More war? No doubt that the lunatics are running our country

Generally, when the United States goes to war, there's one reason at the heart of it.

Money.

Two-time Medal of Honor winner Smedley Butler said it best.

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."

Butler died in 1940, and I have a pretty good idea he wouldn't be thrilled to see some folks in our government urging us to get involved in the civil war in Syria.

Here's the question, though. Reports out of Syria say that both the government and the rebels have been committing war crimes and atrocities. So if we were to intervene, on which side do we come in? Here's another question: Would we even consider getting involved here if President Gee Dubya hadn't attacked Iraq without provocation?

We have never been a "mind our own business" nation, but in the past at least, most of our intervention has been in our own hemisphere, under the guise of protecting American business interests. Of course our pretense at allowing other countries self-determination ended under Nixon in the early '70s when we ousted Chilean president Salvador Allende because he was a Marxist.

Civil War in Syria

We lost most of the rest of our moral rectitude when we didn't stop the slaughter in either Rwanda or the Sudan. Hey, no oil. No white people. Nobody to save worth saving.

So we invaded Iraq. So we've been at war in Afghanistan for 12 incomprehensible years. And now we have to show how big our genitals are by making even more Arabs hate us?

Somewhere in the ninth circle of Hell, Osama bin Laden is laughing his ass off.

He knows who really won the War on Terror.

It sure wasn't us.