(December 1, 2013 at 8:44 pm)Raven Wrote: Why do we keep getting ourselves involved in third world assymetrical conflicts? Didn't work out very well in 'Nam, and it has not worked out very well since. I always thought that when one kept doing the same thing over and over, but THIS time it's going to come out right, that was one form of insanity...Actually it worked out very well for some folk. Lemmie get my tinfoil conspiracy hat on for a minute...
Who won nam? And Afghanistan come to that? The people who make the bombs beans and bandages mostly.
When we talk about how much a war cost, financially, where do you think that money gets spent? A big chunk of it goes to military suppliers who get very, very rich. Do you know what the mark up is on an f16? It's a lot. An awful lot.
Fortunately there is no way businessmen who make that kind of money can affect political decision making.
Because if there was someone might suspect that America was borrowing shit loads of money from China and using it to prosecute whatever war it could get public support for in order that the makers of military goods and suppliers could get very rich, a proportion of which ends up in the hands of the people who created the demand by prosecuting the wars.
Crazy thought I know. It's not like politicians like Bush or dick Cheney have anything to do with companies like Halliburton. Or that Halliburton would get billion dollar contracts from the government and the dept of defense without any competitive tendering. And the several million dollars paid to Republican campaigns by Halliburton IN NO WAY had anything to do with any of that. Nor would the millions of dollars that Bush and Cheney stood to personally profit from the military contracts that the wars delivered to haliburton have influenced them in any way.
Everything is fine America! Look! Miley Cyrus has got her arse out and there's cheap stuff in Wal Mart. Look at the shiny things!
Sorry. My cynicism is showing. Carry on
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
