Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No doubt that Endless War is Official U.S. Doctrine

Publisher The Intercept

Published October 07, 2014

Posted to WTK 2014-10-13

Curation Rank 900

Article ID 6585

Any doubts about whether Endless War ... is official American doctrine should be permanently erased by this week's comments from two leading Democrats, both former top national security officials in the Obama administration. Leon Panetta, the long-time Democratic Party operative who served as Obama's Defense Secretary and CIA Director, said this week. The War on Terror ... was designed from the start to be endless. This war ... thus enables an endless supply of power and profit to flow to those political and economic factions that control the government regardless of election outcomes.

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