"So help me God".

Within minutes, if not seconds of saying those words today, which inaugurated Joe Biden as President of the U.S. and Commander in Chief of the armed forces, some innocent civilian around the world will die by unnecessary US military action. As the life is snatched from that unsuspecting man, woman or child simply trying to live out the Iraqi or Afghan or Pakistani or Syrian or Somalian dream, President Biden will have exercised the most awesome power that comes with that solemn oath: his License To Kill.

We don't spend $780 billion a year on weapons of civilian destruction for nothing. The Military-Industrial Complex demands they be used, frequently if possible, to maintain their endless replenishment and the profits that follow. These folks will lobby and propagandize and bully and cajole the American public endlessly until the guy at the helm gives the order to fire, or passively allows the overt and covert operations already in place to continue their murder and mayhem.

We know that many thousands of innocents have been needlessly killed in the presidencies of Bush the Son, Obama and Trump since perpetual war was instituted following 911.

The Military-Industrial Complex still calls the shots in U.S. foreign policy, literally as well as figuratively. We must oppose this leviathan with our words and our votes. We must hold the President accountable for all the needless militarism and deaths and destruction our gargantuan military visits upon the world. The planes and drones spewing murder from the skies must be grounded. New wars must not be started.

Let us work to stop this madness. So help us God.