United States has bigger problems than the war on terror

Climate change, peak oil, scarce water, diminishing food production, a predatory health-care system, huge national debt and world recession are bigger problems than America’s fear-mongering, soul-destroying “war on terror.”

Our only means of creating real wealth — the machinery, knowledge and expertise to manufacture goods — was shipped overseas after Americans facilitated their own fleecing by electing politicians who hated government “regulation” of business. Corporate outsourcing and looting of America began under Ronald Reagan as a deliberate, organized process financed by wealthy business interests, cloaked in “family values” and legitimized by right-wing “think tanks.”

Our foreign policy is based on the premise that military force is justified to steal the world’s dwindling oil resources. That Islamists — who sit on that oil– are evil and must be attacked before they attack us. Americans are so scared they believe nations like Iran are crazy enough to send a few missiles sputtering into Israel (possessing 80 nuclear missile warheads) or America (9,900 nuclear warheads).

Anchorage Daily News