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Disappointed that Rand spoke of the Iraqi invasion but didn’t mention that Saddam switching oil sales from dollar to euro was the major cause of war or that article to declare war with Iraq were drafted well before 9/11 took place.
Petrodollar system?…if you knew about a little bit more,we are fighting just one war now days and it is in Afghanistan…name all those oil companies than you can find in Afghanistan…do your research before you start writing about it…
Before we go any further, I have a few serious questions for you:
Did you serve? If so, where; Iraq, Afghanistan, both or other?
Do you know what a petrodollar is? Source
Do you know what the World’s Reserve Currency is? Source 1 2
Do you know what a fiat currency is? Source 1 2
Do you know what the Federal Reserve is? Source
Do you know how the Federal Reserve profits from printing US “dollars”? Source 1 2
Do you know how the Federal Reserve profits from other nations having to exchange their money into dollars and pay a fee on that exchange in order to partake in trade for goods, like Oil? Source
Did you know America had plans to invade Iraq as early as 1999? Source 1 2
Did you know Iraq tried to leave the “dollar standard” for oil transactions and sell in Euros? Source
Did you know that we still have American bodies in Iraq? The “war”, which was undeclared, may technically be over, but America is still spending money to patrol Iraq. Source
Did you know that we don’t really plan on leaving Afghanistan anytime soon? Source
Did you know that Afghanistan has trillions of dollars in natural resources? Source
Do you know what the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline is? Source
Do you know that since America took over Afghanistan, their opium production has sky rocketed? Source
Do you know what countries have serious issues with opium? Russia, China and Iran. Guess which countries are dead locked in proxy wars and economic wars over resources like oil, reserve currency and gold with the United States? China, Russia, Iran. (Proxy War Source 1 2 3) (Opium Source 1 2 3)
Do you know Iran has started to sieze selling oil in “dollars” and is now selling oil in exchange for gold? Source
Do you know that Libya tried to do the same thing as Iran and move to a gold standard right before America backed al Qaeda with weapons and money to over throw that government? Source
Do you know that America is backing the same terrorists in Syria that we fought in Afghanistan and Iraq? Source
Do you know that Russia is backing the opposing forces because Syria is the only port-country that is allied with Russia? Source
Do you know that America is helping France with a “war” in Mali? Source
Do you know that China has been working very hard to peacefully obtain contracts and rights to the vast resources of Africa? Oil, gold, Uranium and more? Source 1 2
Do you know that Mali is loaded with natural resources? Source
So ask yourself, why is your government backing the same “terrorist” groups that they sent you into Iraq and Afghanistan to kill? Why is the gov’t using American troops to help overthrow governments and secure natural resources as well as banking power over other nations? Why are we risking the lives of Americans for the interests of banks and corporations? You think that Iran’s main threat to America and Israel is military? It’s not. It’s monetary.
All of these wars, they aren’t just. They aren’t for justice. They are for currency and resource domination. They are to ensure that American banks and corporations and the “dollar” remain in charge.
At first, this puzzle seems vast and complex, but once you “follow the money” and learn about such terms as Reserve Currency, Petrodollar and how the Federal Reserve and other central banks operate and use fiat currency and how there’s a policy in place to overthrow any government that opposes that system, you start to paint a picture of why we fight the wars that we fight.
Hopefully this was a good learning experience for you and perhaps next time you won’t accuse me of foreign policy ignorance when it’s actually you who is ignorant of our policies and systems.
- Sha
loaded-for-bear reblogged your post: We still have a military draft in America
I am from a middle class family. My parents could easily have paid for my education. I joined the Army instead. Now the government is paying for my education. At a very prestigious school I might add.
You may think we don’t have a choice in the matter, but we do. To say that Americans were forced to join the military is a logical fallacy. There are plenty of other options to cure desperate situations. Why do you think they turn to robbing liquor stores?
In the end, it wasn’t a trap. In fact, I am better off now than I was when I graduated high school. And don’t make it sound so terrible. The military is a great institution. You take a kid off the streets and instantly he is surrounded by role models. People that he can relate to.
And you think we join because we don’t have another way to work or pay for school? I don’t think you realize how patriotic service-members are. It sounds like the only ones you know probably came from IVAW or Operation Winter Soldier.
Suicide mission? Really? You talk like we’re back in WW1 charging trenches. The blue to red KIA ratio is entirely disproportionate.
Last thing, I don’t want your sympathy. I may not have known what I was getting myself into, but I knew where I would end up. And believe it or not, I am ok with that.
Cool, but your circumstances don’t refute the overall fact that the poor are targeted as recruits: http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/newspaper/vol-6-no-10/the-economic-draft-and-the.html
And I never said no one has a choice, everyone has a choice, it just so happens that the choice of joining the military is the most attractive to many. There is no logical fallacy here, it’s simple economics, the gains from joining the military (free college, above average pay) is more attractive than the alternative for many 17 and 18 year olds who are just coming out of high school (some of which who don’t have the grades, money or connivance of going to college).
“You take a kid off the streets and instantly he is surrounded by role models.” No, he’s surrounded by power hungry authoritarians that spend months breaking your will and turning you into an obedient organic weapon and telling you that you are better for it. They rewire your brain function to not question and to only obey. You are not taught to think freely, you are taught to think intelligently within their bandwidth.
I don’t doubt that many are patriotic, I’m patriotic, too. I just don’t advocate mindlessly doing the bidding of others and killing people simply because someone else told me I should kill them. Murder is not patriotic.
Can you even give me a justification for why we are in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, etc? You really think those people are a threat to America? You sound like you’ve been there, tell me, do they have the means of attacking and invading America? They live in clay huts, farm goats, smoke drugs and pray all day. Some of them don’t even know what 9/11 is. We aren’t there for “justice”. If you think that’s the case, you’re delusional.
Yes, it’s a suicide mission. You are willingly entering a War Zone where people are actively shooting at you. There have been 2,000+ deaths in Afghanistan and 4,000+ deaths in Iraq. That’s over 6,000 dead soldiers in 10 years. I don’t know about you, but when’s the last time an accountant died from punching in numbers? Military service is a hazardous occupation, to deny as much is idiotic not patriotic.
