Feeling a little paranoid this morning? Well if you like intrigue here’s one for you.
The Pentagon has urged Congress to authorize $500 million for building a network of friendly militias around the world
Ostensibly this would allow the US to pay militia type forces to bring about law and order in “ungoverned” areas of the world (funny, I thought it was pretty much settled who got to govern just about all of the planet by now).
Of course, that leaves open the issue of whether said militias would have to even pretend to follow the Geneva Conventions or any other laws. Not that the US has been all too good at it, but this would be taking another page from the Nixon playbook – plausible deniability. “We were funding them, but no, we had no idea what they were going to do with those finds!” Political assassinations not legal? Leave it to the Militias!
Think I’m kidding?
In his testimony, Wolfowitz also suggested expanding the scope of the war on terror by including into the list of its possible targets radical Islamic clerics, who, in his words, provide “ideological sanctuary” to terrorism.
Hat tip to Larry for the link.