War - to people like Obama, Romney and the people they serve - doesn't mean death or misery or lost limbs and minds.
It doesn't mean a soldier's life, a mother or a father's life, or a child's life blasted to liquid or left wasting away toward death.
It means something altogether different. It means the creation of artificial demand for certain favored sectors and a jump-start to a languishing economy.
It means teaching the world that it will continue to pay for oil in US dollars or else.
It means distracting a restless populace from the meaninglessness of their decaying lives into a rally around a flag and the cause of patriotism to justify even more sacrifice.
It means a rising stock market and arms company stock price windfalls - like the millions of taxpayer funded war largesse the Bush family clan reaped out of their Carlyle Group holdings along with their Saudi counterparts the bin Ladens.
And with concentrated effort and a bit of luck, war means the wholesale capture of human and mineral resources at a non-negotiated, discounted price - arguably its ultimate aim.
Alternatively, it can even mean demand destruction - providing the means to regroup and reallocate resources according to the dictates of the executive in a planned economy or a command economy.
For many in the privileged class, war presents a cornucopia of enticements that woo and intoxicate them into a delirium of self-righteous rigidity, of arrogance and exceptionalism, of paranoid rationalization, of lust for power and control, of hunger for violence and, ultimately, into a delirium of insanity.
(Italics original)
That’s from Dale Gordon Sinner of the International Man.
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