Some surge

[rooth]

"5 years of war, and we live like this?" this is a stinking open sewer outside his house. "Tell the world -- I want the world to know how we live here."
"In my 3 weeks back home in Baghdad, 179 people were killed. And no Baghdadi ever mentioned the surge to me."
"If a cat is confronted by a dog, it gets out its clothes." (wtf?)

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[tarx]

The staggering numbers of homeless catch my notice. Also, 'clothes' is perhaps the only casualty of the narrator's rich accent- he means 'claws'.

I can't help but feel that this is not a grand mistake. It's deliberate. It just serves people who aren't them, and aren't us. It serves industry magnates in the longer view- and to them, it makes no difference who they hurt as long as they benefit from it.

[rooth]

Oh yes, of course: "claws" makes far more sense. It was a perfectly funny quote until you spoiled it with your ... "reason" ... ;)

I agree, though: it feels like too colossal a fuckup to not have been intended to some extent. On the larger scales, humans make for a vicious collective.

[tarx]

Thanks for deleting the double-posted reply. ;D

I usually don't go for conspiracy theories, but on the Iraq War, oil, Afghanistan... I have to look at the U.S. trend of perverted empire. Britain's power has since waned, but over the course of a bit over a century they established a colossal empire that (*comparatively* speaking) incorporated, included and contributed to the welfare of the lands and people they absorbed. The U.S. hasn't had the same finesse. We find a land with assets we want or threats we wish to control, and we find a reason to smash it (usually financially, rarely through open war) and then take what we want from it.

I really think Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan are part of a long-term plan towards a financial, material holding. I don't think that the reasons the American public hears for war have anything to do with the real agenda. But I can't claim to know what the real agenda is, either.