Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.