The Most Dreaded Enemy of Liberty

From what I gather, the warmongers--including three of the four remaining GOP bozos, millionaire Mitt Romney, religious fanatic Rick Santorum and zany adulterer Newt Gingrich --are beating the war drums more furiously than ever and stirring up more Islamophobia than even after 9/11. This time the target is Iraq oops Iran, a country of almost 80 million people and an area larger than Germany, France and Spain combined.
As if they haven't learned anything from the Bush-Obama Permanent War that is costing trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives, American  and other, these ignoramuses appeal to people's worst emotions--fear and hate.

According to the Department of Defense’s 2010 Base Structure Report, as of 2009, the US military  maintained 662 foreign sites in 38 countries around the world.

On the other hand, with a billion three hundred million people, China does not have even one single military base outside its borders!  Not one!

Instead of slaughtering and bombing people all over the world, China just keeps rolling merrily along, growing its economy at 7 or 8% per annum while America self-destructs by spending itself to death waging war.
The Chinese must be laughing in their beer at these imbecillic Americans.
Way back in 1795, James Madison, principal author of the Constitution and fourth president of the United States, predicted with uncanny accuracy exactly what was going to be happening in 2012.
Madison wrote: Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people.
The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
From: Political Observations, 1795
I expect that if James Madison were alive today, he'd be in the streets protesting with the other Occupy Wall Street patriots!
It's high time for the American people to heed James Madison's words and put a stop to the permanent state of war that is destroying America.
Jagor