www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&aid=23940<\/a><\/p>\nOne traditional means by which the US influences and controls a country is by training its military and government officers. The program is called International Military and Education Training (IMET). AFRICOM reports that \u201cin 2009 approximately 900 military and civilian students from 44 African countries received education and training in the United States or their own countries. Many officers and enlisted IMET graduates go on to fill key positions in their militaries and governments.\u201d<\/p>\n
AFRICOM lists as a key strategic objective the defeat of the \u201cAl-Qaeda network.\u201d The US Trans Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership (TSCTP) trains and equips \u201cpartner nation forces \u201c to preclude terrorists from establishing sanctuaries and aims to \u201cultimately defeat violent extremist organizations in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n
Apparently, after ten years of \u201cthe war on terror\u201d an omnipotent al-Qaeda now ranges across Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia in Africa, across the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the UK and is such a threat within the United States itself as to require a $56 billion \u201cHomeland Security\u201d annual budget.<\/p>\n
The al-Qaeda threat, a hoax as likely as not, has become Washington\u2019s best excuse for intervening in the domestic affairs of other countries and for subverting American civil liberties.<\/p>\n
Sixty-six years after the end of World War II and 20 years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union, the US still has an European Command, one of nine military commands and six regional commands.<\/p>\n
No other country feels a need for a world military presence. Why does Washington think that it is a good allocation of scarce resources to devote $1.1 trillion annually to military and security \u201cneeds\u201d? Is this a sign of Washington\u2019s paranoia? Is it a sign that only Washington has enemies?<\/p>\n
Or is it an indication that Washington assigns the highest value to empire and squanders taxpayers\u2019 monies and the country\u2019s credit-worthiness on military footprints, while millions of Americans lose their homes and their jobs?<\/p>\n
Washington\u2019s expensive failures in Iraq and Afghanistan have not tempered the empire ambition. Washington can continue to rely on the print and TV media to cover up its failures and to hide its agendas, but expensive failures will remain expensive failures. Sooner or later Washington will have to acknowledge that the pursuit of empire has bankrupted the country.<\/p>\n
It is paradoxical that Washington and its European \u201cpartners\u201d are seeking to extend control over foreign lands abroad while immigration transforms their cultures and ethnic compositions at home. As Hispanics, Asians, Africans, and Muslims of various ethnicities become a larger and larger percentage of the populations of the \u201cFirst World,\u201d support for the white man\u2019s empire fades away. Peoples desiring education and in need of food, shelter, and medical care will be hostile to maintaining military outposts in the countries of their origins.<\/p>\n
Who exactly is occupying whom?<\/p>\n
Parts of the US are reverting to Mexico. For example, demographer Steve Murdock, a former director of the US Census Bureau, reports that two-thirds of Texas children are Hispanics and concludes: \u201cIt\u2019s basically over for Anglos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ironic, isn\u2019t it, while Washington and its NATO puppets are busy occupying the world, they are being occupied by the world.<\/p>\n
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