Of all the people you know or meet how rare, if at all, is it, to encounter anyone who really wants empire and war and with all the insane amounts of money spent as such?
The question is who amongst us that we personally know if asked would say, yes, without any qualification, I want to have wars?
For now, then, and just for discussion, forgetting all else (including the “other” side) and starting therefore from square one and with the assumption (or fact) that we create our world, this question is asked – So why is it a country (Us) that is only about 4% of the world’s population has dropped more bombs than the 96% rest of the world combined?
If we really would prefer to not have wars and to use that nearly unfathomable amount of money so directed to be redirected to our having an even better quality of living and with all its added enjoyment, please know there is a way.
First a good question might be how did we get to this point where more than half of all the money we spend is spent on this now modern-day completely unnecessary and historically unfounded philosophy of perpetual war for so-called perpetual peace?
How is this philosophy allowed to be perpetuated and is there something that can be done, what about “there is a way, really” and is there hope presently either in fact or at least on the horizon?
Reflections on the GOP (Grand Old Party – the Republicans) presidential primaries indicates that there is hope, that we may be getting close to the end of this stated and described insanity.
One nominee, who is the first place winner so far, wants America’s military to be so powerful that no one will ever challenge us. Now as scary as that is and in particular as reminiscent of others in history, it is unambiguously insane as there is no such reality in that, as there is simply no such thing.
Any entity, for example a country, that wants, (as previously blogged) “to be the bully on the block,” would then by that very nature (and by human nature) always be under attack.
Meanwhile the thought here is that this man is absolutely and absolutely only, a very lost very rich man whose personal wealth ranks in only the .0012% of our population and is truly ignorant of a more true life. (Please let’s discuss).
Now, and back to the primaries, the second place winner so far,
supports what is largely exactly the opposite. He wants to draw down
America’s military from its currently having somewhere between five
hundred and eleven hundred bases in over one hundred and fifty
countries.
(Earlier blog stated the US has over 300 bases however more recent research shows the much larger numbers):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deployments
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5564
http://www.occasionalplanet.org/2011/01/24/military-mystery-how-many-bases-does-the-us-have-anyway/
The point here is not to suggest or say definitively that one man or one man’s views are necessarily worth your vote as being better than the other’s. We can each decide on our own and certainly there are other candidates.
But the point is that now with such diverse views in the political discussion and therefore the elephant in the room is being noticed and other even better founded views can now more readily enter the discussion, we are then it seems here anyhow, perhaps getting closer to that better quality of life (worldwide) and its enjoyment..?
What do you think?