America will be at war for ten years

[undergroundpanther]

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Army will be offering incentives to keep its midlevel officers as part of an effort to ensure the service is prepared to face another decade or so in persistent combat around the world, the Army chief of staff said Friday.

Gen. George Casey, who took over as the Army's chief just a month ago, said the United States will "be in a period of conflict for, I believe, another five or 10 years." And the Army, which has been stretched and stressed by five difficult years at war, must be organized and equipped to deal with that challenge, he said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/11/america/NA-GEN-US-Army-Incentives.php

[Neoma]

1. Shit.

My life feels very short now.

[Erika]

2. What a bunch of BS

The WOT is a total fraud. Terrorism has always been and always will be. What a total crock.

Are we to invade and occupy every country where there is terrorism? At what price? Where our own live in sub standard living conditions to maintain the industrialized military complex?

[lligrd]

3. I Doubt It

Repukes seem to be tiring of losing. I doubt they want to lose for another 10 years.

[Bucky]

6. Have you seen Halliburton's profits? Have you seen Exxon's or GE's profits?

What makes you think they're losing? Because some small town boys got killed guarding the pipeline? Because companies are buying more high tech security equipment? I'm sure they don't think of themselves as having lost anything.

[lligrd]

7. Losing Support Of The Average Repuke

They can't survive with just those that are profiting. They have to have the really stupid too.

[some guy]

4. I doubt it.

Ten more years of pouring US tax dollars (and borrowed dollars) into war will leave the US infrastructure a crumbled relic, and the economy bankrupt. We'll only survive ten more years if we stop warmongering.

[porphyrian]

5. Not if I have anything to say about it. - n/t

[DFW]

8. You don't think they can do it?

Remember the words of Nazi Luftwaffe boss Hermann Göring from an interview from
his jail cell at the Nürnberg trials:

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy,
and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or
a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists
for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

He was involved in a regime that did just that, and only went down due to being overwhelmed by
a superior force. Otherwise, they would have been at war for ten years or longer. If we left
Bush and Cheney in there for ten more years, my bet is that we would, too, be at war, in some
fashion or other, in some country or other, for the whole time. Their buddies are just making
too much money on the deal to stop, and, like Göring pointed out, all they have to do is make
out like dissenters are unpatriotic.

There are enough of our democratic institutions left to put a stop to this--so far. Another extremist
Republican regime in the White House could put an end to that. The Iraq invasion was strictly a business
decision. As long as it continues, Halliburton and the like continue to get rich. It is up to the voters
to put a stop to it. Republicans surely won't. They'll continue to convince their "base" that patriotism
demands continued blind support of the "war," and that anyone who disagrees is unpatriotic.

Just listen to Cheney on the Sunday talk shows.

I could practically write his script for him.

Except that Hermann Göring already did it first.

[aquart]

9. There will always be fascists.

But Mr. Potter doesn't always win.