The "game" of war has grown stale and ultimately, unprofitable

We Americans can't play that "game" anymore. The game of US world hegemony that is, enforced by US diktat, armaments and intervention. That very tired and destructive habit has grown stale. To put it mildly. We've been virtually bankrupted by constantly sending the Marines to every corner of the planet, whenever our supposed national interests have been threatened. A sizeable portion of our humongous, multi-trilion dollar national debt has been incurred by just such entanglements: Iraq, Afghanistan, and now maybe Syria. To say nothing of the maimed and wasted lives. I just don't believe we can realistically contribute to peace-making efforts in Syria by shipping over more items of death and destruction. It's a matter of public record now that several of the "rebel" groupings have committed atrocities of their own, on a considerable scale. I don't champion them, and can't see any compelling reason why I should. I'm sorry if it seems callous, but we're in a rather serious predicament over here, a predicament that renders these calamitous armed adventures more glaringly inappropriate than ever. We need the money to shore up our anemic economic "recovery." It's as if Barack Obama and the more militaristic members of Congress have determined that "We do war." That is, we here in the United States, having outsourced millions of decent jobs, now have no meaningful civilian manufacturing sector, and all we're left with as a significant economic stimulant is the war machine, with its obviously wasteful and profligate spending on items of death and destruction that are obsolete the moment they are produced. We in this country are beholden to a bankrupt social order, in multiple ways. To wit: The way our president and most of Congress insist military intervention is a perennial "must," always understood as something indispensable in the matter of relations between nations. Yes, we do have those 800 or so military bases in about 140 countries world-wide. Yes, the most dynamic manufacturing sector here in Wisconsin appears to be the US Navy's shipbuilding facility along Lake Michigan. But this is NOT the way things SHOULD be, and we desperately need an administration that is willing to "grab the bull by the horns." We need, but will probably never have, a president who is willing to contravene the status quo. Of course it's true that a person can only be elected to the highest office if he/she acquiesces to each and every insane foreign policy imperative dictated by those who pull the president's strings. But we must at least TRY to return to that long-forgotten era when we made things for human use, intended to enhance human dignity. You know - things like washing machines and computer hardware, lol. Until Americans get passed the idiotic notion that we must ceaselessly promote human obliteration, we'll be stuck in this terrible rut. Americans need jobs, schools and housing. But alas, it seems there's always another convenient pretext for launching airstrikes. Isn't it the case that each and every cruise missile costs one million dollars? Even one million dollars could buy a lot of hot lunches for low income kids in say, the Milwaukee Public School System. But every airstrike we launch robs those same kids, in effect. Every shipment of lethal equipment to Syria represents a wasted opportunity to get our own messed-up house in order. Tough choices are required, to be sure. But I have no major problem asserting America's own infrastructure and social welfare needs have to come first.