Those in Washington who constantly reiterate their opposition to a war they say can’t be won are the same people who propose wars to “solve” every other crisis (often caused by their “solution” to some earlier alleged crisis). But those policy wars are never won either. Rather than being given up as unwinnable, they get escalated, expanding government encroachment on our shrinking freedoms, with increasingly adverse effects. Adding more government intervention in virtually every aspect of our lives because politicians who oppose war call everything else a war, cannot stand up to careful examination.
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This article does an incredible job of examining the abuse of the word “war” as a marketing tactic for politicians to get people in line to support their cause.
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Hear, hear Russ!!!
[...] My friend Russ Page wrote a while ago about an article that sited a popular political move to call any initiative to root out a problem a “war.” And so I would like to add My Two Cents about the Iraq war and what I think politicians are doing under the guise of “what the American people want,” and not what is best for the world and more what is our responsibility as the last remaining super power and a truly free country. [...]
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