From Overseas Press

Another unnecessary war

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2011-03-28 17:21

US intervention in Libya is a blunder, which will stretch an already overburdened military and undermine US national security, according to Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, in an article in USA Today on March 25.

The war in Libya, said Kucinich, is one of a series of dangerous missteps by the US administration that would result in an economic, diplomatic and spiritual disaster. With the cost of countless lives and huge expenditure unfolding in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war in Libya is doomed to be a costly war with at least $100 million a day.

According to Kucinich, none of these wars was necessary. "We do not know when they will truly end, and the "humanitarian" nature of war dies with increasing civilian casualties."

He believed that these wars undermine US security by abusing US power, attacking nations that did not attack the US, endangering civilian populations, creating more refugees, destroying infrastructure, enlarging rather than limiting conflict and defining America as a crusader and an occupier.

These wars also show an America that is intent on reshaping the world in the image of a democracy that is distorted in the US, said Kucinich. "Distorted by unequal distribution of the wealth brought about by an unfair tax system, unregulated monopoly capitalism, unemployment, lack of access to health care, inadequate housing, poor educational prospects, instability of retirement programs — and the cost of war."