Heartbreaking: Here's what a U.S. soldier said when asked to justify the war on terror

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100. We never intervene to stop massacres, and

you're really politically naive if you believe that lol. Any time the US gets involved militarily, it's in the interest of some very powerful people who view the world in economically strategic ways. Our involvement in Korea had nothing to do with preventing massacres, but to protect future profits by trying to prevent the spread of communism.

We "intervene" to stop one massacre, while carrying out (or aiding and abetting in) others elsewhere. We like massacres as long as they serve our long-term strategic interests. Long before Saddam Hussein was made Public Enemy #1, we were arming him and encouraging him to attack Iran, which he did with our assistance. His use of chemical weapons against the Iranians was a "good" massacre. Israel massacred thousands of defenseless Gazans last year, but that was a "good" massacre.

If you support our war against Syria, Libya, and our provocations against Russia, China, and Venezuela, then I can say with some certainty that you are a neocon and don't realize it. If you favor splitting Iraq and Syria into several smaller states then you are a neocon (a idea which Israel desires and has been floated by more than one neocon think tank in the US - see Michael O'Hanlon at the Brookings Institution, a neocon favorite).

There doesn't have to be a world with one dominant, bullying empire (which is what we have had since the fall of the USSR). We could try, at least once, to live together peacefully with respect and understanding.