America sends ballistic missile destroyers to Japan
by Dr. Samori Swygert
“EVERYWHERE THERE’S WAR, RUMORS OF A WAR, WAR IN THE EAST, WAR IN THE WEST”– ”War” by Bob Marley
Bob Marley was prophetic, observant, and just objectively sober. He had a keen insight into the mind of mankind and how we address humanity when we interact with each other culturally, socially, and politically. America could stand to sit down and listen intently to each word in his song titled “War.”
The United States government has an interesting way of choosing how to exercise and enforce our foreign policy and diplomacy.
America is at it again. According to an article by the Guardian, the U.S. is sending in two additional ballistic missile destroyers to Japan. This is a maneuver to “counter” North Korea’s military progression.
U.S. Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, said some things that seem rather hypocritical about how other nations handle their international affairs.
The Guardian quotes Hagel saying: “We must be very careful and we must be very clear, all nations of the world, that in the 21st century this will not stand, you cannot go around the world and redefine boundaries and violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations by force, coercion and intimidation, whether it’s in small islands in the Pacific or large nations in Europe”.
He continued to criticize Russia’s move on Crimea, and China’s encroachment on smaller Pacific Islands.
I think we must be honest and admit that our government goes around and imposes, asserts, coerces, and exerts their authority on several nations and ignores the sovereignty of numerous countries.
We’ve seen how African nations are being bullied around by America’s ultimatum to accept homosexuality or face stiff sanctions. We’ve had a propaganda based war in Iraq. We have nuclear capability but yet we tell sovereign nations like Iran and North Korea that they can’t possess or develop equivalent weaponry. We use treaties, resolutions, and U.N. reccomendations as a pretense to rationalize the disarmament of these nations.
We’ve been and still have a demographic within our nation that are warmongers that are hell bent on war and conflict. We’ve just had a run-in with Syria less than a year ago; we’re trying to dictate policy to Russia; and we’re still trying to keep Iran disarmed. The sad thing is that we invest so much in war. We study war; we develop biological and chemical weapons; and we engineer mechanical weapons for war. We are obsessed!
This is a sick cycle in which a set group of individuals that own and invest in war are the only ones to gain from global conflict. The citzenry are left to foot the bill, which is partly why we’re in a deficit now from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The insult is the fact that the “powers that be” eagerly salivate over war, but never ever send their sons, daughters, nieces, and nephews into the harms of war. They never have to deal with family members that return in bodybags, folded flags, PTSD, shell shocked syndrome, and physical disfiguration. Our troops come back and cant find employment and typically face delayed benefits.
Private equity firms are poised to make billions from war and conflicts between the munitions industry, tech industry, metal/mineral industry, fuel industry, and more.
The paradoxical hypocrisy of freedom, liberty, and peace that we espouse in our sanctimonious posturing really humors me sadly. I don’t know how we assume this position of moral superiority when we engage in some of the same war-based practices as the nations we condemn.
What would we do if other countries sent drones over here for surveillance? However, we send our drones all over the globe just to watch or quell any inkling of offense.
We always find ourselves in some international war/conflict but never find the right things like: WMDs, Malaysian Airplanes, Peace, Zimmerman guilty, Relisha Rudd, or the $30 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens……..SMH
