The Sioux Chief calling for war against the Crow. The Macedonians calling for war against the Persians and the Persians calling for war against the Greeks. War is full of terror, and each side has its "propaganda". But there really is such a thing as "just cause". And there really is such a thing as overpopulation and hostility from overcrowding. Sometimes one side is "better" than the other, or would you rather have had Hitler win WWII?
"Howard Zinn cuts through this curricular fog: "War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about." Zinn demands that we reexamine the premise that war is necessary, a proposition not taken seriously in any high school history textbook I've ever seen. Instead, wars get sold to Americans -- especially to the young people who fight those wars -- as efforts to spread liberty and democracy."
Zinn is a mixed up writer. War HAS terror, but IS NOT terrorism. Terrorism is a method of fighting used by generally evil people that kills innocents inordinately. Not just collateral damage. It was JUST to spread liberty by the stop of communist takeover or islamic fundamentalist takeover, helping the weak fight for their freedom from oppressive takeover. Would you like to have your women's rights taken away from you?
Nuking the al queda (purposeful disrespect) and their supporters in the known camps and concentrations WOULD have been far less costly to the USA. Not enough would have been used to cause nuclear winter, and we had much of the world's sympathy on 9-11 and 12 only. Hesitation is a weakness Bush showed by waiting a month. In a deadly fight, when you are hit, hit back even harder, immediately and with even more violence and force--unless you want to lose. That is, if you can. We couldn't immediately after Pearl Harbor, but we could have with subs on 9-11.
Remember what they are fighting and blowing themselves and innocents up for---72 virgins in their disillusioned idea of heaven. To rational people that is insanity personified.
Personally, I think world gross overpopulation and pollution/depletion is insanity personified, too. Ecocide is insanity to me, and that is the direction over-compassion and over tolerance to overpopulation and those causing it, and over-tolerance of those causing depletion and pollution, is headed. I think the children of the future in a sustainable world are more important than the extra children of today's gross overshoot of sustainability. We have had the means to prevent more overpopulation and pollution, and reduce both in time, but wasted it in indecision and selfishness since the late 1960s.
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