The United States Wants War

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      The United States last "officially" went to war  in December of 1941. We have remained in a perpetual state of war ever since. The military industrial complex, seeing the massive profits they had made in WWI and were making after the rise of the Axis, began to creep into the political arena to be able to drive foreign policy towards more conflicts. Since then they have set the stage for the terrorism and instability we witness in the world today. This was by design and President Eisenhower, in his 1961 farewell address, tried to warn us about it. He stated, "The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society."

      Well that structure has changed immensely.  He continued, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together"
                                                                                                                                             

      At this point in history it was too late. The machine had already been created to have us involved in a perpetual war against ideology's that cannot be defeated with bombs or bullets.  A new, young President had been elected. He was someone who was an outsider to the clandestine powers that be. He did not agree with what he found and believed that it was a danger to our society. He tried to curtail this tide as it began to take control of our government but was unsuccessful. He then decided to take it to the American people, to "blow the lid off" this conspiracy, but he was silenced.

       As time went forward we began to see that in the US everything must be a "war". A war against terror, a war against drugs, against immigrants,  and whistle-blowers, etc, etc. We need enemies. Without a constant supply of them our defense contractors like Honeywell and Dyncorp would have to lay off workers which would hurt the economy and American “resolve” would remain untested.  Let’s just look at the conflicts the United States has been in just since 1980: Iran (1980, 1987-88), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-93, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Let us not forget our perpetual "War on Terror"

      They will never be interested in addressing the root cause of terror, because without terror there is no perpetual war to fight, and no profit to be generated. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan administration, has said,  "The purpose of these wars is to provide a reason for the trillion dollar annual budget of the military security complex. It is very difficult to have such massive expenditure without a cause, without a reason. So restoring the war in the Middle East is the reason.  Now, I think Washington had hoped to replace the Middle East in wars with a new Cold War with Russia. But Vladimir Putin said he was not going to participate," even though the US continues to try to provoke him.

   

    It continues around the world, America's war for profit policy. As we withdraw from Afghanistan outgoing President Hamid Karzai has stated, "We don't have peace because the Americans didn't want peace." The continuation of wars, the seeding of mistrust in volatile areas, or the CIA instigating unrest in Europe and every continent around the globe is Washington's way of justifying the massive military security budget. They have come up with a way of keeping the American public afraid so they will accept the police state at home. 

      In this new year Americans will be deluged with a large amount of anti-Russian propaganda. It has already started. You see across the media in movies, television shows, and print that Russia is our "mortal enemy" They will say that the cold war is back and it's all Russia's fault. This is the big lie that has been perpetuated for decades. It gives the powers that be the excuse for more weapons, more deficits, more fear, and less liberty.