Posted on 10/28/2016 7:45:41 AM PDT by Lorianne
Washington, DC, may be the only place in the world where people openly flaunt their pseudo-intellectuality by banding together, declaring themselves “think tanks,” and raising money from external interests, including foreign governments, to compile reports that advance policies inimical to the real-life concerns of the American people.
As a former member of the House of Representatives, I remember 16 years of congressional hearings where pedigreed experts came to advocate wars in testimony based on circular, rococo thinking devoid of depth, reality, and truth. I remember other hearings where the Pentagon was unable to reconcile over $1 trillion in accounts, lost track of $12 billion in cash sent to Iraq, and rigged a missile-defense test so that an interceptor could easily home in on a target. War is first and foremost a profitable racket.
How else to explain that in the past 15 years this city’s so called bipartisan foreign policy elite has promoted wars in Iraq and Libya, and interventions in Syria and Yemen, which have opened Pandora’s box to a trusting world, to the tune of trillions of dollars, a windfall for military contractors. DC’s think “tanks” should rightly be included in the taxonomy of armored war vehicles and not as gathering places for refugees from academia.
According to the front page of this past Friday’s Washington Post, the bipartisan foreign-policy elite recommends the next president show less restraint than President Obama. Acting at the urging of “liberal” hawks brandishing humanitarian intervention, read war, the Obama administration attacked Libya along with allied powers working through NATO.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
“Why Is the Foreign Policy Establishment Spoiling for More War? “
Easy. Because they are going broke and war is profitable. Especially when it won’t be fought in their back yard.
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War is good for business.
Dennis Kucinich may be a liberal Democrat, but he’s RIGHT about the warmongers!!!
Hillary clinton is a VERY dangerous Stalin, who wants unending war, coupled with stripping America’s wealth and sending it to the UN and the Third World, healthcare rationing, MASSIVE Third World immigration, and all sorts of other horrible policies designed to make us slaves to her regime!!!!
Vote Trump!!!!
Oooohhhhh...may have to email that picture
...and I might add Democrats don't know how to fight a war, their Rules of Engagement favor the enemy...........YES Hillary is a VERY dangerous Stalin, like El Che, killed thousands of innocents just because they didn't agree with them or the new leaders.
OR BY THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS!
Bumping to all my Lefty friends. At this point, they are becoming so overwhelmed with cognitive dissonance that just the sight of Dennis Kucinich’s byline on this piece could well cause their heads to explode.
Which would be great. Even if they never could’ve brought themselves to vote for Trump, it’ll mean that many fewer votes for Mrs. Bill Clinton.
As you probably know, by your name, 5th meb, their sons and daughters will get into it sooner or later. And the people that don’t care who gets hurt or killed, don’t care if their family gets killed either. It all has to do with money and power.
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