Iraq has served as a training ground for urban warfare. The same tactics used for fighting insurgents in Baghdad will work just as well against those who dare challenge the corporate machine (the corporate media will call them terrorists) in Chicago and Denver and Seattle and Atlanta and Indianapolis and…
Iraq has also introduced the general public to the idea of private security forces. Corporate interests working through governments can enlist the services of corporate militias to impose the corporate will. With the economy in the tank, it’s only a matter of time before the local police are privatized. The government-to-private transition is already well underway in the penal system.
And Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan are field test sites for aerial hunter-killer robots. How soon before the buzz of Predator drones fills the sky over Los Angeles? Of course it will be for our own safety and protection.
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