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American Public Turns Anti-War … Warmongers Desperately Reply, “But War Is GOOD for Us!”
The American people are now overwhelmingly opposed to more war in Ukraine, Syria, Iran and elsewhere.
Those who get rich from war (the military-industrial complexers and big banks) and their lackeys are desperate to reverse this trend.
As such, they are resorting to more and more outlandish justifications for war.
For example, Ian Morris has written an entire book arguing that war is the best thing ever, the only thing which has lifted us out of poverty and barbarianism. And – yes – he even says that war brings peace.
David Swanson provides a must-read dismantling of Morris’ book.
Morris writes this week in the Washington Post:
War has not only made us safer, but richer, too.
In reality, security experts – conservative hawks and liberal doves alike – agree that waging war in the Middle East weakens national security and increases terrorism. See this, this, this, this, this, this and this. So it doesn’t make us safer.
And there is now overwhelming evidence that war is horrible for the economy, and makes us poorer.
Morris continues:
Thinkers have long grappled with the relationships among peace, war and strength. Thomas Hobbes wrote his case for strong government, “Leviathan,” as the English Civil War raged around him in the 1640s.
In reality, Hobbes was an authoritarian who argued – just like (1) the leading Nazi legal scholar and philosopher who created the justification for “total war” to destroy those labeled an “enemy” of the Nazi state (Carl Schmitt), (2) Machiavelli, and (3) the father of the Neoconservatives (Leo Strauss) – that the public should be intentionally whipped into a frenzy of fear so that they would be willing to give up their rights and cede their freedoms to the sovereign.
Indeed, Morris accidentally reveals that he is cut from the exact same cloth when he states:
People almost never give up their freedoms — including, at times, the right to kill and impoverish one another — unless forced to do so.
In other words, freedom bad … authoritarian leader good.
Morris writes:
Since 1914, we have endured world wars, genocides and government-sponsored famines, not to mention civil strife, riots and murders. Altogether, we have killed a staggering 100 million to 200 million of our own kind. But over the century, about 10 billion lives were lived — which means that just 1 to 2 percent of the world’s population died violently. Those lucky enough to be born in the 20th century were on average 10 times less likely to come to a grisly end than those born in the Stone Age.
In other words, War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, and Ignorance Is Strength. I’ve seen this movie before.
Artwork by Anthony FredaMorris cheerfully notes:
And since 2000, the United Nations tells us, the risk of violent death has fallen even further, to 0.7 percent.
Unless, of course, you live in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria or one of the other countries targeted for regime change … in which case your risk of violent death is very high.
Morris argues:
Washington [must] embrace [] its role as the only possible globocop in an increasingly unstable world — a world with far deadlier weapons than Britain could have imagined a century ago.
In other words, Morris is an unrepentant apologist for American empire.
Amusingly, the vast majority of comments to Morris’ Washington post essay attack him for being a desperate shill and a fool.
But endless war is a feature – not a bug – of U.S. policy, and the American media (including the big “alternative” sites) are always pro-war.
So expect to hear crazier and crazier “justifications” for war.
Artwork by Anthony Freda- advertisements -
Anything involving politics, and war is politics at the point of a gun, is debatable. However, I think it is a fair statement. The people who fought WWII are often called our "greatest generation," and I think that WWII is used as a golden standard. And that is a double edged sword over here, because as people see that we aren't living up to that standard, they are becoming disillusioned. We aren't going in and winning the wars and people are realizing that the justifications for the wars are lies.
Smedley Butler says it all:
https://archive.org/download/WarIsARacket/WarIsARacket.pdf
"War has not only made us safer, but richer, too."
I'd be curious if this clown polled any of people who have died in the last couple of decades. Are they any wealthier? Safer?
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Why? They all vote Democrat.
... and don't forget the arrogant, narcissistic, lying, illegal alien indonesian kenyan muslim sociopathic fudge packer in chief, winner of the sham Nobel Prize for Peace....
Take a very good article and then follow with a comment as stupid as yours. This isn't about party, this is about bankers creating chaos and taking everything every time! How stupid to think war is about party. We will never be lifted beyond the chaos with division. The markets are rigged, the marketplace is rigged, to promulgate one thing, WAR! If you don't understand that, you are a tool and troll, of the 1%!
I tend to be obtuse. My comment was not about party. My comment was about what passes for elections. You've been here for a while. You know that a very high percentage of dead people vote Democrat.
The war on working Americans seems to be going rather well. I think I see their point.
true. I keep hoping one day we will declare a 'war on jobs' and a ' war on money' and a 'war on freedom', since the wars on terrorism, drugs, and poverty are going so well
Good point, Carl.
If you want more of someting, declare a war on it. Seems to work well.
"war (on the freedoms of americans) is a necessary evil"
What a slippery slope if our govt starts evoking necessary evil as an excuse. It will come up over and over
The amazing thing is the number of suicides amongst the elite army groups like rangers to which the US admin. itself avows to and it looks like 2014 will be a bad year for that.
Sign of the times as the past agenda takes its toll on those who served in hell's kitchen.
even if you live in denial, some part of you knows the truth... can feel right from wrong... and haunts the part of you that refuses to face the truth.
From Wiki: cognitive dissonance is the excessive mental stress and discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time. This stress and discomfort may also arise within an individual who holds a belief and performs a contradictory action or reaction.
War is not only a deadly conflict, but a conflict of the mind.
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