Ruinous and deadly wars throughout history should have given people everywhere down through the ages cause and pause for thinking about what has happened and why it has happened. While many people presumably have and continue to do just that, what they know and understand is usually controlled by their nation's power elite. That is never more the case than in America from its beginning and continuing. The power elite (aka the ruling class) in the "Devil's Marriage" between Corporate America and Government America that make up America's corpocracy essentially control what most Americans know and understand about what the corpocracy has done, is doing, and plans to do next.1 As if that sort of exploitative wrongdoing were not enough, the power elite's evildoing is ruining America and the world.2 America, as the world knows, is the greatest threat to peace.3
This article wrenches itself free of America's corpocracy and gives readers an unvarnished review and examination of America's wars since the time America "was born in the womb of war." In one of my books I wrote about America's "oldest professions," warring and spying.4 If they are allowed to continue, one or more forms of doomsday will visit humanity later this century as some experts forecast.5 To rescue the future, America first needs to rescue itself from its power elite. In my newest book, "911!" I spell out in detail a rescue plan and who need to be the rescuers.6
The purpose of this article is straightforward, to make a convincing argument that war is neither unavoidable nor just nor inevitable. I start by "enlisting" (that word is not really meant to have military connotations) the "reinforcement" (ditto the first parenthetical) of luminaries down through the ages and what they have said against war. Following them, I am on my own with the support of my research and analysis to present my argument full blown. I end by giving my explanation for why war happens, why it seems to be inevitable and why it need not be inevitable.
Luminaries Against War Down Through the Ages
It is more rather than less discouraging to know that many notable people down through the ages have voiced their disapproval of and disgust over the habit called war. If the "voices heard" in this section of the article had instead been a roaring cheer for war, this article might never have been written!
Edward Abbey: Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
Alfred Adler: To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
Aeschylus: In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aesop: Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Anonymous: A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
Issac Asimov: Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.
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