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Catch 22 again

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A new approach to solving the US foreign problems is to use a method from the novel by Joseph Heller "Catch 22".
One of the schemes hatched by the corrupt mess officer Milo Minderbinder is to contract missions for the Germans, fighting on both sides in the battle at Orvieto, and bombing his own squadron at Pianosa. At one point Minderbinder orders his fleet of aircraft to attack the American base where he lives, killing many American officers and enlisted men.
The reason for this is the good profit to be made from this.
So I suggest that the US armed forces should be contracted by the military industrial complex to bomb America.
This would ensure the thriving industry would have a continued demand and make big profits..
It could also be subcontracted to Isis,Alquieda and any other anti US terror group, saving them the need to do it themselves.
It would bring peace to the rest of the World, which would no longer have the US invading them and killing their citizens as "collateral" damage.
It would cause alarm to the US citizens at the receiving end of the bombing but the economy would be on the upturn and they would all have jobs, new cars and be able to afford a house.
Posted by Robert LePage, Friday, 9 October 2015 1:27:54 PM
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I think you might be on to something there...
Posted by Armchair Critic, Friday, 9 October 2015 2:50:49 PM
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“The war, therefore if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that the hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word "war," therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that is exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and has been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This--although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense--is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE.”

- 1984, George Orwell
Posted by Toni Lavis, Friday, 9 October 2015 4:09:09 PM
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The war in Iraq is because of ..of.. um..9/11. That was a Jewish -Pentagon-Bush profit-centre election scheme kick-butt . ISIS is buying Russian enriched dirty yellow cake , which may really boost Wall street military complexes.
Posted by nicknamenick, Friday, 9 October 2015 8:12:17 PM
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Nickname nick

If you mean by your comment that the twin towers atrocity was
Carried out by America to get George Bush reelected,
Then how do you explain the fact that Osama Binladen sent videos
To Al Jazerra television with himself claiming he masterminded and financed
The attack on the twin towers.

He also at this time using his al qeuda fellow terrorists started the trend of cutting
Peoples throats on public television. The screaming as they cut one blokes throat was so horrific that the scene was edited from the public.

I think people who start believing in American conspiracy theory's because it suits their ideological set of beliefs have very short memories.
Posted by CHERFUL, Friday, 9 October 2015 9:35:37 PM
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Robert Le Page

I disagree with your suggestion that America is profiting
By waging war. In Fact it is costing billions and billions of dollars
To wage war, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were a disaster in regard
To the billions of dollars wasted that could have been spent
At home in America. Maybe if America had taken territorial spoils and seized
The Iraqi oils wells instead of handing them back to the Iraqi government
Then maybe you could say they benefitted from the territorial spoils of war but this was
Not the case.

This why I say America Australia and Europe should have nothing to do with the United nations. We are always the ones that have to pay the biggest price in trying to be the World policeman. Normally wars and that includes civil wars are fought over control of territory,(countries)
And rich territorial resources like oil. The West spends billions on war but in trying to be a United Nations goodie two shoes, doesn't even get to keep the oil wells.
Now where's the good side of the deal for the West in forking out billions and blowing up billion dollar bombs and missiles and then not getting to keep the territorial spoils.
Not to mention the dying of our young fit sons and daughters.
Posted by CHERFUL, Friday, 9 October 2015 10:08:19 PM
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