Are you tired of paying for war?

Here's an eye-opening article that appeared on antiwar.com. The numbers are staggering, and it's one of the main reasons why the U.S. is broke. I hope the author is wrong in the beginning of his article where he writes that we love war. Can it be so? In a Christian nation?

How much longer will you pay before you take action?

U.S. foreign policy and Georgia

The U.S. Constitution does not authorize, or even mention, all of the interventions, foreign entanglements, installations of heads of state, etc., that our government is involved in on a daily basis. We are beginning to reap what we have sown: most people around the globe don't care much for us. Why should they? We stick our noses in almost everyone's business, which is reckless and expensive.

Here's a nice, short article by Sheldon Richman that appeared on antiwar.com today. Kind of sums up our foolish foreign policy. By the way, if you get your news from the mainstream media, you're probably extremely misinformed.

War Myths

Some people like war for some reason, yet they don't understand how war consolidates power in the hands of the state. War is also bad for the economy, yet people believe the opposite. As Robert Higgs points out in How War Amplified Federal Power in the Twentieth Century, the publicly held debt rose by $200 billion during World War II, and the U.S. dollar lost nearly half its purchasing power between 1940 and 1948.

Not only does war make us poorer, Washington grows stronger, limiting our freedom. Higgs' great article appeared in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty in December, 2001. Read the rest of the article here.