War Is the New Normal: Seven Deadly Reasons Why America’s Wars Persist
How do we inoculate our children against such a permanent state of war and the war state itself? I have one simple suggestion: just stop it. All of it.
by William Astore, CommonDreams
LIST ONLY: 1. The privatization of war; 2. The embrace of the national security state by both major parties; 3. “Support Our Troops” as a substitute for thought; 4. Fighting a redacted war; 5. Threat inflation; 6. Defining the world as a global battlefield; 7. The new “normal” in America is war. Read full article.