Is the military-industrial crowd throwing all kinds of shit at the wall to see what sticks?

[yurbud]

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Seriously, demonizing Russia and to a lesser extent China, destabilizing a different Middle East country every week, going back to Iraq, trying to use our destabilization effort in Syria as an excuse to bomb that country...

I kind of expect to hear that Germany has made a secret anti-US pact with Mexico and Great Britain is pressing American sailors into the Royal Navy at sea any day now.

Or possibly a civil war at home or alien invasion.

They will keep going until some shit sticks.

Or are we just the innocent victims of a world coming apart and coming after us?

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	They are going to throw shit at the wall until it sticks and the public buys something.
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	They don't care whether we believe it or not. They will start some or all of these wars if it benefits the financial interests who call the shots in Washington
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[Louisiana1976]

1. The military-industrial crowd is going to do whatever big financial interests want it to do.

[OilemFirchen]

2. Other:

No.

Ridiculous poll with asinine options.

Thank dog the weekend's almost over.

[yurbud]

3. so the turmoil in the world isn't our government's doing OR not their doing?

and our government's motives aren't altruistic or avaricious?

What did I leave out?

[yurbud]

4. .

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Erect Bogeyman, wave flag, declare we need protection, give more money to the MIC.

Works every time.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken

[yurbud]

6. I hadn't seen that one before.

[LuvNewcastle]

7. Not many people see the world as it really is.

Mencken did.

[TwilightGardener]

8. No, there are real trouble spots that we are right to be concerned with.

[BainsBane]

9. If the world were really as simple as people here want to believe

It would be so much easier.

[jakeXT]

10. No Isis? "Homeland Security warns of possible Isis attack on U.S. border"

SAN DIEGO – As Americans enjoy the holiday weekend, law enforcement officers issued warnings that Isis militants are eyeing the US-Mexican border.

The warning comes after more than 30 posts on social media sites Facebook and Twitter by users believed to be Isis militants.

http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/08/29/homeland-security-warns-isis-attack-on-united-states-border-is-possibility/

[yurbud]

11. What would they gain from that because giving us an excuse to kill a lot of them?

[jakeXT]

15. I meant in your list ... ISIS coming to the US border /nt

[yurbud]

12. If our government was worried about the threat from "ISIS," they would have told our allies in the

region to stop funding them and other fundamentalist groups just because they are useful to undermine some secular regimes like Syria or to stir up sectarian shit with Shi'ites.

[yurbud]

14. Do you remember all those terror alerts after 9/11?

or for that matter, the warnings the Bushies ignored?

Our government has the capability to quietly quash those plots if they choose too.

If they announce them in the press, they have other things in mind besides just preventing them.

Also, what kind of retard announces their terrorist plot on Facebook and Twitter?

If planned a bank robbery on a public discussion board, do you think there's a chance the cops would be waiting for us at the bank? Or that they might gently wake us up the day of the robbery while we are still home in bed and take us to jail instead?

[jakeXT]

16. Another one: "Missing Libyan jetliners raise fears of terror attacks on 9/11"

Islamist militias in Libya took control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners last month, and western intelligence agencies recently issued a warning that the jets could be used in terrorist attacks across North Africa.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/2/missing-libyan-jetliners-raise-fears-terror-attack/

[yurbud]

17. Washington Times? That's a bit sketchy. The question with a story like that is "therefore what"?

How does bombing,occupying, and setting up puppet governments to privatize their oil reserves and do the bidding of Western bankers fix that?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Is our strawmen learning? nt