Reality Check.

Do we still believe that Might Makes Right?
Have we all given up on Reason and Diplomacy?
Will these ongoing wars never end, even as the U.S.-financed "airstrikes" are proving less and less effective (essentially, prolonging civil wars with the latest military weaponry that the US supplies to the "rebels", and creating boatloads of refugees?)

Doesn't anyone care about Human Life anymore?
Hello...?

By Missy Ryan September 8 at 6:06 PM

 

While Americans savored the last moments of summer this Labor Day weekend, the U.S. military was busy overseas as warplanes conducted strikes in six countries in a flurry of attacks. The bombing runs across Asia, Africa and the Middle East spotlighted the diffuse terrorist threats that have persisted into the final days of the Obama presidency — conflicts that the next president is now certain to inherit.

In Iraq and Syria, between Saturday and Monday, the United States conducted about 45 strikes against Islamic State targets. On the other side of the Mediterranean, in the Libyan city of Sirte, U.S. forces also hit fighters with the militant group. On Sunday in Yemen, a U.S. drone strike killed six suspected members of ­al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The following day, just across the Gulf of Aden in Somalia, the Pentagon targeted al-Shabab, another group aligned with ­al-Qaeda. The military also conducted several counterterrorism strikes over the weekend in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and the Islamic State are on the offensive.

Militants in each of those countries have been attacked before, but the convergence of so many strikes on so many fronts in such a short period served as a reminder of the endurance and geographic spread of al-Qaeda and its mutations.

“This administration really wanted to end these wars,” said Paul Scharre, a former Army Ranger and Pentagon official now at the Center for a New American Security. “Now, we’ve got U.S. combat operations on multiple fronts and we’re dropping bombs in six countries."

Speaking only for myself, I will never accept this state of affairs as the New Normal.  Too many hawks in both parties, spending money not their own, on futures they will not live to see...

When will the Change come, and who will finally... Bring It! ?