War from the Shadows

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/War-from-the-Shadows-by-Timothy-Gatto-Fascist_Information_NATO_Orwellian-140823-804.html



War from the Shadows
By Timothy Gatto
OpEdNews Op Eds 8/23/2014 at 21:14:18

It seems like this well-thought out plan that the people behind the curtain had devised to implement the Americanization of this planet has suddenly blown up in their faces. One does not need to be an economist or work for a think-tank to realize the fact that Washington's schemes and machinations have definitely gone awry... big time. Please try to bear with me as I go through the litany of failed policies that have come so precariously close to setting the World alight.

I'll begin with the Vietnam War which was a horrible military and political mistake. To most Americans we lost lives and trillions from our treasury. We tarnished our image in the eyes of the World and divided the country into a left-right dog and pony show that continues to this day. In the eyes of the average American the Vietnam experience was a bad time for many Americans (and Vietnamese) and it was a losing proposition.

In reality however, it was a resounding success for the backroom people that control this "free and democratic" nation. Trillions of dollars from the US Treasury, and, I might add, from the pockets of American taxpayers, went right to the people that lobbied for and supported this "intervention". The war that started in earnest on the back of a false-flag incident in the Bay of Tonkin, made some people and industries fantastically wealthy. This was what this war (and almost all wars), was all about. Defeating Communism was not really the goal, supporting the Military Industrial Complex was always the driving force that got 56,000 young Americans killed and so many more wounded, both physically and emotionally. Some will never recover, but it's OK for the people behind the screen, not many of their family members or loved ones were sent to fight.

Vietnam is crucial if one wants to understand what is going on in the World today. Understand that a few years into the conflict, the military and most political types knew that the war was unwinnable. America lacked the logistics, money and most importantly, the will to do what it would take to win. These people, that were entrusted by the American people to conduct that war and to supply the military with the tools to achieve victory in the conflict, were not exactly truthful and forthcoming when they briefed the government or the American people. In fact, as history has revealed, they lied to us on a consistent basis.

[merrily]

1. Cataloguing all our failed policies, beginning with Vietnam would be quite a feat.

I don't this this article comes close to doing that, but it does make good points.

[bemildred]

2. Yep.

I am usually unimpressed with stuff from OpEd News, but this guy is right on the money. "War is a racket."