The Method to the Post 9/11 Madness by David Swanson

The Method to the Post 9/11 Madness

by David Swanson

To your average educated careful consumer of U.S. news media, our militarism looks like ad hoc reactionary responses.  A crisis flairs up here.  We “intervene” there.  An irrational foreign dictator threatens the peace over yonder.  We get into wars because we have no choice, and then continue them because ending them would be somehow even worse than continuing them.
In fact, there is a method to the madness.  I don’t mean just the pressure that President Eisenhower warned us would be created by massive military spending.  I mean that the war planners have planned far ahead.  They have lists of upcoming wars.  (In 2001, according to Wesley Clark, the Pentagon sought wars in the coming years with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.  Tony Blair independently confirmed a similar list.)  They invent the public excuses for those wars as the need arises.  The actual motivations are not humanitarian, but driven by a crazed desire to dominate the world’s economies, waterways, and fossil fuels.http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/09/the-method-to-the-post-911-madness/