War! What Is It Good For? Profit And Power

I salute William Astore for his outstanding comments presented as the title of this blog entry and I salute Tom Engelhardt for publishing them at his blog, TomDispatch.com

Truer words are rarely spoken nor spoken so well that they all connect so accurately to present a true description of exactly what the title is all about.

This I believe too.

War! What Is It Good For? Profit And Power

Tom's introductory comments and William Astores "The Business of America Is War Disaster Capitalism on the Battlefield and in the Boardroom"

William Astore, a TomDispatch regular, is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF).  He edits the blog contraryperspective.com

"Karl Marx, who admired Clausewitz, notably for his idea that combat is to war what a cash payment is to commerce.  However seldom combat (or such payments) may happen, they are the culmination and so the ultimate arbiters of the process.
War, in other words, is settled by killing, a bloody transaction that echoes the exploitative exchanges of capitalism.  Marx found this idea to be both suggestive and pregnant with meaning. So should we all.
Following Marx, Americans ought to think about war not just as an extreme exercise of politics, but also as a continuation of exploitative commerce by other means.  Combat as commerce: there’s more in that than simple alliteration."

My comment: War and Commerce:  Each settled at the most granular unit level.  Each and every death. Each and every dollar.

Andrew Bachevicz, another Officer I respect immensely writes here at TomDispatch

The rest of my thoughts on this this go off into a never-never land of analogy that seemed to have a thread of logic when I started out to say a few things about the logic that got lost beyond at the top of the tree I climbed and was last seen flying off into the distance at an unknown course and speed.

I will leave it as is maybe what it was supposed to convey will come to me later!??

Consistent with my model object oriented monetary system structure for digital money at the most granular level as described in various entries to this blog: Every dollar has a value of one. Each single dollar has a unique serialized identity. Just like every soldier has a value of one individual and one serialized identity.

The soldier is a weaponized citizen.

Debt money is weaponized money.  It is leverage to great destructive power.