Myth-Jack THIS: Somebody tell Congress: The Military is a political tool by definition

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Somebody tell Congress: The Military is a political tool by definition

All the questions assumed a cosmos in which war is an acceptable means of asserting our interests. All the senators assume a political cosmos in which an ultimate authority forces unruly parts into Order.

Not just any order: the Order of the Great Cosmic Machine. And guess who's the favorite nation-state of the Engineer? Wrong! We all are! What kind of small-hearted god do these people worship, that would love only some of its offspring, and curse the majority to eternal damnation?

Somebody please tell the esteemed senators that war is not the weather, that Generals and Ambassadors are not freakin' meteorologists, and we are not the masters of the great cosmic machine.

Oh, right, as a poet, that's my job. My bad, I keep forgetting. I'm new at this.

Must say: HRC busted Amb. BoyScoutFace on "democracy" for the Iraqis // Executive Agreements for US.

While Clausewitz' extensive histories of the various Napoleonic campaigns are only of technical interest, On War has had a profound influence on modern strategic concepts. Its most significant single contribution is the doctrine of political direction in military matters. In maintaining that “war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with the admixture of different means,” he denied that war is an end in itself.

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"Clausewitz, Carl (Philipp Gottlieb) von." Encyclopædia Britannica. Standard Edition. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2008.

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Zelikow Authored the US National Security Strategy, What Could He Gain from Myth-Jacking the Report?

Rumsfeld leaned heavily on the FBI and CIA to find any shred of evidence linking the Iraq government to 9/11, but they weren't able to. So he set up his own fact-finding group in the Pentagon, the Office of Special Plans that would provide him with whatever shaky connections it could find or surmise.

Feeling confident that all plans were on track for moving aggressively in the world, the Bush Administration in September of 2002 published the "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." The official policy of the U.S. government, as proudly proclaimed in this major document, is virtually identical to the policy proposals in the various white papers of the Project for the New American Century and others like it over the past decade.[It wasn't known at the time that Zelikow was the author.]

www.crisispapers.com

Zelikow's Figleaf for Torture (The Infamous Textbox of Page 146)

Detainee Interrogation Reports
Chapters 5 and 7 rely heavily on information obtained from captured al Qaeda members. A number of these "detainees" have firsthand knowledge of the 9/11 plot.

Assessing the truth of statements by these witnesses--sworn enemies of the United States--is challenging. Our access to them has been limited to the review of intelligence reports based on communications received from the locations where the actual interrogations take place. We submitted questions for use in the interrogations, but had no control over whether, when, or how questions of particular interest would be asked. Nor were we allowed to talk to the interrogators so that we could better judge the credibility of the detainees and clarify ambiguities in the reporting. We were told that our requests might disrupt the sensitive interrogation process.

We have nonetheless decided to include information from captured 9/11 conspirators and al Qaeda members in our report. We have evaluated their statements carefully and have attempted to corroborate them with documents statements of others. In this report, we indicate where such statements provide the foundation for our narrative. We have been authorized to identify by name only ten detainees whose custody has been confirmed officially by the U.S. governement.*

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*Those detainees are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, Riduan Isamuddin (also known as Hambali), Abd Rahim al Nashiri, Tawfiq bin Attash (also known as Khallad), Ramzi Binalshibh, Mohamed al Kahtani, Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al Ani, Ali Abd al Rahman al Faqasi (also known as Abu Bakr al Azdi), and Hassan Ghul.

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Somebody tell Congress: The Military is a political tool by definition

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Zelikow Authored the US National Security Strategy, What Could He Gain from Myth-Jacking the Report?

Zelikow's Figleaf for Torture (The Infamous Textbox of Page 146)

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