by War is big business, and some people are making a ton of money out of it and don't want it to end. David Swanson says that the discussion he is having here with Rick Sanchez would never occur on mainstream television, or in the rest of the media, where it is blacked out.Two thirds of the military in Afghanistan are private contractors. The generals get to eat the best steak and drink the best wine while Afghans get pounded and U.S. troops die.The U.S. got Bin Laden a long time ago where they killed a lot of people trying to get him, but the Afgans who lost family members picked up arms to fight the U.S. to get them out of their country, and so it continues indefinitely with a new generation now doing the fighting. [embedded content] Rick Sanchez discusses a recent decimating attack that
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Two thirds of the military in Afghanistan are private contractors. The generals get to eat the best steak and drink the best wine while Afghans get pounded and U.S. troops die.
The U.S. got Bin Laden a long time ago where they killed a lot of people trying to get him, but the Afgans who lost family members picked up arms to fight the U.S. to get them out of their country, and so it continues indefinitely with a new generation now doing the fighting.
Rick Sanchez discusses a recent decimating attack that wiped out an entire company of Afghan Security Forces, part of a consistent pattern of the retreat of US and its proxies in the face of a resurgent Taliban. He reports on the grotesque reason for continuing US presence in Afghanistan – that no matter the death and suffering in the conflict, US military contractors and the politicians in their pocket make millions of dollars in blood money. In this “privatized war,” there are twice as many military contractors as there are soldiers. He is then joined by activist, author and journalist David Swanson, who argues that the real enemy is “the institution of war” and not the supposed “bad guys” designated by any government.