Reply #120: Thomas Barnett

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Odd that the link didn't work, I tested it and it worked. Anyway, here it is again. Just in case, the program was American Perspectives, 9/4/2004, searching on Thomas Barnett.


Military in the 21st Century

Barnett received 6 years of corporate indoctrination studying the Y2k problem as a national security threat and working with Cantor-Fitzgerald (brokerage firm in the WTC). It is obviously from listening to him that his mind has been so twisted by business disaster scenarios that he has confused the national security of the United States with the interests of Wall Street. He call the Chinese 'allegedly Communist' - then later says they are only about 30% Communist, 70% the Sopranos. That makes them ok to deal with (what is more corporate than that?).

Seriously, even if the link doesn't work for you, try to find the video on C-Span. IMHO it is one of the most important recording of U.S. foreign policy according to the corporate military that has been produced to date. I thought it was so important, that I transcribed the entire thing - over 30 pages.

People may try to say that Barnett is simply expressing his own views but that is not correct. I'm a C-Span and news junkie. I belong to a number of groups that share info. What Barnett is describing is the philosophy and the game plan by the fascist element in the DOD. Their plan has little to do with U.S. national security. It has everything to do with the corporate market based strategy for the creative destruction of the United States including spliting our military into a global force and a weaker U.S. military. He even goes so far as to imply that they can be self-supporting - billable days for security - a global protection racket.