Saturday, September 12, 2015

ISIS SCHMISIS, we like to sell war stuff

Who understands what is going on over in ISIS land? Well, this, below,  sounds highly likely. 
(Bold and underlining are mine.) 



http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/september/09/why-the-us-and-iran-aren-t-cooperating-against-isis/

Blah, blah, blah, look to the third paragraph from the bottom. 

...The first is the imperative for the US military of holding on to US air, naval and land bases in the region, all but one of which are located in states that are part of the anti-Iran coalition. Continuing long-term control of those bases is the coin of the realm for US military institutions that trumps possible competing policy concerns. Similarly, arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the other Gulf sheikhdoms and Israel are a primary interest of the Pentagon, its arms contractor partners and its congressional allies. And the determination of that same set of domestic interests to continue the bonanza or research-and-development spending on a missile defense system requires a continued identification of Iran as primary regional adversary and threat...

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