Afghanistan Is About Perpetual War

[Joanne98]

(edited for copyright purposes proud patriot Moderator Democratic Underground)

The war in Afghanistan is about perpetual war, not Afghanistan.

It's about preventing democracy in the United States, not bringing it to Southwest Asia.

And it is the tombstone of the Obama Presidency.

To justify the fight, they've rounded up the usual suspects: Terror. Oil. Minerals. Poppies. Democracy.

But George Orwell's 1984 -- now updated with important new books -- illuminates the bigger picture: "continuous warfare" is the key to social control.

It keeps the public frightened and dependent.

And it keeps "the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed."

Better to destroy them in a ritual slaughter like Afghanistan, and wherever is next.

For a truly prosperous society, educated and secure, cannot be ruled by the few. Poverty, ignorance and fear are the three pillars of authoritarian control. Without war, they all disappear.

Thus Afghanistan. Before it: the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, central America. After: whoever else is handy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/afghanistan-is-about-perp_b_788588.html

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

1. I'm not frightened, I'm pissed. Been watching this for far to long.

[Kennah]

2. It's another step on the road to Sec-Ops

[msongs]

3. about perpetual corporate profits using GIs as protection nt

[EarthFirster]

4. Military Industrial Complex

Sad thing is, Democrats and Libs wont fess up to what 9/11 was really about either. At least the truthers are attacking government, although not looking at the other HUGE aspects, just 'it was a demolition'. Sigh...

[ngant17]

5. The Gulf of Tonkin was the fabricated casus belli

for the war in SE Asia. 9/11 was a little more complex, I believe that it likely was a LIHOP/MIHOP kind of casus belli for the war(s) in SW Asia today.

Between March 2001 and May 2001, members of the Bush Administration discussed creating a “casus belli” for war with Iraq.

Operation Northwoods from 1962 proves that elements within our government are willing to devise a false casus belli, by fabricating terrorist attacks on America soil.

Other facts which suggest conspiracy: destruction of evidence. Most of the steel from the WTC was removed, cut into smaller sections, and either melted at a recycling plant or shipped out of the U.S. NY firefighter Nicholas DeMasi has claimed that 3 aircraft black boxes were found at the site. The 9/11 Commission says those black boxes were not found.

Osama has denied any involvement in the 9/11 attacks on three separate occasions. On 9/16/2001, he said, “I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons.”

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