War without end

The war on this that and the other thing

It's hard to count the wars that have raged across the planet since time immemorial. 
In the present day in America we have several wars going on of which everyone is well aware. The war on terror is an oxymoron to begin with. wars create terror by their very nature. The struggle between ideologies that has been going on since the days of the crusades should have taught humanity that you can't defeat an ideology with the force of arms. Cries of "the radicalization of Islam" have become the rallying cry to arms leading to hatred being created towards those who practice that religion. The reality is that it's not the radicalization of Islam that is the problem. It's the Islamization of radicalism. 
Apart from the wars going on at the moment where bombs and bullets fly. There are domestic wars taking place on our doorsteps. The war on drugs initiated by Richard Nixon and now seen as a war on a class of people who were seen as a threat to the status quo, namely the hippies and the African Americans. It has brought us to a place where we have created a class of people who have no alternative to criminality to survive. It has enriched corrupt leaders and criminals who use their ill gotten profits to amass political power.  It has drained our treasury and alienated a large segment of our population who no longer trust our leaders.It is a dismal failure of policy that should be abandoned for a change in strategy before it overwhelms us, though it may be too late in view of the opiod epidemic that is killing people wholesale all across America in every class of people and every town and village in the country. This  while big pharmaceutical companies pocket immense profits at the expense of the lives of our sons and daughters and deny any culpability .  The casualties  could be seen as casualties of war, but are viewed as pariahs and outcasts not worthy of our grief. 
The incarcerated "druggies" could be seen as prisoners of war, and in fact they are. Upon release from correctional institutions  they are spat upon by society who quietly go about the business of consuming their particular drug of choice while relegating those who got caught to the ranks of the untouchables. It's an eerie situation remniscent of the return of the Vietnam soldiers who were  vilified not only by the citizens but by an administration who did little to avert the avalanche of angry sentiment heaped upon the shoulders of the veterans.  The anti war protesters took out their anger on the ranks of the returning soldiers , while those responsible for the fiasco were more than willing to place the blame for their failures on them. 
The war on poverty is another hypocritical sordid affair. Poverty in America is growing in leaps and bounds. Fueled largely by the loss of industry to third world countries who permit near or actual slave labor conditions to reap ever increasing profits for the industrialists.
Many American families have been destroyed by the loss of jobs, incomes and homes. Once proud  breadwinners are shuffled onto the food stamp line leading to further depression, substance abuse, criminality and suicide. The so called war on poverty suffered a huge blow when our President announced that " poor people" would have no place in his administration. The upcoming cuts to social programs under the new administration can only lead to a deepening of poverty and an increase in all the negatives that go with it.  The war on poverty is another dismal failure due to the policies and the attitudes of our society. 
Wars will go on forever until a renaissance in thinking takes place. The conditions leading to conflict will only be resolved by the determination of the people. 
Wars on this that and the other thing  cannot and will not solve anything. Until the conditions of poverty, oppression, ignorance and corruption are resolved we can look forward to more war and conflict without end.