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Meriadoc  ·  3364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America’s post-9/11 Cassandras are still ignored

In the end, the military-media-industrial complex got exactly what it's always wanted: the end of war-time and peace-time and just having a perpetual war with anywhere they can apply a nebulous term. Around 2006, I still had hope that this would be over soon or world powers would intervene at some point, but I was pretty naive back then. Now I know we'll never fight another conventional war and we'll never leave the middle east. The powers maintaining it are too strong and too rich.