Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

[Joseph Tracy]

This is standard excuse. Organizing people to murder other people is actually hard  but profitable work and not natural at all IMO. To the  millions of Indians systematically murdered and starved by the US , or to those massacred in the Philippines, or the slaves who died in the slave trade, or the people given syphilis or electro shock therapy or exposed purposely to radioactive fallout, or the Vietnamese, or Iraqis, or citizens of Dresden or Nagasaki these comparative distinctions might seem less impressive.
Plenty of devils in America. Denial only facilitates more.  
On Jan 6, 2012, at 6:34 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> I prefer the Freudian answer. The cause of war is natural in man. We
> can no more avoid it than avoid community. As Simon discovers in Lord
> of the Flies, the beast is us. That said, these readings of history
> that seek to compare the US with Nazi Germany are simply poppycock.
> Our readers of Zinn must admit that he does little with WWII because
> he can not condemn the US enough; The bombs on Japan, the Japanese
> camps, the segregated army, the women sent back to the kitchen like in
> all good fascist states. Zinn ignore the people's war because the US
> acted in a fairly decent manner. War is hell and the US went inot it
> and came out of it, not angels, but not devils niether.