04.21
Have you heard the saying, “if you’re not growing, you’re dying?” Well, that’s ultimately what offensive war is about. It’s about empire building. It always has been, and it always will be. We can’t kid ourselves and pretend that Iraq somehow was a defensive war. It wasn’t. It was an attempt by us to set up a puppet government in one of the major countries in that region. Afghanistan wasn’t defensive either. It was no more of a defensive war than the Japanese invasion of Manchuria was. And, of course, the Japanese had their version of 9/11 too, in the form of the Manchurian Incident. Empires always find a pretext(however small) for invading small countries. England did it, Japan did it, Russia did/does it, Austria-Hungary did it, and we(the U.S.) do it too.
How can I say that Afghanistan wasn’t a defensive war? Imagine that you are a kid that gets bullied every day at school for years. One day you work up your courage and decide that you aren’t going to take it any more. When the bully walks in the room and starts taunting you, you sock him square in the nose. The only problem is that he is five times bigger than you, so your punch makes his nose bleed, but it didn’t really hurt him that much. What does he do in response? He beats you black and blue, rips your shirt off, chokes you with it and then throws you in the mud. And later he claims it was self-defense because you hit him first.
What will the people say when they wake up and realize that all of these wars that they have financed through taxes and inflation for decades have been just the empire building whims of ego-maniacal presidents?
