Each time that America insists upon going to war, declared or undeclared, it needs to not only ask the question as to what America is fighting for, but after it is all said and done, it needs to answer the question as to whether or not America achieved what it set out to achieve. This question and corresponding answer are absolutely paramount, especially with a nation that has the audacity to determine that its required budget for military affairs should be $1.5 trillion, which quite obviously means that those who are its citizens are going to get a whole lot less when it comes to any sort of safety net, education, infrastructure, healthcare, and so on.
The reality of America and its wars is pretty darn clear, of which it could be said that since the end of World War II, there has not been a single war in which whatever objective America professed to have in mind was actually achieved, and in many a case, was not only not close to being achieved, but actually made the situation worse.
To believe somehow that America is fighting for freedom and democracy throughout the world is an absolute lie that has no foundation behind it whatsoever. There isn’t a single country since the aftermath of World War II that America has helped to secure freedom and democracy, which clearly makes the point that America isn’t fighting for freedom or democracy at all. Rather, America seems to be fighting for the glory of its empire, but doesn’t have the integrity to admit to this, perhaps because the American public would not be all that supportive of such a huge amount of money being devoted to that empire, which benefits the few and well placed, while hurting the common people of this nation, thereby contributing to our present day, civil unrest.
Those who will not examine what did or did not occur from a fight, which cost this country blood, sweat, tears, and money, are the same who have their heads in the sand. So too, those that keep insisting that the only way to resolve conflict is with the sword are the same who will continue to support this same sort of mindset when it comes to their own population, whenever they are not behaving in the manner that it so desires, which definitely undercuts freedom, democracy, and just about all the good that this nation was founded upon.
Indeed, today’s warrior mindset, in which America believes that diplomacy has no place, because that necessitates conversation, compromise, and concern for the other, signifies that America’s only true belief is might is right, and thereby America will fight first and ask questions later, of which, in the end, it doesn’t even care about the answers, as long as the other side, submits, or if things aren’t going well, America gives up, because the cost is too high, and then makes it to be its point to find someone else to fight with, ad nauseam.