The Business of Being at War?

It is difficult to stomach.  Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, like his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld, is suggesting there will be "boots on the ground" AGAIN in Iraq.  Ridiculously close to President Obama's deadline of withdrawing all American ground forces from Afghanistan we are back in it AGAIN?  AGAIN?  It seems someone, some many only are comfortable if America is engaged in a foreign war.  When I reflect upon the recent history of America's armed forces and their duties, I cannot think of a single incident where our troops were engaged on American soil.  It seems at a subconscious level we are an imperialist nation.  It would seem we fancy our well-armed war machine, and play army we have.  What would be the use of training and arming all of those tech savvy soldiers if we don't USE them?  We want to play war.  As the United States federal government once again contemplates war, they should read a candid quote from past president General Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Quote, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense. a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.  This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.  Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."  Un quote.  It is apparent to me the function of the United States military while not acknowledged publicly, actually is a security force for corporate America.  These corporations have deprived American citizens of a living, a sustenance that offers them a quality of life above poverty and without desperation.  When this quality of life of the working man no longer was of interest to the wealthy, they out-sourced our jobs to fledgling foreign nations who were on the cusp of their own socio-economic actualization.  They were so naive and undeveloped and their cost of impoverished living was so low, they worked for pennies on the American dollar depriving our citizens of opportunities afforded in our constitution.  How can these ideals realize when our populace has been betrayed?  "E tu, Brute." With the gutting of our middle class infrastructure came the restructuring of our military.  It became a security force to protect the foreign interests of American-owned corporations.  These corporations shelter themselves from taxes, they shun the American people, and they use our tax dollars to insure their foreign interest with the United States military industrial complex.  For crying out loud it has to stop!  (subtle laughter from all sitting Republicans)