War AND Economy
  
The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. ~ George Orwell, 1984
  
[May 2004] The global crisis that is being perpetrated by militarism is dictated mainly by the economy. US economy is a permanent military economy. In the last 12 months US spent a trillion dollars on military - 52 cent in every dollar of the Federal Funds. [You can think of a trillion - 1,000 billion - dollars as more money than is needed to provide plenty of food, adequate housing, and superior health and education (a secure future, in other words) for every US citizen in perpetuity, if the dollars were invested sensibly. And that’s just one year's military expenditure.]

With so much money at stake, however, the power elite continue to justify the need for militarism, maintain (and increase) the demand for arms by inventing murderous "marketing" campaigns for the serial wars: Korea, Vietnam…Afghanistan, Iraq…

Have you ever wondered about the psyche of those individuals who murder, rape or torture the "enemy" in the name of religion, democracy, justice, freedom, "racial purity," or money? How can they continue to maintain a false conscience for the rest of their lives; how can they stop committing murder, rape and torture at home after the war is over? 

Adjust artillery fire onto the cries of a baby
"It was all an act for me, a cover-up for deeper fears I couldn't name, and the reason I know that is that we had to dehumanize our victims before we did the things we did. We knew deep down that what we were doing was wrong. So they became dinks or gooks, just like Iraqis are now being transformed into ragheads or hajjis. People had to be reduced to "niggers" here before they could be lynched. No difference. We convinced ourselves we had to kill them to survive, even when that wasn't true, but something inside us told us that so long as they were human beings, with the same intrinsic value we had as human beings, we were not allowed to burn their homes and barns, kill their animals, and sometimes even kill them. So we used these words, these new names, to reduce them, to strip them of their essential humanity, and then we could do things like adjust artillery fire onto the cries of a baby." ~~ Stan Goff: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org

"It is clear that the intelligence community dictated that these photographs be taken." ~~ Guy L. Womack, a Houston lawyer representing Spec. Charles A. Graner Jr., 35, one of the soldiers charged. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6153.htm

"That’s what you do to enemies. You dehumanize people, and conclude that they are no longer human and they can be disposed of. That’s what we've been doing these days, killing thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan and Palestine and Colombia. It’s not usually reported on TV or in the paper. But we are good at killing our enemies and obeying our murderous government."
http://www.fatherjohndear.org/sermons_homilies/love_enemies.html

Making choices
In his new book Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution Derrick Jensen, MSRB professor, writes: “Every American (or non-American) soldier who drops bombs on civilians (or for that matter, military) targets makes choices. Every politician or general who tells them to drop those bombs makes choices. Every person who works in factories assembling those bombs, making aluminum or fuel for the aircraft to carry the bombs, paying taxes to pay for the bombs, makes choices every second.”

"Choices by default are choices nonetheless."

Make your choice: Stop The Serial Wars now!

Justice
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason, justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

   
America in the 21st Century

Security and Abundance
Unites States has the ability to provide security and abundance for all of its citizens in perpetuity, without having to consume other nations.

America as a World Leader in Humanity
United States has the unique opportunity to stop its serial wars by transforming its economy into a benign economy (non-military, non-expansionist) and by switching its energy policy to renewable energy for the benefit of its citizens; discharge its legal duties, moral obligations, and social responsibilities as a member of the community of nations; set standards of excellence in leadership, compassion, and judiciousness so that rest of the world could follow.