"The White House National Security Council said in a statement that Trump’s order removes 'superfluous reporting requirements' that 'distract our intelligence professionals from their primary mission.'"
Primary mission…
Let’s see. What is the primary mission of the United States military?
Is it to spend trillions of dollars on war for an indefinite number of years with no actual goal written, seeing as no war has been declared by Congress since WWII? Well, check.
Is it to set up the world’s largest spy organization that keeps a tally of not only every American’s activity, but often the citizens of other countries simply to “collect data” with absolutely no regard to the Fourth Amendment? Well, again, check.
Is it to routinely set up military bases in other countries, often act on bad information, ransack innocent people’s homes, torture anyone they suspect with no due process, and outright kill enough people with the purpose of riling up enough other people to form and join terrorist organizations to stop it? Well, would you look at that, we’re on a roll!
You want to know what’s superfluous? Nine hundred bases across the world, tens of thousands of troops in Japan, Germany, and England, and about the same amount of money spent on the US military as all the other military budgets in the entire world combined.
It has never been about keeping us safe. Look up footage of Osama Bin Laden giving his reasons as to why he formed a terrorist organization and killed three thousand innocent people. He did it in response to the United States bombing hundreds of thousand of people in his country for the decade prior. What happened was a phenomena that the CIA themselves teach: blowback. If the US wanted to keep us safe, they would not invade other countries and provide them reasons to attack us.
US politicians love to talk about the absolute atrocity of 9/11; the lives lost for nothing that they did. But when it comes to innocent lives lost in other countries at the hands of the US military, not only does it not matter, not only do we not owe our respect, not only must we scoff it off as if it is nothing in comparison to our “primary mission”… we can’t even be bothered to count the fucking bodies.
http://time.com/5546366/trump-cancels-drone-strike-rule/?fbclid=IwAR1FJC--Jdr8KvCYf19Gcp956hJOsPwzFUTu2A4HFCgNwZpeUFwgt_NVEkA
