Crossed Crocodiles

5GW or nation building, or stability operations, or proxy war all boil down to these 3 steps:
* Destabilize a country or region using proxies
* Bring in aid/peacekeeping/stability operations
* Establish a nominal new government and train its military to be proxies, nation building, so that it will act as an obedient client state, a de facto colony (and the new proxies can be used to stabilize/destabilize other regions.)

It is truly insane and immoral to borrow money from China to finance this blood lust.

Robert Parry

Surprisingly this Thanksgiving, the Washington Establishment had a lot to give thanks for. And its chief mouthpiece – the Washington Post’s neoconservative editorial page – was glowing over its good fortune in the three-plus weeks since Barack Obama's election.

On Friday, the Post’s lead editorial thanked President-elect Obama for settling on insider favorites for key jobs, especially officials with long records of promoting the neocon foreign policy agenda. ...