Comments on: 9/11 Is Still Used To Justify Endless Wars 8 Years Later http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/09/11/911how-are-we-doing-on-the-war-on-terror-8-years-later/ News, Politics, And Opinion From Around The Globe Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:39:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Ferrell http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/09/11/911how-are-we-doing-on-the-war-on-terror-8-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-1387 Chris Ferrell Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:42:06 +0000 http://newsjunkiepost.com/?p=6393#comment-1387 Great article. Most Americans don't seem to question whether all this suffering and death and expense has produced any benefit at all to the citizens of this country. It is even more probable that most Americans haven't stopped to weigh any benefits accrued from the endless war against the suffering and expense that it has cost. Well I have thought about it and come to the conclusion that the endless war has not produced a single benefit to the American people. After a trillion and a half dollars and over a million deaths, we still haven't even captured Osama bin Laden. We can't find Aiman al Zawahiri. Iraq is set for civil war. The Afghans are almost to the point that they were in the 1840s when the whole population rose up against Elphinstone's occupation and slaughtered every English man, woman and child (one man eventually got out alive). The endless war has alienated us from the Muslim world. The reaction against our wars of aggression helped the hardline Islamist gangsters come to power in Iran. The war posturing that has come from the militarization of our foreign policy has ruined what had been a productive relationship with Russia. 6000 American soldiers are dead. Many many thousands are permanently wounded in body, mind and spirit. The country is in the midst of the worst recession since the Great depression and it is not going to get better because we are going to continue these wars! We have not garnered any benefit yet, why are we going to continue to kill and maim and die and abuse the future taxpayers? Great article.
Most Americans don’t seem to question whether all this suffering and death and expense has produced any benefit at all to the citizens of this country.

It is even more probable that most Americans haven’t stopped to weigh any benefits accrued from the endless war against the suffering and expense that it has cost.

Well I have thought about it and come to the conclusion that the endless war has not produced a single benefit to the American people. After a trillion and a half dollars and over a million deaths, we still haven’t even captured Osama bin Laden. We can’t find Aiman al Zawahiri. Iraq is set for civil war. The Afghans are almost to the point that they were in the 1840s when the whole population rose up against Elphinstone’s occupation and slaughtered every English man, woman and child (one man eventually got out alive).

The endless war has alienated us from the Muslim world. The reaction against our wars of aggression helped the hardline Islamist gangsters come to power in Iran. The war posturing that has come from the militarization of our foreign policy has ruined what had been a productive relationship with Russia.

6000 American soldiers are dead. Many many thousands are permanently wounded in body, mind and spirit.

The country is in the midst of the worst recession since the Great depression and it is not going to get better because we are going to continue these wars!

We have not garnered any benefit yet, why are we going to continue to kill and maim and die and abuse the future taxpayers?

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