Shocking 'Extermination' Fantasies By the People Running America's Empire on Full Display at Aspen

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Shocking 'Extermination' Fantasies By the People Running America's Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit

Seated on a stool before an audience packed with spooks, lawmakers, lawyers and mercenaries, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer introduced recently retired CENTCOM chief General James Mattis. “I’ve worked with him and I’ve worked with his predecessors,” Blitzer said of Mattis. “I know how hard it is to run an operation like this.”

Reminding the crowd that CENTCOM is “really, really important,” Blitzer urged them to celebrate Mattis: “Let’s give the general a round of applause.”

Following the gales of cheering that resounded from the room, Mattis, the gruff 40-year Marine veteran who once volunteered his opinion that “it’s fun to shoot some people,” outlined the challenge ahead. The “war on terror” that began on 9/11 has no discernable end, he said, likening it to the “the constant skirmishing between [the US cavalry] and the Indians” during the genocidal Indian Wars of the 19th century.

“The skirmishing will go on likely for a generation,” Mattis declared.

Mattis’ remarks, made beside a cable news personality who acted more like a sidekick than a journalist, set the tone for the entire 2013 Aspen Security Forum this July. A project of the Aspen Institute, the Security Forum brought together the key figures behind America’s vast national security state, from military chieftains like Mattis to embattled National Security Agency Chief General Keith Alexander to top FBI and CIA officials, along with the bookish functionaries attempting to establish legal groundwork for expanding the war on terror.



***shocking. to who?
raise your hand if you didn't see this shit coming.

[GeorgeGist]

1. the peckerhead is acknowledging ...

That he and his ilk are genocidal terrorists.

[Savannahmann]

2. Can anyone read that and imagine that we're the good guys?

I mean, fantasy is one thing, but even fantasy needs a grain of reality. There is no way you can read those quotes and imagine we are the good guys anywhere. We're the Romans, with Pax Romania. If you kill a Roman Citizen, your whole village will be killed. If you email that you want to see American's die, then you should be killed from one of the tens of thousands of drones flitting about piloted by men far in the rear slobbering at the chance to fire guided missiles into crowds of women and children at birthday parties.

[Laelth]

3. Important quote from the article:

With perhaps one notable exception, none of the high-flying reporters junketed to Aspen to act as interlocutors seemed terribly interested in interrogating the logic of the war on terror. The spectacle was a perfect window into the world of access journalism, with media professionals brown-nosing national security elites committed to secrecy and surveillance, avoiding overly adversarial questions but making sure to ask the requisite question about how much Snowden has caused terrorists to change their behavior.

Our media is on the ropes. They get no access (and have no job) unless they brown-nose the powerful.

That's a problem, it seems to me.

-Laelth


Edit:Laelth--bad copy/paste.

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4. +1

[WinkyDink]

5. War is our best, and practically only, industry.

[Octafish]

6. Indians...and Palestinians. Iraqis. Afghanis. Pakistanis. Syrians. Yemenis. Somalis...

...in the USA, the poor, the white trash, the black, the brown, the yellow, the redskins, etc. -- all the Untermenschen.

Will any but the richest and the whitest get an invite to survive whatever bloodbath it is they're herding humanity toward?

Ask Frank "Carlyle meets Lumumba's Ghost" Carlucci:

http://www.alternet.org/story/147058