Bush was Right: Mission Accomplished!

Channel 4 Dispatches’ special The Death Squads talks about the uprising of sectarian violence in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, where countless Sunni’s are being executed by Shi’ite militia groups… militia groups who are part of the new Iraqi police force. Iraq is a real mess, and things are likely to get worse before they get better.

And in Afghanistan, things are not much better. Five years after the US invasion, peacekeeping forces are over-stretched and under fire, hundreds of schools have been closed by a resurgent Taliban, and the opium trade is booming. Bin Laden was never caught… and the war on terror has only stirred up more anti-American sentiment in many parts of the world.

The world is less safe now… the US foreign policy has done a disservice to the well being of the US population, and the population of the world. Given the worsened conditions in many parts of Afghanistan and Iraq since their respective invasions, it is no wonder than an increasing number of people are looking at both wars as failures.

But I cannot help but feel that this is exactly what those in charge wanted to happen. Certain members of the Bush administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz), as well as the shareholders of corporations that profit from billion dollar defense contracts, desire more war. Increased insecurity in the middle east is exactly what warmongers want, because to them, it means more instability in the world, and therefore, more business and more profits.

Similar to how corporations, like fast-food or clothing companies, target children with their brands in order to manufacture the next generation of consumers, so too does the military industrial complex seek to perpetuate its own mechanisms for survival. The war machine feeds off war… and it sows the seeds of war today so that it has more blood to reap in the future.

If there is any good to come from the devastation, wasted resources, and countless innocents slaughtered, it should be a lesson we can all learn. The lesson being that war doesn’t work to solve problems… war only creates more problems. If we want to make the world a better place, we need to find better alternatives than trying to install freedom via the barrel of a gun.

Remember: Anything that war can do, peace can do better.

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