At the same time, we cannot cope with then permanent poison spreading across the Earth and its waterways from DU tipped weapons. Likewise, we cannot contend with the poisoning of more and more minds of warfare victims who turn into dedicated terrorists as payback.
Besides, why should we be forced to support greedy war profiteers such as are found at Halliburton, KBR, Xe, Exxon Mobil...and drug cartels, who get kickbacks to leave our troops alone? Why should we be expected to subsume the overall high outlay, such as the recent U.S. $636 billion military spending bill demands, on top of crippling deficits, such as the U.S. public debt that is quickly soaring towards $13 trillion?
Frankly, we can't afford to destroy region after region while terrorizing their civilians in a bid to put puppet governments in place whose despots will sell off their land's resources to the highest bidders. Certainly, we cannot, with any scruples involved, use these destroyed places' petroleum products to fuel further armed invasions in a bid to secure further resources for western corporate, rather than Russian and Chinese, interests.
In short, we absolutely cannot expend lavish amounts on wars -- period. We cannot for the sake of the people harmed and killed, we cannot for the sake of the environment, and we cannot when Americans are starving and jobless on homeland soil.
Clearly, employment opportunities could be generated by shifting war funds into creation of work supporting provision of alternative energy as a substitute for fossil fuels. Wouldn't that be far better than the current expansion of wars in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and other strategic locations? Isn't it a constructive alternative to building huge bases in countries that abut oil rich Iran and Venezuela?
As long as the response to such questions is always "no", we can expect ever larger and more greatly drawn out wars. We can anticipate that fossil fuels used in such fights will disappear more rapidly than they would otherwise. Eventually, we can, also be assured that the ongoing reckless military rampage will lead to a third world war if Russian or Chinese leaders, finally, reach a limit to the threats that can be endured from western imperial hubris.
In fact, how can anyone anywhere embrace an increasingly extensive war trajectory? If the answer to such an inquiry seems ambiguous at best, it, without a doubt, will become patently clear quite soon enough.
References
[1] snopes.com: John Gebhardt[http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/gebhardt.asp].
[2]Warning: Image is graphic: Imperialism [http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2007/12/imperialism.html].
[3] Blackwater used 'child prostitutes in Iraq'[http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102887§ionid=3510203].
[4] Admiral Gene LaRocque Quotes/Quotations[http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/admiral+gene+larocque].
[5] Quotes[http://www.antiwar.com/quotes.php].
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