We’re witnessing the return of religion as a principal cause of warfare
AlterNet
by Larry Beinhart
12/09/08
After a brief, semiretirement of a few hundred years, religion has returned as the No. 1 cause of violence, war and death. So the fundamental national security questions of our time have to be about faith. What is it about faith that makes people eager to commit suicide so long as it enables them to commit mass murder while they’re at it? What is it about faith that makes world leaders like George Bush and Tony Blair — with armies, bombers, missiles, artillery and navies — ignore good advice, abandon good sense and lead their countries to two of the stupidest wars in history? And while they’re at it, to radically change the moral positions that their countries adopted just 60 years ago and commit what were then called war crimes: initiating a war of aggression, torture and the failure to provide for the populations of the countries they occupied?
http://tinyurl.com/5nfu7v
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crimes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+of+aggression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Beinhart
by Larry Beinhart
12/09/08
After a brief, semiretirement of a few hundred years, religion has returned as the No. 1 cause of violence, war and death. So the fundamental national security questions of our time have to be about faith. What is it about faith that makes people eager to commit suicide so long as it enables them to commit mass murder while they’re at it? What is it about faith that makes world leaders like George Bush and Tony Blair — with armies, bombers, missiles, artillery and navies — ignore good advice, abandon good sense and lead their countries to two of the stupidest wars in history? And while they’re at it, to radically change the moral positions that their countries adopted just 60 years ago and commit what were then called war crimes: initiating a war of aggression, torture and the failure to provide for the populations of the countries they occupied?
http://tinyurl.com/5nfu7v
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+crimes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=war+of+aggression
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Larry+Beinhart
rudkla - 11. Dez, 09:51
