Monday, October 24, 2022
Pillaging by Proxy
In his 2011 farewell address to graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, then-Defense Secretary Bob Gates raised eyebrows when he said that any future Pentagon chief “who advises the President to again send a big American land army into Asia or the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General MacArthur so delicately put it.” He made the statement just months before NATO began its aerial assault on the Libyan state, and it would prove to be one of his last major speeches as Secretary of Defense. That fall, having lost the argument over whether to deepen U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war, Gates was replaced at the Pentagon by then-CIA Director Leon Panetta. Panetta was in turn replaced at Langley by unconventional warfare guru David Petraeus, who would run the covert regime-change war as Director of Central Intelligence.
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to tell the truth, there is no good reason why we in 90% of the other countries we in now.
ReplyDeleteand this is nothing new either. we trained and armed the Viets during WW2 to fight against
the Japs. and guess where all of those 105 cannons came from that blasted the French in 1954 ? the guys in the OSS in WW2 ended up being the guys in the CIA in 1947-8
did anyone really think they where going to be happy just sitting behind a desk ?
no, they want to go out and play and boy did they. do some reading about all the shit those guys along with the boys from state did in the late 1940's to the 1960's.
there is a very good reason why we are hated around the world. the real history of what this country has done to others around the world will make you sick to your stomach
and close to 90% of it all was done to make someone a profit too.
Those 105 howitzers came from China, captured during the China Civil War. Training and arming Vietnamese did not begin until July 1945.
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