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Lee Nellis's avatar

Like you, I think, I am overwhelmed by the fact that it never changes, or at (although there were some years I thought it was) has not changed in my 73 years. We have been warned over and over again by the likes of Hannah Arendt, Richard Rorty, et al, but those of us who get their message and seek peaceful lives seem to have no story powerful enough to overcome the story of power.

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Perry J. Greenbaum 🇨🇦 🦜's avatar

I can tell you as a liberal free-thinking Canadian living in rural NH during the Bush -Cheney "War on Terror," I thought I was losing my mind, living in a parallel universe, so alone I was in my thinking. Eventually, I decided to never broach the subject.

Now, 20 years later, I understand this is just the way America ensures it has economic dominance. The reasons for war, in accordance to this economic dictum, are less important than ensuring any threat to economic dominance are dealt with, sometimes via sanctions, often by military force.

It does not matter if it makes sense. It does not matter if trillions are spent. It sounds nuts to us here in Canada, but the use of reason is not part of American foreign policy.

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