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Character flaws and circumstances in America's deadly warriors-in-chief

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As for getting rid of the "badvantagious" circumstances I devoted much of my book about the corpocracy on that very goal. [14] In the book are numerous proposals for legislative, political, judicial and economic reforms. In one of the chapters I propose "waging war on war" with more than 20 major reform initiatives such as nationalizing and reorienting the defense industry, joining the International Criminal Court, and creating a dual community versus military service draft.

 

We cannot afford to leave President Barack Obama out of the equation notwithstanding what I said about intractable personal characteristics. He needs to be pressured daily by antiwar and peace groups to stop his drone strikes, and these same groups need to stop acting as if their existence depends more on war than on peace and to start uniting and orchestrating corporate and government reform strike forces against all members of the industrial/military/political complex.

 

I started this article with some doggerel. I will end it with some more: "America was born in the womb of war. Will she die in her arms?" Whether you do or do not agree with any of this article, my guess is that at least some wars and military interventions have been over the top for you and that you do not want anymore than I do the risk of the transgressions of our history continuing unabated and descending some day on our descendants in a climatic and irreversible finale. 

 

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[1] Zinn, Howard. A people's history of the United States. NY: HarperPerennial, 2005.

 

[2] History of US military Overt and Covert Global Interventions. July 15, 2012 by Brian Wilson. http://www.brianwillson.com/history-us-military-overt-and-covert-global-interventions/

 

[3] Kohlberg, L. The psychology of moral development: The nature and validity of moral stages. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984.

 

[4] From Michael Sherry in his review (The American Scholar Autumn 2010) of the book Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq, by John Dower. NY: Norton, 2010.

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Author of "911!", The Devil's Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lur ch; America's Oldest Professions: Warring and Spying; and Corporate Reckoning Ahead.

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