POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY CLIVE CROOK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES
"Republicans, who see themselves as his mortal enemies, with their only goal as that of destroying his presidency and putting what President Eisenhower presciently called the "military-industrial complex" fifty years ago back in total control of this country, as was the case under Bush."
A perfect example of delusional American thinking.
Under Obama, the evidence couldn't be clearer that the military-industrial complex is still running things as it has for the last half century. Power that great and concentrated does not ever fade away, and the vast contracts being spewed out in America since 9/11 have fed the voracious beast.
Troops are still in Iraq.
A great many more troops are going to Afghanistan.
American missiles regularly kill villagers in Pakistan.
Far, far more civilians than "bad guys."
And the same is true in Afghanistan, families are regularly killed by American air attacks.
And now Yemen is threatened, and it has been bombed.
And just today we have the news from General Petraeus that America has contingency plans to bomb Iran.
Guantanamo is still not closed.
Even worse, dark holes like Bagram Air Base in Iraq and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean have who-knows-what going on, certainly involving large numbers of extra-legal prisoners.
Israel ignores Obama's reasonable words. It continues with its relentless seige of a million and half refugees, and it continues to use cheap tricks daily to steal homes in Jerusalem.
All the silly "Detroit bomb" incident did was renew fears of people who do not think clearly and effectively instantly produce vast world-wide set of orders for an American company's expensive body scanners, a business bonanza.
By the way, carefully conducted tests of the scanners in Canada shows them failing 70% of the time, but we will all be forced to buy them.
