1) do whatever it takes to never have another 9/11, break laws, violate int'l treaties, coverup, and count on no one caring.
2) frack oil (at the expense of public health) to make the US the #1 oil producer so that OPEC had less leverage. And that has happened.
3) keep troops in various Mideast countries with the purpose of having some presence there...forever.
4) use the troops in Mideast countries as shields and point of attack for terrorists. Better to have terrorists focused on hard targets nearby like US bases...than soft targets abroad in America.
5) use drones in Yemen, Afghanistan and other lawless regions to keep regions in a low-level state of perpetual war. Better to have instability and war over there, than the possibility of it coming here.
6) since the majority of 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, fund the corrupt Saudi Arabian royal family, their secret police and their military to torture, kill, and root out any dissident...making a formerly shaky nation-state into a repressive, surveillance regime.
7) stricter immigration rules for Arabs and Muslims
8) pre-emptive kills, assassinations, and the drone bombing of anything that looks suspicious in these countries...with many errors at the cost of thousands of lives.
9) count on the American public to only care about their safety and comfort...and the inability of the media to present the truth.
The assassination of Qasan Soleimani both fits within our ruthless Mideast policy carried out by Dems and Republicans, and distracts the public from ever thinking about the deeper patterns of complicity/corruption/duplicity that underpins America's 'our safety first' policy. You will hear a lot of talk about Trump's stupidity or bravery, what Dems should do, and how we are going to war with Iran. But the fact is...we are at war with Iran. And Afghanistan, And Pakistan, and Yemen. We have been and are actively in a low-level constant state of war, and there are no checks and balances on us killing anything from the sky. You will not have any serious candidate try to change our policy...b/c it's much easier to be snugly ignorant to the causes of our safety than to engage with a complex region populated with people of color who worship a religion other than our own. As long as white corporate Christianity is our driving political force, we will always treat other nations and people of other faiths as expendable.
2) frack oil (at the expense of public health) to make the US the #1 oil producer so that OPEC had less leverage. And that has happened.
3) keep troops in various Mideast countries with the purpose of having some presence there...forever.
4) use the troops in Mideast countries as shields and point of attack for terrorists. Better to have terrorists focused on hard targets nearby like US bases...than soft targets abroad in America.
5) use drones in Yemen, Afghanistan and other lawless regions to keep regions in a low-level state of perpetual war. Better to have instability and war over there, than the possibility of it coming here.
6) since the majority of 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, fund the corrupt Saudi Arabian royal family, their secret police and their military to torture, kill, and root out any dissident...making a formerly shaky nation-state into a repressive, surveillance regime.
7) stricter immigration rules for Arabs and Muslims
8) pre-emptive kills, assassinations, and the drone bombing of anything that looks suspicious in these countries...with many errors at the cost of thousands of lives.
9) count on the American public to only care about their safety and comfort...and the inability of the media to present the truth.
The assassination of Qasan Soleimani both fits within our ruthless Mideast policy carried out by Dems and Republicans, and distracts the public from ever thinking about the deeper patterns of complicity/corruption/duplicity that underpins America's 'our safety first' policy. You will hear a lot of talk about Trump's stupidity or bravery, what Dems should do, and how we are going to war with Iran. But the fact is...we are at war with Iran. And Afghanistan, And Pakistan, and Yemen. We have been and are actively in a low-level constant state of war, and there are no checks and balances on us killing anything from the sky. You will not have any serious candidate try to change our policy...b/c it's much easier to be snugly ignorant to the causes of our safety than to engage with a complex region populated with people of color who worship a religion other than our own. As long as white corporate Christianity is our driving political force, we will always treat other nations and people of other faiths as expendable.
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