I came across a disappointing but true story today while playing on the computer. I went to the web site for the Canadian war museum in Ottawa. There, I found a sentence I didn't want to see. The museum had a recent section on the time Canadians sent our troops to the Afghanistan war.
It said that Americans and Canadians went to war in Afghanistan to bring democracy to that country.
This is the purest possible bullshit. And it gets worse. This claim was asserted by eminent Canadian military historians despite the fact that, at the time, nobody even mentioned that as a cause for the war. The truth, as those eminent historians surely knew, was that Afghanistan had beaten off years of Russian attacks. Nobody in Afghanistan ever heard of democracy or cared about it. Nor did the Canadian government care.
When the Afghanis beat off the Russians, the U.S. burst in to take over what the Russians had tried to do - to take over the mineral wealth of Afghanistan. In fact, that's why the U.S. has massive and expensive armies all over the world. They aren't to help anything but American billionaires - with Canadians getting shares whenever they can.
Did the military historians quoted by the Canadian War Museum know that? Of course they did. To a considerable degree, our military historians are really nothing more than cheerleaders. Afghanistan is just one more propaganda piece for them - just as it was for our news media.
Canadians murdered people in Haiti in order to destroy democracy there. Get ready for the big one. If the U.S. goes to war with China (and it is very likely to), it will be the most horrible killing of adults, children, babies this world has ever seen. It will be a war, like all wars, to benefit the super rich. The history books tell us that we are good and our enemies are evil. The reality is that we are as evil as they come. And, throughout history, the purpose of almost all wars has been to benefit the super rich.
Have you noticed that in this period of impoverishment, hunger - when millions in the U.S. have plunged into poverty - the super rich are rolling in more money than they have ever had? (No. I'm not exaggerating.)
This is an old story for us humans.
For thousands of years, very rich humans have sent the rest of us into wars to produce wealth - for the very rich. That has characterised all wars. The rest of us pay for the wars with our taxes. Today, for example, the super rich hide the money they should pay as taxes. It's the rest of us who pay the heavy cost of a pentagon, of weapons production, of standing armies... The super rich get the privilege of making fortunes out of the war industries. And in war, it is the rest of us who die in the fighting. That purpose of war for thousands of years has been to enrich the already rich. That's why the wealthy of today's America have stored away uncounted trillions of (note - trillions) of dollars.That's why millions of the American lower classes live on the streets and have to beg for food. That is why much of Latin America and the Middle East suffer horribly and murderously.
And we invent the story that we are fighting for our country or for our Queen. Sometimes we are. More often, as in the oil fields of the middle east, as in Afghanistan, we are fighting - and dying - for the very rich and their unlimited greed.
Will the U.S. go to war with China? Yes. It will go to war because China has been chewing up what had been American markets. Funny we don't hear about this.
For example, China is now the world's leading nation in trade. Yes. It dominates, among others, Latin America. The U.S. is now number two and going down. This is unacceptable to America's super rich. And they will use war as their response because, as their newspapers tell us, the Chinese are evil. Americans are good.
It will be a war such as never has been seen with civilian deaths that could lead into a billion or more. Canada and others will be invited (ordered) to take part. And a Canadian government bought and owned by Canadian super rich will take part (though none of them will venture into battle.)
The Canadian Legion, which should be working in the interest of the soldiers will, as in the Korean war, be a cheerleader for the super rich. And we, as always, will wave flags and babble about the returning dead as they pass in "Highways for Heroes". (Even now, we are working as agents of the American super rich in the middle east and along the Russian border.)
Humans have, from their earthly start, have been abused and exploited by their own. And for thousands of years this has been monstrously exploited by the super wealthy. And we may well be in the final stages of this as we bow to the super-rich and their passion for control and for unlimited greed.
This Christmas, millions of Americans will go hungry as they try to survive in the streets. But be of good cheer. The super rich (New Brunswick's Irving springs to mind) will be enjoying their richest Christmas ever.)
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