{"id":362717,"date":"2018-05-25T05:15:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T04:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/perpetual-war-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T05:15:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T04:15:04","slug":"perpetual-war-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/perpetual-war-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetual War – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003, I said, \u201cPut up the yellow ribbons, folks, because Johnny ain\u2019t ever marchin\u2019 home again.\u201d And that was before I knew about the Pentagon\u2019s plan to launch seven wars against seven Middle Eastern nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2007, General Wesley Clark said that after the attacks on 9\/11, the U.S. planned to launch seven wars against seven Middle Eastern countries: Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. I suppose Afghanistan was already assumed to be the eternal home of the U.S. military, and I guess the country of Niger in Northern Africa was thrown in for good measure. And I suppose, too, that the Pentagon doesn\u2019t count<\/span>\u00a0U.S. military assistance of the Saudi Arabian war against Yemen<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

Writing for ZeroHedge.com, Tyler Durden reports:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The fact is that all of these countries, with the exception of Iran, have been the subject of direct or indirect aggression and political pressure from the US and its satellites. There are US military forces that remain stationed in some of them still to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Back in 2008, the RAND Corporation released a lengthy study on America\u2019s \u201clong war.\u201d The study was called,<\/span>\u00a0\u201cUnfolding the Future of the Long War: Motivations, Prospects, and Implications for the U.S. Army.<\/a><\/b>\u201d The report began:<\/p>\n

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The United States is currently engaged in a military effort that has been characterized as the \u201clong war.\u201d The long war has been described by some as an epic struggle against adversaries bent on forming a unified Islamic world to supplant western dominance, while others describe it more narrowly as an extension of the war on terror. But while policymakers, military leaders, and scholars have offered numerous definitions of the long war, no…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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After the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003, I said, \u201cPut up the yellow ribbons, folks, because Johnny ain\u2019t ever marchin\u2019 home again.\u201d And that was before I knew about the Pentagon\u2019s plan to launch seven wars against seven Middle Eastern nations. In 2007, General Wesley Clark said that after the attacks on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}