[Peace-discuss] An interesting commentary

[David Green]

I'm not Carl, but my initial reaction to Bromwich's interesting piece is that he takes the professed rationales for wars too literally and neglects the economic context that has arguably made war "the normal state of things" throughout our (capitalist, land-grabbing, industrialist, resource-controlling) history.

DG



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From: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
To: LAURIE SOLOMON <LAURIE at advancenet.net>
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Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] An interesting commentary

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 
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http://www.truthout.org/072209C?n 
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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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