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In reply to the discussion: Everyone hates ISIS....So what do you want to do about it ? [View all]guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)On the right, we have lunatics like Cheney, and McCain, and assorted other war whores who are always trumpeting the NEED to use military force. But when a nation spends 1 trillion a year on the war machine we do not want that machinery to rust.
On the American left, we also have war whores like Obama, Kerry, and others who feel the same obligation to use the war machine. Perhaps Nader was correct to refer to the 2 major parties as 2 sides of the same coin.
As to solutions, the saying "when one only has a hammer every problem looks like a nail" comes to mind.
As to blowback, the concept is easy, but when people are convinced of their essential rightness, especially citizens of the Number 1 military power, the assumption is that if intention is good than only good can follow.