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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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Endless war for endless profit
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News April 23, 2008
Our current set of wars don't make sense, largely because they are not wars in the normal sense. They are actually just gigantic business opportunities.
The so-called news about these wars is not news, it is carefully designed advertising for the businesses involved in the so called war-making.
The soldiers are not really soldiers, they are paid extras on a movie set where the advertising occurs.
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Consequently, nothing that is not productive of profits receives any significant attention, beyond what is necessary to maintain the pretense that a real war is actually occurring.
International law
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Patriotic pretense is elevated over patriotic feeling. Wounded soldiers are not honored as heroes, they are just shuffled off the set like used
and damaged props, abandoned and ignored as avoid-
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able costs that threaten profits. Strategic military goals become meaningless as the overriding strategic goal is to keep the profit making business going.
Victory, in this setting, is the last thing desired, as it would mean an end to the flow of profit. Defeat and retreat, likewise, are unthinkable for the same reason. The business plan is endless war for endless profit.
Anything in these so-called wars that enhances profit or furthers the career goals of the major players is good. Anything that threatens profit or the anticipated lucrative careers of the military, industrial and congressional leaders is bad.
These wars, as they are being conducted, are best understood as a self-contained horizontally and vertically integrated industry, for whom the nation is merely a befuddled customer.
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