{"id":63287,"date":"2021-05-02T13:09:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T17:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63287"},"modified":"2021-05-02T13:09:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T17:09:56","slug":"watch-how-the-military-industrial-complex-parades-the-hardcore-warmongers-before-the-u-s-congress-to-maintain-the-perpetual-war-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=63287","title":{"rendered":"Watch how the Military-Industrial Complex parades the hardcore warmongers before the U.S. Congress to maintain the perpetual war economy."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Guess Who&#8217;s Testifying In Congress US Troops Must Stay In Afghanistan Forever?<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>When interventionists and national security deep state hawks need to prolong what&#8217;s already the longest war in in US history, who&#8217;re they gonna call?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee they&#8217;re worried about President Biden&#8217;s plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, with Rice suggesting the US\u00a0may need to go back,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/hillary-clinton-condoleezza-rice-biden-afghanistan-troops-9e115f31-85c4-4f30-9663-30dd6e572895.html\"><em>Axios<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/condandhcl.jpg?itok=BlZCpH3e\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/condandhcl.jpg?itok=BlZCpH3e\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/condandhcl.jpg?itok=BlZCpH3e\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"f4e5390c-291a-4ec5-bf17-cc42a8c3ef66\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\"><\/div>\n<p>The pair&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;expert&#8221;\u00a0testimony was given over Zoom and appears to have been kept relatively quiet, given it was a &#8216;closed door&#8217; members only call,\u00a0until Axios learned of it.<\/p>\n<p>Rice of course\u00a0infamously served as George Bush&#8217;s National Security Advisor during the initial invasions of both Afghanistan and\u00a0Iraq, and crucially helped make the case for war to the American public, later serving as Bush&#8217;s Secretary of State through 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Having helped start two failed wars, both of which have long remained deeply unpopular among the American public,\u00a0<strong>naturally\u00a0Condi Rice as a pre-eminent neocon voice would be consulted as a &#8220;stay the course&#8221; point of view<\/strong>. It&#8217;s also deeply revealing that there&#8217;s no foreign policy space in terms of viewpoint whatsoever between Rice and Clinton &#8211; latter who pushed for the US-NATO invasion of Libya and planned covert regime change in Syria against Assad.<\/p>\n<p>Little is known about precisely what Hillary testified, but it&#8217;s not difficult to imagine. Here are a few key insights\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/hillary-clinton-condoleezza-rice-biden-afghanistan-troops-9e115f31-85c4-4f30-9663-30dd6e572895.html\">via Axios<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Condi Rice is like,\u00a0<strong>&#8216;You know, we\u2019re probably gonna have to go back,&#8217;<\/strong>&#8221; amid a potential surge in terrorism, the member said.<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), the top Republican on the committee, told Axios: &#8220;With the potential for an Islamic State, coupled with what they&#8217;re going to do to our contractors in Yemen and Afghanistan is, sadly, it&#8217;s going to be tragic there and we all see it coming.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Another member of the committee confirmed both Clinton and Rice raised concerns about the\u00a0<strong>potential fallout from a quick removal of all U.S. troops<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Both also expressed concerns about protecting U.S. diplomats on the ground following the withdrawal and what the move will mean for the global war on terrorism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One unnamed committee member told Axios further that\u00a0<strong>&#8220;they both agreed we&#8217;re going to need to sustain a counterterrorism mission somehow outside of that country.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfX0%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1388198968945827843&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fguess-whos-testifying-congress-us-troops-must-stay-afghanistan-indefinitely&amp;sessionId=9b9d10e4110da6b8b11c8658d257335c38994e5f&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1388198968945827843\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Well of course!&#8230;there always needs to be a war going on\u00a0<em>somehow<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>somewhere<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; otherwise how would these warmongering ladies sleep at night?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/guess-whos-testifying-congress-us-troops-must-stay-afghanistan-indefinitely\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/guess-whos-testifying-congress-us-troops-must-stay-afghanistan-indefinitely<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess Who&#8217;s Testifying In Congress US Troops Must Stay In Afghanistan Forever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}