Pakistan orders army to fire on US troops if they invade Pakistan again. Something about that is a little troubling to me. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
One thing I don’t understand: if the US cannot be allowed to go into Pakistan, how are they going to capture Bin Ladin the week before the election? Don’t the Pakistanis know how important this mission is to John McCain the free world?
The Chris Wallace interview with WH Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney this morning would, under normal circumstances, be indistinguishable from a comedic bit.
https://t.co/PLq5qvIBSN
Turn & face the strange Changes! Illustration by @CheeseburgerB aka @MFDHemming frm my #dystopian novella The Pains. https://t.co/HePgLR9xpw
Speaking of illustrated dystopian phantasmagorias written in 2008 that meld Orwell's 1984 with Ronald Reagan's in tales of theocratic cults & disintegrating heroes in disintegrating worlds, predicting Trump, here's my novella The Pains: https://t.co/n9XBarJ63Y
Counterpoint: Dems don't have a nominee (and therefore a specific message) yet; Republicans do. And the impeachment trial will be the best election advertising any party ever had. https://t.co/4METqPZHuY
The War on Terrorism is a Lie
The war on terrorism is a lie because terrorism is not an enemy, it is a strategy.
Terrorism is a strategy employed by weaker states and non-state actors when fighting an asymmetric war against a more powerful opponent.
No state or non-state actor enters a conventional war against an enemy it has no chance of defeating conventionally.
Since the U.S. has declared that it will maintain military superiority without challenge, it has done everything in its power to do just that. The US defense budget for 2008 is some $700 billion. There is no single state or non-state actor on this planet that can defeat the United States in a conventional war.
Therefore, any single state or non-state actor that finds itself at war with the United States will be forced to fight an asymmetric war. That is, they will be forced to employ terrorism.
Therefore the war on terrorism is a war against anyone at war with the United States. Therefore the war on terrorism is a lie. It is not a war on terrorism at all, but a war to promote and defend US imperialism.