What country do I live in? When my President, a recipient of the Nobel Peace prize, along with a Secretary of State who testified before Congress to oppose the Vietnam War, now try to convince the world we should use military force against Syria and risk the conflagration of greater regional war between places like Israel and Turkey? After nearly a year of leaked emails and information stating that the United States, with its new ally, Al Qaeda (elements of the rebel forces) would frame their leader with the very crime being claimed in order to justify a military action, along with being opposed by our strongest western allies, we are going to try and do it anyway. To top it off, we have places like Russia, who are moving additional war ships into the region and Iran who has a mutual defense treaty and is obligated to enter a war on behalf of Syria, while the Russian leader is calling on us to use reason? What country am I in?
We remember the former conspiracy theory known as The Gulf of Tonkin to take us to war in Vietnam, we remember Kuwaiti Ambassador's daughter testifying about Iraqi horrors that never took place, and we remember the gassing of puppies that Saddam never did, we remember mythical WMD's in Iraq and the sworn assurance they were there, we remember Gen. Wesley Clark's statements about the US implementing 'regime change in seven countries in five years', we remember the CIA helping Iraq in its use of poison gas attacks against Iran, we remember 1953 CIA mission called operation Ajax to overthrow the democratic government in favor of a dictatorial tyrant in Iran, we remember Zbigniew Brzezinski's, "Afgan Trap" to lure the former Soviet Union into a war in Afghanistan and hand them their own Vietnam, and we remember the previous President well enough to know that our current one has picked up the reigns of War Monger in Chief, of the most paranoid government since the inception of our nation over two centuries ago. These statements are not even conjecture but a matter of historical fact.
I do not believe you, I no longer trust you, I will not swallow your bullshit machinations again, and no longer do I have any faith that enough courage exist among members of our governing body to use logic, reason, and common sense to adhere to the foundational tenets of our society as born in our Constitution and right this floundering ship before the light of history is shone upon us in the same fashion as it does Nazi's, the Khmer Rouge, Stalin, and Genghis Khan. I say these things because I will not take up arms against my fellow man, I will not adjoin with the butchery of collateral innocence in order to enrich a few who will never see the face of war or poverty, but only bid others to do it on their behalf. I say these things because I love my country and its people and despise the wealth serving strategist that pull the oligarchic strings of tyrants.
If this seems strong or harsh, it is because in the 44 years of my life thus far, my country has either been at war or on the verge of war. We were once a benevolent empire that the world looked up to and wanted to emulate because of the greatness of our ideas, but today mock and ridicule, and often only fear. This is not the country our forefathers conceived, but instead warned us would arrive if we were not vigilant, and today it has arrived, no longer cloaked in secrecy, but with the pomp of a parade of a mad king.
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