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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/07/law-professor-u-s-in-state-of-perpetual-warLaw professor: U.S. in state of perpetual war
By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 18:38 EST
University of Southern California law professor Mary Dudziak appeared Wednesday on MSNBC to explain why she believes the United States has been in a permanent state of war.
The idea of wartime is doing a lot of work in American politics, she said. The way we think about history is history passes through two different kinds of time, from wartime to peacetime to wartime et cetera.
Thats the way we learn about it in school, thats the way that we imagine it. When we use to concept of wartime, we assume that wartime is by definition temporary.
But Dudziak noted that over the past 100 years, there had been few times when the United States was not engaged in a some sort of military conflict.
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Law professor: U.S. in State of Perpetual War (Original Post)
Hissyspit
Mar 2012
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. We must be true to our national religion
The High Church of Redemptive Violence requires blood sacrifice.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)2. Mainly other people's.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)3. It's not going to end anytime soon either.
The PNAC got their wish.
RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)4. Here, this will put it into perspective...
marmar
(77,102 posts)5. Orwell said.....
[font size="4"]"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."[/font]
indepat
(20,899 posts)6. We take no lip with this big cannon on our
hip.