The United States And Its Comrade-In-Arms, Al Qaeda. And Other Tales Of An Empire Gone Mad

[polly7]

By William Blum

Source: Killinghope.org

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

http://www.zcommunications.org/the-united-states-and-its-comrade-in-arms-al-qaeda-and-other-tales-of-an-empire-gone-mad-by-william-blum

Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s ... Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s ... Libya 2011 ... Syria 2012 ... In military conflicts in each of these countries the United States and al Qaeda (or one of its associates) have been on the same side. 1

What does this tell us about the United States' "War On Terrorism"?

Regime change has been the American goal on each occasion: overthrowing communists (or "communists&quot , Serbians, Slobodan Milosevic, Moammar Gaddafi, Bashar al-Assad ... all heretics or infidels, all non-believers in the empire, all inconvenient to the empire.

Why, if the enemy is Islamic terrorism, has the United States invested so much blood and treasure against the PLO, Iraq, and Libya, and now Syria, all mideast secular governments? More ....

[Angry Dragon]

1. resources

so the wealthy do not lose any money

[TomClash]

2. Spot on

Terrorism is a means not an end.