[Valin]

I have always loved history and read more than my share of history, but Carnage and Culture was the first time I've had a writer ask why instead of who, how, when. And that's why I recomend it to everyone.

[tpaine]

Hanson is [imo] getting close to formulating a new western philosophy of war, -- in which 'we' stop trying to win their "hearts & minds", -- and go to the root of the evil.. --

-- The fanatical leaders whose statist/fascist ideas infect their followers to make war on our human freedoms.

Hansons is a very radical idea, one that once it is truly understood by our own would be 'leaders', will be much resisted. - Bet on it.
22 tpaine

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You could be on to something.

-- I have always loved history and read more than my share of history, but Carnage and Culture was the first time I've had a writer ask why instead of who, how, when. And that's why I recomend it to everyone.
-Valin-

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In his 'Afterword' to a new edition of Carnage & Culture, written 6 months after 9/11, Hanson comments:

" -- it is almost as if with greater power comes greater insecurity;" ---

--- " If that ignorance about our contemporary strength is as widespread as it seems then the final premise of Carnage & Culture -- that the chief danger of western militaries is not their weakness, but their unmatched power to kill -- remains the most germane yet the most unrecognized lesson of our current conflict."