I am one of those people that thinks starting wars around the globe is NOT defending the country…..as a matter of fact it is making things worse….at least to our security.
The last couple of presidents have spent a lot of resources and treasure attacking others in different parts of the world….and NO where has it made this country any safer from attack.
But it seems that the presidents cannot stop themselves….they feel the necessity to push those damn buttons to the point that everyone is either “for” us or “against” us……
And yet the American people are oddly silent on the use of military force…..as if they think it is a bloodless sport…..this election will be one where the world will come to the brink….yet again.
As President Obama visits still-communist Vietnam, a former American rival, in his “pivot to Asia” to recruit more countries to shelter against a rising China, the trip only serves to illustrate the global American Empire’s overextension. At the same time, he is opening missile defenses in Europe, quadrupling U.S. military spending there, and deploying more […]
Americans need to pull their heads from the sand…..they need to ask….what are American soldiers dying for?
The people of the US gave up all their freedom at the end of WWII; oddly enough, that was when the NSA was formed and began their quest to control all the information in the world. But, all that aside, this country has been involved, in a military sense, every year since the Korean conflict began, continuing, without pause, right up to the present day, when the BRC believes it has such firm control, they don’t even bother hiding their intentions any longer, but, just do what they want, and expect the people to fall in line, which they do, by their passive, voiceless acceptance…. As long as the TV still works, and a reality show is coming on, they don’t care about what happens outside their house…..
“A people which expects to be free and ignorant wishes for what can never be.” to paraphrase a founding father….
Or, more cogently, people get exactly the government they deserve….
gigoid, the dubious