The war profiteers must be licking their collective
chops.  The world again teeters on the
brink of violent conflagration on two fronts.  In the Mideast, Syria is ripping apart and its ally, Iran, continues
work on nuclear capability.  In the
middle of all this sits poor Israel, threatened on all sides by 13^th Century barbarian Arabs who still cut off heads and hands and force females to
wear facial coverings and remain subservient.  To the Israelis President Obama has pledged that “we have your back.”   

In North Korea, which is also furiously approaching
nuclear capacity while its citizens starve to death, a puppet leader barely out
of childhood is having his strings pulled by his military and issues bellicose
threats about bombing the U. S.  Feeling
threatened by the world’s resultant alarm, they continue to shoot off rockets
and have disavowed the armistice that has kept them at bay since 1953. 

Meanwhile, in those countries where we have spilled
American blood and spent billions of taxpayer dollars, nothing has
changed.  Iraq and Afghanistan are no
more stable now than when we first sent in our military, and the military
industrial complex continues to roll in our devalued currency.  No Pentagon general, nor any defense industry
lobbyist, will ever back away from our spineless politicians who, for their
part, will continue the same obscene malarkey about how we must protect our
suburban housewives from the heathens on the other side of the oceans.  All this for the sake of “freedom” and a
democracy that exists in name only. 

Let’s get this straight.  The GIs we keep sending into harm’s way are
not protecting our freedoms.  They are
protecting the freedoms of the corporate fat cats to earn more money than you
can even imagine.  The success of the
9-11 conspirators in destroying the World Trade Center set off an obsessed
paranoia to destroy terrorists, for whom we have been combing the far reaches
of backward countries ever since, at enormous expense, not to mention loss of
life. 

One of the ironies of all this is that, to date, the
only country that has blasted anyone with its nuclear capability is… us.