War will be endless because peace isn't profitable.

[kpete]

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[merrily]

1. Yep. Been posting that for years.

Lots of people/nations getting money around a "peace process." Peace, not so much.

[BlueJazz]

2. The powers-that-be, have done a great job of terrifying the American populace. Personally,..

..I feel it correlates well with the Gun Culture. "Everybody in this country is going to hurt me" "No..No..You're wrong, the whole WORLD is out to hurt you/us.

Yep, they've done a good job. For all the talk of Americans being "A rugged, brave bunch"...most of us are scared of our own proverbial shadow"

[truebluegreen]

3. What have we got left in our economy

other than war-profiteering? The security state drives our politics and our budgets.

[OnyxCollie]

4. War is a Racket.

War is a Racket. Well, it’s a racket, all right. A few profit- and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parlays at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

-Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler

[Lint Head]

8. And it makes a racket.

[get the red out]

5. Yep

Seems to be so.

[Orsino]

6. Peace is extremely profitable, but not to our current ruling class.

Or to ruling classes in general.

[phantom power]

7. peace sells, but who's buying?

[valerief]

9. If U.S culture wasn't all bullshit, kids would be on science teams

instead of baseball teams. Science teams would prepare them to (1) think critically and (2) think creatively and (3) think ahead. Baseball and other sports teams teach (1) Us vs. Them and (2) winning is all and (3) winning requires physical strength/skill.

Being old now and having grown up female, I wasn't allowed to be part of the "sports teams" but I had plenty of physical activity. Jumprope, bikes, roller skating, ice skating, swimming, chalk-on-asphalt games. I usually did these with other kids. All I asked for as a kid was a chemistry set, but my mother wouldn't allow it. "You'll blow us up." I got plenty of dolls. I would have loved to be on a science team, but U.S. culture killed that.

Cuz U.S. culture is all bullshit. It teaches the 99% to want to kill and die for billionaires.

[MisterP]

10. peace sells--but who's buying?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. "History supplies little more than a list of people who have helped themselves

"History supplies little more than a list of people who have helped themselves to the property of others." - Voltaire