Beyond The Broken Spectrum

If only the US were like this. I don’t necessarily agree with the mandatory training and arming though. However I need more information before making a good speculation on the subject.

John Quincy Adams once said that the United States does not go “abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.” We all know that ceased to be true a long time ago. Over the last hundred years or so America has identified (created) a number of monsters and in most instances has been unsuccessful in destroying them (the communist threats in Korea, Vietnam, Central America, and the Soviet Union (which destroyed itself economically), and the terrorist threats of Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, etc.).

Our global search for monsters has resulted in a national debt which has increased from about $3 billion in 1914 to more than $12 trillion today. Our War on Monsters has cost the lives of more than 600,000 American military personnel since World War I. The world has also paid untold amounts of treasure and innocent lives in America’s offensive assault on the monsters.

Article at Campaign for Liberty