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10 April 2006
The Long War...
Twenty years, they're predicting down at the Pentagon. The War on Terror is now "The Long War", and the US has got twenty more years to go on it. This would mean an entire generation will grow up with war on its mind.
Constant war.
We have met Big Brother and he is us.
Limits on freedoms and global, eternal war... sounds just like what the Orwell ordered. Mix in a healthy dose of mindless patriotism, and we're good to go at being a nation of slaves, securing the good life for the top percentage point of the population.
And now I read in a BBC article the US wants to reduce its troop levels in the Middle East below 300,000. 300,000? Well, there's, what, 133,000 in Iraq, thereabouts? Afghanistan's not that much... so was that a typo or honesty?
Never mind, we're in it for a Long War. The amount now is irrelevant. It's going to get lots bigger, but spread thinner around the world.
Watch out.