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Cannashroom
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Politicians Remorse for war (or Lack there of today)
#14616075 - 06/15/11 07:14 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
-Dwight D, Eisenhower
Why is it that today our politicians can't seem to understand this concept? How is it that people in the general populous can be so fucking brainwashed to think that "war is good for the economy". Eisenhower knew the costs of war, he saw it up close and tried to warn the populace of what was to come. Our politicians today are so disconnected from the actual events they don't realize the massive suffering they are inflicting on the world.
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
-------------------- "A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security." Albert Einstein
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luvdemshrooms
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Re: Politicians Remorse for war (or Lack there of today) [Re: Cannashroom]
#14616133 - 06/15/11 07:33 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Cannashroom said: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
-Dwight D, Eisenhower
Why is it that today our politicians can't seem to understand this concept? How is it that people in the general populous can be so fucking brainwashed to think that "war is good for the economy". Eisenhower knew the costs of war, he saw it up close and tried to warn the populace of what was to come. Our politicians today are so disconnected from the actual events they don't realize the massive suffering they are inflicting on the world.
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Perhaps they don't grasp it because it's a load of crap.
War can be thrust upon one. To not be prepared is the larger crime.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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love2shpongleIRL
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Re: Politicians Remorse for war (or Lack there of today) [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#14616169 - 06/15/11 07:47 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Agreed, but we have to stop the nation building and interventionism. We can not afford it any more.
-------------------- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot
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Icelander
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Re: Politicians Remorse for war (or Lack there of today) [Re: Cannashroom]
#14616290 - 06/15/11 08:25 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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War can be good for an economy. Look at American history.
But other than that war is good for personal reasons and most politicians are quick to sacrifice others for their cause.
On the other hand many young men want to be warriors and risk death and kill people and they need an outlet or they might start a war at home.
And as luvdemshrooms pointed out, occasionally (some would argue very occasionally) war is thrust upon us.
Edited by Icelander (06/15/11 08:29 AM)
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love2shpongleIRL
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Re: Politicians Remorse for war (or Lack there of today) [Re: Icelander]
#14616657 - 06/15/11 10:07 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Without WW2 we would not be the economic power house we are today.
-------------------- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot
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Icelander
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Re: Politicians Remorse for war (or Lack there of today) [Re: love2shpongleIRL]
#14619296 - 06/15/11 07:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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What a lucky break.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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