RE: Pastor to be extradited to Kenya
September 22, 2011 at 10:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2011 at 11:12 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
(September 22, 2011 at 2:13 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The Neo Cons have spent it......I don't know that they have made it.
The NeoCons spent it on themselves! Who own the industries that got the orders? Who own the banks that handled the money? Who command and get to play with all those extra tanks, and planes, and whizzbang technology, and explosions, and expendable toy soldiers?
Quote:I'm sure the arms merchants made a nice profit on the transaction, though.
And big oil. And big steel. And big heavy industry. And Wall Street. And big labor! And the big acronyms. Etc.
They all had shared interests*.
Disconcertingly sometimes with strange partners: it provided a fantastic start to the careers of hundreds of thousands of college graduates and got food on the table in the hood and the barrio for a while. That's a lot of people. Not a mere 'fringe'. Not to be underestimated.
Quote:Seems to me that an awful lot of it went up in smoke.
Yeah, impressive fireworks, eh? Doesn't everybody want to be Bruce Willis?
*like in 1963.
