to keep the Military Industrial Complex humming along at top speed.

when will we ever learn?

Oh, look, another terror attack-- I guess we haven't dropped enough bombs.

experience with this failed system of war makes a candidate a one-trick pony. It doesn't qualify one for the highest office.

It's that intoxicating sound of megabucks hand-delivered by MIC surrogates that swells the heart of the American Exceptionalist...

Remember the Sandinista People's Army?

People don't like being oppressed and eventually they fight back.

And so our 2 premier presidential candidates - the 2 most likely to win - give their hate-filled speeches.

And on it goes.

shows she has learned nothing from the past 13 years. I really don't understand how anyone can just gloss over this person's repeated poor decision making in the area of foreign policy. I suppose these same voters will act shocked when we find ourselves embroiled in yet another perpetual quagmire like Iraq.

Yup, they'll be saying "there was no way you could see another disaster coming!"

It has ever been thus. And since there is no draft, the only people who really care about our military adventures are the ones who lose limbs, sanity, friends, or loved ones. It's a small percentage of the population, and obviously the general public doesn't care squat about veterans, yellow ribbons notwithstanding. And war is the only foreign policy most people even know or care about: I suppose a few people are celebrating the thawing of relations with Cuba, but most are not paying any attention.

Domestic policy is what gets the voters interested, and even then it is mostly taxation (bad), and the oppression of different groups (good, unless you're one of the oppressed) that get the blood moving. It's a shame, really, that we can't bomb ourselves: I bet any number of people would love it if those people (whoever they may be) were bombed back into the stone age.

-- Mal

And a great many people here are trying to cover it up. Is it not time that DU was honest with itself about the warmongers onboard this website these days? I remember reading it years ago and it was the exact opposite of what it seems to be today. When did killing other people for the sake of Empire become acceptable at a liberal democratic site? I see loads of people here advocating for war and imperialism.

when it deserves a million... failure to learn from unintended consequences is America's strongest trait. Jon Stewart did something on this a while ago. Maybe, collectively as a country, we just can't grasp the concept of history, or the sheer greed of capitalism feeds us the propaganda and we lap it up.