Information is the new currency people, the more info they get on you the more money they can make. £CHING$ :03:

^Right, it is about money, power and preservation of power.

The USA and their allies of 2nd, 3rd or whatever grade are not interested in security, but in power and preservation of power.
As they put it in the university papers: "The so-called total war is still going on without a break, but in wide parts below the threshold of public information."