Fucking Welfare Queens

[DonCoquixote]

76. One point that gets missed

One would think that wars are waged to be WON. It is an easy assumption, but a false one. Alllow me to show an example.

Let us say thay, a week after Saddam went to the Gallows, we left Iraq. We could have said, for all the Hell the war was, our opponent was Dead. That would have been a point to cut losses, rather than face guerilla forces that are funded by everyone who fills a gas tank, including and especially ourselves. We would have left just before that one last round at the Casino tables of History.

Now, why did we not? Because it would have cost the MIC Billions, especially the one Cheney loved and nutured back to health with war money.

Why is it that none bring up the fact that is the elephant in the room on every issue from education to prisons to yes, even war: a corporation does NOT have to do anything it claims it does well to make a profit. Indeed, if it can PROFIT from the very problem it claims to solve, it can and will try to make that problem worse, as it has what James Madison called "a vested interest in disorder."

This is the real terror of money in politics. If you were running Al Qaida, or the People's Republuc of China, or Iran, you would want everything to stay AS IS, because the USA is investing in strategies that will not only make them unable to win a war, but also allow you to get rich. All it takes is to send some money to get Mitt elected. It used to be that such an op would require spies, the sort that knew they could end up killed if caught.

Now, we have our own traitors, called billionaires.

"When treason doth prosper, none dare call it treason." A. Pope.