Priorities According to the Elite

Link to Glenn Greenwalds article:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/24/american_priorities/

The Frontline Episode on PBS is entitled
Obamas War - you can find it by scrolling down on the right side
of their website:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Afghanistan
• War
• US
• Healthcare
• Obama
• Priorities
• of
• Elites
• Endless
• Wars
• National
• Debt

[jove04]

Assume Obama brings back his army from Iraq and Afghanistan. Then these trained solders will settle in the U.S. in the midst of an economic hardship. With no jobs and hope they will turn into dangerous gangsters. And in case of a deepening U.S. economic difficulty they may turn into militias fighting the government. This is the reason why the U.S. has to keep them far from the main land.

[55ella2007k]

jove04: I understand. But the fact is, that we cannot keep our soldiers abroad indefinitely, because they may run amok or pose a danger to our society here at home. They are on continuous rotation + the longer these soldiers are kept there, the worse it will get. The problems with PTSD cannot be solved by 'keeping' it abroad + far away. Yes, some of these people are unbalanced + dangerous to civil society, but many of them also commit suicide, because nobody understands what they went through

[KnightTriple6]

Ils Dialprt Soba; Upaah Chis Nanba Zixlay Dodsih.

[55ella2007k]

Perfect: in other words: no child left behind ;) It's working out nicely :(

[yostevoak1]

War is a racket.

The rich profit from it

The middle class pays for it

And the poor die for it

[laurieannek]

Endless wars means endless war profits.

It's all about control of the masses.

[pukashi]

in fact there is another way, the challenging iran(northern border)-pakistan(coast)-indian pipeline, a project that is being pushed by iran at least. So, there's pressure on the unocal (karzai was former consultant or something for unocal) pipeline through afghanistan, and, persuading the taliban to buy into this project, by defeat or agreement, is a key issue of the scam...

[citizenkong]

War is still primal and too many accept war as natural without really thinking about it. I believe sometimes it is the same part of the brain that spends so much time and energy on team sports.

[Larkinchance]

We all know the saying, follow the money, well in this case, it is follow the oil.

The oil producing states of Uzebekistan and Kazakistan are on the Northern border of Afghanistan. Through Afghanistan is the only way to get at this oil.

With Iran blocking to the west, Russia to the North and China and the Himalayas to the East the only way to get it is a pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This situation called for diplomacy, not forceful acquisition .

[BGBurch]

The newspapers are corporates we must remember. Advertising pays for the space and as I've always felt that many in the media really behave like the elites. As far as wars go Will Rogers said, "I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

And He said, "The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got."

[tenebroust]

Way to go Ella.

[valhala56]

I woke up with the Stomach flu this weekend, I will spare the gory details. It was suggested that I go to the the ER as I was very ill. I didn't go. I would rather sit in a stupor feeling very sick then sit in an ER for 6-8 hours be given some tylenol & told to get bed rest and then be billed $495! and I have insurance.

So I sat at home nodding off in front of computer feeling very bad that the Health care in 21st century America is nothing but a sick joke.