America: land of the perpetual state of war

For almost 12 years the US has been engaged in an international crusade to save the world through its military might. If saving the world included something like making sure there was safe and enough food and water for every Earth citizen, perhaps this crusade would be seen as good rather than the evil it appears to be.

For sure there is blame to be laid on individual military members for the mayhem that's been unleashed on citizens of the lands the US occupies. However, shouldn't most of the blame and responsibility lay with the leaders who send them, who train them, who keep them in occupied lands surrounded by a hostile population that hates them. Do we honestly think the majority of occupied citizens who are attacked by drones, air raiding helicopters, soldiers looking for Taliban, lack of shelter and/or food and water want us to stay for years to come?

VP Cheney boasted about the intel torture brings, and even though he and Bush violated both international and US laws by authorizing it, our administration has refused to even investigate let alone indict them. Military and CIA members who committed the torture, and justice officials who covered it up, are all free. Any wonder that when troops on the ground have seen leaders get away with murder they feel some immunity applies to them also - so there's freedom to kill?

A plea for peace, for the end of war and occupation falls on deaf ears. President Obama's foreign policy is somewhat different that Bush's in that the large military footprint is being replaced with a more clandestine secret footprint - drones, CIA special operation forces - quasi-militarism with little transparency.

Maybe secret wars will make Americans forget about war altogether.