SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BUT ROOT OUT THE WAR-MAKERS!

On this September 11, 2013, I am grateful that we are not on the brink of war in Syria, and only 15 months away from a complete withdrawal of our weary troops in Afghanistan. The President said right last night. We are sick of war! We need that money diverted to job-creating activity at home. Too often, we hear such trite expressions as "support our troops," or "thank you for your service." Yet, when they get discharged, these same troops are unemployed, homeless, in jail, physically or mentally impaired, or suicide candidates. Those trite cliches mask a cynical policy of war for profit, conducted at the highest levels of government. Focusing on the troops diverts attention away from the policies and the procurements which make war inevitable, and which keep these troops in harm's way! "Support our troops," yes, in theater and out! But, root out the war-makers, who line their oligarchical treasures, to the determined detriment of the domestic agenda, abandoned by solons since the MLKing assassination on April 4, 1968!