War party parties on

Try as he might, President Obama cannot entirely escape the treacherous, bloodthirsty hands of the war party. The military war lovers, their media sycophants, congressman and presidential contenders, and of course, the murderous weaponry makers, have their clutches around him; he simply can't end the carnage begun by his predecessor in Afghanistan in 2001. This in spite of his seven year promises to end the Afghan war before his successor arrives in 15 months. Last week's announcement our 9,500 soldiers there will not be coming home by the end of next year rings hollow. The media is dutifully trotting out war monger spokesmen to claim, falsely, the Afghans puppets we've bought off with untold billions are getting ever so closer to becoming independent. In fact, they run and cough up our weaponry to the insurgents in every major battle.

The only sop to us sheep that serve as the American electorate is that we don't have massive amounts of canon fodder to get blown to bits in a futile and criminal venture. We have substituted endless bombing that kills thousands of innocents, which only gets our and the world's attention when we wantonly and recklessly burn up 22 doctors and their patients in Kunduz because our Afghan puppets beg us to.

The only time the President looks depressed and insincere is when he announces more endless war, whether it be in Libya, Syria, Iraq and of course, Afghanistan. He cannot hide his weakness and shame at not being able to tell the war party to go straight to Hell and to tell us sheep the truth about our despicable wars.

Presidents come and go, but the war party parties on. In America, war is truly the health of the state.

Walt Zlotow
Glen Ellyn