(Photo: isafmedia / Flickr)A Citizens' Campaign for a New National Security Policy
Saturday 8 October 2011
by: Gareth Porter, Truthout | News Analysis
Winners and Losers in the US "War on Terror"
The starting point for a citizens' campaign for a new national security strategy should be to call attention to the reality that US wars - supposedly against terrorism - have produced clear winners and losers. The winners are the leaders of the military, the Pentagon, the CIA and their private sector and elected political allies. Aggressive US wars are not merely the result of mistaken policies, but of the national security institutions pursuing their own interests at the expense of the interests of the American people.
The "war on terror" is a means for those institutions to maintain the present allocation of national resources and power to the national security sector for the indefinite future.
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