Getting out of just one foreign war could fix all the US states' budget deficits. If the math is that simple, the politics should be
Amy Goodman
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 March 2011
"Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Idaho ... these are the latest fronts in the battle of budgets, with the larger fight over a potential shutdown of the US government looming. These fights, radiating out from the occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol building, are occurring against the backdrop of the two wars waged by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. No discussion or debate over budgets, over wages and pensions, over deficits, should happen without a clear presentation of the costs of these wars – and the incalculable benefits that ending them would bring.....
Yet, the US continues to pour money and troops into these endless wars. Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings, whose reporting exposed the crass behaviour of General Stanley McChrystal, has just exposed what he calls an illegal operation run by Lt Gen William Caldwell in Afghanistan, in which a US Army "psy-ops" operation was mounted against US senators and other visiting dignitaries in order to win support and more funding. One of Hastings' military sources quoted Caldwell as saying: "How do we get these guys to give us more people? … What do I have to plant inside their heads?"......"
Amy Goodman
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 March 2011
"Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Idaho ... these are the latest fronts in the battle of budgets, with the larger fight over a potential shutdown of the US government looming. These fights, radiating out from the occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol building, are occurring against the backdrop of the two wars waged by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. No discussion or debate over budgets, over wages and pensions, over deficits, should happen without a clear presentation of the costs of these wars – and the incalculable benefits that ending them would bring.....
Yet, the US continues to pour money and troops into these endless wars. Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings, whose reporting exposed the crass behaviour of General Stanley McChrystal, has just exposed what he calls an illegal operation run by Lt Gen William Caldwell in Afghanistan, in which a US Army "psy-ops" operation was mounted against US senators and other visiting dignitaries in order to win support and more funding. One of Hastings' military sources quoted Caldwell as saying: "How do we get these guys to give us more people? … What do I have to plant inside their heads?"......"
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