T-72 tanks in Iraq, major cash cows for the war contractors.
The current American war in Iraq is a struggle in search of a goal. It began in August as a humanitarian intervention, morphed into a campaign to protect Americans in-country, became a plan to defend the Kurds, followed by a full-on crusade to defeat the new Islamic State (IS, aka ISIS, aka ISIL), and then… well, something in Syria to be determined at a later date.
At the moment, Iraq War 3.0 simply drones on, part bombing campaign, part mission to train the collapsed army the U.S. military created for Iraq War 2.0, all amid a miasma of incoherent mainstream media coverage. American troops are tiptoeing closer to combat (assuming you don’t count defensive operations, getting mortared, and flying ground attack helicopters as “combat”), even as they act like archaeologists of America’s warring past, exploring the ruins of abandoned U.S. bases. Meanwhile, Shia militias are using the conflict for the ethnic cleansing […]
What’s going on? I cannot open to the full article about the military industrial complex. This becomes even more suspect when the reference to the original publication is also not there. I watched a movie, The Sniper, a couple of nights ago with my daughter and grand kids. When they asked what I thought of it I commented that it portrayed how a huge military power can cause so much hatred and suffering in the lives of ordinary people who simply want to defend themselves. These people were not involved in 9/11 nor were they amassing weapons of mass destruction. As mentioned in an earlier piece – at a cost of more than a trillion dollars. One has to ask, Who benefits?
I think this article, that I cannot read, is about who benefited…in a most unconscionable way. In the next SchwartzReport could you provide a link to the original publication…i am assuming this has affected many others. Of if it is simply my computer problem would you email me the link or the name of the publication. This is important information that more people need to be aware of. Too many young men and women trot off to war for some misguided ideological reasons when they do not fully understand that they are placing themselves in harm’s way for the benefit of those who are simply doing business as usual.
The link to the full article has been updated. You can also find it here: http://www.salon.com/2015/01/19/the_military_industrial_complexs_new_iraq_hustle_partner/