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05-08-2014, 09:38 AM
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War is Peace
On April 28 the flagship US newspaper, the Washington Post, ran a story the theme of which is that war makes us safer and richer.
Here are the graphics from that piece. In the race to the bottom we have arrived. MHG |
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05-08-2014, 01:55 PM
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You didn't bother to find and read the Ian Morris Washington Post Op Ed being cited here, did you Gaff?
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05-08-2014, 01:58 PM
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The author points out the undeniable, (if uncomfortable) fact that you (and I, and everyone else alive today) are 1/30th as likely to die a violent death as we would have been if we lived during the stone age.
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05-08-2014, 04:19 PM
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A verbis ad verbera
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Perpetual war for perpetual peace.
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05-17-2014, 09:29 PM
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Peace is the interim while we prepare for war.
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