"Creative Pretexts for War " Topic
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Tango01 | 12 Jul 2016 12:37 p.m. PST |
"In the good old days when we had spears and lived in tribal societies war was, for much of humanity, a seasonal activity like boar hunting and berry picking. You did not have to explain why you wanted to steal the cattle of the clan on the other side of the hill: you just got on with it. As humanity gave up its tribal ways though war became embarrassing. In Homer the head-hunters (Achilles etc) are already having to deal with peaceniks in Troy and in the Greek camp. And wars could no longer just be declared because the French or the Polish lived over the hill, there had to be a reason to go to a war. And if you didn't have a reason: then you invented one. The pretext was born. Pretexts for war range from the frankly unimaginative to the simply brilliant. In the first category we have various Chinese dynasties explaining to their neighbours that they ruled the world, the pretext being that the neighbours disagreed. In the creative category comes, instead, the terrifying Operation Northwoods where the CIA would kill lots of, er, Americans and blame Cuba: Kennedy was able to shut this scheme down. Then, while Beach has always found the evidence for American involvement in Pearl Harbor unconvincing, if you disagree… Ditto operation Gladio, ditto 9/11. Past masters at the art of the pretext have included Japan clowning around in Manchuria and blowing up railway lines there: see the photograph above, part of the Japanese media push to blame Chinese ‘terrorists'…" More here link Amicalement Armand |
hurrahbro | 12 Jul 2016 1:01 p.m. PST |
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Stryderg | 12 Jul 2016 3:12 p.m. PST |
Well, I think one colony went to war with a country across the Atlantic…something to do with tea being dumped into a harbor. {ducks and runs} |
Dschebe | 12 Jul 2016 10:11 p.m. PST |
'You have mass destruction arms that we previously sold to you', 'we need to recover the territories that where subdued to our religion in Middle Ages', 'The Only God promised this land to Our People'… 'Fortunately', wargamming is granted forever. |
zippyfusenet | 14 Jul 2016 8:59 a.m. PST |
You're not allowing us to smuggle enough of our addictive drugs into your country. We need more slaves. We used up the last batch. That village obstructs my view of the river valley. |
Tango01 | 14 Jul 2016 12:57 p.m. PST |
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Old Contemptibles | 24 Aug 2016 8:51 a.m. PST |
The Gulf of Tonkin incident. |
Old Contemptibles | 24 Aug 2016 8:53 a.m. PST |
Invasion of Poland in 1939. |
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