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Nation Building: Roads, Laws, Cops, Jobs And The Challenges Of The Afghan Surge.

Do you really want the USA to be nation building somewhere else while our own infrastructure and support of our own well-being within is being systematically dismantled by the political cronies of corporate elites?

We were supposed to be going to Afghanistan to destroy a few terrorists running around in rock hewn caves.  What should it take with the mighty military of the USA to accomplish the mission 6 to 12 months?  Destroy their capability and get out.  This was not the mission though.  It was the announced facade to establish a military occupation to surround the oil region with United States dominance.  Rather than plan for a new economy based on new and different energy sources for the past 50 years, we have been a practicing EMPIRE BUILDER and to what benefit and for whom?

Here at home we are passing Patriot Acts that diddle away individual rights and swindle the American people of freedoms.  The empowerment of government has been extraordinary since 9/11 and it is growing.  Countries that are facing uprising are shutting down the internet because communication by and among the people is key to uniting their efforts against a common foe — their own governments.  In the United States we have seen constant union busting efforts over the years and now intensely at play in Wisconsin.  The laws are set up and more advancing to put our Internet access in jeopardy and especially when the truth is about to be disclosed.   In the cases, we are seeing now abroad those governments are dictators, kings and despots that the United States, in many cases has supported with huge funding in both military and domestic funding.  We then become a part of that ruling Kingdom.  Egypt is the glowing example with our Mubarak connection.

And some say we just have to be friends with some unsavory characters to promote our peace and security. So, for thirty years Mubarak maintains emergency military law over the people and they are going hungry and jobless.  What a great friend we are.  No, it is about control of regions and economies for a few.  How fast we dropped aging Mubarak when he no longer had a grip on his people.  Suddenly then we are on the side of the people.  The U. S. President coming to the podium now and again, saying this and that about who should stay in Egypt and who should go.  Really?  Some have begun to question if what it now amounts to is a slick military coup in Egypt.  The people will be thrown a few crumbs to quieten the force freedom and apease the hunger in their heart, minds and stomach for truth and food.