| Setting up this “new select committee” was one of the “demands” to McCarthy by the so-called “Freedom Caucus,” all or almost all of whom have been in the forefront of demanding ever more “Defense spending,” for war against China first (and always Iran, then necessarily, and logically, Russia, as Trump prepared for with Camp Trump, etc.). It was a “demand” like: “Don’t throw me in the briar patch.” To a group of attorneys, and fellow board members of an organization which calls for arms control of nuclear weapons, but in my opinion haven’t recognized the "true nature” of the U.S. Perpetual War State, I sent the following this morning, in part: (Begin here) So today from the Pentagon’s Early Bird News, from Defense News, I read this:
In addition to massively raising “Defense spending,” Trump put it to use, and “made the trains run on time,” so to speak, in getting the B-21 Bomber in “on time,” though having left office by the time it beat expectations in being developed, as this gushingly describes, so we have a new, stealthy, “delivery system" for our nuclear bombs, to go with Trump’s “modernization” of our other nuclear forces, all of which survived Trump’s departure, and enthusiastically adopted by “Democratic Centrists.” On top of that, Republican Mike Rogers is now chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Quote: "As chairman of the military panel, Rogers said his committee will focus on “lethality and capability” in military operations, as well as threats posed by China, Russia and North Korea. “Over the next two years, the House Armed Services Committee will provide our warfighters with the resources and weapons they need to deter and, if necessary, defeat any adversary anywhere in the world,” he said in a statement.” Some will say “Hallelujah” to that! Given I start my day by reading the Pentagon’s “News Delivery System,” the “Early Bird,” or at least do after the Washington Post and the NYT, virtually repetitive of the “Early Bird;” and have throughout the “Wars,” for over 20 years, while turning to Haaretz to read of Israel’s own parallel descent into “Fascism,” I admittedly have become cynical of claims of “threats” to the U.S. That is, as Republicans, and Democratic “Centrists," incessantly warn us of, in getting our acquiescence to massive military spending, and more U.S. aggression, and not diplomacy. As the House China Committee is intended to do. (End here) What we are seeing with the “House Freedom Caucus” is identical to what a one-time member, Michelle Bachmann, repeatedly said: “We must cut government spending . . . we must increase defense spending.” I have the same amount of respect for the so-called “Freedom Caucus” and its gullible supporters, as I once had, and still have, for Michelle Bachmann, which is zero, and of whom I’d like to think a small effort of mine contributed to her decision not to run for reelection in 2014, with Bill Polk’s encouragement.
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