{"id":35924,"date":"2018-07-12T07:14:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35924"},"modified":"2018-07-12T07:14:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T12:14:30","slug":"there-is-no-end-in-sight-army-major-warns-of-perpetual-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35924","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There Is No End In Sight&#8221; Army Major Warns Of &#8220;Perpetual War&#8221; On Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-07-11\/there-no-end-sight-army-major-warns-perpetual-war-terror\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8220;There Is No End In Sight&#8221; Army Major Warns Of &#8220;Perpetual War&#8221; On Terror<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1195\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1195\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Cutting through the haze of humanitarian bullshit and liberation,\u00a0 West Point graduate and author Major Danny Sjursen told &#8216;Watching The Hawks&#8217; that <strong>the War on Terror is a \u201cbattle for basic hegemony in the Middle East\u201d, warning that it may go on indefinitely<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/5b3fa24afc7e93672f8b45b9.jpg?itok=7SNJHH1D\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/5b3fa24afc7e93672f8b45b9.jpg?itok=7SNJHH1D\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/5b3fa24afc7e93672f8b45b9.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/5b3fa24afc7e93672f8b45b9.jpg?itok=7SNJHH1D 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b47623fd-d1c7-4d00-8ff9-90e40638b576\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the brief but eye-opening interview, Sjursen calls the US\u2019 now 17-year War on Terror<strong>\u00a0\u201cunprecedented in American history,&#8221; <\/strong>noting that soon kids who were born after 9\/11 will be joining the military.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid291484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/juPlOlBDGGI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sjursen called the War on Terror a misnomer.\u00a0<strong><em>\u201cHow do you fight a war against a tactic. Terrorism is a tactic,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>he asked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhat it really has been, in my opinion, is a war for basic hegemony in the Middle East,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Sjursen said.<\/p>\n<p>He believes that even though some of it may be backed by humanitarian impulses,\u00a0<em>\u201cI don\u2019t suspect that the government necessarily fights just for oil or whatever the different conspiracies [are].\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThe War on Terror, as far as I see it, is potentially perpetual. There is no end in sight,\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p>Calling for a teaching of the mistakes from the\u00a0<em>\u201cmessy history\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of the US misadventure in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sjursen warned that <strong>the US is\u00a0<em>\u201capt to repeat\u201d<\/em>\u00a0these mistakes\u00a0<em>\u201cwhether it\u2019s in Iran, whether it\u2019s in West Africa.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201c<strong>American soldiers are dying countries Americans can\u2019t pronounce, they can\u2019t find on the map,<\/strong> and part of the problem and part of the reason for that they aren\u2019t really educated on this.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sjursen called for the War on Terror to be taught in schools<\/strong> and for honest and critical conversations to be had publicly in order <strong><em>to educate the average American on it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There Is No End In Sight&#8221; Army Major Warns Of &#8220;Perpetual War&#8221; On Terror Cutting through the haze of humanitarian bullshit and liberation,\u00a0 West Point graduate and author Major Danny Sjursen told &#8216;Watching The Hawks&#8217; that the War on Terror is a \u201cbattle for basic hegemony in the Middle East\u201d, warning that it may go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20874,522,1040,862,864,4318],"class_list":["post-35924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-major-danny-sjursen","tag-middle-east","tag-perpetual-war","tag-war","tag-war-on-terror","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35925,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35924\/revisions\/35925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}