From "Capitalism: Servant or Master" by John Womack. page 93: We pretend our nation strives for peace and will not attack other nations unprovoked, yet we will fight to protect capitalism and we have fought, in our brief existence, the countries of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Mexico, China, Iraq, Iran, Korea, Japan, Italy, Panama, Philippines, Cuba, China again, Korea again, China yet again, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba again, Guatemala again, Congo, Lebanon, Peru, Cambodia, Chile, Laos, Guatemala yet again, Grenada, Libya, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama again, Iraq again, Sudan, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Columbia, Vietnam, Cambodia again, Laos again, Iraq yet again, Afghanistan again, Libya, Pakistan, our own Native Americans, the African slaves and Asian coolies we imported to our own country, and we’ve fought each other too. And this is only a partial list. Yes, we pretend we are a peaceful nation while more and more of our businesses and corporations are increasingly involved in the machinery of war and these corporations NEED more wars and combat operations to continue to increase their profits. (FN 10.3) http://washingtontechnology.com/toplists/top-100-lists/2009.aspx
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There are always other issues involved too. If we are genuinaly attacked by another nation, immediate response is required. That response can be pre-authorized, particularly if the attack was in or around Washington, D.C. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor our congress declared war the following day and then we fought the two most powerful nations on earth and defeated them both in less than 5 years. Since then we have been fighting small nations in long wars that keep dragging out. These "small, long" wars cost us fortune after fortune and ruin life after life but make incredible amounts of Profits for some of our richest corporations.
We are left with no money to educate our children, no money for our own health care, no money for improving our highways and bridges. We are told that money for Social Security will have to be cut, unemployment compensation will be cut and shortened in duration. We have even instituted the dreaded sequester! Cruz, Paul and others want to shut our government down and default because we have no money to pay our debts. But War? Did someone say War? We might have a War? Oh good! Its about time!
There may be something else involved here. And I am asking a question I don't have the answer to: How much of this attack on Syria is related to Israel's needs?
The real question is who is making this decision? It CLEARLY does not seem to be Obama. This issue is dividing the Democratic Party and did not need to happen. The issue should not be whether or not America will strike Syria, but whether the civilized nations of the world will enforce their collective will. America has been absent from trying to shape the "will of civilized nations" for too long.
