{"id":76989,"date":"2017-07-05T14:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76989"},"modified":"2017-07-05T14:28:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:28:59","slug":"the-human-cost-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76989","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Human Cost of War!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Custer, WA<br \/>\nJuly 5, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>The study by two American academics lends considerable support to my<br \/>\nlong-held view that the key issue for transforming US politics is stopping our<br \/>\ninvolvement in more wars: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/did-endless-war-cost-hillary-clinton-the\">http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/did-endless-war-cost-hillary-clinton-the<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their research focuses on &#8220;the viability of principled non-intervention&#8221; which is<br \/>\na fancy way of saying no more wars for regime change based on claims of<br \/>\nhumanitarian intervention.<\/p>\n<p>The NeoLiberal hawks on the Left like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama relied<br \/>\non such notions to justify their policy positions. These strongly echoed the<br \/>\nviews of the NeoCons like President Bush and Senator McCain whose comfort<br \/>\nlevel with American Exceptionalism was used to justify their interventionist<br \/>\napproach to foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately these ideas meshed making both parties fully complicit in these failed<br \/>\nadventures which have cost our country so much in lives, treasure and good will.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have some research to support the thinking behind what Ross Perot said<br \/>\nin 1992; Pat Buchanan and Dennis Kucinich said in 2004; and what Ron Paul has<br \/>\nbeen saying for decades: the US should stop interfering with other countries and<br \/>\nbring (most of) the troops home.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Tulsi Gabbard and Rand Paul have promoted similar views from opposite<br \/>\nsides of the aisle. These two are reminding the elite from both parties that most voters<br \/>\nare tired of &#8220;the human cost of war&#8221; and want us to stop these endless interventions.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68524\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68524<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the message is finally being received by some even if President Trump chooses<br \/>\nto ignore the lesson from his election success. The recent bi-partisan vote in the House<br \/>\nAppropriations Committee to end the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force<br \/>\nrepresents an important baby step towards reversing this failed approach.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47359.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47359.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Trump will have a golden opportunity to show the world he is not tone-deaf.<br \/>\nHe will be meeting President Putin at the G20 in Hamburg, Germany. Hopefully the two<br \/>\nworld leaders will discuss ways to reduce the escalating global tensions that have taken<br \/>\nsuch a heavy tool on humanity in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>And Syria is a great place to start! <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76849\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76849<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the report contends, politicians must be sensitive to views that our country cease its<br \/>\nroll as the world&#8217;s policeman. That will be a formidable task since the power of the<br \/>\nmilitary-industrial complex is pervasive in the councils of government as Ike warned it<br \/>\nwould become unless the public constrained it.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have evidence that the National Security State is very vulnerable. Is this<br \/>\nall too little too late or will populist sentiments find a way to prevail?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}