[Peace-discuss] CNN's N. S. Sherlock and Shirley Knott

[C. G. Estabrook]

What would we have said of a liberal political group in Germany in 1944 that 
complained that it was too expensive to run both the concentration camps /and/ 
the war in Russia, and therefore that it was time to economize, downsizing each 
operation...?  I don't think that would have saved them at Nuremberg.

On 11/26/10 10:22 PM, E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
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>  Is America on the path to 'permanent war'?
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>  http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/23/war.afghan/index.html
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>  "...John Cioffi, a political science professor at University of
>  California, Riverside, says the nation's "increasingly unhinged
>  ideological politics" makes it difficult for the country to extract
>  itself from battles in Afghanistan, Iraq and Central Asia. _"The
>  U.S. is not on the path to permanent war; it is in the midst of a
>  permanent war,"_ Cioffi says. Permanent war is made possible by
>  massive defense spending that has been viewed as untouchable. But
>  that may change with the recent financial crisis and the decline of
>  the nation's industry, Cioffi says. More ordinary Americans might
>  conclude that they can't have a vibrant domestic economy and
>  unquestioned military spending, Cioffi says. /"All this points to a
>  time in the future when the government will no longer have the
>  resources or popular support to maintain what amounts to an imperial
>  military presence around the world/," he says.
>
>  ****
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