This is Mass Madness, You Maniacs!

Apologies for the long hiatus - I've been without internet at home and am just now making it back to the public library.

A quick post: towards the end of the first week of October, a friend of mine posted an article on Facebook from The Reporter out of Vacaville, CA titled "U.S. military shifts gears during 10-year Afghan War." I wanted to link it here, but they've since taken it down from the website.

The article interviewed military officials on future strategy, one of which includes possible confrontation with China:

"Having focused so narrowly -- and spent so heavily -- on fighting insurgents and terrorists rather than traditional armies, navies and air forces, U.S. military leaders are eager to turn to a wider range of threats, including potential conflict with China... Looking ahead, strategists see a different set of threats, particularly from a Chinese military that is modernizing air and naval forces and posing a potential menace to U.S.dominance in space."

So, this country's military is "eager" to enter into conflict with a nation that's home to a billion people and which has considerable influence on our economy and foreign trade.

Do I even need to point out the mass madness this entails?

If you think this country will eventually end its current military operations worldwide and finally return to peacetime, think again. The anti-war demonstrators of the early 2000s were right - this country is planning on endless war. This government continues to search out resources abroad that are dwindling at home and because of that it needs to make excuses for why it picks fights.

And their excuses aren't even that great by their own standards; conflict with China because they are modernizing their military and posing a threat to U.S. dominance in space? They couldn't have made it more plain: "We can't allow any other nation in the world to compete with us militarily. We are the bully on this here block and it's gonna stay that way, ya hear?"

The U.S. empire machine no longer needs good arguments to do what it does - it just goes and does them. It's up to the people who see it for what is really is to step up resistance and begin getting serious about stopping this death machine. Even if we never see conflict with China, it's obvious the military is consistently looking for work. We need to do everything we possibly can to put an end to the maniacal practices of this country and its military, once and for all.