Posted by: michael nola
Comment: #1
Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:50 PM
This country's obsession with the military as being the solution to all our foreign policy problems is what will eventually lead to our downfall. Our nation is facing the very real threat of economic meltdown with gigantic and ever growing budget and trade deficits, unregulated financial shenanigans in Wall Street aided and abetted by their pimps in D.C., a weakening dollar and total reliance on foreign capital to keep it all going and yet the question continually posed is who will make the better commander in chief? In any nation ruled by common sense, the question of war and planning for it should be a matter well down on the list of priorities, but in this nation, which spends more on it's military than the rest of the world combined, it's all important. Any reasonable review of this nation's condition would reveal that the subject of that much dreaded 3:00a.m. phone call will be of an economic and not military related matter. As someone who volunteered for the draft during Vietnam and went Airborne because that was the sure way to get sent to the war, I am both saddened and bemused that the American public's fascination about an entity, the military, and an experience, the slaughter of combat, they know nothing about and so assiduously have avoided, is such a large part of their decision on who should lead this country. War is a for profit racket started by those who will profit from it, who will not fight in it and is waged by those who have been expertly manipulated using their fears and prejudices and will get absolutely no personal gain from it. Just ask yourself, why is it the powers that be wave the flag when it's time for war but when it comes to making$$$ they'll send your job out of the country at the drop of a hat simply because they'll make a bigger profit? Just how does outsourcing American jobs fit into that cheery slogan, "United We Stand"? After all, the pace of outsourcing has only accelearated since 9-11 and yet people follow sheep like the leaders who so look down on them.
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