Why pick on America? The only reason only reason America "sells" war is that it's pretty hard for a "democracy" to cram it up the collective ass of the mass, and it's even harder to herd the peasants onto a battlefield, under the threat of death - ala the Soviets, in recent memory, and just about every so-called monarch who has ever lived.

 If war wasn't made popular by constant PR and media manipulations, politicians wouldn't be able to pat themselves on the ass and a whole bunch of rear echelon career war mongers wouldn't be able top give themselves medals and play cowboys and Indians...What would they do for work? It would be real tough to get a stupid teenager to throw his or her life away if there wasn't the illusion of heroics, duty, and medals. It's doubtful tht there would be much of a volunteer military, if those who usually volunteer really knew what was going on.

 America might "promote" (sell) war, but it's hardly an American "thing". Until D.C. started selling-out to America's enemies, it was impossible to defeat the american military; it still is, when the political traitors are left out of the equation. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way. However, our enemies (United Nations, specifically) don't like the idea very much. If we continue to hire the looters and liars that we do, to keep our selves and our military in tact, we are going to come up very short. We need to get politics as far away from the methodology of national security as is possible! And, we need to get our heads straight regarding what it takes to defend our national sovereignty.

Bible - Judges 3:1-4 (NIV)

1 These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan

2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):

3 the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath.

4 They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD’s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.