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What is this author saying ?

That these ‘games’ the politicians play are merely efforts to ensure the public keeps them in positions of power and wealth?

That while a major war between the superpowers is NEVER considered nor authorized by either side, that limited warfare support (weapons and manpower) is financially/politically enhancing?

Remember this conversation ?

“What was he going to say?”

“The truth. That nothing, no matter how horrible, ever really happens without the approval of the government. Over there, and here. The problem isn’t the doing. It’s the people in power having to admit that they knew.

The prisoners are tortured at Abu Ghraib, and only the underlings go to jail. Their bosses knew. We know their bosses knew. But you don’t say it.”

“What exactly happened in Africa?”

“Somehow the villagers didn’t think that an oil pipeline was a good enough reason to move their village to a place where the spirit gods didn’t exist.”

“Drink? So they asked them all nicely to move and when they didn’t, they just killed them all?”

“No. They didn’t ask. They just killed them. All. So the next village won’t need to be asked. They’ll just go.

There is a mass grave with 400 bodies, men, women, children, under the oil pumping station 10 kilometres over the Eritrean border.

You should know. You covered the retreat of the contractors who did the job. Of course, you weren’t supposed to survive that, either.”