Chris Hedges
There are no good wars. There are no just wars. As Erasmus wrote,
“there is nothing more wicked, more disastrous, more widely
destructive, more deeply tenacious, more loathsome” than war. “Whoever
heard of a hundred thousand animals rushing together to butcher each
other, as men do everywhere?” Erasmus asked. But war, he knew, was very
useful to the power elite. War permitted the powerful, in the name of
national security and by fostering a culture of fear, to effortlessly
strip the citizen of his or her rights. A declaration of war ensures
that “all the affairs of the State are at the mercy of the appetites of a
few,” Erasmus wrote."
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