The military is not protecting the US in Afghanistan; there’s nothing to protect it against. Nor did it ever intend to “win” a war in Afghanistan.
February 8th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "military spending"
Is the US Military Spending its Way to Self Destruction?
The Pentagon continues to carry out Osama bin Laden’s plan to hobble America. Remember, he outlined his strategy on video. He said he would sucker the US into very expensive, unwinnable wars. He wouldn’t defeat the US military. Instead, he would allow it to spend itself to self-destruction. The strategy is working.
December 13th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The US Economy’s Bread and Circuses
When it comes to the US Economy, there aren’t so many questions. Nobody doubts the full faith and credit of the US government. Not yet anyway. And nobody doubts the Fed will backstop America’s public debt…by printing as much money as it needs to.
November 21st, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
China Rises While United States Declines
“The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today, wars, massive government debt defaults and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society,”
October 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 9 comments | Continued
The Good War
When it comes to war and adultery, make-believe may be better than the real thing. Certainly, it is safer. In the War on Terror, the enemy had no tanks…no aircraft…no ships…no armies…no celebrated strategists…no famous generals…no sophisticated weapons…no military culture…no leather trench coats…no burnished helmets…no battle cries… The problem was, it was hard to find the enemy at all. Bill Bonner explores…
February 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 6 comments | Continued
