Is War a Critical Issue with You?

[Octafish]

45. The reason we have all the wars is to protect and grow the 1-Percent's Holdings.

Those bastards have killed hundreds of millions to keep their filthy position. Like Gen. Smedley Butler USMC put it: "War is a Racket."

Diana Johnstone wrote a new book on the subject and its impact on our recent politics:

...The book begins with a quote from George Kennan written in 1948... WWII had ended only a few years earlier, leaving the US on top of the heap and the rest of the major powers in ashes. Kennan wrote then, “We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only about 6.3% of its population….In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. (This resentment is certainly not surprising since the US and its fellow European colonialists and neocolonialists had gained that wealth by disposing of others, for example in the American Indian genocide, or by extracting from the “other” nearly cost free labor of others, for example, the Black slaves brought to the concentration camps of the South. jw) Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain that position of disparity.”...

SOURCE: http://original.antiwar.com/john-v-walsh/2015/12/07/diana-johnstone-dissects-hillary-queen-of-chaos/

As WikiLeaks have shown, I don't think the government should have any business monetizing foreign policy by way of war. That's how Dulles Brothers, Nixon and the rest have done it, pretty much uninterrupted since 1947. It hasn't worked. At least, for the 99 percent of US citizens.