A long time ago I registered a domain name called War on Reason. This was during the George W. Bush years, when Congress passed the Patriot Act so quickly they seemed to intentionally be thumbing their noses at the Constitution, and our president and his administration mired the country in an unjust war that cost trillions of dollars and an estimated hundreds of thousands of lives. When I registered the domain name, my sister was a sergeant with the Army Reserves, and her entire battalion was being deployed to Iraq (my sister, being pregnant at the time her battalion was sent, never ended up serving overseas).
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.
Thank you for your thoughts on this topic and for your presence. I'm here by way of Chris La Tray's newsletter and was inspired by him to read your book, A Walking Life, which I am now recommending to friends. I was especially moved by what you wrote about the Montana Vet Program.
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.
Thanks for linking back to this.
Thank you for your thoughts on this topic and for your presence. I'm here by way of Chris La Tray's newsletter and was inspired by him to read your book, A Walking Life, which I am now recommending to friends. I was especially moved by what you wrote about the Montana Vet Program.
Great writing. Very proud of you.