{"id":90009,"date":"2012-10-07T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=90009"},"modified":"2012-10-07T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T20:22:07","slug":"perpetual-war-for-perpetual-peace-how-we-got-to-be-so-hated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/perpetual-war-for-perpetual-peace-how-we-got-to-be-so-hated\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How we got to be so hated"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Gore Vidal<\/h3>\n

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From the back cover:<\/p>\n

\nThe United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called \u201cperpetual war for perpetual peace.\u201d The Federation of American Scientists has catalogued nearly two hundred military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11,2001 (deemed too controversial to be published in America until now), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following both September 11th and Timothy McVeigh\u2019s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City: these were simply the act of \u201cevil-doers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Does the phrase: \u201cWar is Peace\u201d ring any bells?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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