60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History

[KoKo]

(Reads like a Thriller on how the AUMF got passed and what happened after Obama's Election and Re-Election--Some new revelations included)

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Written in the frenzied, emotional days after 9/11, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force was intended to give President Bush the ability to retaliate against whoever orchestrated the attacks. But more than 12 years later, this sentence remains the primary legal justification for nearly every covert operation around the world. Here’s how it came to be, and what it’s since come to mean.

Gregory D. Johnsen Michael Hastings Fellow

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[Martin Eden]

3. **he determines**

Those were the 2 most dangerous words

[CrispyQ]

4. +1 -nt

[truedelphi]

5. This style of governing, of endless wars against the peoples of less advantaged

Nations, was once called Empire building.

And back in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, it was sold to the people of Britain as a means of allowing Western medicine, Western education, and Western Christianity to take hold in the "dark world of the primitive savages." If all other arguments failed, there was always the argument that without the spread of civilization and Christianity, these poor people would lose their immortal souls to limbo or the fires of hell.

Of course, behind that "curtain of benevolence," the reality was the impoverished servitude and desperate lives that people lived once Britain extended "her mantle of civilization" to the poor people of the world.

Now it is the USA's turn to "Globalize" the less fortunate. One of the most necessary means to accomplish this Globalization is the TPP. And of course, as the means of Globalization is allowing the Banks to consolidate into three or four main banks, all of which delight in the profits they reap from the illegal endless wars, and from the Privatized Prisons,
and our food stuffs are turned into poisons by addition of HFCS, of MSG, of Gm foods which are containing mold and fungal matters at higher rates than normally seen, we middle class Americans will lose out as well. Of course, we can go out in the streets and protest, but the penalties for doing this are now extreme.

[KoKo]

6. "Empire Building" I remember that phrase...somehow it was "shut down"

somewhere along the way. I forget who coined that word and spoke out against it... so much horrible, gut wrenching stuff has happened I find I scramble for bookmarks and sometimes just can't find the right word to put in a Search Engine to revive the memory.

But...Damn it All...if we aren't EMPIRE BUILDING then what the Hell are we doing Spying on most of the Worlds Population and Rulers (in one way or the other) along with Exporting Arms for Conflicts everywhere we can stick our foot in (because we don't manufacture much of anything anymore except Military/Parts for Military, Drones, and Guns and ENTERTAINMENT/INFOTAINMENT to Export about how Great and Decadent We have become so that we can encourage Other Countries to Follow us!

What the hell do we do here in America Anymore? Where is the GOOD?

[truedelphi]

7. Someone here attacked me for saying that our export situation is

So dismal. But it is true - we don't manufacture that much any more. We used to be the steel capital of the world - if you wanted steel, you got it from the good old USA. Same with cars and agricultural machinery and car parts and ag machinery parts.

Now all we have to offer is weaponry. Which is indeed a big business. But a sad and sorry one.

[KoKo]

8. We send our mining stuff over to China to Export back to us as Steel..

We just had China remake a span of the Golden Gate Bridge in CA... They shipped it over for cheap.

Folks wonder if it will hold up... Who Knows. But, why wasn't it made here in the USA...we ship over there and they make it and send it back. Yet...the oil for transport across the Pacific seems to be cheaper than we pay to fill our automobiles.

yeah...I know...they must have some "fuel efficient ships" to manage to ship all that weight of good to Walmart and Construction Projects across the USA to Pacific and from China back to USA...so I should just not question it.

[Enthusiast]

9. We should never question.

[Enthusiast]

10. Anyone that attacked you for saying our export situation is dismal is

not playing with a full deck. Our export situation is dismal and more trade deals will not correct it.

[truedelphi]

11. Thanks Enthusiast.

I can use some encouragement - the electricity is out in HALF the house today.

[Enthusiast]

12. Being without power is terrible.

We lost power for three days straight two years ago.