Let's instead look at a few simple very recent facts and try to put them in perspective.
Fact 1: The U.S. is not officially at war with any other country at this time.
Fact 2: The U.S. has not been attacked in any sense of the word in the last 16 years.
Fact 3: Last year the U.S. military dropped 26,171 bombs on seven different countries.
Mind you, these are the official figures. Who knows what the real totals are?
These were not water-filled balloons or July 4th fireworks. At the end of every explosion, there were body parts strewn all over the surrounding area. Survivors were being crushed in collapsed buildings, or crawling along the ground with limbs torn off, leaving a trail of blood squirting out of severed arteries. Innocent people, men, women, and children just going about the everyday business of living, were mangled by a lethal mix of high-velocity shrapnel, and chunks of rubble created by ton after ton of high-yield explosives dropped anonymously from the sky.
Rigorous studies have made it very clear that well over half of the casualties of current warfare are civilians. In what are called 'internal conflicts' -- like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia -- which now are by far the most prevalent form of military conflict, the percentages can be as high as 90% civilians. These violent clashes are typically fought by proxies. In all of the countries just listed, the aggressors are mercenaries paid by the U.S. and its allies to enter and destroy a country in what is then deceptively characterized as a civil war or "people's uprising". There is very disturbing recent evidence, for example, that the U.S. through CIA back channels has been funding ISIS, Al Nusra, as well as other extremely barbarous terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria.
By the way, that money they withhold from your paycheck? Or that quarterly tax payment you regularly make? Think about it. This is where a big chunk of your tax dollars is going. You're paying for this.
Does any of this make my point a little more comprehensible?
26,171 bombs ... funding terrorism ... innocent civilians murdered ... all in a days work.
America can say with great pride that what it does, it usually does very well.
When we put our minds to something, we pull out all the stops.
Now we can put cold-blooded killing right up there in the Top 10.
We kill efficiently. We kill without remorse. We kill without hesitation.
NOTICE TO THE WORLD ...
Beware! We are a nation of relentless savagery!
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