"After each war there is a little less democracy left to save." ......

[marmar]

....... -- Brooks Atkinson


"Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed." -- Bruce Springsteen


"The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment." -- Chris Hedges


"How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?" -- Dwight D. Eisenhower


"All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished." -- Eleanor Roosevelt


"History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse." -- Eric Alterman


"No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people." -- Eugene Debs


"War is just a racket...I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else." -- Smedley Butler


"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." -- George Orwell


"War is a bankruptcy of policy." -- Hans Van Seeckt


"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H.L. Mencken


"How can you make a war on terror if war itself is terrorism?" -- Howard Zinn


"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution." -- John F. Kennedy


"You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!" -- Leo Tolstoy


"We have guided missiles and misguided men." -- Martin Luther King Jr.


"It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick." -- Noam Chomsky


"All warfare is based on deception." -- Sun Tzu


"He that is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." -- Thomas Paine


http://antiwar.com/quotes.php

[gratuitous]

1. All true, all trumped

"Boom!" makes for good ratings. Good ratings means money. Money means more boom.

[grahamhgreen]

2. Hate begets hate - buddha

[Shemp Howard]

3. Here's a chilling quote to add to the mix.

Hermann Goering:

Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.

But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.

[mazzarro]

4. We'll all be better off if we can make our leaders abide by this

"You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!" -- Leo Tolstoy

[daleanime]

6. +1

[MsLeopard]

5. Quote

"History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse." Eric Alterman

i think history is on the verge of repeating itself.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. rec!

[countryjake]

8. The Great Compromise

I used to sleep at the foot of old glory
And awake in the dawn's early light,
But much to my surprise when I opened my eyes
I was a victim of the great compromise.

~ John Prine ~

[marmar]

9. Love that!

[CrispyQ]

10. War doesn't determine who's right - only who's left. ~Bertrand Russell

Wheat fell headless in the field
Till Death did reap enough.
We seek to bury the revealed
No earth is deep enough.
You cannot wash the stains from minds
No one can weep enough.
Nor shut the past behind the blinds
No night has sleep enough.

--Study member

For those interested, the source for the poem can be found at http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA319601
- A 50-Year Prospective Study of the Psychological Sequelae of World War II Combat


If he had any integrity at all, Obama would give the Nobel Peace Prize back.