{"id":399953,"date":"2019-03-17T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-match-made-in-hell\/"},"modified":"2019-03-17T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T12:43:11","slug":"a-match-made-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-match-made-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Match Made in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence of the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Dwight Eisenhower\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/ike.htm\">farewell address<\/a>, January 17, 1961<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why exactly does the US government go to war with so many of Israel\u2019s enemies, starting with Iraq?\u00a0 The costs have been enormous, the results horrible, the rewards imperceptible. The Iraq war was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/2018\/01\/30\/u-s-destruction-afghanistan\/\">second<\/a> in a long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/world\/us-nato-invasion-libya-destroyed-country-beyond-all-recognition\">series<\/a> of US invasions, bombings and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/syria-air-strikes-damascus-missiles-bashar-alassad-pictures-images-a8304866.html\">destructions<\/a> of majority-Muslim states.\u00a0 Despite the devastation they cause and the lack of results, the regime change wars show no sign of slowing. How does this happen?<\/p>\n<p>The explanation lies in the MIC and a deeply sinister marriage that has grown between them and Israel.\u00a0 Israel\u2019s wars have become major parts of the MIC\u2019s business plan. Every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/israel-in-large-scale-strike-army-bombs-12-syrian-iranian-targets-1.5806621\">bomb<\/a> Israel drops; every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-us-syria-strike-how-many-missiles-were-fired-2017-2018-4\">missile<\/a> the US fires, every Muslim country the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314\">invades<\/a> makes money for the MIC. Israel receives over $3 billion in military aid from Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/sgp\/crs\/mideast\/RL33222.pdf\">every year<\/a>.\u00a0 Most of this money immediately returns to US military corporations to buy weapons, making Israel a major profit center for them.<\/p>\n<p>By allying with the MIC, Israeli leaders and their militant supporters, who became known as the Neoconservatives set out to reshape the world. The Pentagon and military corporations already had powerful lobbying programs in place. But industry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/03\/a-match-made-in-hell\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence of the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. \u2014 President Dwight Eisenhower\u2019s farewell address, January 17, 1961 Why exactly does the US government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}