Jumping Through The Hoops For America’s Imperialist Wars.

[JohnyCanuck]

It is truly amazing when it comes to the security of the United States the margin for error is an absolute zero. Let there be even one failed terrorist act against the homeland and there is mass panic, security is raised to yet another spellbinding level, politicians give fleeting reassurances, more money is thrown at the problem and millions of air travelers are inconvenienced.

Nobody seems to consider that as fortress North America is being turned into a police state security ghetto we grant terrorists their victories one after another as even a failed attack cause’s great political turmoil, huge public inconvenience, and further millions thrown at an ineffective and dysfunctional security bureaucracy.

President Obama has been so candid as to state publicly the intelligence (“actionable intelligence”) was there to prevent this most recent attempted attack; the failure was to act on it. In spite of government denials at the time, 9/11 was also preventable-the actionable intelligence was there, but there was a failure to co-ordinate and act on it. Then too, the incoming Bush administration ignored the warnings of the outgoing Clinton administration that Al Qaeda was an imminent threat to US security. It also ignored warnings from the Arab world and its own embassies that an attack on the US mainland was imminent.

It was considered very briefly in the aftermath of 9/11 the way to deal with al Qaeda was not a hot war but covert police work, where the perpetrators were rooted out and brought to justice. The berserk desire for revenge prevailed and some poor forlorn country had to be punished and the designated target was Afghanistan, even though virtually all of the 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia -but then SA is a coveted US ally. So B-52’s rained bombs on Afghanistan, “stirring the rubble” of thirty years of war in that country and allowed Osama Bin Laden with his Al Qaeda followers to escape into Pakistan.

Nobody wants to make the connection between the indiscriminate use of Predator drones in both Pakistan and Afghanistan as these pilot less remote controlled drones kill off a disproportionate number of innocent civilians-and-explosive packs stitched into men’s underwear inbound for Detroit.
While the predator drones kill indiscriminately they are also one of the consummate recruiters for Muslim terrorists who are outraged at the occupation on their homelands and justifiably see these wars as an attack on them-remember too: One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/235930731-jumping-through-the-hoops-for-america-s-imperialist-wars

[msongs]

1. iraq, afhanistan, pakistan, yemen, mexico...did I forget any? nt