A: To defend the American Empire.
Q: But why is it US policy to impose an Empire on the world?
A: To protect the financial interest of the very rich.
We seem to have dug down to solid rock. It is oil, after all, that is the key issue in the middle east. One would have to be pretty uninformed not to know that.
Let's go at this again:
Q: Why do the American people not vote the people responsible for this endless war policy out of office.
A: Because they are never offered presidential candidates that would oppose this policy. And only very rarely do voters have the chance to vote for less important public servants who seriously oppose the idea of Empire.
Q: But why?
A: Because the very rich decide with their campaign contributions, their advertising, and their lobbies who the candidates will be.
Q: OK. But many Americans support these wars. Why can they not see what is in their interest?
A: Because they have been systematically fed a very distorted image of the world they live in by the mass media.
Q: But why does the mass media not present a broader and more balanced picture of what really are the issues?
A: Because the bulk of the media is owned by the same big corporations who benefit from the US world empire. And those that are not, are controlled by their advertisers again mostly big multi-national corporations.
It seems that all our "but why games" lead us back to the same rock big multinational corporations and the banks that support them. It is hard not to conclude that the kind economic system we have requires war. War, to be effective, requires the creation of human beings who have had their humanity gutted out of them who are no longer able to feel compassion in the face of suffering, take responsibility for who they are becoming, assert control over what they are doing, or be guided by a sense of affinity with all human beings. It requires the murder of countless people. And it requires the loss of our collective soul.
So who should be condemned for what we see in this video? Maybe that has to be left between the individuals involved and their God or higher self. I would suggest that the goal of an enlightened morality is not the condemnation of anyone for whatever they have done, but the challenging of people to take responsibility for what they will do and become in the future.
The practical question is, how do we bell this huge cat the corporate oligarchy that has usurped our world and is determined to treat it as its own? An extensive answer to that question is beyond the scope of this article, but I might suggest in passing that addressing the problem of ignorance will have to be central. That means education:
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