Kimmitz's "Long War"--Who's ideology is it?

[Skidmore]

This Brig. Gen. Kimmitz gave a speech this past week to a group of business people--probably all defense contractors. He keeps referring to this "long war" (it's being rebroadcast on CSPAN now) and that it is a war of ideologies. Whose ideology? I see several agendas, but I wouldn't call it an ideological war beyond the ideological insanity of the neocons, who think they have a mission to save the world, one state at a time. Otherwise, it's about which countries are sitting on top of a pile of oil. That's not ideology, that's thievery.

[doublethink]

1. The Quadrennial Defense Review ......

"Confronting Islam, in fact, is precisely the perspective put forward in the new the Quadrennial Defense Review--the Pentagon's strategic document that comes out for a "long war" against terrorism.

"The enemies in this war are not traditional conventional military forces, but rather dispersed, global terrorist networks that exploit Islam to advance radical political aims," the document declares. "These enemies have the avowed aim of acquiring and using nuclear and biological weapons to murder hundreds of thousands of Americans and others around the world...Currently, Iraq and Afghanistan are crucial battlegrounds, but the struggle extends far beyond their borders. With its allies and partners, the United States must be prepared to wage this war in many locations simultaneously, and for some years to come."

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SOME YEARS to come. That phrase should dispel any illusion that the U.S. occupation of Iraq will come to an end without much more pressure from the antiwar movement in the U.S., as well as the Iraqi resistance -snip-

That was taken from the middle of this article just out ....."Global War For Some Years To Come"

http://www.counterpunch.org/sustar02252006.html Peace.

[Skidmore]

2. And its

"And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn"

We need to start asking the public some of the same questions asked during a long and illegal war in Vietnam.