Many futurists, academics, world leaders, and of course, the peace activist crowd say that humankind is going mad. “Why all these weapon sales,” they ask? Didn’t someone once warn us “you cannot simultaneously prepare for and prevent war,” yes, and it was Einstein, but a nation has the right and the obligation to protect itself and it is citizenry; and Karl von Clausewitz the widely known and esteemed military philosopher would explain to all these folks why. Now then, let’s talk:
It is rather evident that Iran is likewise playing chess with IAEA, UN, and the US and by us engaging this game, we are making them appear more inviolable and more essential than they actually are. Meanwhile as they are buying time, there is massive build up in the Middle East permitting for weapons sales, serving our Industrial Military Complex, and Russia, and other venders of weapons in the EU as well. It’s good business, but also akin to 120 tons of underbrush un-cleared in a California Mountain forest the day before a thunderstorm or an arsonist with a blow-torch.
Not long ago, I was talking about this with a researcher in Post-Cold War US-Russian Relations, Jesse Giraldo, and we were comparing the standoff today with Iran from former such challenges in past history. To my remarks above he stated; [Haha], you paint an exact picture. It’s no mystery that America has a sorted history of providing arms to questionable powers but this tactic isn’t as asinine as it sounds. The United States of America possesses the most progressed standing army in the world. Our engineering science and military supremacy ensures a strategic vantage that cannot be get over by established tactics.
True sufficient indeed, thence he added “…[and], what this means for the U.S is that it is in our best interest as a superpower and a top provider of military instrumentation to arm the world and give rise to conflicts that keep the nations of the world divided and engaged in struggle.”
Well, as anybody reading this may have guessed, I am very pro-American and so, I won’t go there, but I may say that people invent conflict, and don’t need the help of the US either way. Humans have been killing their own species over resources, feed supply, women, religion (ideals), color of skin, territory, trade, economics, and sport for all of humane history. They need not make the pardon that the US causes the wars, even though Hugo Chavez, Radical Islam, and war protesters the world over amplified by the media for sound and fury sound bites proclaim. I don’t buy it.
Giraldo, on the other hand reminds us that; “In fact from a strictly naturalisti geopolitical stand point the worst thing we as a nation could do is to stop arming other nations. America is a master of war, we have perfected it is proficiencies and are unmatched in it is arts. Consider, what are our key strengths? Why does America proceed to be the last remaining superpower?”
Yet, the reality is that in essence, the US does run the world economically. GDP of 14-17 Trillion, next nearest nation isn’t even 5 trillion. At one point before the global economic crisis our GDP was equivalent to the other 9 of the top 10 GDPs of the whole world. Even the EU all together scarcely equaled the US and that was with them cheating in their figures, often with trickery accounting.
The argument that the US causes wars through it is weapon sales or measuredly produces conflict all around the world to keep itself in power, may not be the fairest assessment, but our oppositions would surely have you believe that, so a heap of persons do in fact. Please consider all this.
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