Quote (bogie160 @ 17 Aug 2021 20:28)
Lobbyists everywhere curry favor and try to manipulate laws to their advantage. Lockheed Martin has successfully wasted trillions of tax payer dollars. But the notion that defense contractors engineered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that they're in de facto control of the US government, is a really dumb take on par with 9/11 truthers.
the fact that you have to strawman "
manipulating the government" as outright "
engineering wars" illustrates how dishonest you are, in order to downplay the
influence (not outright "
control" - another strawman of yours) of defence contractors on american foreign policy.
the underlying conflicts existed (massive credit to the british empire btw, who never seem to get the credit they deserve for the mess), 9/11 did happen (as a "retaliation" for previous american meddling and nation building efforts in the middle east), the will to retaliate by a significant part of the american people (amplified by mass media ofc)... of course those things weren't created out of whole cloth by lockheed martin / raytheon... but literally no one is claiming that. it is, however, extremely gullible to pretend that what eisenhower already warned about, and what has become a FACT of american politics, was just your average "currying of favours", as if that made it acceptable or even inevitable. it's not, and someone who genuinely opposes war would not try to normalise it...
This post was edited by fender on Aug 17 2021 01:13pm