Terrorist Access to Libyan Shoulder-Fired Missiles — a Predictable Consequence of President Obama’s Foolish Intervention — Bad for the Public and the American Deficit, but Really Good for the Military-Industrial Complex

© 2011 Peter Free

 

28 September 2011

 

 

A convoluted plot to profit at humanity’s generalized expense?

 

America’s three Muslim nation wars haven’t benefited anyone except the military-industrial complex.  Even down to supplying the caskets and flags that our fallen military members come home in.

 

Yesterday, we learned that some 20,000 Libyan-owned, Russian-made, shoulder-fired ground-to-air missiles are (predictably) missing.

 

That, of course, is what happens when “we” make war on the cheap.  Without NATO and American troops on the ground, Libya’s (civil war) rag-tag combatants were foreseeably going to seize whatever they could and use it in whatever way they want.

 

All the Libyan NATO intervention did was make it more certain that dictator Qaddafi’s arms stockpiles would mysteriously “float” out into the most terror-prone part of the globe.

 

What a surprise.

 

How could our air-headed leaders possibly have anticipated such a threatening development?

 

 

NATO and American leaders as imbeciles — or capitalists?

 

Given the threat that these “liberated” Qaddafi missiles would foreseeably pose the globe’s publics, one might fairly think that American and NATO leaders were imbeciles to start the “topple Qaddafi” war.

 

Ordinarily, we might estimate, free world leaders should not be engaging in actions that will directly result in arming terrorists.

 

Our rational assessment of our leaders’ moron-i-tude is probably wrong.  Free world leaders simply are not accountable to anyone but the money-making multinational corporations that benefit at every turn from our leaders’ geopolitically inept stupidities.

 

In other words, the world’s safety and our troops don’t matter.  Money does.

 

 

Here’s how the military-industrial complex works in the real world

 

First, it creates an all-volunteer American military.  That eliminates the draft which would make Americans realize that war deaths affect them directly.  “We” can then kill off our volunteer troops, without worrying about the public’s negative emotional reaction to the carnage.  After all, what’s a few dead and maimed military volunteers, just so long as the rest of us can keep going to the mall?

 

Second, recognize that war is really, really profitable.  It is difficult to think of any sector of the economy that does not benefit from making or shipping something that the War Machine needs to keep running.

 

Third, build public paranoia.  Paranoia stimulates emotional over-reactions to terrorist attacks.  These irrational hate-binges allow the military-industrial complex to whisper-shout its alleged ability to protect the public.

 

Fourth, paint everyone (who is conveniently weak and available) as an enemy of freedom and decency.

 

Fifth, attack these self-created enemies to the full extent that our psychologically conditioned (and apathetic) public will permit.

 

Sixth, capitalize on the generalized hatred, which results from our new enemies’ understandable efforts to get rid of us as occupiers.

 

Seventh, keep feeding the cycle — repeat Step Three.

 

 

How the American war machine worked in Libya

 

By not committing troops to Libyan ground, President Obama avoided even the affected military’s blow-back on his strategically stupid decision to intervene.

 

Instead, he gained favorable recognition as being willing to rid the world of a “bad man.”

 

He could count on no one being thoughtful enough to recognize that the disappearance of Qaddafi’s arms caches was his fault.

 

When those “disappeared” weapons of mass destruction begin creating a terror of their own, he and the military-industrial complex will profit in trying to counter their deadly effects.  We are already hearing that American civilian planes need to be outfitted with lasers that can misdirect shoulder-fired missiles.

 

Guess who’s going to profit.

 

Guess who’s going to pay.

 

Guess who’s going to die.

 

 

Now ask yourself

 

Was any of this actually necessary?