Comments on: Futile Brutality

By: Deadbeat

Deadbeat — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:32:47 +0000

Behind the Myth of War for Oil The widely-shared but erroneous view that recent U.S. wars of choice are driven by oil concerns is partly due to precedence: the fact that for a long time military force was key to colonial or imperialist control and exploitation of foreign markets and resources, including oil. It is also partly due to perception: the exaggerated notion that both President Bush and Vice President Cheney were “oil men” before coming to the White House. But, as noted earlier, George W. Bush was never more than an ineffective minor oil prospector and Dick Cheney was never really an oil man; he headed the notorious Halliburton company that sold (and still sells) services to oil companies and the Pentagon. But the major reason for the persistence of this pervasive myth seems to stem from certain deliberate efforts that are designed to perpetuate the legend in order to camouflage some real economic and geopolitical special interests that drive U.S. military adventures in the Middle East. There is evidence that both the military-industrial complex and hard-line Zionist proponents of “greater Israel” disingenuously use oil (as an issue of national interest) in order to disguise their own nefarious special interests and objectives: justification of continued expansion of military spending, extension of sales markets for military hardware, and recasting the geopolitical map of the Middle East in favor of Israel. Counterpunch

By: hp

hp — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:08:54 +0000

‘Elsewhere, Noam Chomsky continues with his invaluable work of furnishing the anti-war movement with the latest statistical data to confirm and quantify the bleeding obvious-”

Well to me this is the ‘bleeding obvious’ about Chomsky.

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”
- Noam Chomsky

With Chomsky there is always the bleeding obvious absence of Israel in the ‘invaluable’ statistical data.
Except, of course, in the standard context as victim.

By: hp

hp — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:08:59 +0000

Here’s the latest in the daily installments of of 60 years of futile brutality.
Along with the usual coveting, cheating, lying and stealing.

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m45557&hd=&size=1&l=e

By: Lloyd Rowsey

Lloyd Rowsey — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:17:08 +0000

With respect to the Afghanistan pieces in Englehard’s book, and respite for the brutality-weary, see:

‘The Places in Between,’ by Rory Stewart.