[Peace-discuss] FW: Pentagon Strategy Highlights Trump Failure to Oppose Military-Industrial Complex - Sputnik International

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IMPERIALIST TRADITION

University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle told Sputnik hat Trump's new strategy document was set firmly in the tradition of US militarism and imperialism.

"This document is a further continuation and escalation of the US Strategy of Unlimited Imperialism," he said. "The Pentagon is planning to fight and 'win' World War 3 against Russia and/or China as well as to control, dominate, terrorize and intimidate the rest of the world under one pretext or another. "

President George W. Bush and his administration had sought to exploit the tragedy of the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda terror attacks, Boyle recalled.
In this image from video provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017.
(c) AP Photo/ Ford Williams/U.S. Navy

Who Calls the Tune? How US Military-Industrial Complex Forming Trump's Syrian Policy The George W. Bush administration set forth to steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Muslim states and people of color living in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa under the "bogus pretexts" of fighting a war against so-called international terrorism or Islamic fundamentalism, he said.

Since then, US administrations had also used the justifications, or excuses of claiming to try and eliminate weapons of mass destruction, promote democracy and self-styled humanitarian intervention to try and justify their power grabs around the world, Boyle stated.

"My teacher, mentor, and friend the late, great Professor Hans Morgenthau denominated 'unlimited imperialism.' The outstanding historic examples of unlimited imperialism... all have in common an urge toward expansion," he said.