Letters to the Editor
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The "War On Terror" Is An Empty Sham
After the Cold War ended, our arms manufacturers were in an uncomfortable position. The capital investment they had made in a very lucrative business was now in decline. What to do?? Find a new enemy to which popular fear and hatred could be directed. (By the way, this has been played out exactly as George Orwell predicted in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.) Muslims and the West had, after centuries of struggle, for the most part had their respective needs accommodated and, with the breakup of European colonial empires, were living in harmony. However, the Islamic world-view is alien enough to the West to make Muslims targets of suspicion and hatred. So the popular press started telling us all kinds of things evil dictators in Muslim countries were doing.
Before the first Gulf War, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq told Saddam that the U.S. would not intervene if he annexed Kuwait. This was a set-up job and he took the bait. The American war machine was back in action!
So now we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year fighting a flea bite enemy while the cancers of chronic deficit spending, illegal immigration, an infrastructure wholly dependent on cheap energy, specifically from petroleum now in decline, and global warming go essentially unaddressed. The American people are now the dupes for supporting this dangerously misguided program and the United States will suffer many unfortunate consequences for allowing this idiocy to continue.