Beating the Drums of War - Who is Next, Iran?

If you always do what you always did, you always get what you always got. There must be a serious and pervasive organic dysfunction with George W. Bush and his neo-conservative policy makers in Washington. The drums of war are beating again, much the same as the prelude to the War in Iraq. When is enough, enough? The whole concept of waging war in other countries (whether in Iran or anywhere else) in order to avoid war at home or to prevent world destruction emanates from a time when military build-up in the USSR and the US was threatening the existence of life on the planet. In 2007, this paranoic and narrow view of the world is anachronistic and nonsensical.

The cold war did not end because the United States won the cold war with the USSR, rather, the cold war ended when Soviet leaders (led by Gorbachev) and the Russian people decided that living in abject poverty and forfeiting the opportunity for individual and collective well being and success, superseded the need to maintain a military industry complex to compete in a zero game with Western interests. As a result, the US became pre-eminent. So, now, what is the U.S. doing with this pre-eminence?

Well, it is imposing its political, economic, religious, and other views, values and systems on other countries which have no historical context or will to absorb the "American" way of life. Granted, it is coming from a place of belief in "righteousness", but what is this tantamount to? Well, the obvious parallel with the USSR and its attempt to coerce countries to comply with a "self-anointed and righteous" superior socio-political system should not go unnoticed. Take away the concepts of a Christian God and a participative democracy (so-called), and the comparisons are astoundingly similar. Secondly, it is ironic that the former Soviet Union met its Waterloo in Afghanistan. And where are American and Canadian troops now - yes, Afghanistan. And why are they there? Well, to combat the "War on Terror" says the American Administration.