Letters to the Editor
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Maybe we should evaluate the profit motive entirely.
Maybe looking at profits exclusively is not a good way to run our lives, a good way to run a company, or a good way to run a nation.
People like to say that we are in Iraq for oil. There is more to it than that. Hate to bring up that tried and true phrase military industrial complex, but it is one that fits. Mercenary firms like Blackwater profit. Halliburton and subsidiaries profit, arms trade, both legal and illegal, make enormous profits. The simple fact is that if we actually succeed in withdrawing from Iraq we will have to tighten our belts because the war in Iraq costs us money but at the same time it stimulates our economy. (Even GE profits -- as it bring goods things to you.) Either that, or our nation will look for other conflicts elsewhere -- Iran, Russia, China, Argentina, Pakistan -- to feed that hungry maw.
Likewise, in our personal lives, do we want to be like hamsters on a wheel for material reasons at the expense of our souls and our spirits?