War

When the U.S. government attempts to justify the use of armed forces, such political justifications to U.S. citizens and Congress are positioned as a moral imperative or as a necessary defense due to national security. With respect to the current war in Iraq, both of these justifications were proffered by the Bush Administration. The former lacks logic and the latter is fiction with respect to the Iraq War. Despite the lack of validity of extending these justifications for waging war in Iraq, the war was still necessary. This is true as long as freedom and national security equate to product consumption and democratic prosperity is viewed in terms of economic growth. Such measures mandate warfare to achieve political and economic stability in areas where ever scarcer petroleum resources are significant. The U.S. military action during Operation Desert Shield was launched to secure Saudi Arabian oil fields.

Over the next three decades, world population will surpass 10 billion people. The largely extravagant standard of living of American citizens is sustainable only through securing and controlling the world's increasingly diminishing natural resources. In order t

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