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DISPATCHES FROM STEPHEN LENDMAN
Ashton Carter fills a long and filthy tradition of lying and warmongering on behalf of US criminal imperialist agenda. His only distinction is being perhaps more dedicated to this pursuit than many of his predecessors. [CC BY by Abode of Chaos]
“We haven’t had to devote a significant portion of our defense investment to this possibility for 25 years, and while I wish it were otherwise, now we do…Today’s security environment is dramatically different from the last 25, requiring new ways of investing and operating.”
Carter’s request for “50% more than last year” to combat ISIS belies America’s support for the scourge it invented and supports. No nation is at war with America. None threaten US security. Carter saying “(w)e…have…to ensure that anyone who starts a conflict with us will regret doing so” ignores reality.
It hasn’t happened in 75 years. No nation anywhere threatens America now. Claiming otherwise is a bald-faced lie – combining fear-mongering with spending trillions of dollars needed for vital domestic needs, ignored for warmaking.
Carter hyping nonexistent “Russian aggression,” China “behaving aggressively,” Iran demonstrating “reckless and destabilizing behavior,” and North Korea posing a regional security and stability threat is pure rubbish – Big Lies pushing the nonexistent need for out-of-control military spending, enormous amounts going for naked aggression against countries threatening no others.
Russia’s Gen. Igor Konashenkov knows quite well what the US military industrial cabal is up to, but the problem is the American public doesn’t.
“The reason is simple – the (annual) discussion of the (US) military budget in Congress for the next year.”
The nonexistent “ ‘Russian threat’ has been the best-selling threat delivered by the Pentagon not only to Congress, but also to NATO partners since the middle of the previous century.”
Pentagon commanders hype it repeatedly, the best way they’re able to get whatever they want, including for boondoggle projects over the years wasting trillions of dollars. So-called “defense spending” is notorious for waste, fraud and abuse.
Sergey Lavrov earlier blasted “the worldview of (America claiming) its right to use force arbitrarily regardless of UN Security Council resolutions or other” legal justification.
America’s permanent war agenda needs invented enemies. Challenging Russia or China militarily is madness – risking humanity ending WW III.
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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