No more. I've had enough. Just enough

[CrispyQ]

78. Outstanding post.

I think that military healthcare and benefits should be paid for by the corporations. They're the ones who benefit from all the carnage. And those in the armed forces need to be disabused of the notion that they're fighting for America's freedom.

Americans need to wake up before the MIC squanders every last thing of value.

A Brief History of U.S. Interventions:
1945 to the Present

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html

by William Blum
Z magazine , June 1999

snip...

The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:

> making the world safe for American corporations;

> enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;

> preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model;

> extending political and economic hegemony over as wide an area as possible, as befits a "great power."

This in the name of fighting a supposed moral crusade against what cold warriors convinced themselves, and the American people, was the existence of an evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.

The United States carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations in this period.

~more uncomfortable truth at link

And an interesting aside:

The Author Who Got A Big Boost From bin Laden
January 21, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/20/AR2006012001971.html

snip...

Twenty-four hours after Osama bin Laden told the world that the American people should read the work of a little-known Washington historian, William Blum was still adjusting.

Blum, who at 72 is accustomed to laboring in relative left-wing obscurity, checked his emotions and pronounced himself shocked and, well, pleased.

"This is almost as good as being an Oprah book," he said yesterday between telephone calls from the world media and bites of a bagel. "I'm glad." Overnight, his 2000 work, "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower," had become an Osama book.

snip...

From Blum's end of the conversations, you could tell the reporters were expecting him to express some kind of discomfort, remorse, maybe even shame. Blum refused to acknowledge feelings he did not have.

~more at link