Depends on who you look at.
Some are, unfortunately, or coincidentally, profiting handsomely
If you follow the money, over the next decade or so a trillion or more is suddenly being mobilized in the direction of arms sales, bioweapons defense, and oil deals.
If you follow political profit, the Executive Branch suddenly becomes:
#1 - Much more powerful
#2 - Much more secret and not responsive to the American people
All of which means a much more autocratic government.
If it were purposeful, it would have been an excellent investment. Good thing it wasn't purposeful.
There was the unpleasant matter of "blowback", however, which is an unintended consequence, a coincidental result, of things like the children's schoolbooks sent by the millions to Afghanistan to steep a whole generation in the arts of warfare and death... Ostensibly to fight the Soviet Union. Too damn bad it was the most horrendous type of spook activity, that should generate a criminal investigation immediately before the spooks that were involved get a chance to hide, and that no American would tolerate, let alone condone.
George Bush Senior was in the administration when that program was developed.
Did he make a bad investment, too? |
