Our country professes to be a peace loving country of Christian principles. That is our claim. We have 170,000 troops deployed around the world in 134 countries. 40,000 of those troops are on missions that our government refuses to disclose where they are or what they are doing. Many of those countries do not want Americans there and they are combating our troops because we are in their country and that will never change as long as we are in those countries.
The government proclaims we protect the safety of our own country by having troops fighting overseas in undeclared wars. That theory went down on September 11, 2001 and we see terrorism on the streets of our cities every few weeks carried out by radicals that support those countries we are combating at the moment.
President Bush said we should no longer be the world's policemen back in 2001. I believe he was correct. President Trump said the basically the same thing by pulling troops out of overseas combat or peacekeeping missions and I believe his idea was correct. The thing is we are still doing it after Bush and Trump said it needed to be ended. That said leads me to another revered president, Dwight Eisenhower's final speech to America, "Beware the military-industrial complex."
That leads me to my conclusion that it's not safety for our citizens that's not as important as the fact that wars, conflicts, peacekeeping leads to tons of money for manufacturers of war materials and lots of great promotions for top military officers. We currently have more generals and admirals today with 1.3 million soldiers and sailors than we had in World War Two with 16 million soldiers and sailors.
I believe if this country followed its Christian values, peaceful activities, moral character, love for those who may not love you, and maybe stop all the killing going on we might see peace arrive. So far from the end of World War Two, 75 years now, what we are doing now hasn't worked.
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