Published on Aug 26, 2014

Americans Don't Want War

Poll after poll shows that the American people don't want to get involved in any more wars.

After all, we spent trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Americans are exhausted. Not only does a top Pentagon official say we're no safer -- and perhaps less safe -- after 13 years of war, but it has now been shown that war hurts our economy.

Never-ending wars are also destroying our democratic republic. The Founding Fathers warned against standing armies, saying that they destroy freedom. They were right ...

And they warned against financing wars with debt. But according to Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, the U.S. debt for the Iraq war could be as high as $5 trillion dollars (or $6 trillion dollars according to a study by Brown University.) The U.S. has the largest standing army in history, and treats anti-war sentiment as terrorism.

But war is great for the bankers and the defense contractors. And -- as discussed above -- governments are desperate for war.