The Masters Of War Have Been Embarrassed. Aw Shucks.

[poliphilo]

The US Secretary of Defence has said Wikileaks has blood on its hands. As if he doesn't. Bah!

Everybody who pays attention to the news behind The News knows the Afghan war is going badly: Trying to keep the Taliban at bay is like trying to stop the tide with a mop, civilians have been carelessly murdered, the Masters of War have been lying to us. Nothing unusual in any of this. War is hell.  All that Wikileaks has done is document the bleeding obvious.

The US Secretary of Defence is not our friend.

The BBC were interviewing a group of Afghan men in a market temporarily protected by the Brits. Asked who they wanted to see win they all said, "the Taliban". This wasn't an expression of ideological conviction. They're not stupid, they can see how things are going and they don't want their names showing up on some death list. Also they just want the war to end.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that.

If Bush had thought to read his Kipling he wouldn't have done it.

Or indeed if he'd paid any attention to what happened to the Russians.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

The sad truth is that Bush -- or more properly, Cheney and his business associates -- couldn't care less about whether the US wins or loses, how many are killed, or any of that. If the US rules victorious over the Pashtun for a thousand years, the military-industrial complex makes money. If the US is forced into humiliating retreat, the military-industrial complex makes money. The same is true of the war in Iraq, obviously.

And if the US is bled dry and left bankrupt by its military contractors, that is a feature, not a bug. The one thing that the Republicans - or Teapartiers -- agree upon, from the most powerful banksters of Wall Street down to the lowliest footsoldier of the KKK, is that any and all social programs must be eliminated with extreme prejudice. For the rich, it's money taken out of their pockets. For the peasants, it's money wasted on programs they believe disproportionately favor blacks and other minorities. As far as I know, the war on "do-gooders" is the one shared goal of all so-called conservatives, both high and low.