War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
The majority of PTSD-disabled veterans interviewed in Susan Faludi's book cited 'war movies' as the single dominant factor leading them to enlist.If you want to sell a big lie, let people be the hero in a safe, simple, good-and-evil moral landscape; a comic-book reality.
Even good, smart people can't resist this.
Even when you're the villian. Do you at least act like a strong leader?
If you oppose the war in front of the family and friends of the fallen, you are not defending them....
..you are desecrating
all
these
myths.
No weapons of mass destruction. No democracy. No connection between Al Queda and Saddam. No exit strategy. No apology. Why did we do it?
To be the hero.
And, maybe....As the documents show, prior to the U.S. invasion, foreign oil companies were nicely positioned for future involvement in Iraq, while the major U.S. oil companies, after years of U.S.-Iraqi hostilities, were largely out of the picture. Indeed, the U.S. majors would have been the big losers if U.N. sanctions against Iraq had simply been lifted. "The U.S. majors stand to lose if Saddam makes a deal with the U.N. (on lifting sanctions)," noted a report by Germany's Deutsche Bank in October 2002.
The Big Lie
Lock and load, brothers in arms.
