The Public Awakens to the War Based U.S. Economy

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THE PUBLIC CATCHES ON, U.S. ECONOMY IS WAR BASED
And They Do Not Like It
Charles E. Carlson

"Wars" are deadly adventures orchestrated to keep the domestic
economy churning, but the public is not supposed to suspect it.
The seemingly spontaneous, overwhelming negative public response to
President Obama's campaign to bomb Syria is an encouraging sign
some catch on. America's grass roots war resistance has come slowly,
long after their own constituencies goaded many European politicians
to refuse to play the U.S. Administration's war-game in Syria.

It is significant, few, if any of the hundreds of diverse groups
resisting war do so in support of the Assad dynasty; at best,
President Bashar al-Assad is looked upon as the better dictator; at
worst, as a naked tyrant. My most unique source, Karriem Shabazz,
was, for the safety of his young family, recently forced to leave
his adopted Syria and a satisfying life he had built there as an
English teacher for 15 years. Dr. Shabazz recently stated in an
interview, “Why doesn’t America know this and mind its own business?
Don’t we have enough expensive problems? Are we going over there
with drones and increase the collateral damage, killing as many
or more women and children as Bashaar al-Assad has done?” (1)

President Obama billed the attack that did not happen as a punish-
ment for Bashar al-Assad. We will teach him a lesson he will not
forget, is the twisted rationale for starting another killing war-
game. It is not unlike an imprecation some branches of Talmudic
Judaism practice, loading all of a group's sins on a scapegoat or
chicken, and then slaughtering the sacrifice to get rid of the sins.
Mr. "Obama" would blame the sins of the Middle East on Bashar al-
Assad and bomb the Syrian people to punish Assad. What can his real
reason be? Why are we always in the process of going to war with
a totally insignificant seeming country C, while we still bomb and
drone country B, and our 10yo war with Country A only now winds down?

Bombing a people as punishment for their leader is not a new excuse.
In the desert of Kuwait in 1991, George Bush Sr. destroyed most
of the Iraq army of 20YOs there because they needed jobs. It was
falsely told us, Saddam Hussein have raided a hospital in Kuwait
City and stole the incubators, tossing the babies on the floor to
die. There was not a word of truth in the story, which was later
proved to be a paid Madison Avenue publicity stunt to induce the
U.S. to destroy Kuwaiti's enemy. And our military and political
leaders were in on the lie. We were supposed to be punishing Saddam
Hussein in Iraq, and pursuing Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, but
countless civilians' and children's lives were destroyed. Long after
doing so, the winners found and executed Hussein and Bin Laden.

Presidents George Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Barack Obama have
all imprecated leaders who just happen to own something desirable
under their turf, like oil. Unnecessary wars have dragged on
for 23 years against non-enemies incapable of real resistance
or counter-attack. What is the real reason for our serial wars
against weak imaginary foes, if not to punish evil and promote
democracy? This is the question no one answers, or even asks.

In the neo-American political system. "War" activity is engaged in
as cover for creating obscene amounts of money distributed through
banks to war industry businessmen and "defense" contractors... money
trickling down to us in the illusion of prosperity. Some of our
children fight in unnecessary wars. This answer to the question, "why
does our President want to bomb Syria", is too simple, too direct,
and too obviously evil for many Americans to believe. We want to
think there is a grain of decency in our leaders. Who wants to accept
the premise, disturbing his peace of mind, warmaking be our country's
unofficial national economic policy? The real explanation of all
warring acts for 95 years, must be covered up at all cost. Our once
greater society has degenerated morally because we have fallen under
the influence of a war-based economy. And our economy in its present
configuration cannot survive without the money generated either
preparing for war, fighting a war, or rebuilding after a cessation.
Wars have lots of rewards for those who start them, but do we benefit?

Understanding serial warfare is a "Eureka! experience". Once
discovered, one must decide whether to try to forget it, or
struggle with it. Aside from the immorality of war, there is a
good economic reason we must not forget it. Our federal govern-
ment is about $17 trillion in debt...war is expensive! It is
axiomatic, when our warmaking leaders are forced to stop bombing
and looting, as just happened to President Obama, our economy
will begin to crumble from the top down, and will continue
to fall down upon us unless we as a people uproot the institu-
tions giving us perpetual war for not so endless prosperity.
Maybe we too would like to look the other way... but can we?

I hope this conclusion be as self-evident to you as it is to me.
In our film, Christian Zionism, the Tragedy and the Turning,
Part 1, we began with a bold statement we made no effort to
prove. A war scene was displayed, and the moderator begins with
words I wrote many years ago: "American economy is war-based..."
I believed then and now, any real discussion of humanitarian
problems must start with this self evident problem.

Some have described the nation hooked on serial wars and printed
money inflation as similar to being hooked on heroin. The comparison
is not quite accurate, but it is close, for most heroin users do not
manufacture or sell it, making a handsome living doing so; most are
victims their habit keeps poor. Indeed, war profits those who promote
it, why they are hard to get out of our government. The war making
establishment does very well, were it not so, conflicts would end.

In the 1961 President Eisenhower referred to the war lobby as "The
Military Industrial Complex", which he warned about it in his final
speech, but he did not mention the most prosperous beneficiary,
those bankers for the war-making establishment, operating through
their incestuous connections with the Federal Reserve System.*(2)

A giant war weapons show called the Defense And Security Trade
Show (DSEI) took place in London this week, featuring companies
who make everything from tanks to high tech surveillance equip-
ment. Participants bemoaned the slowdown in Afghanistan and the
reluctance of US and UK to strike Syria. The Financial Times
titled its Sept. 11 coverage, Defense Searches For Bright Spots.
Carola Hoyos reported the industry look for new markets to re-
place the declining U.S. market, lamenting it look like a war in
Syria be all but dead. She observed defense companies executives,
with military brass' support, be busy "hawking their wares in
Asia and the Middle East because of the decline in war business
in the U.S., as we close out hostilities in Iraq and throttle
down in Afghanistan". She concluded correctly, "this, the most
cyclical of industries, is once again, on its way down". (3)

Financial Times is right, but the war industry fights back;
it wants war in Syria and Iran badly. Those who wonder why our
anti-war President was so bent on the bombing can stop wondering.
Obama may not have known this when he started his political career,
but he knows now, if he is not to be known as the depression
president of the 21st Century, he must start a series of limited
actions leading to a bigger war in order to postpone the economic
decline beginning in the first 6 or 7 years of this millennium.

State of Israel and its lobby group, American Israeli Public
Affairs Council (AIPAC), as well as its church lobby group,
Unity Coalition For Israel (UCFI), and its surrogate step
child, Christians United For Israel (CUFI), have put on what
AIPAC calls a "full court press" for the bombing of Syria.

Israel has surely broken cover in openly asking Congress to demand
a strike on Syria. According to a report, AIPAC officials will
field some 250 Christian leaders and its activists will storm the
halls on Capitol Hill to persuade lawmakers Congress must adopt the
war resolution or risk emboldening Iran’s efforts to build a nuclear
weapon; they are expected to lobby virtually every member of Congress.

What must be done to end our war-based economy? First, we must
correct the 1 and only grass roots supporter of wars in the
Middle East, Christian Zionism. I refer you again to our 32
minute video, Christian Zionism, The Tragedy And The Turning,(4)
in which we state "Our economy is war-based, and the principal
grass roots support for those wars comes from Christian Zionists."

World Zionism is the cheerleader for war, demanding the USA bomb
Israel's neighbors, the independent Middle Eastern countries, 1 by 1.
Only Christian Zionists in the U.S. obey Israel's rhetoric for war
as a religion, and they are a very large number. We cannot change
AIPAC and UCFI, but we can and must change our friends who are
Christians supporting Zionism. They have as much to lose as we do,
but they do not know it. America's churches have the organization
and numbers, and the moral imperative to turn the war based society
around. The call for peace finally starts in mainline churches.

- CEC POST SCRIPT, Sept, 19th, The World Council of Churches
(WCC) urged its Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican member
churches to lobby their congregations and national governments
to support a political solution to the war in Syria.(5)

NOTES

(1)
https://charlesecarlson.com/military-action-in-syria-where-the-senate-stands-abc-news/
(2) “In the councils of government, we must guard against the
military industrial complex' acquisition of unwarranted influence,
sought or unsought. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the
weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic
processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and
knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge
industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful
methods and goals, so security and liberty may prosper together.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (other quotes)
(3)
http://video.ft.com/2663905793001/Defence-searches-for-bright-spots/editorschoice
[Actually works! Guess those goblins aren't
so bandwidth-deprived as they poormouth.]
(4) http://vimeo.com/59933668
(5) Christian leaders urge churches to back Syria peace plan
http://news.yahoo.com/christian-leaders-urge-churches-back-syria-peace-plan-140651249.html

Toward the Strait Gate,
Chuck Carlson
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