Let’s make perpetual war a Clovid-19 victim

The US has just printed $2.2 trillion in borrowed money to smother the Clovid-19 virus and save the economy. This would be an excellent time for the US to retire its trillion dollar a year in printed money to wage perpetual war in the Middle East and Africa. Like Clovid-19, US perpetual war is killing thousands of people with no end in sight. But instead of being the silent, invisible killer Clovid-19, America is a noisy, visible killer dropping thousands of bombs on folks we claim are bad guys in a dozen or so countries and slaughtering every unsuspecting innocent civilian within range. We continue to defile the Middle East and Africa with 50,000 soldiers causing untold mayhem and provoking blowback of roadside bombings and rocket attacks getting a number killed and injured.

If bombs and soldiers weren’t enough, we’re imposing economic sanctions designed to make life for the citizenry in our targeted countries so miserable, they rise up to overthrow their rulers we despise. But these sanctions never change the regime, just cause thousands to die and millions to suffer needlessly. Iran has the sixth most Clovid-19 cases and the fourth most deaths in the world; exacerbated by crippling US sanctions preventing delivery of critically needed medical supplies. Since Clovid-19 arose Uncle Sam has added three new rounds of sanctions on Iran as our ghoulish response to Iran’s pleas for sanctions relief.

Clovid-19 has claimed 1,304 victims in the US. Let’s use it to make perpetual war number 1,305.