All children under 10 years of age In Afghanistan have lived with American military presence in their country for as long as they can remember.
Am I the only one that finds it strange, that there is a country far away where the only Americans that most people know are occupying soldiers?
I’m tired of this. I think this is a war waged for profit.
It’s not for the good of Afghanistan; it’s not doing them any good. last year they lost 2080 civilians to the conflict. We are seen as the occupying bastards, in a country that kicked Russia’s ass, and the Russians don’t have scruples about flattening the village to get some answers from somebody, or at least they didn’t at that time. And even with all that and the most modern weaponry in the world, the Russians had to leave. And they’re right next door.
Us? We’ve got supply lines tens of thousands of miles long, gas brought in by helicopter costs $100 a gallon, (to us, the taxpayers, not to them, and you know Who I mean.) we’re basically in the same position as the British were In relation to the American colonists, except that the British and the colonists at least spoke the same language. And the British did live here In the United States, too. They figured it was theirs. They figured wrong.
You know why?
Because you can’t beat the locals in their own country. The United States proved it, Vietnam proved it, and Afghanistan is proving it again. And again, nobody profits but the merchants of death.
Until we leave. And the locals know we’re leaving. Everybody leaves, eventually. Alexander the great left; The British left, with only one man getting out alive out of 16,000 that started the retreat from Kabul. The Russians left, the war having wrecked their economy just as it’s wrecking ours now.
It’s certainly not for our good; considering the real costs, it’s cost us 1 trillion at least. certainly that would Help our situation, to have 1 trillion to spend on the United States.
So who is it good for?
List of United States defense contractors
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Top 100 Contractors Report on the Federal Procurement Data System lists the top one hundred defense contractors by sales to the United States military. ('DoD 9700' worksheet).[1] The Department of Defense announces contracts valued at $5 million or more each business day at 5 pm.[2]
List of United States defense contractors.
/ Acutronic
Accenture Ltd.
Action Target
Advatech Pacific, Inc
Aerojet
Aerospace Corporation
Aerovironment
Advanced Integrated Systems
Aegis Defense Services
AirScan
Aivea Corporation
Alliant Techsystems
/ Allied Container Systems
AM General Corporation
American Petroleum Institute
Analysis, Computing & Engineering Solutions, Inc. (ACES, Inc.)
Antonov Airlines
Applied Research Associates Inc.
ARINC
Argon ST
ASSETT, Inc.
Astronautics Corporation of America
AV-Optimal Defense Consultancy Service
BAE Systems plc
BAE Systems Inc.
BAE Systems Land and Armaments
BAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Support
Land Systems OMC
Ball Corporation
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
Barrett Firearms Manufacturing
Battelle Memorial Institute
Bechtel Corporation
Berico Technologies
/ BDM Corporation
Blazeware Inc.
Black Knight Technology Inc.
Boecore
Boeing Company
Boeing Sikorsky Comanche Team
Boeing SVS
McDonnell Douglas
Booz Allen Hamilton
British Nuclear Fuels Limited
Brogden Enterprises, Inc.
CACI International Inc.
Carlyle Group
Carnegie Mellon University
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
Chenega Federal Systems
CNA Corporation
Colt Defense
Concurrent Technologies Corporation
Crye Associates
CSA Engineering
Computer Sciences Corporation
Cubic Corporation
Omega Training Group
Decibel Research Inc.
Defense Technologies Inc.
Delta Intelligence & Security
Digital System Resources Inc.
Dillon Aero
DRS Technologies
DynCorp
Dynetics, Inc.
EADS
Eurocopter
American Eurocopter
Airbus
Earth Class Mail
East/West Industries, Inc.
Edison Welding Institute
Elbit Systems
ENSCO, Inc.
// Environmental Tectonics Corporation
Evergreen International Aviation
Exxon Corporation
Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal
FLIR Systems
Fluor Corp.
FGM Inc
F M C Technologies
Force Protection Inc
Foster Wheeler Ltd.
Foundation Health Systems Inc.
G4S plc
GB Industrial Battery
Gemini Industries Inc.
General Atomics
General Dynamics
Gulfstream
MOWAG
General Dynamics Electric Boat
Bath Iron Works
General Electric Military Jet Engines Division
Geo-Centers Inc.
Glock Ges.m.b.H.
Goodrich Corporation
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Harris Corporation
/ Halliburton Corporation
Health Net, Inc.
Heckler & Koch
Hewlett-Packard
Honeywell
HS Produkt
Humana Inc.
Hybricon Corporation
IBM
Industrial Machining & Design Services, Inc.
Infotech Aerospace Services (a Pratt & Whitney joint venture)
Insight Technology
Institute for Defense Analyses
Intelsat
International Resources Group
Israeli Aerospace Industries
Israeli Military Industries
ITT Corporation
ITT Research Institute
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
JGB Enterprises, Inc.
Johns Hopkins University
Kaman Aircraft
Kearfott Corporation
Kellogg, Brown and Root
Knight's Armament Company
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.
SYColeman
Brashear
Lockheed Martin
Longbow Limited Liability Inc.
M7 Aerospace
M9 Defense Systems
MacGregor Group (part of Cargotec corporation)
A.P. Moller-Maersk Group
ManTech International
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maytag Aircraft Corporation
Menatek Spare Parts
Microsignal LLC
Mission Essential Personnel
MITRE Corporation; also see ANSER Institute for Homeland Security
Mitsubishi
Motorola Inc.
Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division
Nextel
NexGen Data Systems, inc.
Nichols Research Corporation
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
Northrop Grumman Information Technologies
Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Northrop Grumman Newport News (formerly Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company)
Northrop Grumman Ships Systems
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Northrop Grumman Technical Services
Ocean Shipholdings Inc.
Oceaneering International
Olin Corporation; also see John M. Olin and John M. Olin Foundation
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Oshkosh Corporation
Osterhout Design Group; see also Ralph Osterhout
OT Training Solutions
Para-Ordnance
Perot Systems
Pinnacle Armor
Point Blank Solutions, Inc.
Precision Castparts Corporation
Quantum3D
QinetiQ North America
Raytheon
BBN Technologies
JPS Communications
Remington Arms
Rock Island Arsenal
Rockwell Collins
Rolls-Royce plc
RONCO (de-mining operations Horn of Africa)
Saab AB
SBG Technology Solutions
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Sensis Corporation
Shell Oil Company
Siemens AG
/ SimplexGrinnell, LP
SFA, Inc.
SGIS
Smartronix, Inc.
Smith & Wesson
SPARTA, Inc.
Springfield Armory
SRC Inc
SRI International
ST Engineering
ST Kinetics
Vision Technologies Systems
Stanley, Inc.
Standard Missile Company LLC
Stevedoring Services of America
Stewart and Stevenson
Strum, Ruger & Company Incorporated
Sverdrup Corporation
Swiss Arms
SIG Sauer
Talla-Tech
Tangent Networks LLC
Forjas Taurus S/A
TCom
Teledyne
Telent
Texas Instruments
Textron Inc.
Bell Helicopter Textron
United Industrial Corporation
AAI Corporation
The Columbia Group
Trijicon
Tri-Star Engineering, Inc.
TriWest Healthcare Alliance
Tyco International Ltd.
ADT Security Services
University of Texas System
Unisys Corporation
United Technologies
Sikorsky
Pratt & Whitney
URS Corporation
Washington Group International
USmax Corporation
US Falcon
Vangent
Verizon Communications
Vinnell Corporation
Vinnell-Brown & Root
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Wiley X
Worldcorp Inc.
Wyvern Technologies, Aerospace & Defense Contractors
Xe Services LLC
York Executive Operations
These are the companies in the United States that profit from war. Xe I expected; but then as I started looking I realized that there were companies like Humana, and Israeli military industries, and Mitsubishi, and of course Honeywell and Hewlett-Packard, and who could forget General Dynamics, with an annual revenue of 32 billion in 2010? And of course Exxon.
I don’t know about you, but I’m really tired of this. I feel that this is something that people should all get involved immediately. It's as if the cancer of the military-industrial complex has metastasized and spread through the whole country. So many people make a living from it in the United States that if we actually reduced our military to only twice the size of China's “we lose jobs”, and that means politicians would lose votes from people in their districts, and and they would also lose bribes (oh, sorry, I meant “money from lobbyists”) and we can't allow that, now can we?
The floor is yours.