Perpetual war - Polsearch
About us  |  Why use us?  |  Press  |  Contact us

 

Topic: Perpetual war



  
 Noontide Press : Online Catalog
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and its Aftermath
Home » General History and Revisionism » Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and its Aftermath
Edited by Harry Elmer Barnes, one of the 20th Century's most influential American scholars, this is a work in the front rank of American historical scholarship.
http://www.noontidepress.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=108   (276 words)

  
 Perpetual War
It was an unprovoked attack, correctly an act of war, and the U.S. had good cause under the Just War doctrine (i.e., the Judeo-Christian principle establishing the right to defend oneself against an aggressor) to retaliate and to punish the guilty and discourage future acts of terrorism.
While in our constitutional republic, the president of the United States serves as commander in chief of U.S. armed forces, the legal vehicle for commencing and waging war is the Congress.
James Madison, the master builder of the U.S. Constitution, noted in 1795: "Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
http://www.haciendapub.com/politics9.html   (1194 words)

  
 The perpetual war for perpetual peace continues
This Administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America, and I urge Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort.
Our kids killed, our liberties suppressed, our taxes raised, the government engorged, the recession deepened, our Constitution shredded — and you can hardly wait for the shooting to start.
But reformers are never willing to leave well enough alone.
http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/pwar.htm   (5109 words)

  
 CNN.com - House approves renewal of Patriot Act - Jul 22, 2005
Parts of the Patriot Act have come under fire from civil liberties advocates -- as well as some lawmakers on both the left and right of the political spectrum -- who say they provide law enforcement with sweeping powers that could be abused.
"We should not be required to live in peacetime under the extraordinary laws that were passed during times of war and crisis.
However, Bush and GOP leaders have pushed for renewal, insisting the act has been used judiciously and contains key tools needed to fight the war on terror.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/21/patriot.act?section=cnn_topstories   (846 words)

  
 Peace Bibliography A-H
Burns, J. Patout, ed., War and Its Discontents: Pacifism and Quietism in the Abrahamic Traditions, Georgetown Univ. Press, Washington, DC, 1996.
Erdahl, Lowell O., Pro-Life/Pro-Peace: Life-Affirming Alternatives to Abortion, War, Mercy Killing, and the Death Penalty, Augsburg Pub.
Fite, Gilbert, and H.C. Peterson, Opponents of War: 1917-1918, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 1957.
http://www.centeronconscience.org/biblio_A-H.htm   (14437 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: Books: Gore Vidal
The constitution is the supreme law of the land and its protects individual personal liberty and freedom against a tyranical government.
Glimmer of a New Leviathan : Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz by Campbell Craig on page 125, and Back Matter
United States, Oklahoma City, Bill of Rights, New York Times, Opus Dei, Branch Davidians, Forces Involved, Supreme Court, Dark Tuesday, Murrah Federal Building, Ruby Ridge, World War, Joel Dyer, Louis Freeh, Terre Haute, Terry Nichols, American Terrorist, Anti-Terrorism Act, David Koresh, Pearl Harbor, President Clinton, Former Soviet Union Provide Hope, Harry Truman, North Korea
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/156025405X?v=glance   (2673 words)

  
 In Iraq: The Neo-Con Perpetual War Policy
The way the Army is reorganizing itself reflects the implementation of the perpetual war policy, while at the same time rejecting the principles applied by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gen. Douglas MacArthur to fight and bring to an end to World War II, as rapidly as possible.
The State Department said, the man's not elected, he can't hold this position, get rid of him, we have to have a democratically elected person.
Even before the leaking of the NIE, there were commentaries from retired military officers stating that the U.S. has lost the war in Iraq.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3138neocon_warpolicy.html   (2263 words)

  
 PhpWiki - Perpetual War Agenda
And there is a history of this kind of thing being done by national political bosses, including the darling of liberals, Franklin Roosevelt.
The evidence is very compelling that the Roosevelt Administration deliberately failed to act to stop Pearl Harbor in order to mobilize enough national anger to enter the World War II.
But at the least, this so-called Commander-in-Chief and his staff that we are all supposed to follow blindly into some ill-defined war on terrorism is criminally negligent or unspeakably stupid.
http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/PerpetualWarAgenda   (3738 words)

  
 Invading Iraq: The Road to Perpetual War
For the purposes of comparison with other leaders, Hitler can be distinguished by the strength of his military power, his disdain for international law and his willingness to embark on unprovoked aggression.
See "White House Blocks Deal By Congress on 9/11 panel," NYT, October 11, 2002.
attacks gave his administration to signal his agenda of perpetual war.
http://desip.igc.org/PerpetualWar.html   (3438 words)

  
 Theories Of A Just War
Kenneth Waltz: Man, The State And War: A Theoretical Analysis (Columbia University Press, 1959).
James Hillman, A Terrible Love of War (New York, 2004)
Bernard Brodie, War and Politics (Pearson Education, 1974)
http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Theories%20Of%20A%20Just%20War.htm   (794 words)

  
 Perpetual War, Waste
"Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other," argued the man who authored many of the Constitution's checks on executive excess before himself serving as the nation's fourth president.
The president is laying the groundwork for the sort of perpetual war that James Madison warned would pose the greatest threat to the American experiment.
In war, the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed; and it is the executive brow they are to encircle.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0908-07.htm   (760 words)

  
 Stopping the Perpetual War
Guns, abortion, affirmative action and social security just don't factor into this war.
This is the nature of war in the 21st-century.
The United States is not waging a War On Terrorism.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/nessie1.html   (821 words)

  
 Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace How we got to be so hated by Gore Vidal
Cast: Truman, Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson, a handful of congressional leaders.
American Civil Liberties Union in a 1996 report
Today, in the all-out, never-to-be-won twin wars on Drugs and Terrorism, 2 million telephone conversations a year are intercepted by law-enforcement officials.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Gore_Vidal/Perpetual_War.html   (1123 words)

  
 "A Task That Never Ends" - Bush Proposes Perpetual War
Tony Blair, a veritable lapdog of Washington who doubles as the British Prime Minster, flew across the Atlantic to register his presence at the moment of birth of this new era of perpetual war.
War shall be permanent because the war cannot end without justice and justice is what the U.S. has set out to deny, permanently.
Bush called his so-called 'war on terrorism' a "crusade" early on, with no sense of the historical meaning of that word.
http://www.ilaam.net/Sept11/PerpetualWar.html   (3018 words)

  
 Phillip D. Collins -- Perpetual War for Perpetual Evolution, Part 1
There is no way of getting rid of war save one, and that is to rid human nature of the sanctions imposed on it by the law of evolution.
In this context, war serves an alchemical function.
With the ever-present threat of war, the absolute State could maintain a standing army and implement a policy of compulsory service for its citizenry.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Collins/phillip3.htm   (3012 words)

  
 Preparing for perpetual war
But the declaration of endless war has justified extraordinary government surveillance, as well as a crackdown on public records.
The political impetus for creating a state of perpetual war can't be ignored.
Before the American people's freedom is tampered with our government itself must be tampered and poked and examined by the Congress and President.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/641599/posts   (2001 words)

  
 AlterNet: Why Bush Is Addicted to Perpetual War
The more we go after Islamist extremists, the more they'll go after us, breeding a perpetual war that Bush hopes will usher him in another term come November 2004.
Bush's father had been turned out of office just 20 months after the Gulf War ratcheted his score up to 91.
The war on terror begets more terror begets more war.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12654   (1027 words)

  
 Time to End Perpetual War - Mises Institute
This is the action of a real statesman, a man of courage willing to stand up to presidential power grabs, and say: absolutely not.
As the New York Times put it, this is an openly political as versus defensive war.
Gulf War One, said George Bush at the time, was a test case for the New World Order.
http://mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=115&titlenum=&FS=&...?&Month=3   (6386 words)

  
 A Formula for Perpetual War
By treating militant forces as criminals and responding only with force, the three leaders are guaranteeing that the “war on terrorism” will have no end.
George Bush has declared war on “international terrorism,” and Putin and Sharon have eagerly joined up, using that war as an excuse to justify any act of oppression, and in Putin’s case to move Russia close to dictatorship.
Israeli writer Amos Elon recalled in the July 15 issue of the New York Review of Books that almost immediately after the June 1967 war Palestinian notables offered to sign a separate peace agreement with Israel in return for an independent demilitarized Palestinian state on the West Bank.
http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_2004/0411006.html   (2383 words)

  
 Vidal interview
will be conducting that war in order to get more Republicans elected in
the Government, that suddenly the FBI declares war on a religious order
leading the United States into war, war, war, next is Iraq, next will be
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/VidalTranscript.html   (4182 words)

  
 Book Review: Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
It paints World War II as a horror orchestrated largely by Franklin D. Roosevelt, but without offering up so-called 'anti-Semitic canards' that might cause him to put the book aside after perusing only 10 pages.
If you have a "conservative" friend or relative who still believes that WWII "had to happen" or that Roosevelt was merely a reluctant actor in war against Germany and Japan, Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace is the book for him.
"'Chamberlain, he says, stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war.'" - p.
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1853389   (1002 words)

  
 Author Gore Vidal Slams U.S. for Waging 'Perpetual War'
Vidal is seen at his home in Ravello, southern Italy, on May 9, 2001.
It can't be a war because Osama is not a nation.
You don't declare war on Sicily because the Mafia happen to live in Sicily.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1124-04.htm   (742 words)

  
 Nation Books
A president may also lie, but a president alone cannot use that lie to start a war....
Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror
Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror proves that in times of high political anxiety, humor and irony are most potent antidotes to the spin emanating from the White House and Downing Street.
http://www.nationbooks.org   (1930 words)

  
 Preemptive Karma
"Shouldn't the [Canadian] prime minister and all of us who thought the war was hasty and dangerous and wrongheaded admit that we were wrong?
Illegal and immoral war, torture and confinement for life without trial have never been part of our Constitutional tradition.
Until your administration, I believed it was inconceivable that the United States would ever initiate an aggressive and preemptive war against a country that posed no threat to us.
http://www.preemptivekarma.com   (4707 words)

  
 Perpetual war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Major flare-ups from time to time have resulted in the Indo-Pakistani Wars and the Sino-Indian War.
These nations are in a state of perpetual war with each other.
But an armistice is impossible or meaningless in the politician's use of the term as in a War on Drugs (Reagan), or a War on Poverty (Johnson), or a War on Cancer (Nixon), and now a War on Terrorism (Bush).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war   (683 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson’s Almanac free daily ezine President Bush's speech Shrub humor George Dubya peace war
The War for the White House is on
This war was not worth a child's finger
“My friends,” President Bush continued, “for a long time I myself mistakenly believed that war is all right.
http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/summit.html   (1577 words)

  
 Perpetual War for Perpetual War
The problems of today are the result of the 1948 war which was the result of the 1939 war which was the result of the 1914 war.
The Civil War, World War I, World War II.
These were the good wars and the Presidents who fought them, and finagled to fight them in the first place, are the great ones.
http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/ostrowski/ostrowski2.html   (1355 words)

  
 Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Gore Vidal excerpt, ThinkingPeace
He would go to war against the United States, "the head of the serpent." Even more ambitiously, he would rid all the Muslim states of their western-supported regimes, starting with that of his native land.
First he promised us not only "a new war" but a "secret war" and, best of all, according to the twinkle in his eye, "a very long war." Meanwhile, "this administration will not talk about any plans we may or may not have...
For this wartime exclusion, Hartford Life would soon be breaking open its piggy bank to finance Republicans for years to come.
http://www.thinkingpeace.com/Lib/lib031.html   (2246 words)

  
 Polling Critic #10 - Perpetual War - Alan F. Kay, PhD
With the lack of further terrorist homeland attacks in the past year and without the September Cheney-Rumsfeld drum-beat for war, Republican election prospects for November 2002 would have been bleak and Bush's own prospect for 2004 dim.
In the brutal Iran/Iraq war, a stupid war for both parties, the United States sided with Iraq, providing tactical intelligence that Saddam later used against the Kurds.
Bush earlier handled the fifth requirement, the creation of a high-minded goal to be part of the purpose of the war.
http://www.cdi.org/polling/10-war.cfm   (1590 words)

  
 We've Been WarnedThe state of our union:perpetual war- by Justin Raimondo
The elections will only underscore that failure, as a full-scale religious-ethnic civil war breaks out.
Bush avers that his war of "liberation" will "inspire democratic reformers from Damascus to Tehran," but all it's inspiring is revulsion throughout the region — emboldening our enemies, and providing them with plenty of targets.
We've Been WarnedThe state of our union:perpetual war- by Justin Raimondo
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4702   (2851 words)

  
 The "War on Terror" as Defined by 1984's Emmanuel Goldstein
All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."
Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world."
A war is a military operation with a military objective that can be achieved and then you declare victory...
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/orwell_goldstein_1984.html   (503 words)

  
 Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neo-cons, and Iraq
Christopher Hitchens, an ardent advocate of the war, wrote unashamedly in November 2002 (in an article felicitously titled Machiavelli in Mesopotamia) that:
He went to secondary school in Marburg and served as an interpreter in the German army in the first world war.
She argues that the central claims of Straussian thought wield a crucial influence on men of power in the contemporary United States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5010.htm   (4228 words)

  
 Perpetual War, Perpetual Terror
The Pentagon is the Department of War, not Defense.
But perhaps a perpetual war is what MIC has sought all along.
It can be seen in civil wars that ravage the developing world, from Africa to Asia to Latin America.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5382.htm   (2041 words)

  
 Perpetual War for Perpetual Commerce
Just as was the case in Korea,Vietnam, the Gulf War, Haiti...
During the Iraq-Iran war, for example, it was the U.S. and British governments that supplied to Iraq most of the terrible weapons of mass destruction.
Since the American-imposed "peace" agreement, signed in Dayton, Ohio, in November 1995, 98 percent of foreign investment has ended up in the Muslim-Croat federation.
http://www.truthinmedia.org/truthinmedia/Columns/chronicles-aug-98.html   (2074 words)

  
 The Neil Rogers Show - News - Our own perpetual war in Iraq
This, he later learns, is to keep the citizens of Oceania, the fictional nation in "1984," patriotic and unquestioning of their government's activities and secret objectives.
Therefore the tactic of creating a "War on Terrorism" is just another way to discreetly place America in the position of a warfare state, which has traditionally aided the party in power, forever.
Bush did nothing of the sort, instead once again, in Tim Russert's words, "stalling for time." I, along with most United States citizens, certainly hope it is not the case that our government is perpetrating perpetual war, but more and more it seems probable.
http://news.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2005071006.html   (727 words)

  
 Gore Vidal: The Independent Institute
He has served on the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts, and has twice run for national public office, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of The Independent Institute.
His first novel, Williwaw, is based on his experiences in World War II.
His latest books, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated and Dreaming of War: Blood for Oil and the Bush-Cheney Junta, published by Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, are collections of essays investigating the roots and causes of the terrorist crises currently facing the United States.
http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/vidal_bio.html   (329 words)

  
 Foreign Policy In Focus Global Affairs Commentary The Strong Must Rule the Weak: A Philosopher for an Empire
While the Times article introduced readers to Strauss and his disciples in Washington, interest was further piqued this week by a lengthy article by The New Yorker's legendary investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh, who noted that Abram Shulsky, a close Perle associate who has run a special intelligence unit in Rumsfeld's office, is also a Straussian.
PNAC's early prescriptions and subsequent open letters to President George W. Bush on how to fight the war on terrorism have anticipated to an uncanny extent precisely what the administration has done.
Kristol's father Irving, the godfather of neoconservatism who sits on the board of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) where a number of prominent hawks, including former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle, are based, has also credited Strauss with being one of the main influences on his thinking.
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2003/0305strauss_body.html   (1004 words)

  
 Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
In the epilogue, Divine applies his points to the final American war of the century, the conflict in Kosovo, which is “yet another example of American involvement in perpetual wars for perpetual peace.”
He then turns to the way the United States wages war, looking at how it uses force to achieve political ends.
ROBERT A. DIVINE is the George W. Littlefield Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught for more than forty years.
http://www.tamu.edu/upress/books/2000/divine.htm   (273 words)

  
 Nation Books
The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has catalogued nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor.
In a series of penetrating and alarming essays (until now deemed too controversial to publish in the US), the centerpiece of which is a commentary on the events of September 11 and Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, Vidal challenges the comforting consensus that these were simply the acts of "evil-doers."
The subject of the essays that make up the book is a U.S. government with a nasty habit of violating civil liberties and badgering foreign nations, and the fatal consequences from the Timothy McVeighs and Osama bin Ladens of the world.
http://www.nationbooks.org/book.mhtml?t=vidal   (556 words)

  
 The Rational Enquirer
This site has run its course for now, and frankly, the site's editor is a little worn out after over four years of collecting news articles.
A congressional report made public yesterday concluded that President Bush and his inner circle had access to more intelligence and reviewed more sensitive material than what was shared with Congress when it gave Bush the authority to wage war against Iraq.
Cheney's rough-edged remarks, and the president's unequivocal endorsement of them, were the latest in the Bush administration's new campaign to challenge critics of how it sold the war, accusing them of twisting the historical record about how and why the war was launched.
http://www.rationalenquirer.org   (565 words)

  
 People's Weekly World - The costs of perpetual war
These include the truth, as a permanent state of fear is maintained by neo-conservative practitioners of “noble lies”; the environment, as wars for oil are fought to preserve an oil-based economy; liberty, as the so-called Patriot Acts unfold; and freedom, as the military draft is reinstated.
UNTIL THEY LISTEN: Youth say 'three years of war are too many!'
Their math is as follows: $536 billion for current military expenditures; $50 billion for the conduct of the Iraq/Afghan wars; and $349 billion for the interest payments on past military expenditures.
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/4960/1/207   (721 words)

  
 Perpetual War
Iraq's leader may bluster and play the madman, but his army is in truth weak.
This is what Bush is calling for; a war cascading out of control.
Bush is not looking to start a war against
http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/Bowen/bowen7.html   (1008 words)

  
 The Perpetual War Portfolio
The Perpetual War Portfolio is an evenly weighted basket of five stocks poised to succeed in the age of perpetual war.
Lockheed Martin is also the industry leader in lobbying expenditures, campaign contributions, and two of its former executives are in leadership positions at the Air Force and Navy.
Northrop Grumman is positioned to profit nicely from the War on Terror.
http://www.rationalenquirer.org/features/portfolio   (761 words)

  
 Perpetual War : LA IMC
Organized Labor Rallies Against War by Joel Flores
The Long War: The Apotheosis of Capitalism Part One & Two M16 9:38PM
Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere.
http://la.indymedia.org/features/Perpetual_War   (796 words)

  
 Experts fear 'endless' terror war - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com
• Cost of Iraq war could surpass $1 trillion
An Associated Press survey of longtime students of international terrorism finds them ever more convinced, in the aftermath of London’s bloody Thursday, that the world has entered a long siege in a new kind of war.
Bruce Hoffman, the veteran RAND Corp. specialist who fears an “endless war,” dismisses talk of al-Qaida’s “back” having been “broken” by the capture of some leaders.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8524679   (1014 words)

  
 onegoodmove: Perpetual War
He makes an interesting point about why he feels Bush declared "we are at war", since a nation can only be at war with another nation-state, which would exclude bin Laden and his troop.
Corporate America of course those insurance companies could save big bucks, since they don't have to cover loses due to "war".
Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace subtitled "How We Got To Be So Hated".
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/000098.html   (2661 words)

  
 Warblogging
One of the most calm and intelligent anti-war voices on the Net, George Paine is at his best providing "a bird's eye view of the perpetual, 1984-style war we've found ourselves in," with particular emphasis on analyzing the rapid, ongoing erosion of U.S. civil liberties.
Check out War Blogging because George Paine understands.
If you're not reading George Paine's War Blogging, you're missing one of the sharpest and most intelligent anti-war voices in the country.
http://www.warblogging.com   (324 words)

  
 Leiter Reports: A Group Blog (Jan. 23-May 31 2006): Glenn Reynolds Pimps for Perpetual War
I think this post encapsulates the war-crazed right rather well: the assumption that more wars - anywhere, everywhere, doesn't really matter where - must be forthcoming.
A reader from Ohio alerts me to the fact (who would have guessed?) that Glenn "no bit of right-wing sliminess is beneath me" Reynolds is an advocate for perpetual war:
Assuming Glenn Reynolds speaks for most crazed nutters, it's not a question of if or even when, but merely where the next war will be launched.
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/glenn_reynolds__1.html   (483 words)

  
 Thirty - Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Thirty Years' War was a conflict fought between the years 1618 and 1648, Effectively resolved the religious issues of the Thirty Years' War.
The perfect combination of fine writing and suspense-filled plot makes
Extensive collection including art by Fatu Feu'u, sculpture by Llew Summers,
http://balance-international.siteslinks.com/sil/balance-international-thirty.htm   (235 words)

 About us   |  Why use us?   |  Press   |  Contact us

 Copyright © 2006 Polsearch.com Usage implies agreement with terms.