Agree completely. I would add

NCD — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:10:42 +0000

In reply to I agree with your assessment

Agree completely. I would add 'easily manipulated' to ill informed on the electorate description.

According to Andrew Bacevich, in his book Washington Rules', which I recently mentioned in a post, the military/industrial/think tank/politician complex in Wash. DC is still gung ho on militarism and the GWOT (or whatever you call it-the war against Jihadi's anywhere in the world, mosques in the US, 'Sharia Law', and for some in the GOP, any or all Muslims), it's an easy means to extort billions, or win elections, with a public who have not yet learned thay are being scammed and impoverished by funding insatiable, unnecessary and in the case of Iraq, illegal, unending wars and conflicts.

I agree with your assessment

miguelitoh2o — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:18:11 +0000

In reply to “Turning the Page” in Iraq and Afghanistan

I agree with your assessment of the future costs and "benefits" of the continued occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. I suppose after BHO's squandered some more capital, (political or otherwise), someone in a position to do something about it will risk his/her political future by opposing the strategy on purely economic grounds. The price we pay for an ill informed electorate, an emboldened corporate oligarchy, and a press more interested in generating advertising revenues than reporting.

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Agree completely. I would add

I agree with your assessment