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Disaster on autopilot: The discrediting of U.S. military power

by A Guy Called LULU 10/9/2012 - 12:09 pm

After the last decade of military failures, stand-offs, and frustrations, you might think that this [inability to bend other countries too our will] would be apparent in Washington.  After all, the U.S. is now visibly an overextended empire, its sway waning from the Greater Middle East to Latin America, the limits of its power increasingly evident.  And yet, here’s the curious thing: two administrations in Washington have drawn none of the obvious conclusions, and no matter how the presidential election turns out, it’s already clear that, in this regard, nothing will change.

Read the full article at http://warincontext.org/2012/10/09/tom-engelhardt-disaster-on-autopilot/#more-45336

Don’t you just want to speak to those negotiators the way you might to a child: No, don’t do that!  The urge to return to the scene of their previous disaster, however, seems unstaunchable.  You could offer various explanations for why our policymakers, military and civilian, continue in such a repetitive — and even from an imperial point of view — self-destructive vein in situations where unpleasant surprises are essentially guaranteed and lack of success a given.  Yes, there is the military-industrial complex to be fed.  Yes, we are interested in the control of crucial resources, especially energy, and so on.

 

by A Guy Called LULU 10/9/2012 - 12:11 pm

Last Wednesday’s presidential debate, and the flurry of fact-checking that followed, helped sustain the illusion that Republicans and Democrats are bitter rivals...

The Commission on Presidential Debates, a private corporation both parties created, ensures independent candidates will be excluded, and more generally that the events will remain the sterile, predictable spectacles familiar to viewers.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/09/honduras-now-open-for-political-m...

by A Guy Called LULU 10/9/2012 - 12:28 pm (re: A Guy Called LULU)

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