We have begun to talk casually about our wars; and this should be surprising for several reasons. To begin with, in the history of the United States war has never been considered the normal state of things. For two centuries, Americans were taught to think war itself an aberration, and "wars" in the plural could only have seemed doubly aberrant. Younger generations of Americans, however, are now being taught to expect no end of war -- and no end of wars.Later, he talks about how much James Madison and Alexander Hamilton hated war and didn't want the country to fight any.
It's not even April 1st, is the thing.
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You're not kidding... My first spit-take:
Yet the Korean War took place in some measure under U.N. auspices, and neither it nor the Vietnam War, fierce and destructive as they were, altered the view that war as such was a relic of the barbarous past.
Ooh, I just got to this:
the Halliburtons and Raytheons, the DynCorps and Blackwaters that combine against peace with demands in excess of the British East India Company at the height of its influence.
Can we compare apples and toyotas?
The last line is precious. The founders, who were slaveholders and initiated our conquest of Indian-held territory across the continent believed that "You cannot, it said, continue a free people while accepting the fruits of conquest and domination. The passive beneficiaries of masters are also slaves." Yeah, right.
In Baton Rouge, where local police run interference for ACORN, not doing whatever a policeman tells you is "resisting."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvR59BAQ9t4
But, notice that none of the people involved had a temper tantrum and started screaming "racist" at the cop, while invoking the cop's mother. Coincidentally, nobody was sent to jail in this case.
I mean, it only took Jackson six years to hang a "Mission Accomplished" banner in front of the White House after Worcester v. State of Georgia.
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