24-11-2009, 09:53 PM
Ed - thanks for posting.
Another excellent piece from the scourge of Xe, Jeremy Scahill.
So, McChrystal was boss of US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) from 2003 to 2008, and - it's alleged - effectively took his orders directly from Rumsfeld & Cheney. There was thus very little oversight of special ops, even of the lethal sort with "collateral damage".
However, when the neocons didn't want to bother with even the barest oversight, the claim is that McChrystal/JSOC would simply hire Blackwater/Xe/Manchurian Global.
Now, McChrystal is basically running the show for the entire US military in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The days of Willoughby (aka Adolf Karl Tscheppe-Weidenbach), LeMay and the like have never gone away.
Another excellent piece from the scourge of Xe, Jeremy Scahill.
So, McChrystal was boss of US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) from 2003 to 2008, and - it's alleged - effectively took his orders directly from Rumsfeld & Cheney. There was thus very little oversight of special ops, even of the lethal sort with "collateral damage".
However, when the neocons didn't want to bother with even the barest oversight, the claim is that McChrystal/JSOC would simply hire Blackwater/Xe/Manchurian Global.
Now, McChrystal is basically running the show for the entire US military in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The days of Willoughby (aka Adolf Karl Tscheppe-Weidenbach), LeMay and the like have never gone away.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war