Reply #80: Very astute. [View All]

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I do not think that the US Gov't is interested in
"world peace and cooperation". A world at peace and working
in cooperation does not need the US Gov't or it's military
to enforce order, and cannot be expected to continue to prop up
the US economy and its parasite financial centers.

I worked in the US defense industry for almost twenty years.
I remember when the USSR peacefully self-disassembled. The
sense of loss in the US defense industry was palpable, their
reason for existence was gone. They have been searching for
a new one ever since, but I think their time is almost up.

Do you not find it telling that we are bogged down in a piss-ant
country like Iraq? (Militarily speaking, no offense intended to
Iraq itself, which is an ancient civilization).

The true interests of the US polity is another thing from all this,
but we (the American people) have been being screwed by our government
for decades.

Turkey, of course, is interested in peace, in getting the mess
cleaned up, so it can get on with it's own business of modernization,
instead of worrying about war next door, and the Turks are quite
annoyed about the US poking another stick into the Kurdish problem.

Syria would be more than happy to make peace if it gets the Golan
back and a secure border. I doubt that you will get them to shutup
about the Palestinians until some sort of justice is done there,
however.