America’s appalling inattention to war
▻http://theweek.com/articles/732474/americas-appalling-inattention-war
▻https://api.theweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/tw_image_9_4/public/3226951.jpg?itok=ndBqlc5N
It’s symptomatic of an imperial machine that is operating on autopilot, without debate or even knowledge of what’s happening.
Trump May Not Finish His Term But the Assassination Complex Will Live On
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/08/21/trump-may-not-survive-his-term-but-the-assassination-complex-will
While Barack Obama did roll back some of the most blatant activities enthusiastically endorsed by Bush and Cheney, he was also a careful manager of empire and in key ways, served as a launderer for operations of some of the most aggressive forces in the U.S. arsenal. He used his credibility among liberals — and the derision hurled at him by conservatives who characterized him as an Islamic-radical-friendly socialist — to legitimize assassination and covert offensive military actions as lawful, moral, and necessary. The patently false allegations from the right that Obama was somehow a dove only served to undermine the severity of military and paramilitary actions he authorized and expanded. In reality, Obama teed up the special operations forces and spooks for Trump to (inadvertently) guide to a new golden age.
Hollande, Macron, mêmes combats, par Philippe Leymarie (Les blogs du Diplo, 19 mai 2017)
►https://blog.mondediplo.net/2017-05-19-Hollande-Macron-memes-combats #st
En matière de d#éfense, même s’il n’a pas reconduit directement Jean-Yves Le Drian, le président Emmanuel #Macron met tout naturellement ses pas dans ceux de son prédécesseur : reconduction de la « lutte antiterroriste » au #Sahel et au Levant ; renforcement des effectifs et des moyens des militaires à hauteur de deux points de PIB ; maintien et des alliances et de la dissuasion nucléaire.
▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/66094 via Le Monde diplomatique
Déjà là :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/599845
Et sinon :
#Mali, #Syrie… Les opérations extérieures, un défi pour #Emmanuel_Macron
Pierre Sztajnkrycer, Le JDD, le 19 mai 2017
►http://www.lejdd.fr/international/mali-syrie-les-operations-exterieures-un-defi-pour-emmanuel-macron-3335711
#Sylvie_Goulard, ministre de la #Défense :
#gouvernement_macron
#EnMarcheVersLeFN
Politics, Power, and Preventive Action » You Might Have Missed: Whack-a-mole, Sugary Drinks, and Libya
►http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2015/07/09/you-might-have-missed-whack-a-mole-sugary-drinks-and-libya
Hearing on the Strategy to Counter ISIL, Senate Armed Services Committee, July 7, 2015.
▻http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/15-07-07-counter-isil-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-the-levant-st
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) : General Dempsey, would you agree that there’re more terrorist organizations with more safe havens, with more weapons, with more capability, with more men to strike the homeland than any time since 9/11?
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey : Yes .
Graham : Do you believe that ISIL is expanding in other countries as we speak?
Dempsey : Yes.
[...]
Note that Sen. Graham did not follow up to ask why terrorist organizations were larger and more capable. U.S. officials are too vested in the country’s counterterrorism strategy—nearly unchanged over the past thirteen years—to recognize that it is failing.