Thursday, August 04, 2005

Glass House Discipline vs. Low-Cost War Producer

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw preemptive rocks.America lives in a kind of glass house-we are exposed and have a lot to lose.

Google recently offered a free 3-D mapping product. The service offers satellite images of earth. This includes America's cities and infrastructure. For $ 400 one can have high resolution photos. These photos are similar to the quality of America's Blackbird spy aircraft ( readable license plate numbers at 15 miles ). This is the kind of data that our Pentagon uses in armed forces intelligence( on a good day, one could even see what a moron was grilling in Crawford, Texas while he was leafing through the Bible) . Simply, terrorists can view prospective American targets for a pittance. The US Department of Defense will spend app. $ 600 billion in FY '06 in developing and maintaing a war machine that the terrorists will refuse to engage. Example. Will terrorists target an American aircraft carrier or a crowded subway ? So why are we building the aircraft carriers and a lot of non-relavant war machinery? Because there is money in war production. War and the resulting reconstruction is good for business. A defense and construction company industry motto is "In Growth We Trust ". Terrorists are the low-cost producers of war. America's outdated business and war-making model can't compete. America should try to promote more glass houses for our potential enemies so they would have someting to lose from war. To that end, the US should not try to redraw the map of the Middle East again for the purpose of Israeli security and to nurture our addiction to oil. Bring the troops home.

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