“War is a Racket” Agree?
I will make my comments about the above quote short so as to give you a chance to write on the comments below how you feel about this statement. It was a man of war who wrote this after seeing it from both sides but from the side that mostly matters, the side in which he had to both be in the middle of war as a sodier and as a commander sending young guys to their deaths and in many cases like commanders do to the guarantee abyss. I most warn you to be careful how you think about war if you only think you seen it by news reports and the way is portrayed by Hollywood.
My father was a veteran and the remains of my mother rests beneath an Army headstone. Currently have one nephew in the Armed Forces and have family that I know of serving from WWI and on fourth. You most think beyond the fighters on to the policy makers and how public opinion is always turned into the frenzy that says ‘war’, ‘war’. We saw it in Iraq which is an even better example than Viet-Nam to show a government that lied to get the nation into war with awful results not worth the lives lost and still being lost. Even if your mind still think it was mistake but not a lie, the government does not get formed and is payed to exist to make mistakes of these magnitude particularly when we spent plenty to make sure what close society’s have in ways to harm us, like Russia, North Korea and then Iraq have behind their curtains of secrecy just like we know about Iran.
Wether you are a person that think that war is always justified or never you can agree in that war is sold to the multitudes pretty much the same way,“bad vs. evil.” Can it always be that? I am not taking away the right to defend one selves ( we have only been attack once by Japan in this county) and sometimes sending troops somewhere have saved thousands. Those things are understood but what we are seeking is a bigger sinister way of starting war, justifying war.
What do you think? No matter wether you are in the United States, China, Russia or UK there is underway war or conflict started this way and as I type this to you I know there will be in the near future.
I am giving you a chance to think and if you like express yourselves (even anonymously, following the non spam, non abusive language rules). Because of this, I wish more people would be aware of the selling process which is used in more democratic nations and in non democratic nations that control the election process or there is no process to change leaders. Why for nations in which there is no nonviolent way to change governments? Because ‘knowledge is power.’ What seems impossible today if enough people have the same true knowledge, change will occur. The problem even in nations that have elections is the ’selling’ and we know anything can be sold no matter how useless and expensive it is. One does not need to change a government to let the government know that war cannot easily be sold with lies.
I am giving you a chance to think and if you like express yourselves (even anonymously, following the non spam, non abusive language rules). Because of this, I wish more people would be aware of the selling process which is used in more democratic nations and in non democratic nations that control the election process or there is no process to change leaders. Why for nations in which there is no nonviolent way to change governments? Because ‘knowledge is power.’ What seems impossible today if enough people have the same true knowledge, change will occur. The problem even in nations that have elections is the ’selling’ and we know anything can be sold no matter how useless and expensive it is. One does not need to change a government to let the government know that war cannot easily be sold with lies.
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