{"id":31690,"date":"2018-02-28T06:37:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31690"},"modified":"2018-02-28T06:37:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T11:37:21","slug":"why-one-war-when-we-can-have-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31690","title":{"rendered":"Why One War When We Can Have Two!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WHY ONE WAR WHEN WE CAN HAVE TWO!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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`We will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists, but great-power competition \u2013 not terrorism \u2013 is now the primary focus of US national security.\u2019\u00a0 Henceforth Russia and China will be America\u2019s main enemies, with Iran and North Korea thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n

So declared US Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, last week in a statement of profound importance for the world.<\/p>\n

For the past seventeen years, the US military has been laying waste to the Muslim world in the faux `war on terrorism.\u2019\u00a0 Afghanistan, Iraq, much of Syria, Somalia, Pakistan \u2013 all have been heavily bombed. US B-52\u2019s and B-1 heavy bombers have tried to pound those resisting American \u2018guidance\u2019 into submission.<\/p>\n

In Afghanistan, America\u2019s longest war, President Donald Trump ordered a doubling of bombing against Taliban forces battling US occupation.\u00a0 Now, the US is running very low on bombs, guided munitions and even air-to-air missiles for some reason.\u00a0 Stores of munitions are being rushed from the US Pacific command to the Mideast.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the US is fast running out of Muslim targets to bomb, now that the bogeyman ISIS has vanished into thin air and US air attacks in Syria are being minimized for fear of clashing with Russia.\u00a0 Iran still remains on the US potential hit list.<\/p>\n

Which brings us back to General \u2018Mad Dog\u2019 Mattis.\u00a0 He is quite right that so-called terrorists (that\u2019s anyone who actively opposes the Lex Americana) pose no real life or death threat to the US mainland.<\/p>\n

But if so, how then to maintain the $1 trillion US military budget?\u00a0 Well, of course, trot out those good old \u2018Reds Under Our Beds.\u2019\u00a0 Actually, the Pentagon has been planning a new war with China for the past three years, a mainly air and naval conflict to dominate China\u2019s coasts and seas.<\/p>\n

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