Twelve reasons for the war

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Unleashing another war, Washington doesn’t think about winning. Rather, I think, but in twenty-fifth place. The white house is important, not the triumph. Administrators from Washington care about the profits of the military-industrial complex. When somewhere there is a war in the name of “national security” of the United States, the Pentagon, waving striped flag, and spending taxpayers ‘ money on weapons and development.

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Publisher https://topwar.ru/engine/go.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy50aGVhbWVyaWNhbmNvbnNlcnZhdGl2ZS5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZXMvMTItcmVhc29ucy1hbWVyaWNhLWRvZXNudC13aW4taXRzLXdhcnMv” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”>”The American Conservative” Jon Basil Utley (Jon Basil Utley) collected in his article, twelve reasons why America is fighting their war, they are “not winning”.


America is “not winning” the war, the author writes. Winning the war is a secondary goal relative to other goals in the military decisions of the White house. Victory or defeat mean little to the United States, since Washington is fighting not for the sake of “vital national interests”. Defeat does not mean the invasion of the enemy in American cities.

John Basil Utley has compiled the interests of Washington, for which he picks “endless war”. Such interests had twelve.

1. War gives lucrative contracts for the supply of arms, which can move the puppets of the military industrial complex in Congress, grants to University faculties, where they study the strategy, additional funding for the development of new weapons. The Pentagon justifies the need to “protect America”.

2. The continuation of the conflict postpones difficult decisions about cutting defense spending and closing excess military bases. The Governor unleashes a foreign war for the sake of peace at home.”

3. The start-up of the military machine — the historical method to the kings and presidents earn popularity. Also engaged in the war, the President may “avoid tough internal reforms and solve urgent problems; war allows it all to be postponed. George W. Bush gave a lot of promises in the election to balance the budget, to reform health care, to straighten out a bankrupt social security system, to engage in the education system, to restore the crumbling infrastructure and so on. Instead, he unleashed two wars and was re-elected for a second term, having an even greater budget deficit due to the war. The Bush rapidly grew and the national debt.

4. Private “contractors” profit from the ongoing military crises. Iraq and Afghanistan are great examples gain.

5. Is booming, and the “community” that revolves around Washington. Intellectuals appear on television, give lectures. New funding to create new jobs. State funds are used for travel to the theater of military operations, the opening of a comfortable headquarters. Congressmen follow the news as “enemies”. Those who have not joined in a common stream, can be condemned for “aiding the enemy”. Each engaged in war, “feels important.” The money flows.

6. Television is awash in profits. More viewers, more advertising revenue. Instead of endless and boring series CNN turns the stories of “the disappeared Malaysian airliner” (and makes them).

7. Military careers: some soldiers and officers killed, others take their place. In addition, the military recruited a unique experience that also allows them career to grow. In those countries where there is no rule of law, all based on personal relations with the leaders of local tribes and the army. From the history of the British and Roman empires known that the government sent people to places, and they spent their whole life studying the customs of various tribes, their religion and local issues. Today, many American officers have in their “summary” part in dozens of conflicts. On the other hand, they hardly have time to learn the local customs, languages and gain the trust of the local leaders, since the U.S. military rarely stay on the territory of the conflict more than a year.

8. Bombing and erase from the face of the Earth entire villages and cities breeds hatred of the US and constantly creates new enemies. In the end, the bombing continue for many years. And end to the war in sight.

9. Few Americans today want to waste life on the study of tribes, religions and customs in the “boring and unpleasant” parts of the world. The army of the British Empire was largely staffed by the poor Scots and Irish, who rejoiced in any “work”. America does not have this problem: its elite learned to study and to fight “remotely”.

10. The main political goal of war is not to win, and the hype. Political noise, which is behind the scenes bargaining with local bosses, are the main goal for most players. Therefore, according to the author, Iran is unlikely to get a “peace agreement”: “Can easily start a new endless war that is likely to blow up gas and oil resources around the Persian Gulf”.

11. “Internal security,” USA “value of hundreds of billions of” needs constant “threat”. Quite often the FBI reports fake bombs and weapons found in the hands of wannabe terrorists. Endless war creates a threat to the natural. It is important to understand that if America is winning the war, many of well-paid jobs created during the conflict, will be after victory… unnecessary.

12. Washington is vulnerable to propaganda. For example, the attack on Libya was based on false information, spread by American allies. Saudi Arabia today wants the U.S. destroyed Iran. Turkey wants the White house attacked Assad in Syria. The Israeli “hawks” and “neocons” in the United States, want to deal with Iraq. The sheikhs of Kuwait at the time, paid millions for a public relations campaign aimed to convince Washington to attack Iraq. And so on…

According to Utley, the United States could “win” the war, reading the works of the founding fathers or following the precepts of sun Tzu. But Washington really doesn’t want to win: many Americans are interested in endless wars, and that something is the “win”.

USA is not the first Empire that faced with a similar problem. In the past, the endless war was limited to their price. But America has one difference: it always (and still does) took money from foreigners. Here’s a simple example: the Chinese gave the US loaned a lot of money. And just on the money America eventually weakened themselves, constantly waging war with factions of religious fanatics. These wars killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. The war has made the US an enemy for the greater part of the Muslim world. No wonder Rand Paul says that “the American military hawks gave rise to ISIS and made the chaos in the middle East.”

In this strategy, we would add, Americans will soon make his enemies the world’s population. However, the strategy of endless war still has an end. Politicians like Bush or McCain think that the end will not come in their lifetime. But Bush and McCain old. But their political opponent Obama, it seems, on the theme of Imperial collapse began to think. Is Barack Hussein — a wise strategist of all times and peoples? Yes it will be allowed us to doubt. Reason thought Obama purely financial: the Chinese money runs out!

He translated and commented Oleg Chuvakin
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