The Mamook family, like so many other Armenian families, now straddles the boundaries between the West and the family’s Middle Eastern roots
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It's not malice, it's greed.rainonlevsOctober 11 2007, 18:35:35 UTC
I see the mercenaries in Iraq now as just the latest in the line of work-arounds that the US government has used to keep pushing enormous amounts of taxpayer money into the Military-Industrial complex and their own pockets, while pretending to keep their promises.
For decades there has been the promise that the US would move away from the old world imperialism and towards a new world of peace, freedom and shared prosperity. Instead, when the public has demanded that the Department of War budget get cut, some way is found to publicly reduced spending while increasing spending out of the public eye. The privatizing of intelligence and the military is just the latest aspect of this deception.
So to me it is not that leaders like Bush and Cheney don't care about the horrific consequences of their actions, its just that they care for their profits more. And to be fair, there are not many people standing up in this country these days to say that people should come before profits. As so many echoed for the last several decades, "Greed is Good."
(And if you remove an "o" from that sentence, you'll have a less-spoken, but more acted on truth of the US.)
For decades there has been the promise that the US would move away from the old world imperialism and towards a new world of peace, freedom and shared prosperity. Instead, when the public has demanded that the Department of War budget get cut, some way is found to publicly reduced spending while increasing spending out of the public eye. The privatizing of intelligence and the military is just the latest aspect of this deception.
So to me it is not that leaders like Bush and Cheney don't care about the horrific consequences of their actions, its just that they care for their profits more. And to be fair, there are not many people standing up in this country these days to say that people should come before profits. As so many echoed for the last several decades, "Greed is Good."
(And if you remove an "o" from that sentence, you'll have a less-spoken, but more acted on truth of the US.)
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