So many wars and still we don’t have peace
Tennessean
by Richard Aberdeen
08/14/07
According to President Bush, we are fighting in Iraq to ’secure the peace’ and to ’secure freedom and democracy.’ Is there any historical or other rational reason to believe him? If war can secure peace, then why, after 10,000 years of war, isn’t there peace on earth by now? War didn’t begin with the American Revolution, nor did it end there; many soldiers who fought against the British rose up in ‘Shays’ Rebellion’ against wealthy colonists who were taking their land and throwing them into debtors’ prison. Soon after, another war against the British erupted. Then came the Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War and War in the Philippines … World War I, soon followed by World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War and, now, the Iraq grand blunder to end all blunders war...
http://tinyurl.com/2rsrdl
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Aberdeen
by Richard Aberdeen
08/14/07
According to President Bush, we are fighting in Iraq to ’secure the peace’ and to ’secure freedom and democracy.’ Is there any historical or other rational reason to believe him? If war can secure peace, then why, after 10,000 years of war, isn’t there peace on earth by now? War didn’t begin with the American Revolution, nor did it end there; many soldiers who fought against the British rose up in ‘Shays’ Rebellion’ against wealthy colonists who were taking their land and throwing them into debtors’ prison. Soon after, another war against the British erupted. Then came the Mexican-American War, Civil War, Spanish-American War and War in the Philippines … World War I, soon followed by World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War and, now, the Iraq grand blunder to end all blunders war...
http://tinyurl.com/2rsrdl
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Aberdeen
rudkla - 15. Aug, 13:06
