![]() Right from the end of World War II, the stoking of existing armed conflicts, even their creation, with or without the direct involvement of the US military, has been and remains in the corporate interests of MIMIC. It is also well known that the USA is the world’s largest arms exporter and that arms export is vital for its economy. It is well understood that armed conflicts of various types and intensities the world over are supplied with arms, ammunition, weapon systems and equipment from the arms industries of various countries, and that corporate profit usually overrides national feeling because there is no God more demanding than Mammon. This is referred to as the military-industrial-media-information complex or MIMIC. Known earlier as the military industrial complex, as coined by US President Dwight Eisenhower, it has since incorporated the media, with professional journalists being embedded with military units as in the US invasion of Iraq post-9/11, to bring news that is vetted or controlled by the military-political commanders in the field, to the TV screens of viewers across the globe. The fact is that the USA cannot stop its own military juggernaut, because the GWOT brings huge, steady profits to industrial and business corporations that are engaged in profiteering from the bloody business of armed conflicts and wars. ![]() The Military’s Nexus with Commercial InterestsĪny thinking person would wonder why the USA continues to use its military in Afghanistan when everybody knows that Osama bin Laden is not in Afghanistan and is suspected to be in Pakistan. A screw can be driven home with a hammer but it will not perform its function as a screw, while it may not at all be possible to hammer a nail with a screwdriver. The sledgehammer-mosquito analogy is offered to highlight the need for appropriate tools for the task in hand. The mosquito easily escaped even as the hammer descended, but Afghanistan was broken, and the destruction continues nine years later to this day, while all manner of costs all round keep mounting. Bush reckoned that civilisation was under threat and, typical of any mighty power, used USA’s military sledgehammer to swat the Al-Qaeda mosquito. This was mainly to retrieve American pride and prop up the USA’s international image, since the intelligence services of the military and security agencies of the most powerful nation on earth were effectively deceived by a terrorist outfit. As expected, the attacks drew retaliatory action, later named by US President G.W. Bush and his administration such that nobody paused to think what might be the true cause. This audacious attack on the economic and military nerve-centres of the world’s greatest power shook the then US President G.W. The reprehensible Al-Qaeda attack on New York (WTC) and Washington (Pentagon) in the USA on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, set the stage for the Third Millennium in its very first year.
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