Thursday, July 01, 2010

Glenn Greenwald v Jeffrey Goldberg

"I’m not interested in an overly personalized exchange with Goldberg, but there is one aspect of his response worth highlighting: the universality of the war propaganda he proffers. Those who perpetrate wars of aggression invariably invent moral justifications to allow themselves and the citizens of the aggressor state to feel good and noble about themselves. Hence, even an unprovoked attack which literally destroys a country and ruins the lives of millions of innocent people — as the U.S. invasion of Iraq did — is scripted as a morality play with the invaders cast in the role of magnanimous heroes." - Glenn Greenwald

Watch "War Made Easy" and see how every President uses almost the same phrases to build public support for wars. This notion that aggression is part of human culture and wars will always be around is BS. Without a central government hyping the false needs and bogus "mushroom clouds", almost everybody does not want to go to war and wants to be left alone to eat, sleep and be merry.

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