Why We Fight...

[kpete]

We go to war and kill lots of people for no good reason, elites have eliminated any accountability for themselves for criminal wrongdoing, we've tortured and assassinated people, and the response to massive economic suffering and related criminal fraud has been to give lots of free money to the people who caused it all.
http://www.eschatonblog.com/

In the end, it turns out, America's entire post-9/11 response was exactly wrong. The much-derided idea of treating the terrorist attacks as a crime would have been the rational thing to do. Doing our best to launch a world war was not to our benefit. It was not to the benefit of geopolitical stability. It was not to the benefit of the kids who entered the military, full of patriotism and love for their country, and ended up dead halfway around the world. It was not to the benefit of Afghan civilians, people who had nothing to do with any of this, who ended up bombed, shot, maimed, driven from their homes, victims of circumstance. We can fight, if we like, another decade in Afghanistan. When we leave, Afghanistan will still belong to the people who live there, and they, not us, will determine its future.
http://gawker.com/5901349/now-we-all-agree-the-afghan-war-was-not-worth-fighting
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Police actions only benefits are

600% profit.

[msongs]

2. without war you don't need a military, therefore we must have wars etc nt

[saras]

3. You are completely overlooking the pleasure one can get from others' suffering.

Personally I think it is one of the prime motivators of the people running things. They can't not KNOW about the world unless they give up media. No, I think starving masses just signal to them that the world is in order.

And it was flamingly obvious that everything about 9/11 was wrong, from the Project for a New American Century predicting it ahead of time and writing the law to put in place when it happened, to pretty much everything afterward, including the meme of "conspiracy theorist".

[Zax2me]

4. Treating it as a crime was Obama's response.

Sadly, only in hindsight, do people now see it was the right response.
And even now some are in denial.