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A list of
America’s major wars, not counting all
the conflict with American Natives that continued sporadically through the late
1800’s, shows that the natural state of the United States is war; with the
time between allowing for improving weaponry, rearming and growing a new
generation of cannon fodder.
A listing of
our major wars is self-explanatory:
1675-1678:
King Philips War
1689-1697:
King Williams War
1702-1713:
Queen Ann’s War
1744-1748:
King George’s War
1756-1763:
French and Indian War
1775-1783:
American Revolution
1798-1800:
Franco American War
1800-1815:
Barbary Coast Wars
1812-1815:
War of 1812
1846-1848:
Mexican American War
1861-1865:
Civil War
1898:
Spanish American War
1914-11918:
World War One
1939-1945:
World War Two
1950-1953:
Korean War
1960-1975:
Vietnam War
1990-1991:
Persian Gulf War
2001-xxxx:
Invasion of Afghanistan
2003-xxxx:
Invasion of Iraq
2015-xxx:
ISIS
The longest
times we have gone between a major war is thirty-three years, just after the
Civil war, during which time we were still annihilating the Indian nations.
About the
time of the First World War it became evident that war was extremely
profitable. The United States built
planes, tanks, vehicles and arms at an astounding rate. Manufacturing firms were over loaded with
demands for war supplies.
After the
World War One the United States decided to improve its military weaponry. The government begun funding research to
improve tanks, military aircraft, guns and munitions. People working in the military industrial
complex were prideful of their patriotic employment.
Barely
twenty years later we were back in a major World War. The military industrial complex fired up
production and the whole nation supported the resulting recession as funds were
diverted to war: both the cost of war and the hardware necessary to conduct
it.
It is easy
to see that regular people have very little to say about the course of the
Nation. Congress either does nothing, or
enacts laws contrary to the ideals of the majority. This is because Congress is bought and
paid for by ‘business leaders’ and companies, many that make their fortunes
from America’s obsession with all things military.
Do you
actually think that General Dynamics cared that the tanks the US furnished the
Iraqi army were abandon and turned over to ISIS, requiring new tanks be
purchased to rearm the Iraqis? The same
for the guns and weapons and vehicles left for ISIS, requiring rearmament of
the ‘new’ Iraqi army.
Do you think
munitions manufacturers are sorry that a bombing campaign is going on in Syria;
or that the war has stretched on in Afghanistan and Iraq for 14 years?
I remember
‘the joke’ in Vietnam: you can tell the
North Vietnamese from the South Vietnamese army because the North only have
fifty-percent American made weapons.
War
expenditures are the grease that oils the economy. Nearly every manufacturing job depends
heavily on military contracts. Except
for Bush’s tax cuts and deregulation of the banking industry this country would
be in an economic war boom.
From small
businesses making circuit boards to major companies turning out complex
aircraft, war business is booming.
Unfortunately,
the profits stay with investors and dont trickle down.
So let’s not
fool ourselves, we are a Nation of War - a Nation of perpetual War. War is the natural state of the state of
this Union, and our whole American economy rest with the military industrial
complex.
War is the economic base of this country; this is why we spend more on military than the next eight largest militarized countries combined - and why we justify the United States as the police for the world.
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Citizens meet your newest jobs program: M1A2 SEP V1 tank from General Dynamics.
General Dynamics says this new 395 million dollar contract will support 282 industries.
Economy thy name is Tank.
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Ol’Buzzard
This is true of world history as a whole. War is always how wealth and power have been obtained. War and its progeny -- oppression and exploitation.
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