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A section of the current $690 billion Defense Appropriation bill referred to as the "Authorization for the Use of Military Force" will permit the president to wage war against anyone anywhere without any specific approval by congress, an expansion of the executive authority authorized by the legislature to pursue al-Qaeda which was granted in the aftermath of 9/11. Only it no longer has to be al-Qaeda and, given the elasticity in the definition of the enemy, it means that the war on terror will go on forever. Any group or even individual will do to keep the global conflict going. The head of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano believes that the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba is "an equal danger to (sic) al-Qaeda," while former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage has named Hezbollah as the "A team" of terrorists. The fact that neither group actually threatens the United States appears to be irrelevant. Congressman Buck McKeon, the drafter of the relevant section of the appropriation bill, has said "the threats posed by al-Qaeda cells in Yemen and Africa underscore the evolving and continuing nature of the terrorist threat to the United States." (for the record, buck is a republican so this is a 2 party disaster)
We Americans have to decide what kind of country we want to have. Chalmers Johnson summarized the dilemma. "A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship."
before the next election, americans have to analyze every single candidate and see which candidate is looking out for them. this is all about appropriating our money for their interests, just as the bailouts did.
A section of the current $690 billion Defense Appropriation bill referred to as the "Authorization for the Use of Military Force" will permit the president to wage war against anyone anywhere without any specific approval by congress, an expansion of the executive authority authorized by the legislature to pursue al-Qaeda which was granted in the aftermath of 9/11. Only it no longer has to be al-Qaeda and, given the elasticity in the definition of the enemy, it means that the war on terror will go on forever. Any group or even individual will do to keep the global conflict going. The head of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano believes that the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba is "an equal danger to (sic) al-Qaeda," while former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage has named Hezbollah as the "A team" of terrorists. The fact that neither group actually threatens the United States appears to be irrelevant. Congressman Buck McKeon, the drafter of the relevant section of the appropriation bill, has said "the threats posed by al-Qaeda cells in Yemen and Africa underscore the evolving and continuing nature of the terrorist threat to the United States." (for the record, buck is a republican so this is a 2 party disaster)
We Americans have to decide what kind of country we want to have. Chalmers Johnson summarized the dilemma. "A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship."
before the next election, americans have to analyze every single candidate and see which candidate is looking out for them. this is all about appropriating our money for their interests, just as the bailouts did.
That's impossible because Obama is the peace prize man.
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