Militarism: the new American virtue


	Militarism: the new American virtue

masbury

10-25-2007 12:33 PM

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war on terror, peace, military, bush

masbury says:

Exporting "death and violence to the four corners of the Earth" - GWBush

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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> “<STRONG>We will export death and violence to the four corners of the Earth in defense of our great nation.</STRONG>” - President George W. Bush (quoted in Bob Woodward’s book                                <EM>Plan of Attack</EM>)</LI>
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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>“The 2008 [U.S.] war budget … exceeds the combined military budgets of the rest of the world’s nations …”</STRONG></LI>
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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>“…the cost of Bush’s “war on terrorism” (including Iraq and Afghanistan) </STRONG><STRONG>amounts to more                                in inflation-adjusted dollars than the cost of the Korean or Vietnam wars.”</STRONG></LI>
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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>“Washington [now has] more than 750 major military bases around the world </STRONG>…”</LI>
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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">“Today, as never before in their history, Americans … have fallen prey to militarism  …  manifesting itself in a romanticized view of soldiers, a tendency to see military power as the truest measure of national greatness, [and they]                                 have come to define the nation’s strength and well-being in terms of military preparedness [and] military action.” - Andrew J.                                Bacevich in <EM>The New American Militarism</EM></LI>
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