… through IRAN

(disclaimer: not my joke, courtesy of “The Onion”)

There is a very big difference between the private concerns and the US Military.

the private concerns are engaged in static and defensive measures, body guarding, escorting, installations etc. Hence they cannot enforce policy.

Assaults, patrolling, COIN and MOUT activities are carried out by the military as the mandate for that cannot be given to ‘security’ companies. Hence without the military, policy enforcement cannot take place, nor can bombings to ‘persuade’.

Once they lose the offensive capability, they will become sitting ducks. International law precludes the private concerns from undertaking offensive operations.

Operations against the insurgents and bombing Iran and the afghanis will remain in the military sphere.

The way Bush carries on, anyone emerging from the shower with a towel in his head had better look up for fear a bomb. His war on terror is despicable. He is creating far more terrorists than he can ever eliminate. Furthermore, most would never have become terrorists if americans didnt follow this policy.

I wonder how Bush would respond if some Nation bombed the USA as they beleived the USA required ‘regime change’.

Nicholas, you are quite correct about Ron Paul. He was not advocating an attack against Iran nor defending the war in Iraq but merely pointing out why it was structurally necessary in order do defend the dollar as an international reserve currency. Paul is, in fact, an outspoken critic of what he would describe as that inescapably militaristic monetary arrangement.

Alan, I would say that Messrs. Bush and Cheney do think that their personal motives are ideologically justified. The latter, for instance, is a shareholder in Halliburton, which has received an estimated $19.3 billion in single-source contracts for work in Iraq!

Finally SWP, I share your concern about the spectre of FinCEN as well as the need to explore alternatives to the dollar hegemony.

They have raised the age limit to over 40. Experienced troops are becoming rare and equipment levels are in shocking state.

This exodus of skilled troops will impact on training for many years to come. Much like the disaster that hit the once mighty SADF.

And now they want to bomb iran.

The conservative white Right that has always been the mainstay of the military is against the war, not only liberals. That leaves only Hispanics and Blacks as fertile ground for recruitment, and they only want 3 years then money for education. They have have no interest in fighting Israel’s wars.

When non-whites start dying in high numbers the liberals will start to scream. I think the Black community has already started making these noises. I must say, in this situation I will agree with them.

Events recently have made John McCain’s boneheaded interpretation of the Beach Boys’ Barbara Ann seem far less inconsequential than he claimed it was, this time last year. There can be no doubt that the fundamentalist rulers of the US — who care …

Don’t get rid of the Americans. Get rid of the Republicans