Our World Depends On Detente

This morning I came across an interesting article, by Craig, posted on the web, which makes a lot of sense from many angles.  Ref.   https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/07/detente-bad-cold-war-good/

Just like perpetual war on terrorists is good for business, so is the cold war atmosphere some insist on maintaining; the military industrial complex (President Eisenhower warned us against) existence depends on it.   In a normal world, once a war is over, and matters are settled, the production of military equipment stops, and domestic consumer production goes into high gear again.  This is not the case today; consumers evaluate the real need before spending their money.  War production is happening without reasonable consideration, as to the real need for items produced.  The taxpayer is convinced through perceived fear for their survival, to give up their money, and civil liberties, all in one swoop.

I find myself in agreement with Craig, when he writes,

"Political memories are short, but just 15 years after Iraq was destroyed and the chain reaction sent most of the Arab world back to the dark ages, it is now “treason” to question the word of the Western intelligence agencies, which deliberately and knowingly produced a fabric of lies on Iraqi WMD to justify that destruction.
It would be more rational for it to be treason for leaders to blindly accept the word of the intelligence services."

He  goes on to say,

"This is especially true on “Russia hacking the election” when, after three years of crazed accusations and millions of man hours by lawyers and CIA and FBI investigators, they are yet to produce any substantive evidence of accusations which are plainly nuts in the first place. This ridiculous circus has found a few facebook ads and indicted one Russian for every 100,000 man hours worked, for unspecified or minor actions which had no possible bearing on the election result."

Why are we, the taxpayers, not shouting from every rooftop, 'Stop wasting our tax dollars'?  We have no money, apparently, to help the poor of our country but we don't think twice to spend many, many millions of dollars on this charade.  I don't know about you, I switch to another program when this nonsense is discussed, or reported on.

I don't care who occupies the 'Oval Office' but any person who is bent on preventing an existential war, and save our tax dollars as a byproduct gets my attention.  Can we, the public, not see that all of this costly circus is nothing but political wrangling, orchestrated by the losing party, who wishes to achieve the majority in both houses, so that they can raid the cookie jar again?

In my opinion, war and peace is a social concern we should all take very serious; false reasons for war based on false, fabricated facts must be rejected by all of us; our lives depend on it.