I don't know if they
should, but they unquestionably
will. Drinking once again from the kool-aid that says that "there
is such a thing as 'a winnable war,'" or at least a nice "surgical" one with no long-term consequences, the US will above all else look to the
$$profit$$ that comes from ... for example ... "no fly zones" (billions of dollars a month), military bases the size of small cities (and the endlessly-lucrative contracts to supply them), and of course, weapons and materiel.
"War is a Racket." The most-decorated military officer in the United States at that time, Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, minced no words about what he saw. And this two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner, this recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, this person who had earned every commissioned rank in the Marine Corps ("Semper Fi!") that there was to be earned,
knew what he saw and he also knew why.
A generation later, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term,
military-industrial complex to describe the abuses that
he saw from the point-of-view of the only military rank that outranks Butler: Commander-in-Chief. He warned that the price of
"one heavy bomber" (in 1950) was equivalent to "two fine, well-equipped hospitals."
(Heh... Little did he know that the day would come when Americans cannot
enter those "fine" hospitals without facing bankruptcy, and that hospitals would be closing because they are "unprofitable.")
Both of these Commanders realized from first-hand experience that there is no "military" justification for these institutions, nor for incessant war-mongering, other than the
financial profit of the entities that are not-so secretly behind them.
Today, 95% of the Members of the US Congress do not know what they are voting for, or even that they are voting for anything, because they "don't have security clearances."
Huh?! Several people face lifetime prison sentences, or worse, merely for
revealing the existence of these boondoggles.
"When is World War III coming?"
It is already here. Un-declared, un-official, never-ending, and world-wide. Like a ravenous cancer, it is eating the economy of nations from the inside out. Including yours.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermann Goering:
Of course the people don't want war. Why would any slob want to leave the farm to go to war when the best that he can hope for is to get back to the same farm in one piece? But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.
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(The complete description of the context surrounding this
authentic quote can be found at
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp. The conversation at the end of the page is chilling.)