So far there is no indication the candidates of the two US political parties intend to end USA’s military involvement in the world Seemingly it does not concern the people of the USA, they are not like the activists who wanted the end of the Vietnam war. They are content with their lives, what happens abroad does not concern them anymore, one of the reasons is that they are do not know enough. During the Vietnam war the media was free and could report everything which was happening in the Vietnam war.
With the media under absolute control - with ‘embedded journalists’ they only report what the military will allow them to report. If the US media actually free then the facts would speak for themselves and the people would know what is really going on. But when the media is entirely in the pocket of the US establishment there can never be any truth.
People will only know what the establishment will let them. The result is there is an air of absolute apathy and indifference.The candidates of both parties are also victims of this grand scale of disinformation. They will support the wars without having the facts correct. This serves specia interestl groups which happen to be very powerful,
the US government is prepared pouring infinite amount of money to fight the wars and devote tremendous resources as well. The military personnel are fighting – without questioning the reasons.
To say that these wars are about oil – would be rejected as an idea of some conspirary freak’s fantasy. Another one vehemently denied is that what had happened seven years ago in New York was staged to make it look like a terrorist attack when it was nothing of the sort, actually it was just excuse to start a war, because the US economy was in deep recession and hundreds of thousands of people were going to lose their jobs. Patriotism overtook the resentment of losing jobs. Only now people are writing against the war, the only war they are writing about is the war in Iraq, not the one in Afghanistan.
Somehow the war in Afghanistan is the media is not allowed to comment on. Withdrawing from Afghanistan is unthinkable - because USA’s Public Enemy Number 1 has not yet been found and killed besides it is a real war and an insugency like in Iraq.
The Taliban have united Afghanistan against the coalition forces who having a hard time fighting over there.
The more soldiers and all kinds hi-tech equipment pouring into Afghanistan is making the war exceedingly expensive. It is not a cross border war. Large amount of equipment are being transported from thousands of miles away and sent in for battle much of it ends up being destroyed or taken away. Kiling of the foreign soldiers is worse because it is not possible to replace a soldier. The equipment the soldiers have on them has is very advanced and is used by the Taliban.
Since the US has unlimited money they will keep pouring in money in fighting in Afghanistan. But in case the worse happens – the Taliban manage to trounce the coalition forces and they have no choice but to retreat forever, it is certain that the USA will retaliate by turning Afghanistan into a nuclear wasteland.
Association of Democracies!?
There is this ludicrous proposal of encouraging democracy all over the world. This association will be led by the USA. One might ask is the USA really interested in establishing democracy? Will the USA want the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia transformed into a democratic republic, with proper elections and different political parties contesting elections and the monarchy should cease. Will the USA want the same to happen in UAE and Kuwait? Will the USA want general elections in Afghanistan and Iraq – not let the puppet regimes to continue? Democracy has never been in the interest of the USA. Dicatators nd kings are far easier to control instead of properly elected leaders.
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