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THE OTHER KIND OF REVOLUTION
2016 Jan 31 from Wil Barkley
Dear Mr. Griffin, You are “right on” with this issue regarding “The other kind of revolution”. This is why I wrote the ebook “Why?…So Our Children May Know Freedom”. Without basic education in the principles of freedom, freedom dies, or is devoured by the beast of suppression and control. These principles have to be marketed to enough people to effect a long term return to a free society.

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WAR IN MIDDLE EAST PROVES THE MASSES CAN WIN?
2016 Jan 31 from Ken Bradley.
Ed, you wrote: “It is now possible for an oligarchy of less than one percent of the population, wielding such weapons, to easily defeat any mass uprising.”

I don’t think so. Look at the middle east, Iraq and Afghanistan. In a shooting war, the enemy advances, we retreat, the enemy camps, we harass, the enemy tires, we attack, the enemy retreats, we pursue.

In the infowar, which is mostly bloodless, the enemy advances, we attack, the enemy camps, we harass, the enemy tires, we attack, the enemy retreats, we pursue. All wars are wars of attrition.

The hearts and minds of the American people are in the right place. You and Alex and others are winning the infowar. Let’s hope it never turns into a shooting war bu,t if it does, the right leadership will win there too.

REPLY FROM GEG:
Hello Ken. The wars in Iraq and Iran cannot be compared to a war of a government against an enemy or against its own population. In the Middle East, the insurgents and terrorists are the product of funding and support from the US. In other words, the enemy is controlled opposition.

The Council on Foreign Relations crowd needs a credible and thriving enemy to justify their military presence. Victory over these forces would be easy if there were a will for victory. But prolonged conflict is the goal, not victory or conquest. The effectiveness of Russia’s military action is mute testimony of that fact – and even they have not employed any of the weapons of mass destruction and control that now are available. All wars are not wars of attrition – unless the contestants want them that way for purposes other than military conquest.

I agree when you say that the hearts and minds of the American people are in the right place, but my point is that millions of hearts and minds now can be incinerated in an instant by a few trained, technicians at the controls of high-tech weaponry previously unknown in history.