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Endless War Is Alive and... Bleeding
Published on Thursday, February 19, 2015
by Common Dreams
byRobert C. Koehler
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An armed motorcade belonging to members of Derna's Islamic Youth Council, consisting of former members of militias from the town of Derna, drive along a road in Derna, eastern Libya. (Photo: Reuters)
Good and evil leap from the headlines: “Egyptian planes pound ISIS in Libya in revenge for mass beheadings of Christians.”
We’re in a state of perpetual war and have no intention of escaping it. Certainly we have no intention of critiquing our own actions or — don’t be silly — questioning the effectiveness of war, occupation or high-tech terror (think: “shock and awe”) as a means to create a stable, secure world. The interests of war have dug in for the long haul, fortified by the cynicism of the media they own. The voices of reason cry from the margins. When a trickle of sanity finds its way into the mainstream, it’s mocked until it goes away.
“We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need . . . to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups . . .”
Tepid and tentative as Harf’s words were, the fact that they were either instantly mocked and dismissed as “politically correct,” or ignored completely, indicates the extent to which a war mentality has supplanted thought in the mainstream realm of the American empire. Root causes? Come on. Only one side of any war, our own, ever has root causes.
Tepid and tentative as Harf’s words were, the fact that they were either instantly mocked and dismissed as “politically correct,” or ignored completely, indicates the extent to which a war mentality has supplanted thought in the mainstream realm of the American empire. Root causes? Come on. Only one side of any war, our own, ever has root causes.
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/19/endless-war-alive-and-bleeding
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/neocon-recipe-iraq-how-completely-ruin-country-13-years?akid=12815.44541.v99LNN&rd=1&src=newsletter1032210&t=25
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