“And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.” (Revelation 6:7-8)
2021: How the US created a world of endless war. The American way of war is more and more defined by…control by domination and surveillance…
Obama’s policy called for engaging in targeted killing, not only by drone but also with the Special Forces or standoff missiles sent from long distances…
Special Forces operated in or moved through 138 nations – 70% of all countries in the world – in Obama’s last year in office…
The world had reacted with horror when Bush’s national security strategy in 2002 had forthrightly claimed the need to engage in pre-emptive self-defense without any imminent threat…Obama also asserted the legality of doing it.
Do Americans really believe we are so special and well protected that the rest of the world will do nothing to protect themselves from our military and financial depredations?
Uncritical support of all things martial is quickly becoming the new norm…few Americans today are giving sufficient consideration to the full range of violent activities the government undertakes in their names.
One way we afford this is that America is the world’s largest arms merchant.
And that begets yet another profit motive in war. The arms industry and its contractors are invested in militarizing the Middle East, saturating it with deadly weapons, Conflict is essential to perpetuate the global arms industry. And an enemy is needed to rationalize its continuation.
When 3,000 people died in the Twin Towers collapse on Sept. 11, 2001 in New York City, President George W. Bush launched unlimited war against the avowed enemies of Israel – all Islamic nations. “Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there … every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.”
“Us” is the U.S. and Israel, and the terrorists are all Islam.
In the two decades since the U.S. initiated its military retaliation to the 9/11 attacks, nearly 1 million people have died directly from its conflicts – and less than 2% of those were Americans or U.S. contractors, according to estimates compiled by the Costs of War Project at Brown University.
Civilians have suffered the most. In the five majority-Muslim countries that have been the primary battlefields of the post-911 conflicts, more than 377,000 civilians, journalists and nongovernmental organization workers have died as a direct result of the fighting – tens of thousands more than war fighters on either side, research shows.
The Iraq War caused at least one hundred thousand civilian deaths, as well as tens of thousands of military deaths, the majority of which occurred as a result of the insurgency and civil conflicts between 2004 and 2007. Subsequently, the War in Iraq of 2013 to 2017, which is considered a domino effect of the invasion and occupation, caused at least 155,000 deaths, in addition to the displacement more than 3.3 million people within the country.
“A series of new reports document an alarming escalation of civilian casualties caused by U.S. operations in Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia — and with it, a pattern of U.S. denial about the scale of the problem. The result is a global war on terror that persists in killing and injuring civilians — including children — in ever rising numbers.…
ISIS claimed the city of Raqqa, in north-central Syria, as the capital of its so-called “caliphate” in January 2014…But it was the U.S.-led bombing campaigns in Raqqa for which civilians and their city paid the highest price…The assault was relentless. “One U.S. military official boasted about firing 30,000 artillery rounds during the campaign — the equivalent of a strike every six minutes, for four months straight — surpassing the amount of artillery used in any conflict since the Viet Nam war,” the report…documented 1,600 civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes on the city, limiting their count mostly to those the organization and its partners were able to reasonably verify on the ground.
In Afghanistan…more civilians had been killed by U.S. and U.S.-backed forces than by the Taliban or ISIS.
Not included are the hundreds of thousands killed in war zones around the world by U.S.-imposed economic sanctions, by hunger stemming from food system disruption, and by disease resulting from the bombing of water treatment facilities, hospitals and clinics…And they are being killed by the very soldiers and pilots, bombers, National Security Councils, congressional war-funders, parliaments, prime ministers and presidents who claim to be liberating them.”
Around 90% of all deaths in war are civilians. America’s morally corrupt condition makes her prey to Islam’s revenge, and even more so, to God’s anger at misrepresenting him.
July 2022: NATO’s endless expansion threatens nuclear holocaust.
Kingdom Come 