seat for what it really means to be-either-with-us-or-against-us. It won't save them, however, when the game plan for total instability unfolds.

I suppose some of this is inevitable for a powerful country that has never experienced a direct foreign power attack since the War of 1812, except for Pearl Harbor almost 2 decades before Hawaii was even a state (many Hawaiians think U.S. presence there was, and is, simply more imperialism anyway). But, boy-oh-boy, do the neo-cons use whatever attack is made by terrorists to their propagandistic advantage in drumming up endless calls for wars against people who had not only nothing to do with it, but who were actually opposed to those who did, such as Saddam Hussein.

It must be the neo-con wet dream to see so many opportunities for defense, er, war, contractor business in a far off region where, it is supposed, the members of the weakened and disrupted societies will never again muster enough wherewithal to attack us on the "homeland" - a term which is nebulous and geographically stretchable enough to include whatever the neo-cons want it to include.
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