American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter: Physicist for War and Profit

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/john-stanton/62806/american-defense-secretary-ashton-carter-physicist-for-war-and-profit

American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter: Physicist for War and Profit
The Obama Administration
by John Stanton | June 25, 2015 - 9:16am

The US defense secretary, Ashton Carter, is the face of all that is wrong in Washington, DC. But he is “Mr. Right” for the varied capital interests and ideologies he represents: the fusion of neoliberalism and neo-conservatism; state sponsored corporate welfare; the revolving door; opportunism and greed; the “free market”; and a science and technology that is first and foremost in the service of weapons and war.

Carter has absolutely nothing in common with the rank and file of the military (those at the tip-of-the spear) who he ostensibly is supposed to represent. He would never go out beyond-the-wire.

“Ash” is a one percent guy, representing the one or so percent that moves and shakes the classes that make up society like the puppeteer does marionettes. Carter’s primary interest is in further privatizing, and eliminating, the State’s role in national security for the purpose of providing more profit opportunities for defense contractors, weapons research laboratories and his bank account. Even his two marriages seem arranged for political/economic purposes: his ex-wife, and 1977 college graduate, is president of Bates College in Maine; and the current Mrs., a 1991 college graduate, is a partner in ABS Capital.

The honorable US defense secretary studied physics, receiving his PhD from Oxford. His specialty was quantum chromodynamics, a field of study in which two of the giants of 20th Century physics, Nobel Laureates Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann, set the pace. Perhaps figuring he’d not make the Nobel Prize cut or had reached the end of his shelf life in the physics research community, Carter opted to pursue the profitable path of science and technology in the service of weapons and war, and the individuals and organizations that design strategies and technologies that require that America remain in a perpetual state of war of some kind.

[TwilightGardener]

1. So far he's a massively unimpressive non-leader who should never have been promoted

to lead the military, pathetic little chickenhawk neocon that he is. Go back to Goldman Sachs, you POS. Oh, and...thanks, Obama.

[bemildred]

2. "Goober" is the word that comes to mind. And "naive".

Full of vast certainty of his own rectitude, narrowly educated, and fundamentally a timid soul who would never think outside the box.

[unhappycamper]

3. He reminds me of McNamara.

A douche.

[bemildred]

4. The same arrogance, yeah. nt