There are few more important stories we have ever posted on this blog than this one. It shows how the Bush administration manipulated the Pentagon into a massive complex with tentacles stretching not only into Iraq and Afghanistan, but around the world.
This is a MUST READ story for all who wonder what is going to happen after the next President takes office.
DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA
How the Pentagon shapes the world
By Frida Berrigan
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JE31Df04.html
A full-fledged cottage industry is already focused on those who eagerly await the end of the George W Bush administration, offering calendars, magnets and t-shirts for sale as well as counters and graphics to download onto blogs and websites. But when the countdown ends and Bush vacates the Oval Office, he will leave a legacy to contend with.
Certainly, he wills to his successor a world marred by war and battered by deprivation, but perhaps his most enduring legacy is now deeply embedded in Washington-area politics - a Pentagon metastasized almost beyond recognition.
The Pentagon's massive bulk-up these past seven years will not be easily unbuilt, no matter who dons the presidential mantle on January 19, 2009. "The Pentagon" is now so much more than a five-sided building across the Potomac from Washington or even the seat of the Department of Defense. In many ways, it defies description or labeling.
Click on link to read this fascinating story http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JE31Df04.html
Saturday, May 31, 2008
HOW THE PENTAGON SHAPES THE WORLD (A MUST READ)
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4 comments:
Eisenhower warned us, Cork.
He sure did. Thanks for reminding me.
And Cork, JUST AS AN ASIDE, why isn't EGYPT in the AFRICOM?? Egypt, last I knew, was in Africa. But it scares me, being Black, as these wars are racist. It's bad enough, for example, in the Middle East, where GI's are forced to kill Black-DERIVED people (After all, the Middle East is in Africa's back yard, so the indigenous people have more than their share of "tarbrush" hits). I shudder to think of the potential racial problems you'll see in the military if/when these fools in the Pentagon start ordering the troops into "real" Africa. But then they'll prop up some Uncle Tom general as a spin doctor. But it's true, the Pentagon has been out of control for decades!
I have no idea why Egypt isn't in the AFRICOM. You bring up a very good point.
Someday (hopefully)we will see American reporters doing the job of "real" reporting on not this silly stuff on Rev. Wright or Father Pfleger.
You notice I had to use the Asian Times to find this story on the Pentagon because you will NEVER see a story like this printed in the United States.
The press is too busy driving the spike between White and Black people to bother with a REAL story.
Thanks again for your comment,
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