Wars-R-Us, It Didn't Happen Overnight

I thought you'd want to read an essay by Norman Solomon posted on www.mediachannel.org.

Let's Face It: The Warfare State is Part of Us

A few excerpts:

Born 50 years before George W. Bush became president, I have always lived in a warfare state. Each man in the Oval Office has presided over an arsenal of weapons designed to destroy human life en masse. In recent decades, our self-proclaimed protectors have been able — and willing — to destroy all of humanity.

… One day in 1969, a biologist named George Wald, who had won a Nobel Prize, visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — the biggest military contractor in academia — and gave a speech. “Our government has become preoccupied with death,” he said, “with the business of killing and being killed.”

…The warfare state doesn’t come and go. It can’t be defeated on Election Day. Like it or not, it’s at the core of the United States — and it has infiltrated our very being.

Be sure to read his book, "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State". Go to: www.MadeLoveGotWar.com.

And see what you can do to prove him wrong.