Shanghai Tan

What war and to what end did the US fight for since the end of WWII? Initially they were fighting nazism and made themselves a hero and got rich; then they fought communism and made themselves the world’s only superpower militarily and financially, at the same time turned themselves imperialist; then they fought fundamentalism and made themselves target of islamic fundamentalists, then they fought terrorism and made themselves an isolated country diplomatically while at the same time got themselves broke, then they fought for “civilisation” and turned themselves into christian fundamentalist!

Meanwhile they are losing control of what they took for granted: global natural resources control, namely oil, and global economy control.

Here’s an interesting view of the Vietnam War, I’m quoting Henry C K Liu from Asia Times Online:
“If the US had given each Vietnamese what it spent in the Vietnam War, Vietnam would have been a rich country where communism would not have had much appeal. Instead, the money was spent on the barbaric destruction of the Asian country, with huge loss of lives and damage to the environment through military deforestation.”

The very same thing could be said to Irak, and to all the other wars that US is preparing to make in the name of democracy or liberty or civilisation. If US was to give Irakeses 500,000,000,000$ (500 billions) that they’ve spent (so far) on that war, the soon-to-be-kamikazes would have enough money to go learn some skills and earn their live normally without killing themselves!

Here’s another interesting quote:
“Six decades after the end of World War II, US posture on Korea and Taiwan remains basically the same, to prevent the unification of the two Koreas and the ending of the Chinese civil war with a no-war, no-peace status quo, thus preventing two major Asian nations from normalizing their wartime anomalies. All the talk about defending democracy and preserving stability is merely “to put ourselves [the US] into a defensible position”, as Dean Acheson so aptly put it half a century ago. And the Korea non-proliferation/missile crisis is merely a pretext to escalate this ongoing conflict.”

So much for the country who has been selling themselves over and over as the defender of world peace and democracy and freedom, all those legitimate and heroic motives, or pretexts, are all ranked far lower than the priority to remain the undisputed superpower and imperialist of the 21st century!

I grant them 50 years to remain on the throne, after which they will not have enough money and man power to continue to dominate the world. And even if they do, the global public opinion will be so much against them that they will have to fight alone… 1 against 20!

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