The U.S.
War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket
by David DeGraw, DavidDeGraw.org
Posted on June 16, 2010
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Editor's Note: With so many problems in the USA, it's no easy job to
single out a handful of the most important, priority issues. But the
enormous pile of wasted money spent on wars and
the military-industrial complex has to be right at the top. Not only
is the money spent an enormous
destructive waste, but there's also the question of opportunity cost;
just a fraction of war money could make major improvements to health
care, schools and universities, and our decaying public infrastructure.
The release of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review indicates
that Obama intends to spend even more on war. David DeGraw's article
below
sheds some light on the madness of war spending and the serious attempts
made by the racketeers to make our wars self-perpetuating to keep
the cash rolling in; infuriating as it is sickening.
A few recent news items help expose the true
drivers of current wars around the world.
1) Wherever there is a war, look for CIA/IMF/private
military war profiteers covertly funding and supporting BOTH sides in
order to
keep the wars
raging and the profits rolling in. As former CIA Station Chief
John Stockwell explained: “Enemies are necessary for the wheels
of the US military machine to turn.”
Here’s an important glimpse of truth to seep through last week
in the NY Times, via Raw Story:
US-backed ‘bribes’ in Afghanistan may be funding Taliban.
On June 7, the day Afghanistan became
America’s longest-ever war,
the New York Times reported on an ongoing investigation poised to prove
that private security companies “are using American money to bribe the Taliban” to fuel combat and thus enhance demand for their services.
The news follows a “series of events last month that suggested
all-out collusion with the insurgents,” the Times said.
“The American people are paying to prop up a corrupt government
that may be using our money to pay private companies to drum up business
by paying the insurgents to attack our troops,” [Kucinich] said….
The Times interviewed a NATO official in Kabul who “believed millions
of dollars were making their way to the Taliban.” [read more]
2) On top of that report, Sunday’s headlines
read, “Pakistani
spy agency supports Taliban.”
Pakistan’s main spy agency continues to arm and train the Taliban
and is even represented on the group’s leadership council despite
U.S. pressure to sever ties and billions in aid to combat the militants,
said a research report released Sunday.
The findings could heighten tension between the two
countries and raise further questions about U.S. success in Afghanistan
since Pakistani
cooperation is seen as key to defeating the Taliban, which seized
power in Kabul
in the 1990s with Islamabad’s support.
U.S. officials have suggested in the past that current
or former members of Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI,
have maintained links to the Taliban despite the government’s
decision to denounce the group in 2001 under U.S. pressure.
First off, these two reports are really not news at all. Reports of
American tax dollars ending up in the hands of the Taliban have been
coming out since the start of the war and the ISI, as the CIA has been
well aware of for years now, has been playing both sides of this war
and is pivotal in keeping the war going. Secondly, I have long wondered
when the CIA / US military would start exposing all of this in the mainstream
propaganda press as a pretext to further expand the war into Pakistan.
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