No On Syria Bombing---No To Further Militarization & Spying At Home

There may well be good reasons to bomb nations that use chemical weapons, but what we also get in America with more war are more huge profits for the war profiteering companies, more spying on us, more militarized police wearing camouflage in our city streets and more militarized borders. We can't go on like this while basic needs at home are not met.

I oppose bombing Syria for these reasons.

Yet at the same time, how can it be that Republicans who get their income from military bases, or who are ex-service people and are now cops or part of our ever-expanding border forces, now oppose aggression when all they have been about is aggression? These folks live off public dollars they deny others for health care and education. 

If the right no longer needs to bomb folks all the time and is afraid of an all-powerful government, then close the unneeded bases, de-militarize the borders and have police officers conduct themselves as civilians and not military personnel. 

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