‘Pentagon Spec Ops Chief Sees ’10 to 20? More Years of War Against al-Qaida’
May 16th, 2013Via: Wired:
The war in Afghanistan may be winding down. But the Pentagon’s chief of irregular warfare still sees a war against al-Qaida that will last decades, all over the world — a prospect that prompted astonishment and constitutional debate in the Senate.
Asked at a Senate hearing today how long the war on terrorism will last, Michael Sheehan, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, answered, “At least ten to twenty years.”
Related: Baseworld
Why is that whenever some war-mongering blowhard in the US government starts blathering on about the need for an eternal war all over the world against al-Qaeda, no one, EVER, points out the fairly relevant fact that our own CIA is arming and directing al-Qaeda operatives in much of the Muslim world, a fact that has even been acknowledged by the Main Stream Media? I mean, talk about cognitive dissonance. I just find that amazing.
How long did the “war to end all wars” last?
How long did WWII last?
Why are wars measured in decades now?
@tm – The cognitive dissonance is quite fascinating.