First, do no harm
The New Republic
by David Rieff
07/12/10
How can anti-interventionists pay so little heed to the views of the victims? It is a fair question. I would respond first as an American: I do not want my country to be the world’s policeman, even in the most humane sense of that word. It seems to me that assuming this role has been a disaster for the United States. As W. H. Seward said in his eulogy to John Quincy Adams, ‘democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.’ For make no mistake, these military interventions on humanitarian or human rights grounds are wars, not armed philanthropy. Sorry, the military-industrial complex is no myth...
http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/76197/first-do-no-harm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Police Brutality in America
By Stephen Lendman
Across America, daily incidents occur, one of many the cold-blooded January 1, 2009 murder of Oscar Grant - unarmed, offering no resistance, thrust face-down on the ground, shot in the back, and killed, videotaped on at least four cameras for irrefutable proof. USA Today said five bystanders taped it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25929.htm
A Police State You'd Better Believe In
By Jack Kenny
When our nation is waging "war on" so many things (drugs, crime, poverty, terrorism), it's hard to know where to enlist and when to defect. Or put another way, when should a patriot oppose his government?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26059.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Quincy+Adams
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=intervention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=world+policeman
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=industrial+complex
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Rieff
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jack+Kenny
by David Rieff
07/12/10
How can anti-interventionists pay so little heed to the views of the victims? It is a fair question. I would respond first as an American: I do not want my country to be the world’s policeman, even in the most humane sense of that word. It seems to me that assuming this role has been a disaster for the United States. As W. H. Seward said in his eulogy to John Quincy Adams, ‘democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.’ For make no mistake, these military interventions on humanitarian or human rights grounds are wars, not armed philanthropy. Sorry, the military-industrial complex is no myth...
http://www.tnr.com/blog/foreign-policy/76197/first-do-no-harm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Police Brutality in America
By Stephen Lendman
Across America, daily incidents occur, one of many the cold-blooded January 1, 2009 murder of Oscar Grant - unarmed, offering no resistance, thrust face-down on the ground, shot in the back, and killed, videotaped on at least four cameras for irrefutable proof. USA Today said five bystanders taped it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25929.htm
A Police State You'd Better Believe In
By Jack Kenny
When our nation is waging "war on" so many things (drugs, crime, poverty, terrorism), it's hard to know where to enlist and when to defect. Or put another way, when should a patriot oppose his government?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26059.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Quincy+Adams
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=intervention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=world+policeman
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=industrial+complex
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Rieff
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jack+Kenny
rudkla - 13. Jul, 09:32
