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Entry: Our Very Own War Criminals Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/our_very_own_war_criminals#170 Post contents: And it is "worse than a crime, it was a blunder". If the Neocons were at least competent - there are people who know how to fight 4th generation war, instead of wanting to "shock and awe" to create thousands of insurgents every few months, we might have even succeeded. Unfortunately between their set of goals, and the weapons we have, they cannot succeed. Fighting 4th generation war doesn't need carriers or B2 bombers or anything expensive to give to defense contractors. Even the Blackwater mercenaries and the hollywood facades which pass for rebuilt infrastructure are failures in everything except for their owner's stock portfolio. If you wonder what the Maginot line would look like transposed from a fixed, defensive system to a mobile, offensive system, look toward the middle east. Undefeatable, but irrelevant as it is easily bypassed. Someone once said the way to defeat Islam was to introduce their teens to Brittney Spears. Given the recent history it would have backfired, but introducing the insurgents to Lockheed would probably work - instead of the swarm, a few five thousand pound, several million dollar IEDs which can take out a whole line of humvees, but can't be moved to the targets. And supporters of Israel should ask themselves, after the US has exhausted itself in futile empire-building efforts and police actions, and is morally, spiritually, and monetarily bankrupt (I know, but we have not actually declared it yet, nor have the debt collectors started hounding us), will Israel be safer without the possibility of support from the US? But assume we retain our military might after the collapse. Weimar was not a threat to the Jews, but it was pressed into bankruptcy. What may follow our collapse might be equally unfriendly. At some point of power concentrated in the unitary executive won't need support from anyone including AIPAC. And at that point they can not merely ignore Israel, but actually enslave it. (The senator who would be Frau Chancellor whose name lacks the "t" comes to mind - who wanted to give everyone health care, but the actual proposal mentioned "prison" far more often than "hospital") Sent at: 2008 07 24