Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, gives us his thoroughly unvarnished take on the history of our twenty-year debacle in Afghanistan. Then, we are joined by Jacob Wilson, cofounder of Congressional Progressive Staff Association an organization devoted to drawing congressional staff from the ranks of civic activists, organizers, faith leaders, and people from the labor movement in order to bring fresh, bold, progressive ideas directly into Congress members’ offices.
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The most important point was quickly glossed over: The half of the US discretionary budget that funds perpetual war is NOT for defense, NOR promoting democracy around the world NOR any other of lame justifications but, rather, mainly for profits of corporate arms makers (with a little for off-budget CIA income and comprehensive surveillance systems.) This from the cosmically hypocritical, self-avowed “culture of life.” THIS is the origin of the societal rot of all-encompassing, terminal corruption.
Ashraf Ghani the “incorruptible”… The World Bank-trained neoliberal technocrat who brokered a mineral processing permit between his brother and a US defense contractor and then stole $169 million when he fled the country. Haha, yeah right. The US doesn’t select incorruptibles for its puppet governments, they are corrupt by definition.
It’s simple Congress should not finance any more endless wars.
The government of the United States should be helping those that are in need not the millionaires billionaires etc. they don’t need government assistance.