Neocon 101

[tecelote]

Professor: What did we learn from Vietnam?

Student A: The draft brings it too close to home. It creates intense rebellion.

Professor: How did we overcome this?

Student A: We cut back on entitlements and increased college tuition. We made it nearly impossible for many young people to survive, let alone get ahead.

We made military service one of the only ways to get an education without incurring significant debt. Proudly, we built an all volunteer army.

Professor: And how do we sustain this?

Student A: Continual warfare. Collateral Damage on a grand scale insures more terrorists promoting our continual wars.

Professor: Right.

Student B: The goal is to rid the world of terrorists, one at a time.

Professor: Wrong. The goal is to maintain the level of MIC business. To sustain our military commerce at current levels or better.

Student B: Military commerce? What does commerce have to do with the military?

Professor:[/b ] Everything.

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It's time for our country to change direction. We need to protest like this is the Vietnam War.

Our nation and our allies are about to start WWIII.

For the sake of our kids, Revolt!

[tecelote]

1. The Drums of War are Growing Louder

Please, Speak Out for Peace!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. I've been saying for years that our kids are nothing more than corporate cannon fodder

to enable our corporate masters to shovel even more taxpayer money into their offshore accounts. See Dick Cheney and Halliburton + 60 BILLION dollars they can't even find. 60 Billion that they have even stopped looking for. Nice work if you can get it.

[tecelote]

6. Trillions lost - What could this do for everyday Americans? Instead of killing people.

With $8.5 Trillion Unaccounted for, Why Should Congress Increase the Defense Budget?

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/03/19/85-Trillion-Unaccounted-Should-Congress-Increase-Defense-Budget

[bigwillq]

3. Revolt, indeed. By not voting for Hillary Clinton!

[hifiguy]

4. Nobody explained any better than Major General Smedley Butler (USMC)

[tecelote]

7. 1881-1940

"In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism."

When will we learn?

War is business and that is not who we should be.

It's who we are.

Are you OK with this?

[tecelote]

8. hifiguy - this was not directed at you - thanks for posting!

But, everyone else?

Are you OK with who America is to the world?

I am not.

We need to end these wars.

Stop the killing in our name.

[hifiguy]

12. No hassle. I know a rhetorical question when I see one.

[TheProgressive]

5. Kick...!

[passiveporcupine]

9. K&R

[moondust]

10. Nice post, Hitler.

Why you hate Murca?

Kidding aside, I've wondered about the President likening ISIS to a junior varsity team in January 2014. Were the intelligence agencies not monitoring the rise of AQI and other components of ISIS? Were they monitoring them but lying to the President about the threat? Maybe allowing ISIS to organize and strengthen in order to get a new MIC revenue stream going?

Also, I'm afraid that if a much greater percentage of American families does not begin to have skin in the game, the neocons won't hesitate to use any excuse to start stupid wars for profit using the small percentage of poor families that do have skin in the game as fodder.

Maybe I'm too cynical.

[tecelote]

11. Or, not cynical enough.

Completely agree - the neocons won't hesitate to use any excuse to start stupid wars for profit

[Koch Ebola]

13. We should stop calling them Neo-Cons

The rest of the world calls them Neo-Liberal. They hate that label. I'm just saying....