Replies to post #199545 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[SilverSurfer]

BOREALIS - "Why We Are In a Perpetual Series of Wars …" "Why is the war of terror being waged indefinitely?"

Endless Debt and Endless Tax fund Endless War... or as others said it much better than I...

Top American economists say that endless war has ruined our economy. It benefits a handful of elites, while levying a tax on the vast majority of Americans.

“war is the health of the state”, and Thomas Paine wrote in the Rights of Man "taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes."

George Washington – in his farewell address of 1796 – said:

"Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty."


Madison
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."

Greenwald
"In sum, there are factions in many governments that crave a state of endless war because that is when power is least constrained and profit most abundant."


Postscript: Under Bush, it was the “war on terror”. Obama has re-branded the perpetual fighting as “humanitarian war”.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/01/endless-war-feature-not-bug-of-u-s-policy.html

Eisenhower Warned to no avail.....

[F6]

Michael Hastings' Dangerous Mind: Journalistic Star Was Loved, Feared and Haunted

Aug 22 2013
http://www.laweekly.com/2013-08-22/news/michael-hastings-crash/full/ [with comments]