Are You Tired of Being the World's Policeman?

[sabrina 1]

34. What was the purpose of Vietnam where we lost over 50,000 lives and they fought back

because that's what people do when there are foreign troops in their country. How many might have been hurt if we had minded our own business compared to the untold numbers of Vietnamese who were hurt due to our intervention? And what was accomplished that couldn't have been without that terrible war?

Grenada? I don't think that requires an explanation as to why it was not necessary.

Iraq was one big war crime leaving a nation and its people devastated, over one million dead who surely would have been alive were we not there.

Afghanistan, in the eighties and now, what have we accomplished for all the death and destruction?

War is a Racket said one our most decorated war heroes. Lots of people profit hugely from war. Maybe if we took the money out of it, we'd have far fewer of them. But when you build the humongous war machine we have, you have to use it to justify all that money.

I wish we could spend some of that money here. We might have saved the lives of 44,000 American citizens a year since 9/11 who died because they could not afford HC. To me that IS the definition of National Security. The rest appears to be about profit for a small segment of the population and not much else.