“If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.” IfsMovingFormForceFailingMilitaryCivilizationSucceedConflictCreatingStructureIraqPeacefulDivisionCoalitionsParalysis Author:Anthony H. Cordesman
“Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.” DoeBigsMovingPresidentIssuesMilitaryIndustryDrugCreatingShotsCongressBig Shots Author:Jerry Brown
“Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.” ShouldMindHas BeensLawWhiteMilitaryDivineCreatingShould HavePoliceSaintDisorderDivine LoveShould Have BeenOrthodoxyNuisanceIntoxicatedMilitary Police Book:Collected stories and other writings Source: Collected stories and other writings
“America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.” PeopleWorldImportantPlayMightHappensAmericaOrderLeaderRolesMilitaryMovementCreatingTradeCommerceFree TradeWorld LeaderE CommerceFree Movement Author:David Brooks
“The first task of the Federal Reserve system would be to finance the World War. The European nations were already bankrupt, because they had maintained large standing armies for almost fifty years, a situation created by their own central banks, and therefore they could not finance a war. A central bank always imposes a tremendous burden on the nation for "rearmament" and "defense", in order to create inextinguishable debt, simultaneously creating a military dictatorship and enslaving the people to pay the "interest" on the debt which the bankers have artificially created.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsWarWould BeOrderNationsInterestPaySituationMilitaryCreatingStandingTasksArmyBurdenDebtDefenseFinanceWar Of The WorldsFiftyDictatorshipReservesBankersFederal ReserveCentral Banks Author:Eustace Mullins
“Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.” KnowsMeanPersonsWarWinningIndividualLevelsResponsibilityCompanyMilitaryBuildingSucceedAuthorityCreatingMythAll TimeManagersFirmHeatGiantsDelusionPerformersSoftwareInitiativeFormalEffectivenessManufacturingSoftware Company Author:Tom Peters
“I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation would be easy; I have always known that it was going to be a very tough job. But I never really thought that it would be this tough. And what's going on now, which is a subjection of this potentially great country to a clique of military adventurers and a political class that they have completely corrupted - this is really quite appalling. The suffering that they have unleashed on millions of people is quite intolerable.” PeopleTryingCountryHardWould BeJobsPoliticalSufferingNationsEasyKnownClassMillionsMilitaryCreatingToughPessimisticAdventurerGreat CountryUnleashedCliqueSubjection Author:Chinua Achebe
“President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.” SaidFightingStarsPresidentWatchesEconomyFiveMilitaryCreatingThreatComplexesResistanceEmpiresTaxpayersDevouringDrainingMilitary Industrial ComplexDwightDwight Eisenhower Author:Ralph Nader
“I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede. I don't think it's question of personal lifestyle preference or some sort of parochial identification with your state. I think it's an absolute moral demand that something be done to create a government with some power that can be controlled by the residents of its territory. That was supposedly the idea in creating the United States, but it doesn't exist now and we have to make it exist even if it's piece by piece, part of the United States at a time.” IfsThinkingIdeasStatesDoneGovernmentHappensUnitedMoralUnited StatesIssuesEnvironmentPiecesMilitaryDemandCreatingAbsolutesLifestyleControlledTerritoryPersonal LifePreferenceIdentificationResidentsPositive Change Author:David Swanson
“Who was it in Afghanistan who screwed up in Tora Bora and let bin Laden escape? It was the Bush Administration. Who leached all the resources, military and civil, from Afghanistan, creating the instability that we see there today in order to prepare for the misbegotten invasion of Iraq? It was the Bush administration. If there's a terrorist problem today, who is responsible now? Bush has not done the job.” IfsDoneProblemTodayJobsOrderMilitaryCreatingResourcesResponsibleIraqTerroristAdministrationAfghanistanInvasionBin LadenScrewed UpInstability Author:Sidney Blumenthal