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    Uncle Sam: The Bruce Wayne of Jihad

    h/t Bob Murphy: http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2015...ourri-285.html

    This is a long article, but well worth the read for a summary of the subject ...

    Where Does ISIS Get Those Wonderful Toys? From Uncle Sam, the Bruce Wayne of Jihad, and his Cronies
    https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/where...s-77cea955731a
    Daniel Sanchez (14 June 2015)

    In the 1989 film Batman, after the caped crusader rescues a damsel in distress from the Joker using a fancy zipline gun, the clown prince of crime, played by Jack Nicholson, asks in bewilderment:

    “Where does he get those wonderful toys?”

    Especially upon seeing Batman’s nicest toys — his armored Batmobile and his military-grade Batwing fighter plane, etc — the Joker must have assumed his adversary was financed by some seriously deep pockets. And indeed, hidden behind the cowl was billionaire Bruce Wayne all along.

    Similarly, upon seeing real-life fighters also garbed in black masks and jumpsuits, and running around the poverty-stricken Middle East with such “wonderful toys” as TOW anti-tank missiles, up-armored Humvees, M1A1 Abrams tanks, and fleets of gun-mounted Toyota pick-up trucks, any perceptive person must also assume that a wealthy patron lurked in the background.

    Indeed where does ISIS and al-Qaeda get those wonderful toys we so often see these days triumphantly bedecked with black flags? The ultimate source of virtually all of the jihadists’ gear are the deep pockets of the United States government and its client states. Uncle Sam is the veritable Bruce Wayne of Jihad. This was basically admitted in a recently disclosed Defense Intelligence Agency report. But anyone who bothered looking into it could have known this long ago, even if restricting one’s self to mainstream sources.

    Most support for the jihadists has come by way of the aid the US offers, along with its allies, to the insurgency in Syria battling to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad.

    Training and Logistical Support

    The Pentagon and the CIA, as well as Britain and France, have been training Syrian rebels in neighboring Jordan since at least October 2012, as reported by The Guardian.

    [... full article at link: https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/where...s-77cea955731a ...]

    Such wonderful toys, and such a wonderful racket for the toymakers! And as the decorated USMC Major General Smedley Butler tried to tell America over 80 years ago, war is indeed a racket. This is basically how it works for arms manufacturers:
    • Sell gear to send to allies
    • Sell other gear to send (indirectly) to enemies
    • Watch enemies use step 2 gear to capture step 1 gear
    • Sell gear to replace step 1 gear
    • Sell still more gear to blow up enemy-held step 1 gear
    • Repeat
    Worried about a “peace President” drawing down and pulling out? Have no fear; even that will sell gear. Just watch while some of the gear comes home to militarize the police. And then wait a little while for covert intervention to cause blowback, which will induce reengagement. We’re going back! Now, will the cops return their hand-me-down Humvees? Fat chance! No, this calls for selling a brand new arsenal, with all the latest bells and whistles, and even bigger margins. And just like that, you’re selling more than if we had just stayed. Fortunately for you, the President is no peacenik, just a vacillating wimp with no principles.

    Are the peons getting sick of this racket? Well, now the cops are armed and armored up and ready to beat them down, so who cares?

    But the racket of war is not just about the Military Industrial Complex selling gear, but also about the government selling fear. This is how it works for politicians and bureaucrats:
    • Enemies (Osama, Saddam!) help you sell (or monger) fear (Another 9/11; smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud!)
    • Fear helps you sell war (To Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Beyond!)
    • War creates more enemies (ISIS!)
    • Repeat
    And since war is the health of the State, this is the government’s favorite racket of them all.

    That is what war is all about: selling gear and mongering fear. Anyone who tells you different is probably in on the racket.
    Last edited by Occam's Banana; 06-16-2015 at 12:45 AM.
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    But but.......

    Terrorists!

    Drugs!

    The children!

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    Chirp, chirp, chirp...
    BEWARE THE CULT OF "GOVERNMENT"

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    None of this will change, I even wonder if Rand in the White House will change it. This is America.
    "The Patriarch"

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    I find this an insult to Bruce Wayne.
    There is no spoon.



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