With all of our swiftly advancing technology which has sped up communication to being just about instantaneous, WAR IS OUTDATED, so 20th Century!
Or should be.
What the hell are we even doing debating just bombing people out of the blue, or gassing them for that matter, when Assad and Obama and whoever is the rebel leader/s can be instantly connected to work out a solution by phone/twitter/email/facebook/whatever the hell other device that's out there and not available or known to the public yet?
We need to pull back and THINK about what happens when missiles/bombs rain down on cities with human beings in them — human flesh does not stand any chance against high explosives.
We keep doing this to the same end — dead, mangled and dismembered bodies and more brothers, sisters, fathers, sons, husbands and wives with long memories and grievances to settle against those who killed and mangled.
Talk about breeding terrorism — that's what we're doing. When will we get a president who will stand up against the arms manufacturers, other corporate suppliers looking for massive profits, their paid for congressional operatives and the corporate media war drummers and just tell them, "NO, we are not getting into a civil war in another country even though you want to sell millions of dollars worth of your bombs/missiles to us and most likely to both of the other sides though intermediaries."
This president will say, "It stops here now, with me, or we will continue as a country in our warmongering ways as we've done throughout the entire 20th century and the first decade of the 21st."
This will take tremendous personal courage because presidents have been KILLED before.
I feel this president does not really want to do this, thus his flipping of the script to get congressional approval to thwart and delay the massive pressure being exerted upon him, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and all that comes with being the commander-in-chief of the only extant empire going today. He's boxed in and almost has to, at this point, answer the war drums, for the profits that can be made, for the political considerations that have to be answered, for the media critics to be quieted. After all, the 2014 campaigns are around the corner and Hillary/Democratic chances for 2016 are on the line as well
Let's hope this president has the courage do what hasn't really been done before, to say, "We will not do it. We will begin now in finding a way other than war to settle disputes between and within nations. We will stop being the warmongerer, blood-lusting people that we have been for so long."
And we HAVE been that for over a century in the eyes of many outside the US. Many inside our country can't seem to see that, or are in denial, being in the belly of the beast and all.
This president has a chance to bring a sea change to our being as a nation. Let's hope our faith that we've invested in him through hard work during two election campaigns won't be dashed by capitulation to yet another military campaign.
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