Sowell: Who Wants War?

Creators Syndicate ^ | September 23, 2014 | Thomas Sowell

[research99]

We really can’t say what the full Saudi role was in 9/11.

Why are those 28 pages from the 9/11 commission report being withheld from the same public that provided finances and service personnel to what is now the longest war in our history in Afghanistan?

http://www.justiceagainstterrorism.org

[wastoute]

The only war libturds want to fight and to which they will bring their full fury and violence is the war against Conservatives, you and me, FReind.

[reg45]

FDR had spent eight years weakening the military forces of the United States in order to implement his economic program. It took the United States two years to ramp up production and military strength.

[reg45]

FDR wanted to fight against Nazi Germany, not Japan. Remember that there was a strong isolationist sentiment in the United States at the time.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, on Dec. 8th FDR only asked for a declaration of war against Japan. But then Hitler declared war on the US and resolved FDR's dilemma for him. On Sept. 11, 1941, FDR made his "rattlesnakes of the Atlantic" speech about the nefarious doings of the German navy, but he must not have believed that that sort of thing would be enough to bring the country into the war united.

Wilson had led us into WWI. At the time there was widespread enthusiasm for doing so, but afterwards a lot of people thought it was a mistake.

[ex-snook]

Thanks for the very on-point comment.

[MHGinTN]

And someone or some cabal is behind each and every claim ... the Creature from Jekyll Island has long and suffocating tentacles.

[research99]

How much of the overwhelming debt owed by the US to the Federal Reserve is based on our spending for military actions (which typically last far beyond initial projections, and in recent decades have resulted in stalemates or gains that are quickly given back)?

[MHGinTN]

May as well ask how much of the debt is to fund black projects for which the US tax payer gets usually zero and the developments are held as private knowledge by the oligarchs running the banking system euphemistically known as the ‘Federal Reserve’.