Warning the World About War, American Style

WITHIN FIVE YEARS, or say, during or before the year 2020, the United States of America seems destined, as inevitably as the fates themselves, to become involved in a massive, global conflict of its own making, even if only indirectly manufactured. Another one of those Mexican war, Spanish American war, World War Two, and Viet Nam kinds of scenarios, wherein the United States government, bound and determined to initiate hostilities for covert material gain, finds some agregious if imaginary offense as pretext to intervention. You can almost bank on it, so to speak. You can just see it in the faces of the average American citizen; the anger, the fear, the frustration of gradual, steady economic failure in a culture which places a premium on success through conquest..Beware, oh friends on foreigh soil! Here comes the American military....again. You can see it in the way every American with a driver's license is lurking, scowling, five feet behind your rear bumper. Coming soon to a theatre of operation near you, with all the smart bombs, carrier based fighter planes, and missiles fired from deep beneath the ocean blue: the American military industrial complex! It'll doubtless be quite a show, with full mainstream conservative American media coverage, like usual. Advertising revenue should soar, which is, of course, all part of the bigger picture. Doubtless the American juggernaut will be placidly accompanied by the usual host of allies; bought, paid for, intimidated, and coerced. Again, the usual scenario. That way, it won't really be an "American" war, will it? If I were a Moslem, living on non American soil, or living within the lower forty eight, for that matter, I'd be ducking my head under my desk right about now, the way we used to, in those halcyon days of yore, when our enemy of the month in America was Soviet Russia, and cooperative economis was Satan. Move over socialism! There's a new enemy now, as there almost always is. After all, you have to keep 'em guessing, and, above all else, the American people themselves, that amorphous mass of inert and presumbably sedated organic matter, must remain confused, yet content.