Military Might Does Not Make a Nation Great

Neocons such as Eli David are once again promoting the idea that America is great because we can bomb the crap out of foreign nations. I recall the same nonsense from when George W. Bush was president. It's his post-9/11 war fever all over again.

 

America has serious domestic problems. Violent street crime. Domestic turmoil. Public schools that graduate illiterates ... creating an ever greater reliance on foreign workers and foreign imports ... making our supply chains ever more vulnerable ... making it harder for young people to find jobs that pay a living wage ... making it harder for them to marry and raise families ... plus our rising national debt, inflation, a looming depression ... laced with our cultural and moral decay as our social fabric comes apart, and, well, one could go on.

 

But we can still bomb the crap out of whoever we want. (Or whoever Israel wants us to bomb.)

 

And really, isn't that what makes America Great?

 

(Okay, I didn't think so either.)

 

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