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Secret Wars (Reprise)

Stars and Stipes is reporting that AFRICOM wants more special operations counter terrorism forces deployed. They are picking up intelligence that a lot of Africans want to attack “us” in one way or another.

they have publicly voiced intent to target the U.S. and are gaining capacity to attack U.S. interests.

said Army Gen. Carter Ham, commander of U.S. Africa Command.

What gets me about this is the same old story: who is to say what are “U.S. interests?” AFRICOM? The Pentagon? They don’t have even as much credibility as The Debt Commission.

There is no democracy in American Federal government any more, and wealthy, destructive special interests are enriching themselves and destroying everybody else with the reins of power they’ve wrested from the people.

What a payday lays in store for Halliburton, Xe, DuPont and Boeing if AFRICOM can contract out the business of protecting U.S. interests there.