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Today, half the military budget and seventy percent of the intelligence budget goes to contractors.
“War is a racket.”
Black Rifle Coffee
With twenty years of data on what the CIA called enhanced interrogations, it would be unwise not to study the effectiveness of those programs. Public debate over what was a classified program ultimately benefited the enemy.
Captured terrorists knew that in the hands of the Americans, waterboarding was the worst it was going to get.
Fear of the unknown can be a powerful motivator. Turning that unknown into public knowledge undermined the entire program.
Spend some time in the company of ISIS or the Taliban if you want a lesson in real torture.
Had Reece not been staring at the Kalashnikov, he might have missed the indicator that its owner was about to kill him.
Israel was just a tool of the Americans,
Their American masters were on their knees,
They were now focused on domestic problems, riots in their streets, political division, and an economy crippled by the pandemic. They even made themselves again dependent on foreign oil, oil from the Arab world. Self-inflicted wounds.
the ultimate goal was not just to rid the Middle East of American military forces, but to erase any hint of Western influence. Then the caliphate would expand.
First expel the United States from the Middle East, then push Israel into the sea, killing every last Jew, and then allow the natural progression of Islam to dominate the world. It would happen. It was only a matter of time.
Death comes for us all. It’s nothing to be afraid of. It just is.
Our neighbors will not stop until every last Israeli is dead and, in turn, Israel will never stop defending itself. There is no end to war.”
WAR WAS ALWAYS HERE. BEFORE MAN WAS, WAR WAITED FOR HIM. THE ULTIMATE TRADE AWAITING ITS ULTIMATE PRACTITIONER. —CORMAC McCARTHY, BLOOD MERIDIAN
EVERYTHING COMES IN TIME TO HIM WHO KNOWS HOW TO WAIT. —LEO TOLSTOY, WAR AND PEACE
