A MUST READ. DAVID SWANSON. Ignorance is the fuel for war like wood is the fuel for fire. Cut off the supply of ignorance and war ends. The Washington Post this past year asked US-Americans to find Ukraine on a map. A small fraction could do it, and those who placed Ukraine furthest from its actual location were the most likely to want the U.S. military to attack Ukraine. There was a correlation: the less one knew about WHERE Ukraine was the more one wanted it attacked — and this after controlling for various other variables. I’m reminded of a Canadian comedy called Talking to Americans that you can find on Youtube. The guy asks lots of Americans if the nation of ” and he says a fictional name of a made-up nation ” needs to be attacked. Yes, they tell him, solemnly, all the other options, sadly, regretfully have been exhausted. Now, of course, the comedian may have left lots of intelligent answers on the cutting room floor, but I doubt he had to work very hard to find the dumb ones — I’d bet you any sum I could get them right now without leaving the coffee shop I’m in. Nowhere outside the United States do people think of bombing as being anywhere on the list of options. In the United States, people think of it as the first and only option. Got a problem? Let’s bomb it. But they are compelled to pretend that it is a last option, even when there’s been literally nothing else attempted or even contemplated because a comedian just made up a nonexistent country to ask about.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:46:36 +0000
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