safety pin

Can two things that don't belong together really ever become attached?

War and Peace are two things that don't belong together and yet we can attach them in ways that can prevent one from happening to the advantage of the other.

Today, War is attached to peace in many minds around the world. War has the advantage, we are led to believe, by those ascribing greatness and valor to the accomplishments of war. But does war have an advantage or is it a delusion we are all having rained upon us?

Safety pins attach things together that don't belong together.

Safety pins, according to a description in Wikipedia, can "remedy the arse of your pants from falling out".

Well the "arse of our pants" fell out a long time ago and we need safety pins to plug up the tear.

What exactly are we getting out of our invasion of Iraq?

It isn't increased security, for Iraq is a breeding ground for terrorists that will in the future attack us.

It isn't more petroleum.

It isn't freedom and democracy in the Middle East...for the region is degenerating into more chaos with Turkey bombing Northern Iraq.

We, the little people here in the US aren't making money out of this, in fact it is costing us our prosperity.

What exactly, I'm asking, are we getting out of this?

I sent out a few e-mails asking these very questions.

A friend wrote back and said we are getting "An appreciation of nationalist jingoism by adherents to Transnational progressivism".

Translated, this means "some are appreciating extreme patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy". Also translated into extreme profits at the expense of the taxpayers of the United States of America.

In practice, nationalist jingoism refers to sections of the general public who advocate the use of threats of actual force against other countries in order to safeguard(safeguard corporate interests) what they perceive as their country's national interests(economic interests), and colloquially to excessive bias in judging one's own country as superior to others.

While the made up adherents of "transnational progressivism"? WHAT IS THIS YOU SAY?

Look on?

"Transnational progressivism" appears to be a construct by the neoconservative think tank "The Hudson Institute" to combat the leveling of the playing field. The think tank coined the phrase(transnational progressivism) and set out to define it in a manner that would detail negative repercussions if this type of policy were to dominate US internal politics. The think tanks author John Fonte reflects upon the internal public policy it promotes called "liberal democracy" but leaves out the economic aspect of "liberal democracy's" sometimes negative impact around the world, and instead chooses to rip apart "transnational progressivism" which is a term they coined.

An interesting tactic. Define a new ism then prove why the neo conservative view is more valid.

But it fails to investigate how politicians have created demand for war based technologies, how politicians have created a new economic bubble using the "War on Terror" and disaster capitalism. Iraq and Afghanistan are the disasters that supply the new economy using your taxpayer dollars. Border control, wiretapping, surveillance cameras, web surfing, phone logs, homeland security, prisons, detection devices, pharmaceutical developments for biomedical attacks, new weapons, industries to support the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines....everything that was once controlled given over to the private sector to run and make obscene profits off of.

There is a booming economy that is war based and entirely underwritten by taxpayer dollars, YOUR MONEY flowing into the hands of corporations who want more and more of it, but will make you pay in return. The United States government has shelled out millions and millions and millions to private companies to develop and install detection equipment etc. to guard YOU against an unproven threat.

War and peace....we have been had by war.

Now we need to institute peace, so get out the safety pins before your entire "arse" is on the ground.