Obama has nominated a veteran – not a chickenhawk – to serve as Secretary of Defense. The Washington Post reports that Chuck Hagel:
… was deputy director of the Veterans Administration during the Reagan administration and later served as president of the United Service Organizations.
U.S. News and World Report notes:
The Vietnam War veteran and the recipient of the purple heart, Hagel would be the first enlisted soldier in the military to rise to the ranks of defense secretary.
Indeed, while all of the neocon warmongers are chickenhawks who dodged service to their country, many veterans and active-duty service men are opposed to the endless wars, which only weaken our national security and increase terrorism. See this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
No wonder Hagel is more moderate than those who want to start conflagrations all over the world.
U.S. News and World Report continues:
While Hagel is a Republican, his views on foreign policy alarm some of his GOP colleagues. During his time in the Senate, Hagel was verbose in his opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he voted against sanctioning Iran on multiple occasions and has suggested Israel should negotiate with Hamas directly. Republicans and Democrats alike worry he’s not a strong enough friend to Israel …
The Washington Post reports:
Last year, Hagel endorsed a report by the advocacy group Global Zero that called for an 80 percent reduction in the U.S. nuclear-weapons arsenal. Such a cut could save $100 billion over 10 years, the group estimated.
On the other hand, Obama’s nominee for CIA director – John Brennan – endorsed torture, assassination of unidentified strangers without due process, and spying on all Americans. As Glenn Greenwald writes:
Brennan, as a Bush-era CIA official, had expressly endorsed Bush’s programs of torture (other than waterboarding) and rendition and also was a vocal advocate of immunizing lawbreaking telecoms for their role in the illegal Bush NSA eavesdropping program.
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Obama then appointed him as his top counter-terrorism adviser…. In that position, Brennan last year got caught outright lying when he claimed Obama’s drone program caused no civilian deaths in Pakistan over the prior year. He also spouted complete though highly influential falsehoods to the world in the immediate aftermath of the Osama bin Laden killing, including claiming that bin Laden “engaged in a firefight” with Navy SEALS and had “used his wife as a human shield”. Brennan has also been in charge of many of Obama’s most controversial and radical policies, including “signature strikes” in Yemen – targeting people without even knowing who they are – and generally seizing the power to determine who will be marked for execution without any due process, oversight or transparency.
What do these two nominations tell us?
That the Obama administration doesn’t plan on fighting as many conventional wars with men in uniform – soldiers, sailors, pilots and marines – but does plan to crank up assassinations, drone strikes and other covert operations worldwide.
Obama ain't behind shit. All those dummies you vote for every 4-years are jst there for the prestige and glory.
Your last president was shot in your faces in 1963 and you did nothing.
LBJ and the military industrial complex did that but the Kennedys made a LOT of enemies, not just the Fed/NWO.
Jumping to conclusions GW.
Pax Americana cannot stop the convential war machine anymore
than Rome could.It will be mecenarys employed by the CIA,also
as Rome had to resort to.
Didn't work out for them either.
History rhyming again.Isn't anything new,just lessons unlearnt,in this world.
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and ex-CIA will employ mercenaries, the circled-jerks complete,
http://www.businessinsider.com/erik-prince-frontier-resource-group-2012-11
one of the last continents left to rape 'n' thoroughly pillage, by a "true amrkn crusader" - Prince Erik.
not so very different from the ships setting sail from olde Europe, financed by the Crown'd, pirating the resources of wherever they landed in the world. . .a lot to answer for, and no doubt their actions will continue to be questionable.
Rome was partially destroyed by their corrupt Senate and Senators. If the Romans citizens had been armed they could have...
Keep watching TV and Hollywood's shit you sheep. Loads of Bloomberg and CNBC viewers post here. Pull the plug idiots.
Oh, I'd say those lessons are well learned. Extremely well, if one takes the proper perspective in pondering the age old question, "Why?"
Remember, it's all about activation energy based on a "let's you and him fight!" provocation.
Machiavelli is a worthwhile read.
The Prince, is required reading in my household.
I was referring to the sheeples unlearnt lessons.
My house rules require George Orwell to be read:
1984.
Homage to Catalonia.
Politics and the English Language.
Totalitarianism of the Left and Right is all about power, not ideology. Ideology is for sheep.
my bad double-tap
Also on my list.
Plus; The Road to Wigan Pier,Animal Farm,Brave New World,Marx,Hegel etc.,
Essential reading for most, to learn how screwed up homo sapiens are..
including “signature strikes” in Yemen – targeting people without even knowing who they are – and generally seizing the power to determine who will be marked for execution without any due process, oversight or transparency
cheers
And the last branch of course. US District Court judge just denied a freedom of information act request for drone statistics and casualties. Said she regretted it but her "hands were tied by precedent." Where are the leaders?
power to determine who will be marked for execution
A sociopath's wet dream.
International terrorism as U.S. foreign policy.
When did I slip into this alternate universe anyway?
2008 though Poppy, Clinton and Bush 2 were/are also CFR/NWO puppets.
The day you were born. The only thing that's changed over the time is your perception of the crime in progress.
War is a Racket.
http://warisaracket.org/racket.html
sometime in the last several decades
Keep searching for the portal back into reality. It must be around here somewhere.
Sorry ,you're in it now.Just seems like a nightmare ,but your not asleep.
dont drone me bro
as the last free people are disarmed and the engineered economic crisis heats up logistically - the first chapters of Gundam Wing opensilently, without much notce at all really
except by internet conspiracy theorists and "metal-loving anarcho-lebrtarian government authority haters" or w/e the fuck the script says in the bio section about "white al-qaeda"
because lets face it, thats what 911 was about
DHS andthe war on terror was always for bubba with a john deere hat on - the real war is right here at home - its an information war for the sanctity of ideas and the minds of men
#1 suspect for "white al-qaedas"? returning veterans.
hey, good thing weve got drones right? after all suicides are outpacing combat fatalities
id hate to think this is all just some obscure historical footnote in a BORG beehive somewhere
It is often said that terrorism is the only weapon the powerless have.
Does this mean that the official use of terrorism means the U.S. has realized just how powerless it has become?
Maybe somebody up there is finally paying attention to how strategically useless that last 4 or 5 wars have been.
Does this mean that the official use of terrorism means the U.S. has realized just how powerless it has become?
No way Dude. We can mint $1 trillion platinum Obama/Krugman coins.
Oba's job is to destroy America and he is suck-seeding.
who give a shit about strategy-its all about the $$$.
yeah, pride goeth before the fall. The idiots running this empire are making the same strategic mistakes that all others do and thinking they're the exception to the rule. Creating enemies at an alarming rate, destroying their own economy out of corruption, and believing that the world's biggest army is fair subsitute for the worlds biggest ecomony when it is, in the end, the world's biggest cost.
idiots
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none, I deem the essential principles of our government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801.
"We wish to cultivate peace and friendship with all nations, believing that course most conducive to the welfare of our own. It is natural that these friendships should bear some proportion to the common interests of the parties." --Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 1802.
"It is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations... a spirit of justice and friendly accommodation." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Annual Message, 1802.
"We wish not to meddle with the internal affairs of any country, nor with the general affairs of Europe. Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object." --Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 1793.
How did we stray so far from the American Ideals?
Why am I considered a terrorist?