Governance with RCS: Our Wars, our history, our future
The following is an introduction to my intention to write about some of our less known wars.
As
I write our union has lasted about 244 years. I find that of those
years only six have been free of war. I also find that in a great many
of those years we have fought more than one war year. I
our 238 years of warring many of us have been killed and we have killed
many. If we do not hold the record for average number of wars per year,
we may soon do so.
The years we have not warred are 1935 through 1940 and 1897. It may well be worth while to learn more about these years.
From
1899 to1934 we had mostly just "Banana Wars;" mostly not only. People
of our neighboring countries of Central America may object to my word
"just." Those Banana Wars were among the most traumatic happenings in
their entire history. In those wars we stepped on their labor movement
hard. The people of those republics have found it difficult to laugh
about what we have called our Good Neighbor Policy.
When taking a close look at historic near the U.S. it seems we have hated the people of Haiti the most for the longest time. That
we have invaded Mexico only 13 times since 1837 makes it look like we
love Mexicans more than we have hated the people of Haiti; but I
digress. These doings mostly count as wars.
There
are doings related to our wars that are curious and peak my interest.
For it is curious why we insist on killing one another when we could be
arranging to protect ourselves from comet and asteroid rains, various
virus, plagues, solar flares, rising sea levels, and the like. When I
have said "we' here, I not only refer to you and I, our fellow citizens,
and our fore bearers, but also those who find it convenient to war with
us.
My
curiosity extends to wanting to know why part of our Civil War occurred
at Gibraltar and why Mysore played a part in that same war. I'd even
like to know why Sweden was our allie in our first Barbary War. What
about the German Coast Uprising in the Territory of Orleans? Just why
did we invade Canada? And like that. And you may agree, that our recent
wars of say the last 20 or 30 years, have had their interesting points.
I
do not enjoy writing about the killing we do or about the deaths of
many of our fine young men. In fact it causes me some very unpleasant
feelings. I would like to act in an honorable and legal way to minimize
early deaths and killings. Not an easy thing to do since so many of us
have abdicated responsibility for the war machine we sponsor.
I
have a lot to learn but I do intend to be honest and factual as I
write. I hope that you will correct any and all mistakes that you find
on this blog. You are welcome to do so in the "comment" section just
below.
More to come.
RCS