America has become comfortable with war. Our volunteer soldiers need the work --- so why not war?
Our politics -- extreme and unyieldingly stupid, reflect the desperation of a "war footing." All our institutions are suffering because we are at war: infrastructure, education, entertainment, hopes and dreams, families, sexual mores, you-name-it: everything is suffering and somehow getting worse.
War is current and forever, apparently. In Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, everywhere in the Middle East -- and on city streets throughout the USA. Some say we may be at "war with ourselves"-- unable to pick the civilized path because we have forgotten how to be civilized. It is an ornament of the past.
Soldiers suffer, their families suffer, society suffers, the refugees suffer, criminals suffer, the system suffers and strains, we all suffer trying to figure things out.
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