After reading Kevin’s article titled “We’re Coming Home”, I was curious to find out whether Obama will really declare another war against some other country right after the Iraq-American War is over. As discussed in his article, Kevin believes an end to war leads to a decline in the industries that produce war equipment.
However, the reason that the unemployment rate in the U.S. is rising so rapidly in the recent years is due to causes not related to war. According to this article, the main cause for unemployment in the U.S. is due to the wide spread concept of globalization. Multinational corporations are increasingly outsourcing their products from countries such as China, and India that can supply cheap labor. This causes thousands of American employees jobless and American factories to close down.
In other words, even if Obama declares a war on another country with the goal of boosting the U.S. economy, this will prove to be ineffective in the long run. Even if the U.S. does not outsource any war products, this slight boost in employment will not compensate for the large downfall in the U.S. economy.