"In October, the Washington Post's Greg Miller reported that the administration was instituting a "disposition matrix" to determine how terrorism suspects will be disposed of, all based on this fact: "among senior Obama administration officials, there is broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade." As Miller puts it: "That timeline suggests that the United States has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism."*
When will the War on Terror finally conclude? Some, including high-ranking U.S. military members say no, that by design, the war will continue on for years to come. How did we get into this quagmire, and how on earth can we possibly get out? Will we? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more from Glenn Greenwald/ The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/04/war-on-terror-endless-johnson
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis
Monday, January 21, 2013
Self Perpetuation of Endless War
From the TheYoungTurks:
Labels:
Barack Obama,
Interventionism,
War
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