03.07.12
The Forever War
At Secrecy blog Steve Aftergood has posted the testimony of William McRaven, overall commander of global US Special Operations.
Appearing before the Senate Armed Services committee, McRaven emitted statements that with only a little translation, perfectly encapsulate the American strategy of Bombing Paupers.
As Al Qaeda and other extremist organizations attempt to franchise their ideology and violence globally, we will likely remain engaged against violent extremist networks for the foreseeable future.
Newspeak translation: We now operate under a mandate to attack trivial collections of people who we deem to be potentially annoying in the destitute places of the world from now until whenever.
“The direct approach is characterized by technologically-enabled small-unit precision lethality, focused intelligence, and interagency cooperation integrated on a digitally-networked battlefield…. Extreme in risk, precise in execution and able to deliver a high payoff, the impacts of the direct approach are immediate, visible to the public and have had tremendous effects on our enemies’ networks throughout the decade,” reads another bit from the testimony at Secrecy blog.
Put another way, it’s the focused application of killing technology and wealth against those who have none, a bottom global class with different skin color and religion which cannot threaten the country’s existence but inclusive of some miscellaneous bad people. None of whom we can abide. And all because of one very bad day a decade ago.
Word cloud funny appropriate to text and generated for this post, mirrored at GlobalSecurity.
