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Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual
HeavensBlade23 writes in to let us know that Wikileaks has published a US Special Forces counterinsurgency manual, titled Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004). "The document, which has been verified, is official US Special Forces doctrine. It directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations' (propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource control' measures more palatable."
So you take a map, draw a line on it, and anyone on the wrong side of that line is fair game.
Given that thinking, it isn't hard to see why your nation has a history of aggressive war and genocide.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
If Bush just came out and said we're invading Iraq because their dictator is harboring and supporting the very same terrorist organization/s that attacked the US or US interests abroad on 9/11/2001, 10/12/2000, 8/7/1998, 6/25/1996, 2/26/1993, and 12/21/1988 (just to name a few)... I would have been completely OK with that. The lack of WMD evidence has never bothered or concerned me... seeing planes flown into the WTC and knowing that my good friend died while working at Sandler O'Neill on the 104th floor of Tower 2 was enough fucking 'evidence' I needed to know these terrorist MUST be stopped.