OK, gotta get this off my chest

[freshwest]

21. Thanks for the funding figures. Wish I had a link to that. But it was something I've harped on.

They did not give us that money out of love or affection. They expect a return.

What is that return? Jobs, manufacturing, land, orivileges, contracts, what?

The USA is part of a global system and has been for some time. Our media teaches kids that war is sexy and natural.

That the bigger our machines of death, the smarter we are, that our efficiency proves our superiority to others. That to win is all that matters.

This is in many aspects of domestic life. And why did the USA take on this role?

I know of what WW2 changed, and why we are stuck in this position, partly. The nations of the western world did not want to see that happen again and decided to pass the burden on to us as their children, by law if not by blood and culture.

It frightened me when Tony Blair spoke before the Congress in the Bush years. He said that the USA was created for the war that was being prosecuted in Iraq, it was our destiny.



I found that idea a mystery and a horror at the same time. It may have been just a sales job.

I think much of our economic woes come from the payments of those debts to other nations and that they are paid in trade agreements for the wars.