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Entry: The Pentagon Needs a Choreographer Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_pentagon_needs_a_choreographer#33250 Post contents: Mike Gavin seems to propose that the answer for inherently beastly mankind is for beastly men to fight overseas wars against other beastly men. I suppose Woodrow Wilson would certainly agree. But this is nothing more than the matriarchal, social democratic welfare-state projected outward: the warfare-state really best personified by Madeline Albright and her crusade against Orthodox Christians in Serbia. Our war in Iraq was certainly not undertaken in revenge for 9/11 or on any legitimate ground of self-defense. And while the break-up of Al Qaida and deposing the Taliban regime may have satisfied these points, our continuing occupation of Kabul, excuse me, Afghanistan, seems nothing more than, again, a Wilsonian welfare-state crusade. Do Messrs. Gavin and McGarr really believe that inherently flawed and fallen men become morally perfect demi-gods by virtue of employment with the US government? We are engaged in pure hubris and are going bankrupt becoming more vulnerable to terrorist attacks as a result. There is also a strain of nominally conservative thought that declares the military to be immune to what conservatives would otherwise agree are the inherent flaws of government. Do not forget, the standing military exists first and foremost to justify its own existence. Next in priority is to assure the continued flow of tax dollars and to prevent the overthrow of the government by its own citizens. Securing the nation's territorial and cultural integrity is NOT the purpose of the US military, as is all too obvious by this point. Rather, the process followed is to intervene in overseas inter-tribal conflicts, import peoples from both sides of said conflicts, and react when the predictable comes about in order to satisfy the prime directive. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Sent at: 2008 12 01