The War to End All Wars

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Noam Chomsky gave a very good example years ago during a debate with Michel Foucault. “For example, in the United States the state defines it as civil disobedience to, let's say, derail an ammunition train that's going to Vietnam; and the state is wrong in defining that as civil disobedience, because it's legal and proper and should be done. It's proper to carry out actions that will prevent the criminal acts of the state, just as it is proper to violate a traffic ordinance in order to prevent a murder”.(1)

Have we really become this “bewildered herd” that has lost all common sense and all its intellectual capacities and needs its leaders, elites or masters to tell them what is good or bad? Has any form of scepticism disappeared in today's society?

Mark Regev, spokesman for the prime minister of Israel, recently said, to defend Israel's use of controversial weapons that “...Israel only uses weapons that are acceptable in NATO forces...weapons used by other western nations, democratic nations....” (2), therefore implying that because those weapons were used by such “enlightened” states, they were legal and there was no need to debate it.

The question from the interviewer never came. “So what?”

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