America Just Wants Peace

America is escalating the Afghanistan-Pakistan War because it deeply desires peace and its enemies won't allow it to have that peace.

America wants peace so much, that to have it, it launched preemptive wars not only in Afghanistan but in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Panama, Grenada and in Iraq [twice]. It is also fighting drug wars in Mexico, Columbia and Brazil, and through its CIA, has conducted secret military actions from Iran to Nicaragua to Somalia.

To further ensure peace, the U.S. has 747 military bases on foreign lands all over the world, compared to few if any for every other nation. Nearly 65 years after World War ll ended, it has 60,000 troops in Germany and 50,000 in Japan. And 56 years after the Korean War ended, it has 37,000 troops there.

And when having two million soldiers in uniform was not enough, for the first time in its history, the U.S. hired a mercenary Army at premium prices, one it doesn't count in disclosing its number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In addition, the U.S. has thousands of nuclear warheads, far more than anyone else and some of those warheads are ready for attack on a moment's notice. And attack it can for the U.S. has the most powerful delivery systems in the world.

Meanwhile, through the CIA and its military counterparts, the U.S. seizes foreign nationals it suspects to be terrorists and will torture them, while holding them indefinitely, often in secret prisons.

While in combat, the U.S. kills those it calls terrorists, insurgents, extremists or militants. Regretfully, the U.S. sometimes kills non-combatants, including children, but that can't be helped in the pursuit of peace.

As if all these steps weren't enough to ensure peace, the U.S. is spending far more money than it can afford to build a mind numbing number of new weapons.

But as an American, if you and don't believe these actions bring peace, please raise your voice now! Your conscience will thank you and humanity will breathe a massive sigh of relief knowing America might really change its ways and pursue peace through peaceful means.

Dick