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Edited on Wed Jun-16-10 11:39 AM by cufford
Once again, the cognitive dissonance of Americans, including Maddow, rears it's head.
While I was not aware of the "minerals" elements, the revelation only confirms THE REASONS WHY WE'RE EVEN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE; lucrative resources for western capitalist interests.
Whether it be these extremely profitable minerals, or access to and pipelines for extremely profitable hydrocarbons in neighboring regions, or simply the cash cow for private interests that WAR itself is, all you ever have to do is "follow the money" to figure out why anything is happening in this world or ours.
Clearly, if the only natural resource in the Middle East was sand, we'd have no interest in the region whatsoever. It's self-evident, and to deny this most fundamental premise is being self-delusional. Cognitive dissonance.
Despite facts like:
The Taliban - hell Bin Laden himself - were our allies when our capitalist interests meant keeping the Soviets from claiming Afghanistan for themselves. We funded them, we trained them, we supplied them with weapons, technology. Once they had done their dirty work for Western capitalists, they became our enemy so that we could claim Afghanistan, or rather its strategic wealth creating power, for ourselves.
The current so-called President of Afghanistan is a former Union Oil executive, just like most our country's most powerful leaders have intricate financial ties to the energy industry and military industrial complex. Hell, the Bush family is a damn OIL family! And on and on.
Saddam Husein was also our ally and good friend just a few short decades ago. We sold him the very weapons of mass destruction that we later used to justify overthrowing him, once we no longer need him to repel the Iranians from Iraq (sound familiar) and when he started pissing off Western Oil interests and OPEC (which be belonged to but wouldn't walk in lockstep with) by periodically flooding oil markets from his abundant oil fields, causing prices (and profits for Western Oil interests) to plummet and fluctuate wildly. We didn't just take him out to claim his oil fields (like Western Oil interests have now done) but to keep him from playing with the oil markets the way he was, his only real possible response to devastating economic sanctions against his country, led by U.S. interests that were resulting in the deaths of thousands and thousands of his citizens, including many children.
This goes on and on. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria all sit on or strategically surround some of the most lucrative natural resources on the planet. Western Capitalist interests want it, and they've been systematically working towards taking it for decades.
What's so obvious about this story, but isn't addressed, is that "potential riches" for Western interests is what all of this is about. Period. It's not for the Afghanistan people as she posits. How completely ridiculous is that contention anyway. We should stay there to help the Afghan people harvest their own lucrative resources? Yeah...right. That's why we're there and should stay there?
I'm so sick of this cognitive dissonance in our country. It's obvious that money is the root of all of this, yet people don't want to admit to themselves that our country's leaders are so cynical, so corrupted by Capital interests, as to actually invade and occupy other sovereign nations that pose no risk to ours whatsoever, and slaughter millions of innocent men, women and children and send our own young citizens off to die in the process, all for private profits. We can't possibly believe that this could be the case.
But the financial conflicst of interest in all of this is just so blatant, yet few people want to admit it to themselves; that there is such evil in our world. Right here at home. So easy to forget and ignore the inconvenient truths that are right in front of them.
Remember retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, and what he said about war being a racket? Look it up.
Go ahead, call me a crackpot, a conspiracy theorist...whatever. But the facts are self-evident. The quest for wealth and power (which are mutually inclusive; if you have one, you can have the other) is at that root of just about everything our government - well, most governments - do.
It's no wonder this whole response to the BP oil gusher is such a joke. What do we expect from our dear leaders, but meaningless rhetoric and PR photo opportunities, like last night's otherwise pointless speech by Obama. Protecting BP's economic interests takes precedence over everything else.
I'm not saying Obama is a bad guy. I voted for him. Just that the real forces at work are not his to control. He, as well as our Congress and apparently even SCOTUS serves the real power structure in this country, which are the big corporations and elite, super-wealthy class - of whom the bankers also belong to - not the common people.
I like Rachael a lot, but this story simply ignores the real point of itself. We are there because of lucrative resources, from which only a small group of mostly Western Capitalist interests will ever benefit from.
Occam's razor, baby!
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