To Honor Veterans, How About We Stop The Oil Wars?

November 11, 20262 hours

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Today is Veterans Day in the United States. Naturally, across the country, people have spent at least part of the day thinking about veterans they know as well as veterans they don’t and thanking them for their service. Whether you agree with the various wars the United States has gotten into or not, you have to honor and appreciate the human beings who offered to put their lives on the line in order to support their country (or think that they’re doing so, at least). I know several people who are veterans, and they typically sacrificed a lot in their previous military roles.

However, I do have to come back to the rationale for the wars we as a country get into. I’m 44 years old, and it seems like we’ve been involved in wars related to oil and gas for more than half of my life. It’s just a continual process. We get into a war in the Middle East connected to XYZ, but it’s really about oil. After years of over-involvement, destruction, and death, society realizes it’s been a super counterproductive, idiotic war and we pull out. The, after a few years, we begin again and the story repeats.

Well, how about we just stop getting involved in oil wars? How about we stop depending so much on oil supply from foreign nations and global oil markets? How about we respect our countrymen and countrywomen who sign up to serve by not sending them into pointless forever wars in the Middle East to get traumatized, injured, or killed? That would be truly honoring veterans of the past as well as protecting current and future Americans.

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