Mark: You can’t really blame the Fed here, since this shit has been going on since the beginning of this great republic.
Starting with the Declaration of Independence and running through the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, Manifest Destiny and Gunboat Diplomacy, the USA has always been a going concern. “America’s business IS business”, and trade follows the flag. Its been true since the days of the Roman Empire and someone has to finance the conquests.
What did William Randolph Hearst say? “You supply the pictures and I’ll supply the war”. That was in 1898, right before the outbreak of the Spanish – American War (and 15 years before the creation of the Fed). That was also America’s entry into the world of colonialism/neo-colonialism and the need for financing these various “dirty little wars”, from the Banana Wars to Vietnam to Afghanistan.
Evil? Nah. Amoral and immoral? Yup. But we’re in the business of resource extraction to fuel the Big Machine and that shit’s gotta come from somewhere, right? And whoever is sitting on it generally doesn’t want to give it up, so if we can’t buy it…
