Thread:Comments:US House of Representatives passes health care bill/Why can't people realize how much we can't afford these wars right now?/reply (4)

Seeing the rich as "the best" and the poor as "the coddled weakest" seems like a pretty evil political philosophy at work. and as for the wars, Does anyone seriously believe that attacking and invading other nations (e.g. Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen) protects the United States form terrorism? It fuels more terrorism because it simply validates the arguments of those who would seek to harm the US. Terrorism is at its very nature, ideological, not military. Killing and wounding "suspected terrorists", (in effect often civilians) simply alienates the remainder of the population and provides them the moral (and emotional) justification to retaliate in desperate ways. Granted there may be a few (ignorant) conservatives who believe these wars about protecting the country, but most understand the real reason for the recent wars is geopolitics - the U.S. is highly reliant on foreign fossil fuels (which are rapidly dwindling, and needs to assure its control of these resources as they start to run out. Fossil fuel security is vital to U.S. National Security (i.e.The US, can has a military larger than the next 17 nations combined, but it is quickly rendered useless if there is nothing to fuel it), and to preserving the American way of life and high standard of living.