Brian Roth
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No I never considered that about the mainstream media that seems rather anti-war and left of center. Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex and that is no doubt still an issue with many in congress complicit regarding jobs and other perks that all the military spending buys them in their home districts.lonepariah said:Have you guys considered that fact that the US media and military industrial complex have a vested interest in keeping us at war?
Well GE sold NBC to Comcast some time ago so GE is no longer calling the shots there editorially.I don't mean this in a conspiratorial way, either. Take GE (owner of NBC) for example.
GE makes a lot of all kinds of stuff, lots of it in China these days. they even make a lot of that green energy stuff (windmill turbines etc).General Electric designed, manufactured or supplied parts or maintenance for nearly every major weapon system used by the U.S. during the Gulf War—including the Patriot and Tomahawk Cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber, the B-52 bomber, the AWACS plane, and the NAVSTAR spy satellite system.
Our international policy has always been a mix of short term self interest (like when we went after the Barbary pirates), and more long sighted promotion of democracy. Free trade is actually instrumental in world peace as people are less likely to start wars against trading partners.In my opinion, we need to get out of the middle east entirely, because our policies there are short sighted. This excerpt explains blowback:
Yes I recall the hostage crisis, and the Shah before the '79 revolution. Also how Carter mounted a failed hostage rescue attempt (what is it about helicopters and the middle east?), on top of his other ineffective policies. I also recall how the hostages were quickly released when Reagan was elected. This wasn't because Reagan was perceived as a nicer guy than Jimmy Carter."As described in a 1987 PBS documentary, when the democratically-elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, decided to nationalize his country's oil supply in 1953, the CIA secretly orchestrated his overthrow and installed the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Under the shah, U.S. oil companies took over half of Iran's production. The shah was also a ruthless dictator, who through his secret police, tortured and murdered thousands of his own people. These atrocities took place with the full support of the United States.
Chanting "death to the American Satan" in 1979, the Iranian people overthrew the shah, empowering a new dictator, the Ayatollah Khomeini. Most Americans of a certain age can remember well the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, in which Iranians held dozens of U.S. citizens hostage for 444 days. What most probably didn't realize was that the hostage crisis was provoked by decades of U.S. intervention. It was caused by "blowback."
Although I am not excited about the possibility of Iran obtaining a nuke, the thought that they (a country that cannot even process its own oil, without a real Navy and no intercontinental ballistic missiles) could launch a successful attack against the US is laughable.
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