WAR ON TERROR: Conveyor belt for corporate welfare masquerading as funding for national security
As the final [day] counts down to the US election one can look at the past few years and be deeply disappointed at the country's approach to national security.
Rather than count off every single well-publicized major gaffe and fiasco, it's possible to list more minor things which, when taken together, indicate the country essentially as leaderless and adrift at sea as it is in everything else.
The first example is in the use of the war on terror as a continuous conveyor belt delivering corporate welfare.
Your host then proceeds to the run through, taken from the money train that is funding for defense against bioterrorism.
Since 9/11, every (and that's every) public government and paid-for-by-the-government threat assessment on al Qaeda or jihadi bioterror capability has been spectacularly wrong. To this writer's knowledge, none has ever been corrected. And none of the many assorted experts, analysts and technicians responsible for this empty work has been shown the door. There's no penalty for being wrong all the time.
It's one of the single worst sins practiced by the American government during the last few years. In using "experts" to peddle fear of jihadi WMD capabilities, it has been wrong a staggering 100 percent of the time.
DD is dead serious. It is an atrocity committed against common sense and reasonableness. And it has had a strong negative effective on national policy, our attitudes about the nature of the enemy, the way others see us, and for average Americans who have been so poorly informed, their fears stoked by an unscrupulous and rotten system, largely for the sake of taxpayer dollars, business and political agendas.
Next to losing a quarter of the value of your 401(k) in the last month, this is pretty dry.
Nevertheless, you can read the rest of the analysis here at el Reg.
"Dick Destiny you've hit it on the head ..." comments one reader. "Just more far left liberal drivel," counters another.
Just another day in the formerly good ol' USA.
As the final [day] counts down to the US election one can look at the past few years and be deeply disappointed at the country's approach to national security.
Rather than count off every single well-publicized major gaffe and fiasco, it's possible to list more minor things which, when taken together, indicate the country essentially as leaderless and adrift at sea as it is in everything else.
The first example is in the use of the war on terror as a continuous conveyor belt delivering corporate welfare.
Your host then proceeds to the run through, taken from the money train that is funding for defense against bioterrorism.
Since 9/11, every (and that's every) public government and paid-for-by-the-government threat assessment on al Qaeda or jihadi bioterror capability has been spectacularly wrong. To this writer's knowledge, none has ever been corrected. And none of the many assorted experts, analysts and technicians responsible for this empty work has been shown the door. There's no penalty for being wrong all the time.
It's one of the single worst sins practiced by the American government during the last few years. In using "experts" to peddle fear of jihadi WMD capabilities, it has been wrong a staggering 100 percent of the time.
DD is dead serious. It is an atrocity committed against common sense and reasonableness. And it has had a strong negative effective on national policy, our attitudes about the nature of the enemy, the way others see us, and for average Americans who have been so poorly informed, their fears stoked by an unscrupulous and rotten system, largely for the sake of taxpayer dollars, business and political agendas.
Next to losing a quarter of the value of your 401(k) in the last month, this is pretty dry.
Nevertheless, you can read the rest of the analysis here at el Reg.
"Dick Destiny you've hit it on the head ..." comments one reader. "Just more far left liberal drivel," counters another.
Just another day in the formerly good ol' USA.
posted by George Smith at 12:27 PM
2 Comments:
Technically, I think that B&V contract is going toward the Biological Threat Reduction Program, part of CTR, and is more along the lines of biosecurity of laboratories in the former Soviet Union states. You don't need a PhD in biology or years of experience in terrorism to administer laboratories and help them keep their cultures safe. But I could be wrong.
It sure helps if you want to keep your scientists happy.
I'll stick with the opine that no one would be the worse for wear if there was no money for Black & Veatch to do this.
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