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No More Perpetual War!

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I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Over 1,000 Women March on the Pentagon to Demand “No More War”:
https://theantimedia.com/women-march-on-the-pentagon-no-more-war/?fbclid=IwAR34DjM5c90quc4M273eA74g0nEUGBLW7vE4HtcHhumRSId18ZGaU4eU4Y0

About 1,500 women and allied men marched on the Pentagon on Sunday to demand an end to perpetual war and the funding of education, health care and other social needs instead.

Stopping U.S. military involvement in Syria and Yemen and closing U.S. military bases around the world were among the demands voiced by the protestors who set out from Pentagon City and marched to the seat of American military power along a one-mile route.

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My Commentary: ❤

The Danger of Engaging in Perpetual War

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As I scrolled through my Facebook memories, I discovered the following link, which I originally posted to my own wall in August of 2016, and decidedly re-shared it, while adding a commentary…

Our Greatest National Security Threat? Perpetual War:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/12/our-greatest-national-security-threat-perpetual-war

(William Astore) The United States is now engaged in perpetual war with victory nowhere in sight.  Iraq is chaotic and scarred. So, too, is Libya. Syria barely exists. After 15 years, “progress” in Afghanistan has proven eminently reversible as efforts to rollback recent Taliban gainscontinue to falter. The Islamic State may be fracturing, but its various franchises are finding new and horrifying ways to replicate themselves and lash out. Having spent trillions of dollars on war with such sorry results, it’s a wonder that key figures in the U.S. military or officials in any other part of America’s colossal national security state and the military-industrial complex (“the Complex” for short) haven’t spoken out forcefully and critically about the disasters on their watch.

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My Commentary: Not exactly rocket science, and yet, it still remains an ever-elusive concept to most, somehow…