De Oorlogsstaat 6

De Amerikaanse oorlogsstaat blijft in staat van oorlog. Het kan ook niet anders, de Verenigde Staten is moreel en financieel failliet, het kan alleen met wapens concurreren, meer dan de helft van alle Amerikaanse wapenexporten gaat naar landen die volgens het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken niet democratisch zijn. Tegelijkertijd gaat ongeveer de helft van de federale begroting direct of indirect naar wat officieel 'de nationale veiligheid' heet. De Washington Post bericht: 'Ability to Wage 'Long War' Is Key To Pentagon Plan. Conventional Tactics De-Emphasized. The Pentagon, readying for what it calls a "long war," yesterday laid out a new 20-year defense strategy that envisions U.S. troops deployed, often clandestinely, in dozens of countries at once to fight terrorism and other nontraditional threats. Major initiatives include a 15 percent boost in the number of elite U.S. troops known as Special Operations Forces, a near-doubling of the capacity of unmanned aerial drones to gather intelligence, a $1.5 billion investment to counter a biological attack, and the creation of special teams to find, track and defuse nuclear bombs and other catastrophic weapons. China is singled out as having "the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States," and the strategy in response calls for accelerating the fielding of a new Air Force long-range strike force, as well as for building undersea warfare capabilities. The latest top-level reassessment of strategy, or Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), is the first to fully take stock of the starkly expanded missions of the U.S. military -- both in fighting wars abroad and defending the homeland -- since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.' Lees verder: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020301853.html Of http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020406Z.shtml