Comments on: The World’s in love with War again http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/04/29/casus-belli-in-iran-exhibit-b/ Life during wartime Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:51:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ed http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/04/29/casus-belli-in-iran-exhibit-b/comment-page-1/#comment-34788 ed Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:11:34 +0000 http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/04/29/casus-belli-in-iran-exhibit-b/#comment-34788 If one grasps the state-crafty daring of FDR at Chicago in 1937 ... And then Eisenhower's farewell address of 1961, where he warned of the unwarranted aggregation of power by the "military-industrial complex," coining the term and concern for public usage ... And finally JFK's remarkable speech at <a target="_blank" href="http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/06/28/obama-jfk-share-space/" rel="nofollow">American University in 1963</a> ... Then one begins to appreciate the depths to which we’ve been pulled by the Bush-Cheney doctrine and practice of war. And it's more than sad that Obama seems unable and perhaps may be unwilling to make a turn. If one grasps the state-crafty daring of FDR at Chicago in 1937 …

And then Eisenhower’s farewell address of 1961, where he warned of the unwarranted aggregation of power by the “military-industrial complex,” coining the term and concern for public usage …

And finally JFK’s remarkable speech at American University in 1963 …

Then one begins to appreciate the depths to which we’ve been pulled by the Bush-Cheney doctrine and practice of war.

And it’s more than sad that Obama seems unable and perhaps may be unwilling to make a turn.

]]> By: Conversation » Obama’s new Space policy:Shades of JFK http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/04/29/casus-belli-in-iran-exhibit-b/comment-page-1/#comment-34782 Conversation » Obama’s new Space policy:Shades of JFK Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:08:56 +0000 http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/04/29/casus-belli-in-iran-exhibit-b/#comment-34782 [...] war was the inevitable condition of modern states, taking clear cue here from FDR’s speech at Chicago in 1937. (Vladimir Putin would do the same in 2005 while trying to organize international opposition to the [...] [...] war was the inevitable condition of modern states, taking clear cue here from FDR’s speech at Chicago in 1937. (Vladimir Putin would do the same in 2005 while trying to organize international opposition to the [...]

]]> By: Drew http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/04/29/casus-belli-in-iran-exhibit-b/comment-page-1/#comment-3966 Drew Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:24:53 +0000 http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/04/29/casus-belli-in-iran-exhibit-b/#comment-3966 Memorable, here, is the conceptualization of Bush-Cheney as something "eccentric and destructive" which thrives upon the structural decay -- social, political, etc. -- of the republic. Resting and feeding. Memorable, here, is the conceptualization of Bush-Cheney as something “eccentric and destructive” which thrives upon the structural decay — social, political, etc. — of the republic. Resting and feeding.

]]> By: ed http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/04/29/casus-belli-in-iran-exhibit-b/comment-page-1/#comment-3933 ed Tue, 06 May 2008 12:56:35 +0000 http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2008/04/29/casus-belli-in-iran-exhibit-b/#comment-3933 Georgia says on the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-georgia-russia-minister.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">verge of war with Russia.</a> Georgia says on the verge of war with Russia.

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