The US Govt paints itself as ‘The West Wing’ but in reality it’s ‘The Sopranos’.
But less likeable.
If Trump wants to ‘go back’, the US should let him. He can take Bush, Cheney, Petraus and Pompeo with him.
They can show the world how good they are with ‘geopolitics’.
If there is going to be an Afghan War re-match, it’s only fair that the Washington Suits, and armchair experts fight it.
Soldiers have suffered enough at the hands of idiotic politicians and NeoCons whose only experience of Asia is fighting over a bill in a Lebanese restaurant
One of the saddest things is that the only reason that Australia went to war was to make the US ‘like us’. 41 deaths in combat, ten times that suicides, 100s maimed.
Yet we teach our kids not to ‘do things simply to be liked’.
And to stand up to bullies.
And tell the truth.
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I woke (even earlier) this morning and I’m in a mischievous mood, so I’ll give my supporters something to laugh about in these ‘difficult times’ with this thread
1/7
Many of my haters still proclaim:
“You shouldn’t have leaked to the ABC, and should have let Defence internal mechanisms sought things out! (traitor!)’
(Apart from this demonstrating a complete ignorance of the facts of my case) I’ll give you a quote from my book:
2/7
‘I was faced with a stark reality. Our ‘heroes’ often weren’t heroes. Our villains often weren’t villains. Our claimed justification for the war were lies, and our claimed ‘progress’ was simply a lie made each year…
Role models can appear when you least expect it. For all the great and good you meet at University this man was a stand-out. Percy Lewis emigrated to Britain from Trinidad and joined the RAF.
He eventually became a pro boxer, and bookmaker, but possibly his greatest achievement was changing people’s lives. He spent about 40 years coaching the Oxford Boxing team. He never his a training or raised his voice, but also never taken for granted.
Few people that came in contact with him didn’t revere him. His boxing weight was around 58 kgs, yet I don’t remember him ever not being the ‘biggest person’ in the room.
Ben Roberts-Smith claims being awarded the VC in 2010 made him a target for ‘jealous people’.
But the first time it was alleged he murdered a child was three years before in 2007.
BRS claimed his accuser was ‘weak and hopeless’.
But only after the accusation was made.
Ben Roberts-Smith twice changed his story about what happened in 2007, claiming there were two boys, and they were armed. Before ‘remembering the truth’
BRS put it down to a mistake of memory.
But he had been awarded a Medal of Gallantry for that day. You’d remember that.
The above facts were in a book by one of Australia’s most respected journalists who spent years researching it.
Without revealing any so-called 'classified information', I'm going to make a prediction: pretty soon it will transpire that Senior Defence leadership had, all along, possesed both drone and helmet cam footage of the 'war crimes', so the day they were committed..1/
And that this whole "whispers leading to 'Crompvoets' leading to 'Brereton' to 'Irvine' to ' Frame' Inquires was a sham 'strategic communications strategy' to make the soldiers snitch on each other, in order that the Senior Leadership could avoid doing the dirty work...
While murders can be never be condoned, they were the actions of hard and damaged men desperately trying to win a war that was gradually liking them literally and inwardly, year after year, tour after tour.
Distopian News:
The man appointed by the Govt to 'fix' the SAS, David Irvine, is the same man who ordered agents to bug the East Timor Cabinet Rooms for Woodside's benefit.
David Irvine was exactly the sort of person Witness K was complaining had taken over Aust Security Services: unethical, ambitious and who conflated 'Australia's National Security' with 'The Govt National Security'.
Like Alexander Downer, David Irvine thinks it's 'absolutely fine that the National Security' services act for Corporate Interests, and that the are one in the same thing.
Riddle me this:
Q1. If Assange was 'a spy', who exactly was he 'spying for'?
Q2: If Assange is not 'a spy', why is he being charged under the Espionage Act?
Q3: If the things published by Assange were so dangerous to the US, why did President Obama pardon the person who gave so many to him, and was arguably even more criminally liable?