The US war on terror in Viet-Stan is good business,as long as the profits outweigh the costs then the MIC is happy.The only problem at the moment is the Pakistani unpredictability ,but what the hell you can’t have it all.One day the US will pull out ,but then they’ll be pulling in elsewhere,perhaps Sudan/Somalia ,but Venezuela is probably the juiciest morsel on the menu,after all we gotta keep the terrorists at bay ,oh and don’t forget the war on drugs.

The most modest option calls for deploying an additional 10,000 to 15,000 troops. While under consideration at the White House, the proposal holds little merit for military planners because, after building bases to accommodate 10,000 or so additional soldiers and Marines, the marginal cost of adding troops beyond that figure would rise only slightly. WP 11/12/09

Notice the deceptive language:  “most modest” (as though all proposals are “modest” and this is the “most modest” one!  ...“holds little merit for military planners” (as though they (sitting in think tanks in Washington or at the Pentagon) deserve primary consideration) ...“marginal cost of adding troops beyond (10-20,000) .. (how many billions of dollars?  And how many ruined or lost lives is “marginal cost”)?  And again:  ” (Costs) would rise only slightly.” Cost of buildings or cost of soldiers’ lives?  And lives of others killed will rise only slightly” and be only “slightly” destroyed?
  This kind of unconscious (?) disregard for the meaning of language is one of the huge danger signals that haunts us these days.  It’s a stark reminder of Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal” that skewered the British with sarcasm:  (To get rid of the “Irish Problem” the British should just butcher and eat Irish children.)
  It would seem we are near the borderlands of insanity. Keep cool. Think deep. Speak carefully Act wisely. Hang onto a rock and help slow the current.

Obama has been mulling over a crucial decision; how to escalate the Afpak war and get the media to pesent it as a non-escalation or de-escalation.  this is an extremely important public relations problem, estential to the solving of his most important political problem, winning the next election.  We therefore have to be patient until his advisors contrive an Explanation for his action.  I’m sure it will be wonderful.

How about obeying our own Constitution? And taking our own deficit talk seriously? Obama should go to the Congress and ask for a declaration of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and votes for a draft and the taxes to pay for it! No division of the questions (“Yes” to war; “No,” to draft and/or taxes) should be accepted by him. If no taxes are raised, he should begin rapid withdrawal.

My fervent hope, of course, is that the Congress of Cowards would not vote for these things.

Thank God ... finally a voice of reason and caution arises.  I can just imagine the pandemonium at the Pentagon when these memos surfaced.  I just hope Obama finally finds the balls to make the right decision.  This guy deserves the Nobel Peace Prize ... I wonder if they can change the decision at this late date?

The war is absolute folly. Sponsored by the military industrial complex to further exploit the American people who do not want war but are powerless because their representatives (except a few) have betrayed them.

The empire is falling and that is good news.

Captain Aldo.  TheLuminousCompass.com