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Why Do They Hate “Us”?
Reason MCCLXXI: 8 women killed in NATO airstrike, Afghan officials say
Afghan officials say a NATO airstrike killed eight women and girls who were out gathering firewood before dawn Sunday in a remote region on the east of the country. The coalition says it believes only insurgents were hit.
Villagers from Laghman province's Alingar district brought the bodies to the governor's office in the provincial capital, said Sarhadi Zewak, a spokesman for the provincial government.
"They were shouting 'Death to America!' They were condemning the attack," Zewak said.
They ‘hate us’ because of useless, sadistic, arbitrary, aggression.
The US is the supreme military / world power.
US wars now cost too much, in terms of money, energy (fossil fuels), and don’t provide much, if any, return.
(Ask Gorby. Heh.)
War is a dead-end road, except for the fact that it keeps the Pentagon, defense, the military, etc. super flush.
The industry is staggering.
Arms and milit. materiel of every kind, planes, bio, informatics, new technologies, studies, think tanks, test grounds, research, etc. etc.
Primary and sub > contractors in the US offer millions! of ppl a good living wage in the military-industrial complex (as in GB, actually more …)
Each worker probably supports at least 4 family members.
The slag is used of course by the US but the main point is to sell it to others. E.g. to KSA.
War and strife must be kept up to sell it.
Red US states are the first recipients of contracts, which is why they are pro-war. At first a compensatory mechanism, poorer states would get contracts, today, also, see the prison industry.
All is done to lead USA citizens into ignoring war, such as doing all to minimize US deaths, by hiring mercenaries, shoddy stats, etc. (Then leaving aside vet med care.)
Murdered children in Yemen serve no purpose to the US, except for selling its arms. To Yemen! Which in turn impoverishes the ppl.
So there is the ‘light’ drone killings, no more massive war, just enough to slaughter some, outrage, etc.
Here a list of countries and the % of gvmt budget devoted to buying arms – national prod. not incl. They buy from the US, from China (a huge exporter), France, GB, Germany, and others. Nation master, it is rough.
http://tinyurl.com/d9foxz
Posted by: Noirette | Sep 16 2012 17:03 utc | 14
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