My first point is that Korea is still a shooting match. Our Dept of "Defense" should not be shouldering the load for the prosperous South Koreans. The North is maintaining an aggressive stance because 50,000 Americans are posted there by will of the Commander-in-Chief. The next president can withdraw them with a single stroke of a pen, if he has the cojones, which he won't.

Because @7Etienne Gervaise mentioned what the purpose of homeland security when the US already has a Department of Defence which is pointless as we already have FBI investigators that were doing just fine and were blocked to investigating clear terror leads leading up to 9/11 or the fact that homeland security is in the hand of an Israel/US citizen who used his authority release 5 Mossad agents arrested by NYC police with possible connections to the 9/11 attacks.

So the point is we are going on a global military crusade fighting a fictitious enemy.

Many years ago I read By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky, a Russian who moved to Israel and joined Mossad. He talked about Canadian passports, and how some printer ran off 10,000 blanks which got distributed. Apparently the 9/11 bombers were using them. I suspect a Jewish connection also because of the arrest of suspects watching the show from Hoboken who declared that we're all Israelis now!

He also mentioned that top members of Mossad are homosexuals. We'll never be told the entire truth, so you're right.

We can't even get a proper investigation into 9/11.
The report omitted the fact that Mohammed Atta attended US military bases while in Florida, had email contacts with private defence companies or the flight school he attended was run by a CIA flight instructor.

Also the supposed “Islamic militant” was snorting coke and drinking according to eyewitnesses and interview with his girlfriend.
Daniel Hopsicker actually done what the US media does not investigative journalism

http://www.madcowprod.com/06122007.html

No one seems to report the fact that he was recruited by German intelligence with contacts in the Czech Republic and US intelligence and MI6 to fight in Chechnya NWO’s proxy war against Russia just like they did to Serbia in Kosovo in the 90’s.

Which of course begs the question: if we have a Department of Defense, then why do we also need a Department of Homeland Security? Perhaps the former can go back to its old name The Department of War. Coming to think of it let's call it the Ministry of Peace as some starry-eyed liberals wish, and DHS can become the Ministry of Love.

In the American experience, generals constantly seek to validate and legitimize the needs of the military. This was achieved beyond their wildest dreams with the Global War on Terror. Now, we see certain military leaders who openly collude with administration officials; we see the use of "talking points" and media "shaping"--all tactics of military information operations--used on the American people; we see Army doctrine revolutionized to accommodate the chimera of, "stabilizing destabilized nations."

Military leaders have no interest in cutting commitments because it will jeopardize their funding and legitimacy. In war, generals are Gods. In peace, they are merely pesky technocrats.

I am afraid that the War on Terror affords too many benefits for both government and military. Henceforth, the this new American estate will take precedence over the average citizen.

You will starve before the government enervates this vehicle of national power.

But the US is talking about the militarising outer space continuing Reagans Star Wars space program to a whole new level total global supremacy.

We can dream.. But maybe Obama will be able to do what George Bush wanted to do but never could: Criminalise all opposition and create a youth movement of fanatics with unswerving loyalty to the prophet of neoconservatism made flesh (as Wilson's latest makes clear).

"A strategic anachronism five decades old would thus be finally ended."

America will certainly resist that for as long as possible. Can't have another rival power of uncertain loyalty trading with China i.e. a potential for new east/west conflict..

But than again, that's entirely the point isn't it Trifkovic?

And I for one would approve of this. Russia has given NATO a bloody nose in the recent Caucasus scuffle and once again saved Georgians from themselves. And not a moment too soon either. The sight of a country acting in their own interests makes the Anointed Ones howl with indignation. But they can howl all they want, Russia is liberated now and is no longer a test bed for evil social experiments.