"Beware the Iran Pearl Harbor Moment"

[TexasBushwhacker]

https://quincyinst.org/2024/02/03/beware-the-iran-pearl-harbor-moment-2/

"In 2000, the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) issued a report that proposed establishing a new U.S.-led security perimeter across the globe to protect Western interests and perform the “constabulary” duties associated with “shaping the security environment in critical regions.”

The report, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” which suggested billions more in the Pentagon budget annually for reimagining military capabilities across the forces, including nuclear and space, was based in part on the Defense Policy Guidance, crafted by Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney during the George H. W. Bush Administration “for maintaining U.S. preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests.”

The report noted that “the process of transformation” that PNAC envisioned, “even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.”

Good PNAC. Anything to pour hundreds of billions of $$$ to feed the MIC beast. Who cares if it blows up the national debt. Who cares if American blood is shed? After all, the Melon Felon thinks members of the military are "suckers". When Don Jr expressed an interest in signing up, the Donald said he would DISOWN him if he did. There aren't too many rich white kids in the military.

[Walleye]

1. If they really want us to be secure in this country. They need to send even more foreign aid

But security is not really their goal. In fact, they want a war.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. War is good for business!

Remember all those no-bid contracts Halliburton got in Afghanistan and Iraq? It's all about distributing money to big corporations.

Of course, a war in the Middle East involving Israel all figures into the death cult Evangelical Christians' playbook.

[Walleye]

5. Yes, war is good for big business. Foreign aid is good for small businesses.

Big business is going to win with this administration every time

[Ping Tung]

2. Anybody remember The Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964 that led to milolions dead and another lost war?

North and South Vietnam were reunified in 1976. The war exacted an enormous cost: estimates of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 970,000 to 3 million. Some 275,000–310,000 Cambodians, 20,000–62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 US service members died.

Wikipedia

[BlueTsunami2018]

4. Yeah, 9/11 was that "new Pearl Harbor."

Are you saying we should expect another event like that?