War Really Sucks.

[txaslftist]

The Glory of War
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.


The bloom on the rose of war eventually fades, leaving only the thorns. By the time this takes place, most everyone has already begun the national task of averting the eyes from the thorns, meaning the awful reality, the dashed hopes, the expense, the lame, the limbless, the widows, the orphans, the death on all sides, and the resulting instability. The people who still take an interest are those who first took an interest in war: the power elite, who began the war for purposes very different from that which they sold to the public at the outset.

Thus does the American public not care much about Iraq. It is not quite as invisible as other nations that were the subject of national obsessions in the recent past. Hardly anyone knows who or what is running El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Libya, Serbia, or Somalia, or any of the other formerly strategic countries that once engaged national attention.

In fact, the president of Nicaragua, Enrique Bolanos (never heard of him, huh?) is visiting the White House next week in hopes of soliciting support for the upcoming election, which could prove to be dicey since the old US nemesis Daniel Ortega is running and gaining some support on a consistently anti-US platform. Should he win, one can imagine the White House swinging into high gear about how Nicaragua is harboring communists, er…terrorists. Or maybe not. Maybe he will rule the country and never make a headline. It is all up to the state.
more here...www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/glory-of-war.html

[dbeach]

1. "War is a racket. Always has been.'"

Above quote from Maj. Gen Smedley Darlington Butler who refused to cooperate with a Treason planned aginst FDR.

[orwell]

2. Give 'em Hell Lou...

Why is he sounding more sane then some in the Democratic Party "leadership"?

Principles?

Never mind...

[Wright Patman]

3. Because the Mises Institute

is always against war, even the "sacred" ones such as World War II, because all wars empower and aggrandize the state as against the individual.

I have found that this is the one war NO ONE in this country is allowed to criticize.

[txaslftist]

4. Not NO ONE...

Hell, Lew and his pals bash FDR for his WWII policies all the time. They talk about how we basically forced Japan to attack us.

OTOH, after liberating the camps it's pretty damn hard to argue we weren't the good guys, at least in Europe. As for Japan, they were a little bit rough on POWs and a little bit bloodthirsty, too. They hardly had the moral high ground there, either.

WWII is, when it all boils down to it, a pretty tough war to criticize. Still and all, war sucks.

[NorCalDem]

5. WWII is actually pretty easy to criticize

with only two words....

"Atomic Bomb" Was it really necessary? as LeMay and his boys had already fire-bombed Toyko and every other Japanese city to sh*t. My biggest criticism is at the end of the war, everyone forgot why we were on the same team and started grabbing for the spoils (we dropped the bomb when we did so that Japan would surrender faster, thereby limiting the amount of territory that Russia could take in eastern asia). The war was started with good intentions, but quickly became a power grab that still effects us today. That being said, all in all, WWII was a well-intentioned war in which many brave individuals gave their lives so that others might live, and that deserves no criticism.