(In my opinion) at this stage of the game only the irrationally gullible believe anything our politicians say or do; they are all involved willingly or not, knowingly or not in a conspiracy of conmen who have plans that they need to keep under wraps. Right wing, left wing or no wing at all they all do the bidding of the same unseen forces that lurk behind the curtains of our current drama.
Obama looks good and he can sound exceptionally good but putting on a good show is not the same as leadership if the results are always the same and always slant towards his silent partners the big money guys with the real clout. When Obama chose to be advised by cutthroats like Rahm Emanuel and to take economic advise from the very people who had just ripped off the American people using unethical practices he showed his hand as a stick figure, a tool of the unseen forces that actually control this country.
Speaking of tools I noticed that David Petraeus has just resigned from the military because it gave the appearance that the military and the CIA were one unit now but I dare say that has already happened regardless hasn't it? Now the things that happen in the shadows can more easily be used to support whatever the military has in mind, a real opportunity to mold the world to suit their tastes, to create the illusions that will then be sold to the unwitting public as reality.
Speaking of which there is a lot of celebratory goings on concerning the anniversary of 9/11, it has become a national holiday, a time to hold our exceptionalism especially close while worshipping the red white and blue. And to top it off like a red cherry we have creditable threats to the homeland to remind us of our vulnerability it seems like we will never be safe (unless of course we give all our money to the military.)
We needed an enemy after the Cold War to give the military relevance and economic clout so they ginned up this never ending war on terror to send us into fear mode and keep us from noticing the theft as it's taking place. They just kept hammering on the hornet's nest in the Middle East until they got a response that suited their purposes and we were finally attacked and they could begin the long drawn out process of subduing the Middle East for western corporations and the strategic global placement of military bases.
And in conquering the Middle East we have not unwittingly created an unending river of potential terrorist's who might hold a grudge against a country that has terrorized his parents and killed his brothers last week by accident. There are probably people in the Middle East who don't see us as liberating hero's after having their homes destroyed by technological know how and men dressed up as star wars characters or their weddings interrupted by rains of fire and death.
We have produced a nightmare for millions of human beings and they want to keep it up bad and will do whatever it takes to accomplish their ends. We're not leaving Iraq or Afghanistan because we own them now, John McCain said that" if we don't keep enough troops in Iraq we will lose the gains we made;" we fought and won the right to dictate terms to the people of Iraq.
And this flimflam of conquering the Middle East and propping up the military and the corporations is being brought to us currently by the democrats so they are neck deep in the conspiracy to manipulate we the people. I heard a politician say the other day that we will never win the war on terrorism it will just go on and on and we have to be vigilant for ever; now that's a plan.
Now we have an enemy that is permanent and will be with us and useful as a propaganda tool for a very long time. We have a massive defense structure the biggest in the history of mankind and we need every inch of it to protect us from some poor man who has lost his wife in a Nato strike and is out of his mind with grief and looking for revenge.
If the threat from extremists is as large as they claim I think we would have seen more evidence of it by now. Something more than we have seen in the last ten years anyway where there have been some bumbling amateurs but nothing of consequence, if there really were people out to disrupt our way of life they sure are taking their time.
Maybe it's because we took the fight to them like they say and now most terrorists are too busy protecting their homes to plot against us. It was a mighty fortunate coincidence that the terrorists were living on top of all that oil, mighty convenient for the somebody's who have orchestrated this crusade behind the citizen's backs while charging them upfront.
I'm afraid this will continue whether it's the betrayer of progressives Obama or the madman Perry; they just run the stage show for the stooges while taking their orders from above. Democrats, republicans I've had it with them; they are both steering the sinking ship on to the rocks for salvage purposes it seems.
(cross posted from MLW)