The United States is the Greatest Threat to World Peace

Earlier this month, the U.S. gave 50 tons of ammunition to Syrian rebel groups.

Among those groups are Al Qaeda factions. The U.S. has been arming Al Qaeda, our sworn enemy (never forget), since 2013.

Two Syrian militias are fighting each other, one armed by the CIA and the other by the Pentagon.

Saudi Arabia has been murdering thousands of civilians in Yemen, even targeting food production to cause famine, with support from the U.S.

Barack Obama, the commander in chief of the United States Armed Forces, is fighting five wars and bombing seven countries.

The United States is the world's largest arms dealer. It is a nation dominated by two war parties.

Eisenhower warned us of this in his 1961 Farewell Address:

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

And the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai, has been trying to remind us: "Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers."

Photo: U.S. airstrikes on the Syrian town of Kobani. (via Newsweek)