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Paul Craig Robert's must-read article, The Road to Armageddon is well-written, informative, full of wit and sound logic. He states:
As I write, the U.S. government is purchasing the agreement of foreign governments that border Russia to accept U.S. missile interceptor bases. The U.S. intends to ring Russia with U.S. missile bases from Poland through central Europe and Kosovo to Georgia, Azerbaijan and central Asia. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke declared on February 20 that al Qaida is moving into former central Asian constituent parts of the Soviet Union, such as Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan. Holbrooke is soliciting U.S. bases in these former Soviet republics under the guise of the ever-expanding “war on terror.”
The U.S. has already encircled Iran with military bases. The U.S. government intends to neutralize China by seizing control over the Middle East and cutting China off from oil.
Reading that totally stressed me. The last thing I want is for my four boys to become soldiers fighting huge, unnecessary wars.
I am not an expert in the potential effects of nuclear war but my father was. He had several degrees in engineering including an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. He worked for the Navy Department as a civilian for more than thirty years and had top-secret security clearance. Early in his career he helped design and engineer the first nuclear submarine. For another project he had to calculate the radiation leakage in a nuclear reactor plant using a slide rule.
He told me several times that there were many people in government who not only endorsed nuclear war but felt it was winnable.
Of course he disagreed entirely. He said that if we ever have global nuclear war, most humans who weren't lucky enough to die in the initial blasts would suffer subsequent deaths by radiation poisoning. Even worse, he believed a global war would kick up too much radioactive dust into the atmosphere that would circle the planet and destroy the soil for decades. Surviving humans wouldn't be able to grow safe food and would eventually die.
No wonder Bill Gates funded the Doomsday Seed Vault. No wonder President Eisenhower warned us against the military industrial complex.
Even if anyone lived, most of the world's knowledge and manufacturing capabilities would be lost. Human progress would take a major setback. Anyone who endorses such a war must have no interest in the happiness and welfare of their posterity.
I totally agree with Dr. Roberts that the neocon thinking and strategy is senseless. Bloodthirsty, greedy war machines are never satisfied—they never get enough war. To them it isn't enough that the United States wages unconstitutional wars against Middle Eastern nations of farmers and goat herders.
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