AP IMPACT: study suggests drones kill far fewer civilians than many Pakistanis believe

[eridani]

74. Our own 1% is the real threat to us, not religious whackjobs.

We are not trying to dominate Pakistan or Afghanistan. Actually I think we would love to leave.

Right. And I am Marie of Rumania. Name another country that has 800+ military bases around the world. Places like Bagram are not actually collections of Quonset huts, you know.

Extremist groups wil lose their audience for their nonsense if we butt out of people's lives. and 1950 sure was different--we had barely begun the project of world domination, and it could have been called off in favor of actual defense.

You and I are basically just among the more privileged of the class of disposable human garbage--that is to say the 99%. The US military empire is not for our benefit, and has little interest in actual defense of the US population--witness 9/11. Elements of the 1% wanted something to happen, so they ignored all warnings. They are far more dangerous to us than random religious whackjobs.

(Not advocating the "inside job" position here. Pearl Harbor was a similar event. No one had to know exactly what the specific Japanese response to the US and Britain cutting off their oil would be--they just knew it would be something, and they could declare war after whatever it was happened.)