US, not Iran, largest sponsor of state terrorism

It was both weird and scary to hear otherwise intelligent Democratic candidates pander to the war party in last night's debate. ISIS, a murderous bunch of power seekers, is a threat only to murderous power holders in Middle East. We spend trillions on criminal wars and criminal interventions to make sure our murderous thugs retain power. Both Hillary and Bernie paid obeisance to the recipients of those trillions by saying we must continue our wars and interventions that have killed hundreds of thousands and forced millions to flee our weaponry.

Both unnecessarily and falsely demonize Russia for shoring up their borders when the US instigated a coup against the duly elected Ukraine leader to draw Ukraine away from Russia and toward the West. Both want to expand NATO to Russia's doorstep even though the need for NATO is long past, and when member Turkey is supporting our imagined enemy ISIS in total contravention to our expressed No. 1 national security interest.

Sanders is a bit better than Clinton on this issue. He did vote against launching our criminal Iraq war, unlike warmonger Clinton, who not only voted for that war, but orchestrated, as Secretary of State, our criminal and murderous overthrow of Qaddafi in Libya. She relishes getting over-involved in unbridled militarism. But Sanders couldn't say the magic words 'get all our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan' because he still cowers before the war party.

Till we have candidates and finally a president who removes the boots on the ground, grounds the murderous drones and planes, and stops demonizing Iran, China, Russia, and murderous groups not an existential threat to America, Uncle Sam still holds the brass ring for state sponsored terrorism.

When the debate dealt with domestic issues like immigration reform, climate change, poisoning Michigan governors, mass incarceration of minorities, income inequality, campaign reform, and others...it was quite inspiring.