The phoney wars...

If World War One was the "war to end all wars", the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan are "the wars to continue all wars"...

The way these two wars are being waged and constructed is leading my dull little mind to believe that America does not want to "end these wars"...

Imagine for a second that there was no war and no purpose for war anywhere in the world including in Iraq, in Iran and in Afghanistan... Would the US Offence Department leave these countries alone? Any country alone? Answer this in full honesty. Remember that the US have been in South Korea for more than 50 years...

Sure, undeniably there would be strong pressure put upon countries to behave according to US rules of capitalist engagement and cultural disintegration so that Mcthis and Mcthat could be sold with big screen Hollywoodian shoot-this-and-that products. The US do not like socialism.

Imagine for a second that there were no "terrorists" and terrorist organisations" anywhere to "threaten the US, the Western World and Israel..." would the US go and pack their tin soldiers into their boxes? The most plausible answer is "no".

Many countries in the world are presently arming themselves to the teeth. Yet, the US alone is spending more than half the world's armament budget on its own troops.

The war in Iraq and in Afghanistan are not true wars... They are skirmish wars, thug-o-wars... So far the "war" in Iraq has lasted more than the engagement of the US in World War Two... So far, six years on, the "war" in Afghanistan, despite a slight shift in cultural evolution and a supermarket for the rich in Kabul, has produced only mediocre results: more poppies, more attacks, more death of soldiers and innocent people leading to many survivors being upset and joining resisting forces, leading to more hits and more bad hits... All of this slowly appears to be orchestrated because of course, there is "never enough soldiers to finish the job". The problem too, I must say, in both places is that should more soldiers be present, then it could increase the resentment from the locals.

Thus "when the job is done" becomes a far target in the nebulosity of never since it suits the "liberating" forces to be "liberating forever" while a discreet and no so discreet plundering is going on, including enforcing a cultural shift which is harder than it looks — because the enforcement is resented, because the enforcement is done by force, not by enlightened desire. We show these populations the bad side of life. We show aggression as a solution to "problems".

The war in Afghanistan is mostly about the Oil pipeline... The war in Iraq is mostly about the Oil... Thus in order to stay and control both places, the US and their allies do not want to win the wars, yet — despite the "weak" but determined opponents they are facing. We're in for the long haul as the opponents are becoming stronger by the day... The Taliban, supported by the US "defeated" the Russians (they actually gave up). Do we think that now we can fight the same Taliban on their own terms? Or should we destroy the place once and for all, and admit to our primary intent?

During World War Two the US had no hesitation in bombing civilians to smithereens in both Germany and France. Some French cities were razed by carpet bombing. Flattened!!! Ask around. More French civilians may have been killed by the Americans than by the Germans... Sure the Germans did the same in Russia... And the US nuked Japan while sparing the Emperor who had been the major instigator of war. Was this part of a cultural management?

Thug-o-wars... Now these are the sad little playing fields to create our heroes, while we pump. Terrorists? Sure, they are there but strangely enough we are using them more as any excuse to carry on warring forever, rather than truly understand and negotiate an end to the "problems". Our aggressive actions will always engender reactions... Force will create force, whether we like it or not. Thus my dummy little mind tells me, presently, we are going at the problems the wrong way, deliberately. Whether it's global warming or terrorism... This is my humble opinion.