We, who are of an age to have learned something of history in school, will know that WWI - which changed the world forever - did not start because someone assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. It began because of a web of defense alliances which dragged all of Europe into an all-out war between the great powers of the continent. We are seeing this dynamic right now, in real time. Maybe there is time to stop before we see WWIII. The problem is that we are governed not by those we elect but by special interests and bureaucrats - chiefly the CIA.
There was a time when we looked at our country with a sense of pride, we believed that we were the “good guys”, the ones who supplied humanitarian aid when needed, the ones who kept an army to defend our way of life, not to create an empire, as other great powers before us have done. Somewhere along the line we lost our way. For a long time, now, America has been run by unelected bureaucrats and government organizations which were never supposed to be a part of our national character, such as the CIA, created following WWII. (How many wars have we won since 1947?) As a result we are now becoming regarded by the world as an overbearing bully and even, now, a terrorist nation. It is a dilemma because most Americans don’t want to be this or to be seen as this.
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