Traditional strategy in the American art of war is the
ability to deceive one's opponent in the evidence of cleverness.
Total GDP $13.3 trillion annually
Spent on Iraq War - $1 trillion annually
The awesome power of US Armed
Forces and its strategic play of war games would make any reader cringe. More than
40 satellite-guided Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from US warships in
the Red Sea and Persian Gulf at the start of the Iraq Invasion.
F117 stealth fighters carrying two 2,000-pound
bombs apiece
were involved in the strikes. The F117 stealth fighters have a speed
of 1,300 mph, and an internal Vulcan 20mm cannon is mounted in the nose. The
Super Hornet can carry 17,750 pounds of conventional and precision bombs and
missiles. The US and coalition forces launched missiles and bombs at
targets in Iraq as morning dawned in Baghdad, including a "decapitation
attack" aimed at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and other top members of the
country's leadership.
Many articles have been written by the US and Israel
about the giant threat of "suicide bombers," but we know only
desperate people go to those proportions. The Palestinians don't have the
stealth fighters and cruise missiles. The only ammunition they have
are themselves. You use what you have, and the reward is to become a
martyr.
President George W. Bush announced in 2003 that America was on a mission to
remove a grave threat and to liberate an oppressed people, but who won?
It seems that anything being waged against the Middle East has been thrown
back with a vengeance against the West. The Middle East doesn't need the
Tomahawk Cruise Missiles or the F117 Stealth Fighters. It has waged
its own war and has won. When Bush took office, oil was $23 a
barrel, and gas was $0.93 a gallon. Think of that each time you fill up your
gas tank.
Many investors buy commodities such as oil as a hedge
against inflation when the dollar falls. Also, a weaker dollar makes oil
less expensive to investors dealing in other currencies. Many analysts
believe the dollar's protracted decline is a major factor behind oil's
doubling in price over the past year.
Read the Biblical story again about David and Goliath. Goliath has amour and a shield-bearer.
David has a staff and sling. David says, "This day the LORD will deliver you
into my hand, and I will strike you down, and cut off your head; and I will
give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines." "Yahweh saves not with
sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our
hand."
China’s Cyber-Militia
The west continues to brag about its
global military lined around the world in strategic spots. "We must
keep America safe," they tout. Every time this phrase is repeated
thousands have just walked across the Mexican border, and now we have had 2
known and documented electrical grid
attacks from computer hackers in China, including those working on
behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into
the information systems of U.S. companies and government agencies, stolen
proprietary information from American executives in advance of their
business meetings in China, and, in a few cases, gained access to electric
power plants in the United States, possibly triggering two recent and
widespread blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to U.S.
government officials and computer-security experts. The Cyber Militia is
thought to be responsible for 2 of those power failures.
A 9,300-square-mile area, touching Michigan, Ohio, New
York, and parts of Canada, lost power; an estimated 50 million people were
affected in August 2003. A second information-security expert
independently corroborated Bennett’s account of the Florida blackout in
February 2008. In 2007, an unidentified hacker broke into the e-mail system
for Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ office, and the Pentagon shut down about
1,500 computers in response. (Source: National Journal,
2008)
Who do you think has won?
