THE 1% SOLUTION

At 308,000,000 souls, 1% of the US population amounts to 3,080,000, 50% again the roughly two million military personnel who have served in our senseless wars of conquest over Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001.

Even less than that, 0%, have paid a single dime to fund these trillion dollar wars which are financed by borrowed money to be paid back by future generations that have a terrible surprise awaiting them.

These two statistics should shock and outrage every decent, peace loving American for they expose the utter criminality and corruptness of the war party, which basically prosecutes their needless wars without the involvement of the American people. If all able bodied youth had to serve and if all wage earners had to pay, there could never be a war which was unnecessary as these are.

Decades or even just a few years from now, when the piper of this perversion of our war-making duty must be paid, the people won't need a very long or detailed response when they ask what went so terribly wrong in the first decade of the 21st century.

Those of us who saw through the lies and the strategy the war party used to cripple America from their lust for conquest in the Middle East will simply sigh and say, "It was the 1% solution."

Also published in the Glen Ellyn News, December 22, 2009