Monday, August 20, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Bruce Bawer: The Peace Racket - '...What’s alarming is that these students don’t plan to spend their lives on some remote mountainside in Nepal contemplating peace, harmony, and human oneness. They want to remake our world. They plan to become politicians, diplomats, bureaucrats, journalists, lawyers, teachers, activists. They’ll bring to these positions all the mangled history and misbegotten ideology that their professors have handed down to them. Their careers will advance; the Peace Racket’s influence will spread. And as it does, it will weaken freedom’s foundations.'
Your opinion about peace and war ignores the sorry history of this nations wars. George Washington had it right when he warned that large standing armies invited power hungry demagogues to misuse them. The fighting the U.S. have done since 1812 has not been to defend ourselves against aggression: it has mostly been to create an empire. Military interventions in Mexico, Cuba, the Philippines, Hawaii, Latin America, Iran, Korea, Viet Nam and Iraq have all been to enlarge the areas in which we dominate. None of these adventures had great public support, they were mainly to further American business interests. We could well do without anymore of these wasteful, immoral fiascoes.