I would LOVE it if we had gone to war for a justifiable reason.
Schraf, and others posting on this thread,
I'm going to offer a perspective that you may find useful or totally bogus but it's how I've been looking at the US now for decades and that it that there is a historical dynamic that is greater than all of us, the dynamic of empire. It happened to Greece, Rome, Britain and many more nations. I wish there was something we could do about it but really this thing goes through it's cycle. The US has so much wealth it may take a longer time going through the cycle but the process is inevitable.
Right now the US is the imperial power in the world and that power is a very expensive addiction and the wealth fuels the abuses of power that we are seeing. But wielding that power is so expensive that empires in the end spend more maintaining their power unwisely, as Bush is doing, now than they take in and then exhaustion and financial breakdown sets in. Nothing all that terrible happens. Italy and Britain continue. But we are living on the descending side of the empire just past the peak as we emerged from WWII. It's an exciting and corrupting phase and appeals to those who lust for power but it's what is happening and will take it course.
I recommend we be philosophical about it.
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