Hvorfor vi går så ofte til krig.

Når man ser tilbake på alle krigene vesten enten har kjempet (eller involvert seg i) de siste 60 årene fremstår alle som ekstremt ulogiske, irrasjonelle og unødvendige. Hva har vi noen gang fått til? Korea, Vietnam, Irak 1, Irak 2, Afghanistan osv gikk alle forferdelig galt. Vi kastet vekk millioner av menneskeliv, uante mengder resurser og fikk absolutt ingenting igjen for det.

Hvordan kan det ha seg at vi aldri lærer? Hva er det som gjør at vi gang på gang tror det er en fornuftig idé å involvere seg militært i andre lands affærer? Hvorfor tror vi alltid at "denne gangen blir det annerledes"? - Svaret er ganske trist.

Fra et intervju med Tom Woods på dailybell.


Woods: In his useful book, Washington Rules, Andrew Bacevich, a contributing editor of The American Conservative, explained that the bipartisan foreign-policy consensus delivers

"profit, power, and privilege to a long list of beneficiaries: elected and appointed officials, corporate executives and corporate lobbyists, admirals and generals, functionaries staffing the national security apparatus, media personalities, and policy intellectuals from universities and research organizations. Each year the Pentagon expends hundreds of billions of dollars to raise and support U.S. military forces. This money lubricates American politics, filling campaign coffers and providing a source of largesse — jobs and contracts — for distribution to constituents. It provides lucrative "second careers" for retired U.S. military officers hired by weapons manufacturers or by consulting firms appropriately known as "Beltway Bandits." It funds the activities of think tanks that relentlessly advocate for policies guaranteed to fend off challenges to established conventions. "Military-industrial complex" no longer suffices to describe the congeries of interests profiting from and committed to preserving the national security status quo."

Woods om boken sin "we who dared say no to war".