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- The US has established open-ended military presences in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and is now understood to be negotiating with Kazakhstan.... Reacting to reports that the US was about to deploy in Kazakhstan, the chief of the general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, General Fu Quanyou, warned such a move 'poses a direct threat to China's security'.... There is further concern that active support of the US by [these] Muslim countries with nascent Islamic fundamentalist movements serves only to inflame their problems.
(from
US in replay of the 'Great Game')
- 'According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions,' Rumsfeld admitted."
(from
The War on Waste)
- America's finest values are sacrificed to keep bad governments in place, dysfunctional borders intact, and oppressed human beings well-behaved.... Self-examination in the strategic sphere has not been an American strength. Perhaps it is time to make it one....
(from
Stability, America's Enemy by Ralph Peters, a retired US Army lieutenant-colonel)
Why increase war spending by tens of billions of dollars to further threaten our own security? If you like, ContactYourRepresentatives (i know i will); ask them to cease or at least sharpen the focus of our ongoing military actions, reject huge military spending increases, and/or support the DepartmentOfPeace bill.
Thanks to http://www.cursor.org/
for the links.