Ron Ruggieri • 7 years ago
The American ruling class is planning for war - with no visible support from the American people. FAKE NEWS ? Its national headquarters is the New York Times.
The Czar of Russia was also planning for imperialist war early in the 20th century. A guy named Vladimir Lenin had a CLASS war strategy at the same time.
nahweh • 7 years ago
Follow the money.
Ron Ruggieri • 7 years ago
The association of patriotism with militarism is quite wrongheaded. As a youth famous scientist -pacifist and socialist- Albert Einstein joked about soldiers marching in the grand Prussian style : " They don't need a brain. A spinal cord would suffice ", he thought.
" America First " militarism is just as stupid. " What if they start a war and nobody shows up ? " ( a Vietnam era question ) .
Our Memorial Days mostly honor war- not the mentally and physically ruined veterans - or the speechless dead . The Dalton Trumbo novel " Johnny Got His Gun " speaks for all of them-even many years after the Great War - " the war to make the world safe for democracy ".
Sad to see the Democrats evolve into a neo-con war party, the kind anti-imperialist American author Mark Twain ridiculed more than a century ago.
Even our " good wars " always begin with a lie.
When will learn war isn’t the only option to resolve conflicts or imaginary threats? I often question our genuine interest to help countries achieve peace/democracy; historically more innocent people are killed and left in devastated conditions to suffer even more. Invasion of Iraq has metastasized into the destabilization of the region to date, and has affected Europe and us. Now we’re talking about Iran's threat…to whom? Our economy, infrastructure, schools, etc?