tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37150897.post7816515709390427134..comments2023-09-23T05:17:52.615-04:00Comments on Rose Covered Glasses: TWO COLLAPSING TOWERS - WALL STREET AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXRoseCovered Glasseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14959248140987830086noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37150897.post-72237136387908002712009-02-14T15:05:00.000-05:002009-02-14T15:05:00.000-05:00Thanks for your brilliant comment on my blog! Than...Thanks for your brilliant comment on my blog! Thanks also for your well thought out take on the MIC. <BR/><BR/>I wish I believed that common sense will prevail and the fools now running our federal government would see the truth in your analysis and reduce the military budget and end the MIC adventures abroad. <BR/><BR/>However, my reading of world history indicates that WHEN AND ONLY WHEN we the people take to the streets and DEMAND REAL CHANGE will it happen. If we the people wait for the idiots in washingtOOn to make that change, while we do nothing to force it, we will never get anything but the short end of the stick.<BR/><BR/>I'm adding your blog to my blogroll...<BR/><BR/>The scientifically impossible I do right away<BR/>The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37150897.post-13296465818062059172008-12-15T17:19:00.000-05:002008-12-15T17:19:00.000-05:00Ken --Thank you for leaving your eloquent comment ...Ken --<BR/><BR/>Thank you for leaving your eloquent comment at the ACLUSA blog. <BR/><BR/>The problem that I see in changing the MIC as we know it is that this way of making weapons and war has been institutionalized, and institutions, by their very nature, will defend their own interests and survival. <BR/><BR/>Also, the MIC needs a reason to exist, it needs to justify its own existence. Therefore, the MIC works tirelessly to identify enemies or threats even if there are none. The intense need to justify itself and its huge share of the federal budget then influences the MIC and makes it perceive things, "see" things, that rationally minded people outside of the MIC do not see. Also, this can lead the MIC to "create" threats. The current Iraq war, the invasion of Panama to oust Noriega (who was on the CIA's payroll), and the Gulf of Tonkin incident are prime examples of the MIC "seeing" things that simply were not there. <BR/><BR/>Then, the MIC works to create an atmosphere of fear to get the public's support. So Dick Cheney talks about the non-existent link between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda; George H.W. Bush explains to the American public that Noriega is a cocaine pusher and murderer of innocent Americans in Panama; and Lyndon Johnson announces how the Vietnamese navy attack the innocent US Navy in the Gulf of Tonkin. All to create fear.<BR/><BR/>We at ACLUSA thank you for your service to the nation, during Vietnam and now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com