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	Perpetual war - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Cold War, lasting almost 50 years, is an example of such a war, although largely fought by the major powers through a large number of small "proxy wars", where the major powers provided aid to various local factions engaged in so-called "wars of national liberation".
		War in the conventional sense implies that there are battles between combatants, that there is a definitive termination of hostilities, perhaps with a winner and loser, as is the case with some wars, or simply relief for the opponents, as in the Cold War or the war in Lebanon.
		Some analysts posit that a state of perpetual war is an aid to (and is promoted by) the powerful members of dominant political and economic classes in maintaining their positions of economic superiority (or more radically, of economic exploitation) over the common people.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Perpetual_war (629 words)

	Perpetual War for Perpetual Evolution Part One \| Phillip D. Collins
		If war be the progeny of evolution--and I am convinced that it is--then evolution has "gone mad," reaching such a height of ferocity as must frustrate its proper role in the world of life--which is the advancement of her competing "units", these being tribes, nations, or races of mankind.
		War became the symbol, the image, the inducement, the reason, and the language of all human beings on the planet.
		The organization of society for the possibility of war is its principal political stabilizer… It has enabled societies to maintain necessary class distinctions, and it has insured the subordination of the citizens to the state by virtue of the residual powers inherent in the concept of nationhood.
	www.conspiracyarchive.com /Commentary/Perpetual_War_Evolution_1.htm (3092 words)

	War Propaganda - by Charley Reese
		War is killing, maiming and disfiguring human beings.
		This entire glorification of war — as if the whole and only purpose of the government and the country were to fight wars — smells of fascism.
		That was also the last war that was constitutional, with a formal declaration of war by Congress.
	www.antiwar.com /reese/?articleid=2453 (762 words)

	This perpetual war \| Special reports \| The Observer
		'War' in its essence is teleological: it suggests there is a terminus, that there is an end in sight.
		The net result is either total occupation or the partial ceding of territory for the vanquished; in contrast for the victor there is the spoils of his enemy's resources, ranging through land, food, water supply, factories, machinery, military hardware, human (often enslaved) labour.
		In civil wars the outcome is less clear-cut because the combatants are fighting on the same territory.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /arnoldkemp/story/0,12431,792513,00.html (899 words)

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		The War on Terrorism is widely considered to be such a perpetual war, as terrorism is rarely under the control of a single authority who can clearly surrender - and usually can keep recruiting even under extreme pressure.
		The Bush doctrine of preemptive strikes against nations with certain technological and military capacities that 'may threaten' the United States also implies a perpetual war, as these capacities proliferate into the hands of less and less friendly nations, and become cheaper to exploit in a threatening way.
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=perpetual_war (178 words)

	Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace How we got to be so hated by Gore Vidal
		Besides the unexceptional subversion and overthrow of governments in competition with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Washington has resorted to political assassinations, surrogate death squads, and unseemly freedom fighters (e.g., bin Laden).
		Today, in the all-out, never-to-be-won twin wars on Drugs and Terrorism, 2 million telephone conversations a year are intercepted by law-enforcement officials.
		Fifty years ago, Harry Truman replaced the old republic with a national-security state whose sole purpose is to wage perpetual wars, hot, cold, and tepid.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Gore_Vidal/Perpetual_War.html (1123 words)

	PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL PEACE
		There have been "cold wars" alternating with "hot wars" along with a never-ending "drug war." More sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques have accompanied tremendous improvements in the implements of mass murder.
		For most of the world the "war on poverty" has been a dismal failure despite a century of steady improvements in the arts of production.
		The sine qua non of war is the existence of the political state.
	members.tripod.com /~physiocrat/index-2.html (883 words)

	Perpetual War, Perpetual Terror
		The Pentagon is the Department of War, not Defense.
		Brainwashed to believe that War is Peace we sound the drums of war, marching our sons and daughters to a battle that cannot be won either by sword or gun.
		With a war that may go on indefinitely, pursuing an enemy that lives in shadows and in the haze of ambiguity, the MIC will grow ever more powerful, conscripting hundreds of thousands of our youth, sending them to guide, operate and unleash their products of death.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article5382.htm (2041 words)

	The perpetual war for perpetual peace continues
		This is what historian Charles Beard in 1947 so prophetically labeled the "perpetual war for perpetual peace." To the war-makers, there will always be an urgent reason to go to war to secure the peace.
		To personalize the war, describing it as not against the Iraqi people but against Saddam, is morally equivalent to bombing a prison because one has a grievance against its sadistic warden.
		By this absurd policy, internationalism and interventionism invite and insure "perpetual war for perpetual peace," since any move which threatens petty nations and these mystic boundaries becomes an "aggressive war" which must not be tolerated, even though to oppose it may break the back of the world.
	www.harrybrowne.org /articles/pwar.htm (5098 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Perpetual war hits military families hard
		But World Wars I and II and Korea had a clear beginning and an end, and in those conflicts, as well as in Vietnam,...
		But World Wars I and II and Korea had a clear beginning and an end, and in those conflicts, as well as in Vietnam, our country had millions of draftees we could send to fight.
		If we are going to be a nation perpetually at war, and if we are to maintain an all volunteer military and avoid the draft, we will need to do a better job of addressing the special problems that extended combat duty causes for soldiers and their families back home.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/06/13/perpetual_war_hits_military_families_hard (736 words)

	Perpetual War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was an unprovoked attack, correctly an act of war, and the U.S. had good cause under the Just War doctrine (i.e., the Judeo-Christian principle establishing the right to defend oneself against an aggressor) to retaliate and to punish the guilty and discourage future acts of terrorism.
		War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few.
		In an informative essay discussing the morality of war, William Norman Grigg also cites a 1798 letter to Thomas Jefferson in which James Madison pointed out: "The Constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2002/3/1/202757.shtml (1274 words)

	Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
		Indeed, he claims to be the last defender of the Republic, and his slant on events in the US comes from the foreign press, as an antidote to the corporate-controlled American press.
		Vidal's deep skepticism about the "national security state" Americans have lived in since the beginning of the Cold War (1947), and the excesses of the imperialist "American Empire," are his chief criticisms of the USA.
		Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace is brief and somewhat poorly organized, but the writing is, as always, compelling.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /2ndlook/pwforpp.htm (470 words)

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		In his five-page introduction to Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Vidal discusses the history of his unpublished Vanity Fair piece and quotes from a piece by Arno J. Mayer that The Nation declined to publish.
		IN HIS INTRODUCTION to Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Vidal presents the premise for his argument that Timothy McVeigh and Osama bin Laden were not merely crazed evildoers as "the Pentagon Junta in charge of our affairs programmed their president to tell us." Rather, both men were products of American imperialism at home and abroad.
		Although Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace begins with the essay about Sept. 11, it may serve readers better to read the three principle essays in the chronology in which Vidal wrote them.
	www.pitt.edu /~kloman/perpetual.html (3700 words)

	Perpetual War for Perpetual Evolution Part Three \| Phillip D. Collins
		One of the planks of the Treaty called for large amounts of war reparations to be paid to the victorious nations by the German government.
		I remember Amery's eyes gleaming with blood-lust at the thought of a war with America, in which, as he said with exultation, we should have to arm the whole adult male population.
		Whatever the case might be, World War II certainly synchronized with the evolutionary designs of Wells and his other oligarchical colleagues.
	www.conspiracyarchive.com /Commentary/Perpetual_War_Evolution_3.htm (2631 words)

	In Iraq: The Neo-Con Perpetual War Policy
		During the Korean War, he said, "Douglas MacArthur was criticized very heavily by the Truman Administration's State Department, because his first action once we landed at Inchon and had retaken Seoul, was to reinstall Syngman Rhee, the unelected dictator of South Korea.
		The entire so-called "War on Terrorism," with its associated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is, as EIR has shown, the product of a deliberate policy of perpetual war.
		The way the Army is reorganizing itself reflects the implementation of the perpetual war policy, while at the same time rejecting the principles applied by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Gen. Douglas MacArthur to fight and bring to an end to World War II, as rapidly as possible.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2004/3138neocon_warpolicy.html (2263 words)

	Time to End Perpetual War - Mises Institute
		Bush's war came a mere 20 months after the unraveling of socialism in Eastern Europe, and before so-called isolationist sentiment began to rise to the surface of public opinion.
		In Gulf War One, using the usual combination of threats and bribes, the U.S. was able to put together a multilateral fig-leaf for its little war.
		But there was a problem: their arguments against the Iraq war make an unusual amount of sense, so the only solution was to ignore the screams of protest coming from our on-again-off-again ally in a century of wars.
	www.mises.org /fullarticle.asp?control=115 (6395 words)

	Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Gore Vidal excerpt, ThinkingPeace
		He did seem to believe that the sentimental Osama was holed up in a cave on the Pakistan border instead of settled in a palace in Indonesia or Malaysia, two densely populated countries where he is admired and we are not.
		In any case, never before in our long history of undeclared unconstitutional wars have we, the American people, been treated with such impish disdain—so many irrelevant spear carriers to be highly taxed (those of us who are not rich) and occasionally invited to participate in the odd rigged poll.
		He would go to war against the United States, "the head of the serpent." Even more ambitiously, he would rid all the Muslim states of their western-supported regimes, starting with that of his native land.
	www.thinkingpeace.com /Lib/lib031.html (2237 words)

	Amazon.ca: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated: Books: Gore Vidal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vidal views the unwinnable wars on terrorism and drugs as the government's excuse to implement a police state, which he repeatedly compares to Nazi Germany.
		Gore Vidal looks beyond the acts of "evil-doers" and relates the United States belief of "Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace", as the motives behind September 11th and the Oklahoma City Bomning.
		It is: "We are now in, the president tells us, 'a long war'--presumably to the end." This assertion does not at all match the satiric and biting tone of the rest of the essays, but it does communicate to the reader that this "perpetual war" cannot go on forever.
	www.amazon.ca /Perpetual-War-Peace-How-Hated/dp/156025405X (2279 words)

	Polling Critic #10 - Perpetual War - Alan F. Kay, PhD
		The imminent war and the huge expense of homeland security offers another benefit for the Republicans, whose tax cuts go mostly to the rich who save, invest, and buy proportionately little of the production that stimulates the economy.
		In the brutal Iran/Iraq war, a stupid war for both parties, the United States sided with Iraq, providing tactical intelligence that Saddam later used against the Kurds.
		The risk is perpetual war: starting a cycle of preemptive strikes that likely will backfire and require yet more intervention by the U.S. military.
	www.cdi.org /polling/10-war.cfm (1590 words)

	Perpetual War for Perpetual War
		Those who think that wars are not a good thing and should not be fought except after the most extreme provocations and under the most extreme moral strictures, are considered to be crazy, nuts, oddballs, crackpots, cowards, and traitors.
		The problems of today are the result of the 1948 war which was the result of the 1939 war which was the result of the 1914 war.
		Sure, the Confederates were right to fight the Yankee aggressors, but I sure wish they had freed the slaves—which the hypocritical Yanks had yet to do in their own slave states and occupied territories--and together with them had repelled the unlawful invasion.
	www.strike-the-root.com /columns/ostrowski/ostrowski2.html (1355 words)

	A Formula for Perpetual War
		George Bush has declared war on “international terrorism,” and Putin and Sharon have eagerly joined up, using that war as an excuse to justify any act of oppression, and in Putin’s case to move Russia close to dictatorship.
		The war Bush said would transform Iraq into a liberal democracy is more likely to turn it into a banana republic—with an impoverished population and a well-equipped army to keep down protest.
		As if the war in Iraq had not proved to be a colossal failure, there is pressure on Bush to risk a new confrontation, this time with Iran.
	www.wrmea.com /archives/November_2004/0411006.html (2393 words)

	Perpetual war for perpetual peace
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		Quite apart from their own dirty tricks over the years here in Ulster, the wars against Serbia and now Iraq have shown that all this professed concern for human rights and morality is eyewash.
		They don’t want their sons, (and in these PC egalitarian days, their daughters too) drafted to fight an endless succession of colonial wars in all corners of the globe.
	www.ulsternation.org.uk /perpetual_war_for_perpetual_peac.htm (1549 words)

	People's Weekly World - The costs of perpetual war
		Their math is as follows: $536 billion for current military expenditures; $50 billion for the conduct of the Iraq/Afghan wars; and $349 billion for the interest payments on past military expenditures.
		These include the truth, as a permanent state of fear is maintained by neo-conservative practitioners of “noble lies”; the environment, as wars for oil are fought to preserve an oil-based economy; liberty, as the so-called Patriot Acts unfold; and freedom, as the military draft is reinstated.
		While the Machiavellian disciples of the late neo-conservative guru Leo Strauss currently occupying the Pentagon embrace the crazy theory of perpetual war, there is no reason why the rest of us should allow our children to be sent off to war by a cabal of chicken hawks.
	www.pww.org /article/articleview/4960/1/207 (605 words)

	Perpetual War
		President Bush has temporarily softened his initial definition of the terrorist attack as "a call to war." The feelings of doom are subsiding.
		In this pamphlet he argued that holy war was necessary to defend not just Muslims but Muslim dignity.(Time Magazine, October 1, 2001, Roots Of Rage:Grievances over U.S. policy in the Middle East, Lisa Beyer) The attacks seem to have some relation to the latter intention.
		The Vietnamese war, one of the many misguided wars that the United States fought to "protect its interests," taught that lesson.
	www.alternativeinsight.com /Perpetual_War.html (2416 words)

	PERPETUAL WAR... NO VICTORY
		Another is the work of a genius whose name I don’t remember: “War is the health of the state.” In other words, war is the business of the state, the government.
		Notice that after all the noise the Democruds made about the war during the recent campaign, now, safely installed in their new offices, enjoying those new perks, they continue to support the Boosh war policy.
		Again, the point of being in the war is to be in the war.
	www.etherzone.com /2007/stang011907.shtml (1462 words)

	Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq Danny Postel - openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Only perpetual war can overturn the modern project, with its emphasis on self-preservation and “creature comforts.” Life can be politicised once more, and man’s humanity can be restored.
		On this perverse view of the world, if America fails to achieve her “national destiny”, and is mired in perpetual war, then all is well.
		Leo Strauss was born in 1899 in the region of Hessen, Germany, the son of a Jewish small businessman.
	www.opendemocracy.net /debates/article-3-77-1542.jsp (4451 words)

	Another Blank Check for Perpetual War
		What was truly frustrating about the House vote on the emergency funding was the general failure of the Democrats — who have again delayed announcement of their agenda for this year's election campaign — to mount a coherent opposition to a war that an overwhelming majority of Americans characterize as a mistake.
		The Republican votes came from two camps: war foes such as Texan Ron Paul, Tennessee's John Duncan and North Carolina's Walter Jones Jr., and budget "hawks" such as Arizona's Jeff Flake and Wisconsin's James Sensenbrenner, who opposed what they saw as pork-barrel spending in the disaster-relief expenditure.
		What I don't agree with, though, is people saying "cut off all funding to this war." I think that's an extremely destructive and irresponsible advocacy as long as we still have troops on the ground in Iraq.
	www.thenation.com /blogs/thebeat?pid=91654 (1489 words)

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