Remember The Maine

One hundred twenty years ago the battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor killing 260 of 400 crew members. The Maine was there to serve the campaign of ridding the American neighborhood of Spanish imperialism in Cuba and Puerto Rico. The emerging US imperialist clique blamed Spain, claiming they blew up the Maine with a mine. The US didn't need no 'stinkin' investigation which would have revealed a fire that ignited the Maine's ammo stocks. Two months later we declared criminal war on Spain, garnering our first empire of Cuba and Puerto Rico nearby, and the Philippians and Guam in the Far East. We slaughtered about 300,000 Filipinos who took umbrage over the new imperialist defiling their country.

One hundred and twenty years on we're still ginning up war with rush to judgement claims of a Syrian gas attack, likely a 'false flag' event by Syrian rebels, if not a non-existent event. Candidate Trump made utterly insincere noises of tamping down America's raging militarism round the world. Now as president, after already tasting blood from his April, 2017 bombing of Syria over another non-existent Syrian gas attack, he's getting ready to light the fuse again. Trump is smart enough to know the real power in Washington is the war party....and that war is the health of the state.