Why Not Another World War?

Why Not Another World War?

I Hate War

I most recently took some time off and traveled South and then East. I spent some of my days soaking up information at Monticello, Mt. Vernon studying my favorite Presidents. I received many lessons on my journey, including a lesson in suffering in respect to slavery, the evil that surrounded it....and war. I ended my journey in Washington D.C.

FDR once said "I have seen the agony". War: In today's society, we have become immune to the word. It's become a way of life for Americans. If a foreigner were to ask you to describe American history, the typical American would describe it in terms of what war we were in. But if you look to even our most "popular" president and to our most "popular" war - even he said "I hate war", "I have seen the agony".

Please put away your bed of apathy. 

REMEMBER: In 1930, They Didn't Know It Was "The Great Depression" Yet

These are clips from the next great depression 2010.

Obama's Contribution to Peace: Congress Declares War on Iran?

US, Israel Warships in Suez May Be Prelude to Faceoff with Iran

Key Indicators of a New Depression

With the mainstream media focusing on the country's leveling unemployment rate, improving retail sales, and nascent housing recovery, one might think that the US government has successfully navigated the economy through recession and growth has returned. But I will argue that a look under the proverbial hood reveals a very different picture. I believe the data shows that the US economy is badly damaged, and a modern-day depression has begun. In fact, just as World War I was originally called The Great War (and was retroactively renamed after World War II), Peter Schiff has said that one day the world will refer to the 1929-41 era as Great Depression I, and the current period as Great Depression II.

U.S. Still World's Policeman

America is still the best guarantor of freedom and prosperity ... The U.S. still possesses unprecedented power projection capabilities, and just as important, it is armed with the goodwill of countless countries that know the U.S. offers protection from bullies.Much nonsense has been written in recent years about the prospects of American decline and the inevitable rise of China. But it was not a declining power that I saw in recent weeks as I jetted from the Middle East to the Far East through two of America's pivotal geographic commands — Central Command and Pacific Command. The very fact that the entire world is divided up into American military commands is significant. There is no French, Indian or Brazilian equivalent — not yet even a Chinese counterpart. It is simply assumed without much comment that American soldiers will be central players in the affairs of the entire world. It is also taken for granted that a vast network of American bases will stretch from Germany to Japan — more than 700 in all, depending on how you count. They constitute a virtual American empire of Wal-Mart-style PXs, fast-food restaurants, golf courses and gyms. – LA Times, Max Boot
Dominant Social Theme: America the wanted.
Free-Market Analysis: This is an astonishing and forceful statement by Max Boot, "the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing editor to Opinion," according to the brief LA Times bio at the bottom of the article. It is notable for a number of reasons, but mostly because it serves as a restatement of an elite dominant social theme, that America is "the necessary enforcer of the world's democracy."