Reply #12: The "Money Trumps Peace" crowd. [View All]

Excellent essay, as always, H20 Man. Your analysis helps us understand how we got to be the way we are today -- a nation of infinite potential locked into what Gore Vidal and others call "a perpetual war for perpetual peace."

Schlesinger was chums with Averell Harriman, one-time business partner of Prescott Bush. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but Harriman was at the nexus of every American war and intervention from World War I to Vietnam. And he was a Liberal of the Old School, meaning he wanted political and socioeconomic progress for all Americans. Yet Harriman used his influence in the corridors of power to encourage American intervention on behalf of corporate interests.

Duopolistic thinking by the likes of Harriman and Schlesinger has kept America fixated on the idea that we can only sustain our economic expansion through imperialism. There just isn't any way to make hay through peace. Charming metropolitan sophisticates would never have heard of the plowshare or peace corps, were not for a traitor to his class. And that means Harriman and his fellows at the top of the socioeconomic heap benefit the lion's share of the benefits and profits from war.

John Yoo-ites. Sick, H20 Man!

Bravo!