Posted on February 11, 2014 by DavidSwanson
INTRODUCTION from
Hugo Adan. Feb 13, 2014
Here we have a collection of good “words” about war; they are just good intentions useful either to
pave the route to hell or to profit from it. If action count more than words, we
should remember that the more radical pacifist movements emerged not in the countries that benefit directly or indirectly from wars
abroad, but in the nations victimized by such wars. That is the case of Viet
Nam where people burned themselves in public plazas, instead of been burned by Napalm.
Even though, such radical movement didn’t stop wars; poor people and working
middle classes continue to be the main victims of wars, while the rich –especially
those who directly or indirectly profit from wars- leaf the country, and then
after came back to do the same, over and over across history. How to end this
cycle?. The answer should be common
sense. Read 6 & 7 statements below
and provide an answer.
Think first about
these 5 half trues:
1. “Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism [and wars, I would
add] . Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” —
Noam Chomsky. [But, your stop, won’t stop the profiteers of war]
2. “War is a
crime against humanity. When 90% of the casualties of war are civilians including children, it is
time to End ALL WARS! - David Hartsough. [but civilians are also the rich who profit from wars]
3. “It is time
for a re-energized effort to build a world beyond war by challenging the war
system and supporting the infrastructure of peace.” — Patrick Hiller. [but “war system”
& “infrastructure of peace” are empty words if we do not mention the
capitalist obsolete system and the neoliberal infrastructure for war:
weapons and weapons to conquest, destroy
& plunder poor countries with policies that only serve big corporations and
not the poor working classes inside nor outside]
4. “War cannot be
humanized. It can only be abolished” [said by just the
one who help to create the atomic bomb. “A Eisten
did not directly participate in the invention of the atomic bomb. But he was
instrumental in facilitating its development [and use].. Einstein's
greatest role in the invention of the atomic bomb was signing a letter to
President Franklin Roosevelt urging that the bomb be built” http://www.doug-long.com/einstein.htm
. The statement of humanized
vs. abolished only serve to illustrate a tale on “paradoxes
of history”]
5. “War is organized
murder, and nothing else” – Harry Patch. [someone said this
in the funeral of HP saying that such words belong to the British ‘war hero” who killed many
people during the 1st world war. Another paradoxical statement.
The meaning of this statement is right.. but.. Who organize those murderous wars.. the poor working classes of Britain?. Not,
they are not Brutish to do so. But we have a similar type of hero in the US.. Do
you remember who said “Either we end war, or war will end us”. Just another paradoxical
statement coming from the one who
was deeply involved in killing Vietnamese people and in the criminal blockage
on Cuba. When we deplore the Guantanamo torture center in the piece of land not
returned to Cuba, we should remember him: JFK]
6. “War destroys people, the air, the ground, the water. It
destroys history. It inhales money/resources literally taking food out of the
mouths of the people.” —Barbara Cummings. [war inhales money, resources
and takes food out of the mouths of the people. So, war is a business of the
rich against common people]
7. “War is the worst
act of terrorism and among the greatest causes of human suffering and death and
ecological degradation. Wars are declared by the rich and fought by the poor.”
—Brian J. Trautman. [That is what I wanted to hear, it comes from a brain of
common people… Common sense.. ah]
Now, if Wars are declared by the rich WHAT the poor should do today, that is coming another war?... No war ahead??... Come on, check what is going on in Ukraine and
Syria. We are beating the drums of war,
we are at the edge of war. What we should do?... WHAT? YES..
I agree with that!!
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Posted on February 11, 2014 by DavidSwanson
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