You said, "For all those out there who believe the world is controlled by a select few, I ask this: "Who would ever want the events that have transpired over the last few years to ever happen? Who would want these series of events to happen and then have the TOTAL lack of control over them?"
Time to wake up folks, these events are not controlled, in fact they certainly appear to be out of control......"
I will take a stab at this...
Who would have wanted what has happened the past few years? That is easy but not politically correct and thus would be denied by all involved yet history tends to show economic reasons for most wars and other forms of suffering.
Lets see, Bush warns of looming market crash and impending recession during his initial election campaign based on common sense that we all knew was true (inverted yield curve, stock bubble, high interest rates etc). He gets elected and walks in the door just in time for NASDAQ/Dot.com crash and recession he expected.
Clinton raped the military, moral was low, pay was horrible and due to the end of the cold war, appropriations were stalled leaving us with 50 year old airplanes, eroding military infrastructure and no enemy on the horizon to justify spending to upgrade/modernize fleet. BA was in trouble as were other contractors.
Now looking at this as a forward thinking leader of a superpower and economist, you have a lagging economy and a weakening defense. The "Standard" way to kick start an economy that has no domestic demand is to increase government spending and often this spending is done on defense. (Note BA, NOC, UTX stock prices in 2001 vs now). We find an enemy for global war on terror with no end in sight, we ramp up spending for F-22 Raptor, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, new missiles, smart bombs like JDAM and JASM, JSOW, mini bombs etc and Reagan style trickle down economics can redistribute this money to the masses. War effort enables massive printing of dollars, deficit spending excuse and activating reserves and guard to remove workers from civilian force thus lowering unemployment rate.
It all looked good on paper and has worked to some extent though a "make work" program would have been more effective as the monetary velocity and multiplier effect would have been higher with a domestic spending spree instead of a war effort and would have eliminated the loss of life factor as well but the neocons had other agendas and wanted the middle east. The war approach however kept us from repeating the pre-WW-II military weakness mistake and unified the country at least temporarily against a "common enemy". An old trick as well for unifying masses quickly, simply identify an enemy and rally everyone around that cause ( Nazis vs Jews, Soviets vs greedy capitalists, Democracy vs communists etc.)
It wasn't that bad of an idea on paper probably when they first started it but then it all just got out of control as was already said. This crud happens all the time. Study history and the Japanese were not that unjustified for attacking pearl Harbor considering we were blockading their trade routes. The Germans were not all at fault for sinking civilian ships considering we were sending war supplies to Europe on them ( red cross ships often had tanks and ammo in them as well). A study of history looking at more than the rosy "we never do any wrong" approach shows that the USA often pulls many dirty tricks to lure foreign "evil doers" into actions that are justified to some extent. If we had lost a war and then were told we were not allowed to fly above or below an imaginary line above Missouri or below Kentucky and could only use the middle third of our own country, don't you think we would have been taking pot shots at any enemy planes trying to enforce that "no-fly zone"? We sure would!!! You can't blame Saddam for doing the same.
Why do we care about ethnic cleansing in Bosnia but not in Darfur? Why Kurds but not Tutsis and Hutus? Because we wanted a pipeline through Bosnia and we wanted oil in Iraq but Africa has nothing we need that is in short supply right now. If supplies of tantalum and/or coltan minerals needed by our semi industry were ever to be interrupted, you could bet that we would suddenly be concerned about the wars there and suddenly feel the need to spread democracy there as well.
Anyway, My point is that events leading up to now were likely planned but then those plans just went horribly wrong. The USA is no more evil than any other country but we are not inocent either by any means. We just simply ar ethe largest bully on the block and can get away with the most without repurcussions. As Mel Brooks said, "it is good to be king!" If other countries had our power, they would be doing the same and many try anyway.
Good Luck,
Lee |
