"Revolutionary Change"??
Diane Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss?? Now there's a strange pair of bedfellows!! But, if you think more carefully about what we're seeing, the State Department has come to the fore in Foreign Affairs in a way and at a level unparalleled since 1948. Dean Acheson, a key figure in the Marshall Plan, Bretton Woods, and NATO, is also known as the "architect" of the Cold War. His State Department term saw the attack of McCarthy and his hyenas; and he was succeeded by John Foster Dulles. The newly formed, then, Defense Department (formerly the War Department) subsumed the State Department in Foreign Affairs as the Cold War Progressed. Eisenhower, alarmed at what he was seeing, warned us in 1959. Truman, alarmed at what he saw the CIA doing, openly admitted that it was a mistake to have created that agency.
When I was commissioned in 1962, I received mandatory training on how to behave as a Prisoner of War. I was told a story that POW bodies dug up after the Truce in Korea, showed no physical harm to the decedents. They reportedly lacked the "will to live". We were told that the Koreans simply told the prisoners about the "history" of the United States and it literally destroyed them. Remember, a huge percentage of U.S. troops, both in World War II and Korea, did not know how to read!
Over the intervening years, the Defense Department quickly grew in strength, well beyond anyone's ability to manage well. All the "wheels came off" once Cheney began mucking around in our "Intelligence", and, prior to 9/11, it was known that plans were being drawn to attack Iraq.
Fourteen years later, with the detritus of Iraq, 9/11, Abu Ghraib, behind us; and Afghanistan fading in our rear view mirror, its becoming clear that fundamental changes in warfare have occurred, and we are long overdue in making the proper adjustments. Just about all of Acheson's safeguards, post World War II, militarily, diplomatically, and economically are in severe need of overhaul.
Against this background, the decision of the Malignant Right to pick a fight with President Obama over the negotiated release of a Prisoner of War, appears extremely bizarre, and puzzling! Especially so, when we recognize that the leading attacker, Senator John McCain, is, himself, a former Prisoner of War with questionable behavior as a prisoner! http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2013/05/29/john-mccain-war-hero-or-something-less/.
"There is something rotten in Denmark!", as the old saying goes. Thinking citizens who care deeply for the future of their country and their children, should WANT TO KNOW what it is!! Look to MISSISSIPPI, and we might find an answer. The Koch-Hyenas are advancing there, and in Iowa.
Stay Vigilant! Serious Attackers don't announce their identity, their true intentions, or their activities!
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