Warmongers Are Anti-American

[poncho]

The Pillars of American Thinking – The “Father of the Constitution” and the “Father of Free Market Capitalism” – Both Warned Against Warmongers … 200 Hundred Years Ago

Adam Smith – the father of free market capitalism – wrote a scathing critique on warmongers in the Wealth of Nations 235 years ago:

In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory from a longer continuance of the war.

Numerous economists have documented that war is horrible for the economy.

The Father of the Constitution – James Madison – wrote:

Read More At: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/father-constitution-explained-war-200-hundred-years-ago.html

 

[FollowTheWay]

The Pillars of American Thinking – The “Father of the Constitution” and the “Father of Free Market Capitalism” – Both Warned Against Warmongers … 200 Hundred Years Ago

Adam Smith – the father of free market capitalism – wrote a scathing critique on warmongers in the Wealth of Nations 235 years ago:

In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory from a longer continuance of the war.

Numerous economists have documented that war is horrible for the economy.

The Father of the Constitution – James Madison – wrote:

Read More At: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/father-constitution-explained-war-200-hundred-years-ago.html

This is certainly true for meaningless wars like Viet Nam, Afghanistan and Iraq. We spent a lot of money and shed a lot of blood for nothing. Those who support these kinds of wars either are going to get rich off them or they believe that America must be the supreme ruler of the universe. Defend ourselves yes. Stop dangerous tyrants like Hitler yes. No more meaningless wars.

 

[SolaSaint]

Anyone who relishes war is sick, but anyone who lets evil flourish without lifting a hand to stop it is sick.

 

[Salty]

Anyone who relishes war is sick, but anyone who lets evil flourish without lifting a hand to stop it is sick.

:thumbs: A true GI does not want war - he trains to be prepared to discourage a potential enemy from attacking - and he trains hard for when a enemy decides to attack anyways.

The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

:thumbs: A true GI does not want war - he trains to be prepared to discourage a potential enemy from attacking - and he trains hard for when a enemy decides to attack anyways.

The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.

THANK YOU:thumbsup:

 

[SolaSaint]

:thumbs: A true gi does not want war - he trains to be prepared to discourage a potential enemy from attacking - and he trains hard for when a enemy decides to attack anyways.

The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.

amen!!!!!!!

 

[poncho]

Anyone who relishes war is sick, but anyone who lets evil flourish without lifting a hand to stop it is sick.

What about those who fund evil?

The banks launder billions of dollars in illegal drug money every year.

Evil flourishes because of it.

What have you and Salty done to stop it? Supported the police state?

The govt has been funding Islamic extremists since at least 1949.

Evil flourishes because of it.

What have you and Salty done to stop it? Look the other way? Blame the other side for it?

The govt has been supporting evil dictators and overthrowing them when they get greedy or insubordinate.

Evil flourishes because of it.

What have you and Salty done to stop it? Help to overthrow one of Washington's uppity vassals? Support the troops that are currently doing it?

Evil flourishes because we can't bring ourselves to admit the truth, our own govt funds and arms the enemies it uses to scare us into letting ourselves and our children be used as Wallstreet's mercenaries.

Want to stop evil from flourishing? Then wake up.

More than 40 years ago, the Nixon-Kissinger bombing of Cambodia unleashed a torrent of suffering from which that country has never recovered. The same is true of the Blair-Bush crime in Iraq. With impeccable timing, Henry Kissinger’s latest self-serving tome has just been released with its satirical title, “World Order”. In one fawning review, Kissinger is described as a “key shaper of a world order that remained stable for a quarter of a century”. Tell that to the people of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Chile, East Timor and all the other victims of his “statecraft”. Only when “we” recognise the war criminals in our midst will the blood begin to dry.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/october/11/from-pol-pot-to-isis-anything-that-flies-on-everything-that-moves.aspx

 

[poncho]

Neocon watch

Both the Democratic and Republican parties today house neoconservatives, and whatever their differences, they coalesce on foreign policies of war, empire, support for Israel, foreign interference, sanctions, an anti-Iran stance, and American exceptionalism. The Democratic Party has its left-neoconservatives like Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama. The Republican Party has its right-neoconservatives, and they are allied with the Christian Right and such media as Rupert Murdoch’s Fox.

There is one War Party that includes both the left and right neoconservatives. Washington is under their control. No matter which of the two major political parties anyone votes for, the result is the same: neoconservatism in foreign policy. The left-right distinction is of no significant importance in this respect.

The neoconservative ideas supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which was also instigated by the distorted ultra-nationalism of Cheney and Rumsfeld that fits right in with neoconservatism. They support Empire, hegemony, and the U.S. being the sole great power. They support a unipolar world.

The neoconservative program claims to be tied to American values, to the Founding Fathers, and to America’s exceptional moral vision. These claims are totally false. One need only compare the vision of John Quincy Adams in his July 4, 1821 speech as Secretary of State to see that the neoconservative claims are a big lie.

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It is rich hearing Donald Rumsfeld, who made some outlandish statements to advance the 2003 Iraq War he helped instigate and manage as secretary of defense, fault US President Barack Obama for not providing “clarity of vision.”

Rumsfeld, in a Friday interview with Rusty Humphries of the Washington Times, says:

If there is one thing that we have seen, it’s that this presidency has been exemplified by not providing the kind of clarity of vision that a leader must provide if in fact they want followers. So, if you don’t decide what your mission is, where you’re going, and give people confidence that you will go there and not back off and not move aside you’re not going to get any followers.

Here are some examples of Rumsfeld’s “clarity of vision” before and in the early days of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq:

The Iraq War would last '[f]ive days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that.' November 14, 2002 interview on Infinity Radio.

And:

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Max Boot lays it on pretty thick here:

America’s brave troopers today fight for freedom in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond, all the while yearning, as FDR said, “for the end of battle” when they can return home. They are not there to seize natural resources or to pump up a president’s approval ratings–nor, for all of my differences with President Obama, do I believe he has ordered troops into harm’s way for such nefarious purposes.

If that isn’t the exact opposite of truth, I don't know what is.

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The Father of the Constitution – James Madison – wrote:

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.