Will Neocon Fanaticism Destroy America? (Paul Craig Roberts)

[hadrons]

Will Neocon Fanaticism Destroy America?

by Paul Craig Roberts

The "cakewalk war" is now two and one-half years old. U.S. casualties (dead and wounded) number 20,000. As 20,000 is the number of Iraqi insurgents according to U.S. military commanders, each insurgent is responsible for one U.S. casualty…

According to the Sept. 1 Manufacturing & Technology News, the Government Accounting Office has reported that over the course of the cakewalk war, the U.S. military's use of small caliber ammunition has risen to 1.8 billion rounds. Think about that number. If there are 20,000 insurgents, it means U.S. troops have fired 90,000 rounds at each insurgent.

Very few have been hit. We don't know how many. To avoid the analogy with Vietnam, until last week the U.S. military studiously avoided body counts. If 2,000 insurgents have been killed, each death required 900,000 rounds of ammunition…

With its judgment lost to frustration, the U.S. military has 40,000 Iraqis in detention – twice the number of estimated insurgents…

Obviously, the U.S., not knowing who or where the insurgents are, is just striking blindly, creating a larger insurgency…

According to news reports, at Ted Forstmann's annual meeting of movers and shakers last weekend, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad predicted that US troops will soon enter Syria. Simultaneously, the Bush administration is desperately trying to orchestrate a case that it can use to attack Iran.

Stalemated in Iraq, the White House moron intends to attack two more countries…

http://antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=7330

[cassiepriam]

1. It already has nt

[tom_paine]

2. Agreed. The old United States of America is gone into the ash heap

of history.

All that's left is the hollow name and some procedural window-dressing.

[burythehatchet]

4. Someone recently said or wrote (it was on CSPAN I think)

that America peaked in 1957. Since then its been downhill. The slope is just getting steeper now. (The last part is my witticism)

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Has The Time Come

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Judah Phillip Benjamin
United States Senator from Louisiana
Confederate States Senator from Louisiana
Attorney General, Confederate States of America
Secretary of State, Confederat States of America

Has the time come for a Constitutional Convention?

Has the time to question a Continental Nation of almost 300 Million People?

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[Behind the Aegis]

6. Perhaps you should consult a dictionary...

...before making absurd "conclusions!"

[txaslftist]

7. "Nazi" is short for National (nazional - Ger.) Socialist

doh.

[Colorado Blue]

8. Please do a little reading about 20th century Germany, and

the ACTUAL source of the term "NAZI".

And the attempted conflation of "Nazi" with the term for European Jewry is - what - for once I lack words.