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viperface

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  1. Iraq?

     

    Same shit, contractors, manufacturers, experience... it does not matter if the official and politically correct objectives and motives have failed. I'm not even sure how that oil thing went but still, there are benefactors to the conflict. It does not rule out stupidity in every other aspect though.

     

    I suppose one could also claim Iraq thingy paved the way for destabilization in north africa/syria that we are witnessing right now. Part of Libyans seem to want to overthrow their dictator. Matter of fact some of the rioters have directly addressed Obama to bomb/not to bomb this or that/what he should think about whatever. I don't know how deliberate this all was, but in this case destabilization wasn't as regional as usually.

     

    DISCLAIMER: international security acronyms had nothing to do with any revolution ever.

  2. War in Afghanistan has been a positive thing for weapons sales, certain military contractors, the war lords that have taken taleban's place etc,

    it has also been theoretically a good thing for US/coalition influence in the region (the way it affects Pakistan, India, China etc.) and it has

    provided valuable experience for the militaries involved.

    They don't go to these wars out of stupidity.

     

    However "terrorist" is mostly just another signal word like "commie" was during the cold war. Since 9/11 they started to use it as a chime to condition people to automatically associate it with screaming muslims. It's not exactly a conspiracy because it catches on in any conformist/populist news source as an effective way to get people alerted/pay attention/buy stuff. You can't expect population support any war if you inform them about the complex shit between afghan regional tribes with different languages, or how Pakistan/ISI is linked with taleban or anything that makes the war sound more difficult than "BOMB AND WIN".

     

     

    Media aspect of this war shit is all pavlovs dog stuff. Reality is complex matters for grown ups.

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  3. I bet we're gonna see invasion in Libya/Syria before Obama's term ends.

    All we need is proper aggression. Perhaps Gaddafi shot down the air france plane or someshit, we'll see...

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