Zarathustra wrote:Cail wrote:Zarathustra wrote:Just because companies make money by supplying our military doesn't mean we go to war for profit.
Of course not, and no one's saying that.
Then I must have misunderstood quotes like, "It's about money, not security and helping the rest of the world."
I am sorry, but you did misunderstand. I am not focusing just on their latest wars in middle east, but their heightened war stance for the last 60+ years since world war 2. Yes, the us does go to war over strategic/profit motives, but they also have a war stance for profit *all the time*. And, the profit is not for the us government, but the corporations/military industrial complex.
Do they make money bombing IS? Yes. They make money on the products of war used. They ensure investments in oil fields aren't taken over by IS. They make money on logistics, preparation. They make money from opportunities created in the changing power structure on the ground. Of course they make money. War is great business!
Do they make money keeping people scared and preparing for wars? Of course! Peacetime is very profitable for them, too. War is great business!
The military industrial complex/corporations/media have created a mindset where this stuff is not questioned in the mainstream. You have us former military appearing on the american news making cases for fear and 'intervention' (war) who are actually lobbyists for contractors making the products for war. Americans have some scary 'evil doers' communists, terrorists, axis of evil, socialists, alligators... whatever presented as a figure to motivate, maintain, and increase the spending on this war state perpetually. It has become part of the socialisation process in the us to accept this state, in my opinion.
The americans could easily afford healthcare. They just choose not to.
And, Z, predicting that there will be war and that the americans will be so thankful for 70-100 years of bending over for the military industrial complex doesn't feel very genuine.