"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses." That is a quote by Thomas Jefferson. And he is right. The problem we have nowadays is that the men who decide to go to war are usually not the men who are sent to lead it. The men who die in war are usually the poor, the misguided or the unlucky. The poor are the ones who thought that the military was a good way to earn some money or a good way to get a college education. The misguided are the ones who joined believing they were fighting for our country and our way of life, and the unlucky are those who were either drafted or sent up through the National Guard because they thought they were only going to give up one weekend a month for some steady cash.
I realize that my point of view is likely not a popular one. Still, when was the last time that you heard a Rockefeller or a Buffett was killed in Iraq or Afghanistan? Or when was the last time you heard that a Bush or Obama were killed in action? Nowadays, our wars are about money and oil, pure and simple. If there is no clear reason to have a war somewhere, the powers that be invent an enemy to battle. False flag attacks are used to rile up the population and push the country into war. Nowadays, our politicians don't even have to have the guts to declare war. Instead we have police actions...or war on things. We have the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on poverty. Instead of protecting our borders, which would go a long way towards stopping crime and terrorism in the U.S., our Department of Homeland Security makes a big show of harassing travelers at the airports. See how safe they make you as they grope the women and pat down men and x-ray your luggage while you are on your way to Disney Land? Whenever there is an attack on U.S. soil, we need to ask two questions. Who did it? And who benefits? Usually, you will find that the group that is accused of perpetrating the act isn't the group who will benefit from it. Nope, usually the group who is accused of doing the deed is in for a shit-storm of negative publicity and brutal deaths. Meanwhile, the victims of these acts of terror are usually low-level nobodies or low level military personnel. In the grand scheme of things, the people who die hold no value for the group accused of killing them. The dead do have great value for the powers that be in our country though. These people lose nothing important to them, yet they have everyday people who have died that they can use to whip the general population into a frenzy of blood lust against the accused. It's sad actually. The people who die are used to get the general population riled up against the people our government wants out of the way. Meanwhile, targets whose deaths would have benefited the group that is accused of doing the attack are left unscathed. An attack on the rich and powerful of our country or our political leaders would be a much better target for these terrorist organizations. Yet they never attack them. At the same time, an attack on these same people would get less of a response from our general population. Yet every time, these groups supposedly go after the target that will actually hurt their movement more than help it. Why? Go back and ask yourself, who benefits the most from one of these attacks? What does the attack achieve, and who actually benefits from it? Finally, ask "who gets hurt by the attack?" If you see that the group that is accused of doing the attack is more likely to be hurt by it than helped, then you are likely looking at a false flag attack...particularly if the people who actually benefit from the attack are the same people who would have likely made a better target for the accused group in the first place. Face it folks, wars are here not because you want them, or I want them, but because someone who can benefit from them, while being reasonably sure not to be pulled into them wants them. If we had a simple rule that our political "leaders" actually had to lead our troops in the war, regardless of their age or sex, we would have a whole lot less wars. The politicians don't mind punching the patriotism card and calling for wars or police actions because they know they are reasonably safe from ever having to go anywhere where they would be in danger. Since they and their families are not in danger, why not play the war card for some of their benefactors who would likely benefit from it? Meanwhile, the poor, misguided and unlucky will continue to die. In my mind, even one life is too much to lose in a phony war. If we have to go to war, then target the politicians who force us to go to war. Target the money that funds our enemies. Target the families of those we know are involved in the war. Right now, we don't do that because our leaders do not want that done to them! Go ahead, kill their military personnel, but leave their politicians and wealthy class alone! Otherwise, they might attack our wealthy as well...and that would not do. A wise man once asked "what if we had a war and nobody came?" I would truly love to find that out. But as long as our wealthy can trick our people to go die while doing their bidding, then we will never really find that out.
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