Maher: U.S. Needs To Give Up War Addiction And Define ‘Peace As Strength’ - RawStory

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2. Nobody denies that we need to be able to mount a strong defense

This isn't an all or nothing proposition, light switch mentality sort of thing.

What it means is we gradually cede Empire, closing all but the most strategic bases, and consider making friends worldwide rather than intimidating everybody with 150+ foreign bases and multiple wars of corporate convenience.

We're ahead of the UK and other empires in that we have relatively little actual conquered territory to cede, just what our bases are sitting on, and no governments to assist in building from the ground up once the colonialists are out of power.

Constant warfare has bankrupted most empires. It's about to do that to us, especially since the plutocracy has declared itself exempt from paying the costs of it.