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As you may have noticed, it's my impression that the Air Force is an agency in search of a mission. Playing baby-sitter for our nuclear weapons is turning out to be a drag and "driving" drones carrying bombs and missiles over Iraq from consoles in Nevada doesn't seem to be particularly exciting either.
But, there's a new venue on the horizon. Cyberspace. The Air Force is going to extend its dominion over land, sea, air and outer space to cyber space. And, the headquarters may be coming to a base near you, soon.
The New Hampshire High Technology Council is one of the regional groups working on the Hanscom proposal.
"The New Hampshire High Technology Council would welcome the center as another indication that New England is the premier technology sector in the country," said Fred Kocher, president of NHHTC. "Right now, we are competing with Silicon Valley, the Triangle in the Carolinas and Austin, Texas, for that honor."
The Strategic Air Command had a slogan, "Peace is our Profession," but what they were really after was "pacification"-- that the peoples of the globe would be obedient to our directives, because, if they weren't we'd nuke them.
The Strategic Command is, of course, a subset of the Air Force and it's my sense that if we want to move our forces out of Iraq, it's the bases that have to be shut down. After all, the boots on the ground have been tasked with "protecting" the Air Bases from being shelled by insurgents who object to having four or five Manhattan-sized islands of death and destruction plopped down in the midst of their country. If we shut down the bases, the troops can go home.
Which is why I have been paying closer attention to the Air Force, an organization that's got grandiose plans about world domination, even as its core activities seem increasingly irrelevant. Besides, it's pretty clear that the goal in Iraq is to gain acquiescence to a long term presence for the Air Force by killing off all those who object. The Air Force is the key to peace in Iraq.
The following is a diary I originally posted on KOS, the political blog. In addition to peace, my purpose is to prompt a discussion of the morality of making assassination by remote control a standard component of our arsenal.
Among other things on his web site there's an announcement that Chris Dodd is planning a major policy speech on America's relationship with Cuba. Indeed, there's a promise that the speech from Miami, Florida, in conjunction with his participation in the first ever Spanish language debate, sponsored by Univision, will be streamed live on his blog.
Since Dodd has already made it clear that continuing the embargo makes little sense, it's likely that the speech will be about more than Guantanamo Bay and the detention center that's being "improved," with more court rooms for illegal proceedings, as we speak.
