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Obama's Afghanistan War: Morally Wrong, or Incompetently Waged?
Spritzler, John
http://newdemocracyworld.org/old/War/Afghanistan.htmhttp://connexions.org/CxArchive/NewDem/Afghanistan.htm Date Written: 2009-02-27 Publisher: New Democracy Year Published: 2009 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX11075 For our rulers, the point of a war is to make us Americans feel the way only a war can--determined to prevail over a dangerous foreign enemy by supporting our leaders when we would otherwise oppose them over domestic issues. Wars are waged for domestic social control and to justify enormous arms expenditures and contracts. Our leaders need wars to drag on so the enemy can be deemed sufficiently dangerous and implacable and thus the war made to seem important or necessary. Subject Headings |