Oceania Forever

Poland has agreed to host some rockets as part of a missile shield. The rationale repeatedly put forward is the possibility of a missile launch from Iran, a claim that is preposterous and always has been. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLE807520080814?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0  
U.S. and Poland sign missile shield deal  
Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:10pm EDT  

Officials said the deal included a U.S. declaration that it will aid Poland militarily in case of a threat from a third country and that it would establish a permanent U.S. base on Polish soil in a symbolic gesture underlining the alliance.

Again with the US bases. Surely this cannot be a defense against a land based attack from Iran, also. Once again, the Establishment-Military-Industrial complex is promoting a state of once and future war, instead of promoting peace. Is there a symmetry? A metaphor? NATO and European Union: Oceania as Russia: Eurasia as China: East Asia. Orwell apparently was 100% on...or Stapledon...or Wells...or all the dystopians. We are now creating the dark doom which our grandkids will inherit.

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