Thread: America’s Wars of Self-Destruction

By Chris Hedges
War is a poison. It is a poison that nations and groups must at times ingest to ensure their survival. But, like any poison, it can kill you just as surely as the disease it is meant to eradicate. The poison of war courses unchecked through the body politic of the United States. We believe that because we have the capacity to wage war we have the right to wage war. We embrace the dangerous self-delusion that we are on a providential mission to save the rest of the world from itself, to implant our virtues—which we see as superior to all other virtues—on others, and that we have a right to do this by force. This belief has corrupted Republicans and Democrats alike. And if Barack Obama drinks, as it appears he will, the dark elixir of war and imperial power offered to him by the national security state, he will accelerate the downward spiral of the American empire.

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"...but fuck what the rest of the world thinks." ~Right wingers

If he wins. But he's talking about Afghanistan/Waziristan/Pakistan.

The Persians, Ottomans, British, and Russians all gave up and left under fire.

Nobody has ever held territory in that terrain. It's all up and down.





These guys are probably the sons of Mujahadin, freedom fighters (terrorists) we armed against the Soviets

What the hell, war and weapons are our biggest business. We have been killing people and funding other people to kill people, usually there own, for so long now that it is a way of life. Eventually we will dominate the world and then we will get to the work on killing the people in our country who have always been against us.