My fellow Americans, we have now reached the point in our collective history where we face three certainties: death, taxes, and ever-soaring spending on weaponry and war.
If Putin is a war criminal who warrants a trial before the ICC, we must admit that American leaders like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama…also warrant trials…for their roles in facilitating wars in Afghanistan & Iraq…
We need to remember who we are, or perhaps who we want to be, as a people…Do we really want to be the world’s largest dealer of arms? Is that really the best way to serve the American people?
Space, in short, is too dangerous to be treated as a warfighting realm…America, which is $30 trillion in debt, doesn’t need yet another unnecessary, expensive, unpredictable, and destabilizing arms race.
We need to tell Americans their very future is being stolen from them by wanton military spending.
Putin’s actions…are being seized upon by the military-industrial-congressional complex as proof positive that Pentagon budgets, already in the stratosphere, must soar higher yet.
In the wake of the crashing and burning of that 20-year war effort, the Pentagon budget leaped even higher with the support of almost every congressional representative of both parties as Washington’s armed attention turned to China and Russia.
Washington insiders always talk of ‘all options’ being on a metaphorical table…including war, for the president to choose from. They lie. Because the one option that’s never on that imaginary table is peace.
We need to say “no more” to new nuclear weapons and recommit to the elimination of all such weaponry everywhere.
There is nothing angelic about a Predator or Reaper drone, nor is salvation to be found at any end of a Hellfire missile.