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In reply to the discussion: From the beginning, I was against the Iraq War. Most people on this board probably share this view... [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Once started, it draws to it in one way or the other, those who sustain and promote it and it gains momentum. It was the early 60's...just the briefest of periods between the late 40s and 50s...when the Nazis gave way to the Communists. The extreme Right flipped to the extreme Left and barely a war beat was missed. Now the Communists are gone for whom we have substituted the Muslims/Arabs.
For those who have been listening to this same old same old for many decades, we hear the same stories of the atrocities of the newest set of bad guys. Bad, bad, bad. Same basic themes...and we are good, good, good and must deliver/liberate the good people. War has always been waged for riches for the upper class; land, people/slaves, taxes, oil, pipelines...whatever the currency of the era. The jingoism/rah rah is merely chatter for our own fearful, huddled masses.
Students of the Roman Empire find much in common with the American Empire. It will ultimately likely crumble from within. Imploding from the massive weight of taxes, poliltical and corporate corruption, military over-reach, lack of opportunity for the young, technology of destruction, and some other culture will begin the ascent...my guess would be China.
I've always found it interesting that world history is chaptered or sectioned off pretty much by the dates of war.