Interventionism Makes Americans Less Safe by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2020-01-16 at 00:38:14 )

Interventionism Makes Americans Less Safe by Jacob G. Hornberger!

There is something important to note about United States interventionism in faraway lands: None of the people that the United States government is killing, maiming, or destroying is invading and trying to conquer the United States. Neither are the governments of the nations in which the victims are citizens. No one is invading and trying to conquer the United States.

There is something else important to note about United States interventionism in faraway lands: It makes Americans less safe. Let us count the ways.

1. United States of American tourists and business people traveling abroad are now subject to angry and vengeful retaliation for the death and destruction that the United States government is wreaking in those faraway lands.

Yes, I am fully aware that United States of American tourists and business people are not responsible for the death and destruction that is being inflicted by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency in places like Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries.

But the problem is that many victims of the Pentagons and CIAs deadly and destructive crusade do not separate private American citizens and the United States government.

Like many Americans do, they conflate the federal government and the American people. Thus, when they exact revenge by killing or maiming American tourists or American business travelers abroad, say with well-placed bombs, in their minds they are exacting revenge against the United States government.

2. Americans here at home are now subject to angry and vengeful retaliation by American citizens here at home and foreigners living in the United States who sympathize with the victims in those faraway lands. That is where the threat of domestic terrorism comes into play.

3. To protect against the threat of terrorist retaliation arising from United States interventionism abroad, the United States government wages a "war on terrorism" that ends up destroying the freedom of the United States of American people in an ostensible attempt to keep them safe from the retaliatory threats of terrorism that their foreign interventionism brings into existence. The fact that the federal government now wields such totalitarian-like powers as assassination, indefinite detention, mass secret surveillance, and torture over the United States American people is an ongoing testament to how foreign interventionism has made Americans less safe at the hands of their own government.

And for what?

What is the point of all that foreign interventionism, especially given that it clearly makes us - the American people - less safe, both from terrorists seeking revenge and from the United States government itself?

The answer is: money, empire, and power.

It is all one great big racket by which the United States national-security establishment, including all those "defense" contractors, maintains its grip on the gigantic tax-funded warfare largess that comes with foreign interventionism.

It is also about maintaining foreign colonies, puppet regimes, and foreign military bases that keep the United States as a worldwide empire.

And finally, it is about maintaining power and control over the United States of American people, destroying their freedom and security in the process.

There is but one solution to all this deadly and destructive mayhem: (1) Bring all United States troops home from everywhere and discharge them and (2) restore a limited-government republic to our land by dismantling, not reforming, the national-security state governmental structure that was brought into existence after World War II.

Doing that would put our nation well on the road to the restoration of liberty, peace, prosperity, normality, and harmony with the people of the world.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!