How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology

[Marcus Bryant]

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/how-perpetual-war-became-us-ideology/238600/

[boutons_deux]

"Project for a New American Century issued a statement of principles in June 1997 calling for significant increases in defense spending in order to promote "a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad;"

The overriding, ONLY UCA principle is the reptilian "GREED IS GOOD".

PNAC was only interested in projecting power into M/E oil countries. iow, grabbing the oil because that's what the oilcos paid PNAC to do.

Nothing new under the sun. War has always been about projecting/enforcing power to amass wealth.

[greyforest]

Uhhhhhhhhhh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny


Really? The original article doesn't ever mention this?

[Winehole23]

I notice you didn't mention WWI and WWII. Should I hold that against you?

[boutons_deux]

US banks were badly exposed in Germany. If Germany had won WWI, Wall St would have been clobbered, so Wall St put enormous pressure on DC to attack Germany. The banks were a huge factor for the US entering WWI.

When Germany was defeated, the "disaster capitalism" of the punitive war reparations laid the ground work for the rise of Hitler.

[EVAY]

Doesn't most of this author's position represent mostly the american perception of being the only remaining superpower after the fall of the Soviet Union?

What he described as the approach of avoiding international involvement that was not directly and provably in the national security interests of the U.S. was really a function of being concerned about involving the USSR, wasn't it?

Once that fear was gone, America interpreted the failure of the USSR as proof of our superiority in almost everything, and proceeded to engage in international adventures without fear of Soviet involvement.

We've been doing it ever since...ergo, perpetual war.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The US has been a warmongering state ever since Polk decided to invade Mexico in order to acquire California and probably before even that if you consider the Revolutionary War, French and Indian War.