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In reply to the discussion: Should women be drafted into the military? [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)But you are right.
More and more, it seems to me that the real business of the USA, now that manufacturing has fled and so many good jobs have been outsourced/H-1B'd - is war.
Heh, somewhere someone will look at a poll like this and say hey! Americans are for war! And think everybody should go!
It is extremely naive to think a draft and wars will unify the country and stop wars. No, the police have been duly militarized, weapons and training, and demonstrators will be swiftly dealt with. The media won't cover stuff they are told not to cover.
The CIA is being real up front about expanding so they can monitor everything, all the time, all over the world. Or universe, as they put it. Remember how the Occupy people were herded, arrested, tear-gassed, raided, etc? That was just practice. I doubt anti-war demonstrators will affect anything but arrest rates and more overtime. Sad, but, IMO, true.
Voting against war? With the current hawks-in-waiting? Don't think that will have any effect for years. If at all.
We will just keep getting the Russia boogeyman stories and clips of beheadings. Well, not the beheadings carried out by the Saudis, of course, Those, evidently, are GOOD ones.
So, back to your post - evidently "we" are going to keep on sticking our nose in where it does not belong, in the name of peace and Democracy.