Tom Engelhardt: The American Way of War

[arzoyan]

World capitalism is the MARKET SYSTEM OF ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY and distortions for the material interest of the crminal ruling elite. Capitalism is the useless employment system of wage slavery .exploitation and suffering of the working class. A genuine SOCIALIST MOVEMETN FOR A MONEYLESS,CLASSLESS,STATELESS communities of humanity expressing our collective energies in harmony and wisdom for our common needs and well being.

[phoenix11994466]

God Bless America... and I'm not even from there.

Yes... America has many friends out there.

Imagine the terror, savagery and escalating threat from rogue nations we would all be under, if American Military had no back-bone.

Every free nation should pay tribute, by way of a Sir Tax, to help fund American Military. ..

Considering most of the free world is so gutless, they simply send token support to keep terror at bay.

Ironically, Europe has most to lose yet contribute the least.

[RBLA818]

@phoenix11994466 Yeah, Thank God we found those weapons of mass destruction and brought Democracy to Iraq. - Just coming down to your level of stupidity you imbecile.

[hotrod4you2]

liberalism is killing america, pick a side them or us, you can't give everyone everthing! people are going to have to take care of thereself more, stop trying to make people feel bad for taking on he hard things, look a the great state of calif debt crisis and others,these are real, these will have to be delt with,all the liberal programs will be cancel ( or cancel the state or our country which is more important your liberal ideas or your land? the liberal id has been infiltrated by anti-u.s

[RBLA818]

@hotrod4you2 Record Unemployment, Record Poverty, Record Wage Decline, Record Loss of Middle Class.

At the same time: Record Corporate Profits, while paying Record Low/No Taxes!! That's due to your Reaganomics! Not Liberals. So get your head out of Fox News' Ass, and you'll see who is really ruined our nation.

[pvelectric]

I'M GONNA SPEAK BLUNTLY, SAY ABOUT iRAN. HERE'S A NATION THAT ORDERS EVERY MUSLIM WORLDWIDE TO KILL AN AUTHOR BECAUSE THEY DISLIKE HIS RELIGIOUS VIEWS, MURDERS PEACEFULL DEMONSTRATORS WANTING FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, THROWS A FEMALE SINGER INTO JAIL FOR SHOWING HER BARE BACK, FLOGS AND IMPRISONS SINGERS WHOSE LYRICS CONTAIN THEOLOGY THEY DISLIKE. IN MY OPINION, THE US SHOULD GO IN THERE AND BLAST TO HELL THAT IRANIAN LEADERSHIP.

[survive81]

That 'mindset' that he mentions is MANUFACTURED.

The money to be made in said wars is really in the war LOANS.

Where do the loans come from?

Que bono?

[pvelectric]

The US is a modern Sparta all right, but wouldn't another nation, perhaps even more tyrannical and bloodthirsty, just rise up and replace it if the US suddenly became more pacific? Domestic tyranny within the US is so skillfully done its citizens don't even know they are subjugated-they are anesthetized and killed and cajoled as it were, by kindness!

[qualityrkc]

@pvelectric you are talking about a pre nuke era where standing armys actually mattered. In a world with nukes we dont have to worry about tyrannical nations popping up bc we will just nuke them.

[pvelectric]

@qualityrkc good point. a US change toward a benevolent foreign policy might spark an even greater inclination by competing powers like China, Venezuela and Cuba, for example, to gain advantages by a "race to become THE GREATEST benefactor nation. US could win in this as in, say, enforcing an international ban upon institutional violence of any kind, including by nations. Ayn Rand reccomended this to enable rational Capitalism, with states almost non-existent.

[TAXavier07]

@pvelectric can't you say this about essentially all developed countries? Not all of them are on the front lines, but they're all there, believe it or not.

[pvelectric]

@TAXavier07, yes you're right. feel like improvements in the "human condition" are gonna be very slow over the next century, with a lot of backwards "devolution" because of the general incompetence of humans to cooperate, as individuals or in collective (institutional) endeavors.

[TAXavier07]

@pvelectric I have this terrible problem (seriously) of always setting the bar way too high for the human race. I need to accept the fact by and large, when humans try to work together, they always lose.

[pvelectric]

@TAXavier07 let's confuse for a moment an individual's thought from a collective thought, and assume many agree that humans work poorly together. Therefore from that point on it's like Curley of the Three Stooges says, "I'm (we're) a victim of circumstance!" You really believe that?

[TAXavier07]

@pvelectric No, not at all. I was just agreeing with your previous comment. Lack of understanding when people are in agreeance is definately part of our downfall.

[pvelectric]

@TAXavier07 okay seriously too, the current START treaty, in the best interests of every nation upon the earth, yet not in the interests of enough politicians in DC to pass it. Renewable energy, in this and every nation's interests to go into full force, or wealth maldistribution, a major cause of prostitution for one thing, but special interests prevent solutions. A single "benevolent world dictator" could solve these, right?

[TAXavier07]

@pvelectric FUCK NO. I'm an independent. Renewable energy all around the world would definately help quell the inevitabilities of WWIII though. Fuck oil.

[pvelectric]

@TAXavier07 i just today read at Current TV, green news site, that Monsanto now has caused the US Senate to pass a bill making all home gardens illegal. ha ha ha, thanks Monsanto, you and your oily friends win again!!! we're getting back what we been doing in the third world people for centuries, and in this one to the Indians, and the black and brown skinned people. wise up, white men. you've been suckers for a long time and know no other way! all hail King Reagan Bush Clinton Bush Obama.

[TAXavier07]

@pvelectric You left out Carter. :\

Monsanto will never be able to stop true grass roots. It's the people that try to make an honest living off of it, go figure. Thanks for sharing, I have to read into that right friggen now.

[TAXavier07]

Sarah Palin's on TV in Alaska! Palin 2012!!!

[TAXavier07]

@TAXavier07 Wow, I should put a disclaimer on here before anymore people think I'm serious. DISCLAIMER. Dang it, now I have to explain what "disclaimer" means.

[shellius]

Sad but true, and most Americans don't even think about our being at war anymore. It's just the way things are. We idolize the soldiers, we revere the military, what did we expect would happen? People have to stop worshiping the military and our soldiers as "the best" our country has to offer. Obviously, that's not the case. They are often the dregs of our culture. Normal people don't want to kill others, and it's a fallacy that this war is protecting us.

[sardonic]

@shellius I remember having gulf war (90'-91') trading cards when I was a kid, that's pretty scary starting us out young.

[exenrontexas]

The most decorated American serviceman EVER, was Marine Corps General Smedley Butler who served 34 years, fought in FIVE wars and was awarded the Marine Brevet Medal and TWO Congressional Medals of Honor. His credibility and integrity and knowledge is without question. When he retired he wrote a book, "War is a Racket" where he accused WALL STREET of being behind most US wars. EVEN Eisenhower warned America about the danger of the Military Industrialist Complex. We should listen.

[normalais]

Very true. The pentagon budget is now what? $700 Billion?? And they say stimulus package was terrible. Pentagon gets almost that much every year

[swami24u]

he's right . its sad.

[RadioRogue]

pure babble!