I was thinking today and realizing that there really haven't been any real wars that the US has been involved in since World War II. Korea was a police action. McArthur wanted to take out Mao Zedong but was stopped by the US President and Congress. Viet Nam was (supposedly to stop the domino theory and stop communism in its tracks). The first Iraq War (Desert Storm) was a mercenary war paid for by Kuwaiti money to buy back their country. And the War in Iraq (for us least) is another police action. But for the Iraqis and Afghanis it is a war not a police action.
Who benefits from these wars? It isn't really Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq or Afghanistan. It is mainly multinational corporations that benefit and it also has the side effect of scaring the hell out of the rest of the world. In other words other countries become more scared of the US.
Is it good or bad that other countries are scared of the US? Both. Some people you want too scared of the US to make war against us. And other people we want to like us enough to buy and sell from us and to us and to allow our citizens to go to their countries without being killed there.
The US had a lot of good will going for it from world war II. However, that is mostly gone now and world polls say that the US is thought less of than Russia and China worldwide now. This is not good.
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