[Peace-discuss] An interesting commentary

[John W.]

This is a good article - the entire article, I mean.  I have to wonder what
Carl thinks of this one.


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:02 AM, LAURIE SOLOMON <LAURIE at advancenet.net>wrote:

>  *David Bromwich | America's Wars: How Serial War Became the American Way
> of Life *
> <http://messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=142977&N=128&C=b1dbe589fe0a5237a84f628c41670644&L=1032>
>
http://www.truthout.org/072209C?n<http://messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=142977&N=128&C=b1dbe589fe0a5237a84f628c41670644&L=1032>
>
David Bromwich, TomDispatch.com: "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."
>
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