The causes of our war

by Ted Rudow III, MA (Tedr77 [at] aol.com)

Thu, Sep 10, 2015 8:30PM

The causes of our war

President Bush is authorized to use military force against those who perpetrated the 9/11 attack and those countries who harbored those individuals. Well, here we are more than 14 years later. There is no more Al Qaeda left in Afghanistan or Pakistan according to the U.S. government. The group that perpetrated 9/11, according to it is no longer even existing.

Yet, here we are engaged in extraordinarily broad military efforts, constantly escalating in numerous parts of the world. There’s six different countries in which the U.S. is actively using drones; in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya and Yemen, against groups that didn’t even exist at the time that 9/11 was perpetrated. What we’re doing in essence is not only going way beyond what we were supposed to be doing when the Congress authorized military force, but what we’re really doing is we’re constantly manufacturing the causes of our war.

Yes, there are many more sides to this battle than Bush is letting on, and many more than the news media is aware of or suspects. They capable of using the Arabs as the scapegoats but of drawing the Israelis in as well, playing both sides against the other and against the U.S. at different times to suit his shifting purposes. It's a tangled web they weaves!

Ted Rudow III, MA

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