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  • The War Party's Enablers: all of us

    09/17/2003 8:43:40 AM PDT · by u-89 · 195 replies · 336+ views
    SF Chroncile | 14 Spet. '03 | Robert Higgs
    Excerpt: many Americans take pleasure in "kicking ass," and they do not much care whose ass is being kicked or why. So long as Americans are dishing out death and destruction to a plausible foreign enemy, the red-white-and-blue jingos are happy. Visit a barbershop, stand in line at the post office or have a drink at your neighborhood tavern and listen to the conversations going on around you. The sheer bellicosity of many ordinary people is as undeniable as it is shocking... -------------------------------------- further excerpts: ...In view of the evident futility, and worse, of nearly every war the United States...