By Matt Bors.
War on Terror: Update, Week 716
Is anyone else actually paying attention to the infinite War on Terror being waged by the U.S. — besides Planet Waves and cartoonist Matt Bors?
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Seems to me the US surrendered any bit of ‘moral certitude’ on non-aggression in August of ’45 when we took it upon ourselves to slaughter with nuclear power. We slowly replaced that gaping hole in character with profit-margin of and for the military-industrial complex. We’re reaping the whirlwind.
Now we don’t notice the wars because the wars don’t notice us. The military is just one more commodity, bought and paid for. Want to throw a monkey wrench into that whole process? Reinstitute the draft. The politics would suddenly get very very personal and we’d see how just how important this everlasting WOT is to the public. The Millennials might even find a reason to activate politically, if conscripted.
And it might be reasonable to pay attention to the fact that every unstable nation on the planet is a giant swap meet designed to trade American ordnance and weaponry, the kind we leave behind and the kind we sell to perspective buyers, while here at home, we don’t have the political will to keep the shooters out of our own kindergartens. For those happier not to look, it would be overwhelming to think about the death of those “over there” when we still can’t seem to deal with the cause of those “right here.”
We hope for, and celebrate, the promise of America, but its reality doesn’t just need a face-lift, it needs a heart transplant. If we want this to look differently, we have to push harder … as Elizabeth Warren told Bill Maher last night … as a unified movement, dedicated to the end of plutocracy and the good of the people. Nothing else is gonna get it done.