The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

[Diarmuid]

Lawrence Wilkerson former chief of staff to Colin Powell - speaks on the wars in AfPak and Iraq, pipelines, oil, incideous unchecked power, collapse of empire and more.

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[Sidewinder]

Thank you - appreciate any and all viewpoints and interpretations of how we got here and fresh perspectives.

Lately I have a bit of a feeling of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmxpftPFXZg
so it is refreshing to have a bit of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY

Perhaps it is just the limited surfing time budget but it seems that the role our military-industrial complex (MIC) has in shaping our future is under-reported - at least on this site - at present.

I cannot help but believe that while the MIC shares some overlap with banksters - it may have goals that are not always in alignment with the bankster community...

P-Cow would be proud of the imaginings this conjures up in this hyperactive imagination... What is happening now? What happens when/if TSHTF? :confused:

SW

[halcyon]

Thank you. Very good material. Highly recommended as a condensed material to everybody new to the following themes:

- US debt, fiscal gap
- US military hegemony
- role of natgas and oil flows (geostrategy)
- wars, humanitarian and fiscal costs
- future of welfare, living standards in the US

Lawrence Wilkerson does - imho - simplify things quite a lot, and he admits as much himself. The breadth of material he covers is wide. Simplification is good for understanding, but not necessarily good in trying to figure out what is the most likely outcome and on what time-frame.

Wilkerson states that the fall of the US empire could take 75 to 100 years, and that it could be really messy. That's a pretty long horizon.

So, if that's the long run in which we're all (at least most) dead, then what is the next 5-15 years going to be like according to Wilkerson? He does not say.

A takeaway quote from the presentation, paraphrasing McCain is:

"The world without American leadership... would be worse than with America as a leader."

Incidentally, many outside US do not believe that and are acting accordingly.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It'll be interesting to see who gets to be corrupted in the next 100 year cycle...