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1. War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges

Edited on Mon Jul-07-03 11:28 AM by truth2power

Here's some additional snips from his book. I've just finished reading it. Outstanding!!

"A World War II study determined that after sixty daysof continuous combat, 98 percent of all surviving soldiers will have become psychiatric casualties. They found that a common trait among the 2 percent who were able to endure sustained combat was a predisposition toward "aggressive psychopathic personalities.'"

>>>>>I wonder what this says about the extended tour we're requiring of our troops in Iraq?

"Regimes use murder and anonymous death to keep their citizens off balance, agitated and disturbed. It fuels war's collective insanity."

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"The effectiveness of the myths peddled in war is powerful. We often come to doubt our own perceptions. We hide these doubts like troubled believers, sure that no one else feels them. We feel guilty. The myths have determined not only how we should speak but how we should think. The doubts we carry, the scenes we see that do not conform to the myth are hazy, difficult to express, unsettling. And as the atrocities mount, as civil liberties are stripped away (something, with the 'War on Terror', already happening to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the United States), we struggle unconfortably with the jargon and cliches. But we have trouble expressing our discomfort because the collective shout has made it hard for us to give words to our thoughts."

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2. Did you hear about Hedges being shouted off the stage in May at a

commencement address he was giving? A scary incident, very telling about the sickness taking root in our society...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/may2003/hedg-m23.shtml

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