Paying homage to Ceaser

[jkm_101_fso]

Reminds me of how I felt after reading this one year ago:

One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex

[davidbfpo]

Not sure whether this has appeared here before; an article cum interview of General Colin Powell, in September 2007:

I cite only this from a summary:

What is the greatest threat facing us now?" Powell asked. "People will say it’s terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? No. ... The only thing that can really destroy us is us. We shouldn’t do it to ourselves, and we shouldn’t use fear for political purposes—scaring people to death so they will vote for you, or scaring people to death so that we create a terror-industrial complex.

When Powell delivered a speech at the University of Oklahoma a short time later, campus reporters asked what he had meant by his remarks, and he replied:

"We're spending an enormous amount of money on homeland security, and I think we should spend whatever it takes. But I think we have to be careful that we don't get so caught up in trying to throw money at the terrorist and counter-terrorist problem that we're essentially creating an industry that will only exist as long as you keep the terrorist threat pumped up. ... Let's make sure that we are spending money on the right things and not spending money just to spend money."

Found on:http://rawstory.com/2009/10/powell-w...trial-complex/

[IntelTrooper]

Has anyone seen the movie Pentagon Wars? It's a true story, and very, very sad.

[MikeF]

Count for yourself.

Scan through the entire CNAS website and see how many times that you can count that someone ends a post with RLTW.

You're count will be zero.

[Tukhachevskii]

Reminds me of what Nixon once said toward the end of the Vietnam War:

"No one can humiliate America,... only Americans can do that".

[Schmedlap]

I guess what it boils down to is this: are they doing it for pleasure, profit, or personal gain? Or are they leveraging their credibility to further some greater good? I don't have the information to make a decision one way or the other. But I am cynical and suspicious.