The costs of the Great War were truly astronomical. As with the number of stars, the final accounting is in God’s hands. The slaughters, the treasure, the faith in some kind of order of society – all of these were costs of the war. As Wilfred Owen suggested in his terrible poem “Strange Meeting,” the culture of Europe seemed hell-bent on trekking away from progress toward something that literary historian Paul Fussell would later call the troglodyte world: a kind of Hobbesian vision, one might say, rendered in pen and ink by Otto Dix. Costs indeed. FULL ARTICLE
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Seems like we’re getting plenty of those great costs, and even greater, with these new wars. Will it ever change?
I thought this article really did a good job of showing how our troubles didn’t just start in the last decade or so…
I suppose evil started in the Garden of Eden. And it has been with us ever since. You think that maybe some people might try to bring justice to stop evil? Well not many I guess.
The problem I think is the PR. Remember in Gulf War I, the majority of the American Public didn’t want to get into a war in the Middle East?
Well it seems that the Powers that be hired a Public Relations Firm to conduct Focus Groups to find a strategy to fire up the American people against “those evil ragheads”. From this Focus Group came the story of the Saddam troopers taking the babies out of the incubators leaving them to die and spiriting the incubators back to Baghdad. Remember the tearful nurse from the Kuwait City Hospital?
Well two years after Gulf War I, comes the truth about that story. I watched the interview of the PR firm. After several trials came the story that surely did inflame the American Public to go to war.
The real kicker? All the people being portrayed in the incubator film shown to the American public were professional actors save one. That one was the “Head Nurse” . She was the daughter of the dictator of Kuwait. You know that Democracy we went to war to save – Kuwait.
If you really want some good reading, read up about the lies that got us into Gulf War I.
Cliff, you are right, as rain, historically we never seem to learn. There always is or seems to be some group or person who like the pied piper gets everyone to dance to his/her tune. And here today we as a nation are so caught up into “individualism” we forget about the us,& we as in We the people…because we are too busy on the hamster cage wheel of life running our booties off and going no where…then we wonder why we are in the messes we are in…
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