Endless US wars

Stephen Lendman

The US wages war across the world to help extend the days of its own hegemony and the illegitimate existence of the Zionist regime of Israel which have already been numbered. Stephen Lendman, retired businessman, who has dedicated much of his time to write on political affairs, has authored a feature on some of the reasons of unending US wars.

All US post-9/11 wars continue unresolved - Afghanistan the prototype for them all.

America's military, industrial, security, media complex (including Wall Street) supports waging them endlessly. That's why they don't end.

Military Keynesianism on steroids reflects longstanding US policy. For the Pentagon it's "long war." I call it forever war, the human toll of no consequence - millions of casualties post-9/11 alone, human suffering immeasurable.

US policymakers support endless aggression, smashing one sovereign independent state after another, seeking unchallenged control over planet earth, its resources and populations.

The nation's resources are heavily used for mass slaughter and destruction. Bipartisan policymakers support America's permanent war economy, continuing endlessly.

Government financed and promoted war-making comes at the expense of vital homeland needs gone begging.

The same agenda endured since WWII - from Korea to Southeast Asia to Central and Latin America, the Balkans, the West, East, Central Asia, North and Central Africa, its horn, and elsewhere.

War-making takes precedence over everything else, peacemaking considered un-American. There's increasingly little public space to improve the quality of our lives.

Growing numbers of Americans are poor, disadvantaged, and uneducated. Homelessness and hunger go largely unaddressed.

State capitalism reflects the American way, a business partnership, running a war economy for greater power and wealth at the expense of a nation in decline, corrupted leadership, lost industrialization, crumbling infrastructure, and suffering millions on their own, uncared for, unwanted, ignored, and forgotten to assure steady funding for America's wars, no matter the cost and enormous harm they cause.

Militarism and belligerence are parasitic, inefficient, ineffective, self-destructive, immoral, and illegal. 

Wealth is transferred from ordinary people to its privileged class. Physical and human capital are undermined. There's increased vulnerability to hurricanes, widespread blazes, droughts, floods, and other natural disasters.

On the phony pretext of protecting national security, fundamental human and civil rights eroded - totalitarian control, tyranny and ruin replacing a free and open society.

US wars of aggression are unresolvable because bipartisan policymakers want them waged forever, beholden to interests supporting them.

Congress has appropriation power. Wars can't be waged without majority support for funding them. Ongoing ones can end by cutting off the money spigot - never since WWII except after 10 years of Southeast Asia war.

After escalating it earlier, Nixon ended America's longest war in modern times until Afghanistan and Yemen, both wars begun within weeks of each other post-9/11.

He threatened entrenched military/industrial/security and other interests, why he was marked for removal and had to go.

He survived and reinvented himself, traveled the world, wrote books, and was respected as an elder statesman.

Jack Kennedy was eliminated for wanting US forces out of Vietnam before December 1965, urging rapprochement with Soviet Russia and nuclear disarmament, wanting the CIA "splintered into a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds," along with other responsible policy aims no top US officials support today - just the opposite, destructive over constructive ones. 

Talk of ending US involvement in Yemen, along with cutting off support for Saudi regime, is hollow.

UN chiefs are beholden to Washington and the West. Endless war in Yemen rage with virtually no movement for ending it.

AMN News highlighted the endless horror, headlining "heavy clashes breakout across Yemen despite calls for national ceasefire."

SouthFront reported that the Trump regime blocked a Security Council resolution, calling for ceasefire and delivery of vital humanitarian aid to starving Yemenis - neocon extremist Nikki Haley saying:

"We cannot support a resolution at the moment" - not even a watered-down virtually meaningless one, largely an attempt to permit aid deliveries through the key port city of Hodeidah.

Reportedly Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman "threw a fit" when shown the draft. The Saudis are serving US interests in Yemen and their own.

Washington, Britain and France supply almost 90% of Saudi regime's arms and munitions - supporting endless war, opposed to ending it, despite claims otherwise from Trump regime officials, none backed with positive actions, showing they're hollow.