America's Wars

One thing that has become patently obvious over the last several decades, is that the U.S. must create wars in order to survive. Wars are good for: employment (especially the government kind), economic growth (at least in the military/industrial complex), esprit de corps, political prestidigitation, and a host of other smoke and mirror government B.S.

The sheer number of "wars" that this bankrupt economy is "fighting" has become so large in fact, that there is likely not a single government worker who can name every one of them. War on: poverty, education, terror, drugs, Afghanistan, hunger, homeless, immigration, segregation, Iraq, racism, tobacco, Libya, obesity - and on and on and on.

So, the U.S. can declare "war" on anything and everything it sees fit - whether domestic or foreign. This has been a tried and true method to: raise taxes, pass a bunch of new "laws", increase the number of federal, state and local workers, both admitted and clandestine, and generally keep that average U.S. citizen under the thumb of an ever increasing corrupt government. But what's the fun in that anymore? Plus, it takes time to dot the i's and cross the t's to make everything appear "semi-legal and semi-constitutional." (Remember the constitution? NO? Neither do we.)

It is a lot easier to simply say "XYZ is an ACT OF WAR." Now isn't that easy.

Henceforth any Cyber-Attack (like maybe someone sending Anthony Weiner's weiner shot through cyber-space) can be considered an ACT OF WAR by the U.S.

The U.S. reserves the right to use "all necessary means in order to defend our nation, our allies, our partners and our interests."

The world already knows how much the U.S. loves to launch it's cruise missiles and certainly will use those missiles to protect our oil, commodity, currency, real estate and banking speculators (our interests). OH YEAH, and stop all those cyber-attacks on Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman and Google and Sony (our partners) and etc.

According to the BBC and security firm McAfee, 8 out of 10 countries around the world had critical systems targeted by hackers in 2010. Of course the U.S. is no exception and, as the U.S. is so well liked in much of the world, we can only hope more and more countries attempt to compromise our computer systems. We literally could declare war on a whole bevy of countries.

And all the little elves that make all those wonderful killing devices for the U.S. are going to get filthy rich.

That is all this really is about.

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