An interesting notion: The US has already started World War III. It's not my idea, but the notion espoused by a young man carrying a baby in what appears to be the back woods of Mendocino County, California. Sorry, but I had trouble embedding it.
His basic theory: Just as WWII wasn't started all at once and just as many countries figured it was a local phenomenon for quite some time, so too with the Empire's invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen. (I'm sure there are others--wasn't there a brief excursion into Somalia last year too?) And of course the growing police state in der Vaterland, ooops, the homeland. And, truly, if you objectively compare Germany's reasons for invading Poland with the US's reasons for invading Iraq, Germany does come out on top. (Germany--border skirmishes and mistreatment of ethnic Germans in Poland preceded invasion. US--trumped-up weapons of mass destruction, unfounded claims of imminent threat and of ties to bin Laden)Please note that I am only speaking about Poland, not the whole Nazi game plan!
The young man in the video also makes two other good points:
^ If Europe thinks it's not a co-conspirator, think again. Most of Europe is under NATO, and NATO is involved in the invasion of Libya. If you still think we're there to help the freedom fighters, think again. As former congresswoman and 2008 presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has found on her recent fact-finding trip to Libya, NATO and US forces are purposefully hitting civilian targets.
* Just as fascists were stopped by the Allied forces during WWII, so the Empire will have to be stopped by a coalition of military forces. My guess? A pact between China and Russia, what Cold War strategists always feared. Only this time, the two will be fighting to stem the Empire's stranglehold on the planet, not spread worldwide communism. How the tables turn!
None of this is a foregone conclusion. Just as the Nazis might have been stopped sometime short of a world war, so too the Empire can be brought to heel. But people have to see what's going on under their noses, and they need to demand that violence and terrorism against the world's people come to an end.
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