$10 billion a month - who profits?

[Ichingcarpenter]

A recent, detailed study by the Eisenhower Research Project at Brown University revealed that the war on terror has cost the US economy, so far, from $3.7 trillion (the most conservative estimate) to $4.4 trillion (the moderate estimate). Then there are interest payments on these costs - another $1 trillion.

That makes the total cost of the war on terror to be, at least, a staggering $5.4 trillion. And that does not include, as the report mentions, "additional macroeconomic consequences of war spending", or a promised (and undelivered) $5.3 billion reconstruction aid for Afghanistan.

Who's profiting from this bonanza? That's easy - US military contractors and a global banking/financial elite.

The notion that the US government would spend $10 billion a month just to chase a few "al-Qaeda types" in the Hindu Kush is nonsense.

The Pentagon itself has dismissed the notion - insisting that just capturing and killing Osama bin Laden does not change the equation; the Taliban are still a threat.

In numerous occasions Taliban leader Mullah Omar himself has characterised his struggle as a "nationalist movement". Apart from the historical record showing that Washington always fears and fights nationalist movements, Omar's comment also shows that the Taliban strategy has nothing to do with al-Qaeda's aim of establishing a Caliphate via global jihad.

So al-Qaeda is not the major enemy - not anymore, nor has it been for quite some time now. This is a war between a superpower and a fierce, nationalist, predominantly Pashtun movement - of which the Taliban are a major strand; regardless of their medieval ways, they are fighting a foreign occupation and doing what they can to undermine a puppet regime (Hamid Karzai's).

Look at my bankruptcy model .......... snip

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/2011711121720939655.html

[BeFree]

1. You just don't get it, do you?

The health of the country depends on this 'health' care program.
And Empire is kept alive through these infusions, or as some may call them ejaculations, of easy money.

People like you may not consider how important it is that we are spread thin around the world.
Like our air pollution.

<grinning>

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Yes its the 'PIPELINE' in Afghanistan that keeps us breathing

we need that for our health.... Its good insurance for the nation's owners.

[BeFree]

3. Exactly, there is hope for you yet

It's all for our health. It's a single payer plan that covers all the bases. Just imagine if all of a sudden a country like Saudi Arabia decided to double our oil prices. Why our economy would be laid up for a long time, like it is now.

Just remember: bushco did what it did for America's health. He spent all those trillions for our health.