[PAA-Discuss] Military Keynesianism and why we have unnecessary criminal wars

[Bart Boyce]

Thank you Charlie ......
 
I noticed this exchange the first night South of the Border was
shown in Houston.  It nails Bush's draconian , evil and incorrect
biased mis-assumption.
 
My question is .... how do we end the continuing wars ?
The MSM is complicit in perpetuating the fear of terrorism and
selling of the false idea of the need for neverending war .
 
During Viet Nam , we had pictures of our boys being sent home in
caskets. We could organize large , meaningful protests for peace.
Now , this seems impossible .  Maybe if KPFT , Houston Peace Radio ,
would give us facts before and/or during every show .
Talk Peace, promote Peace, encourage Peace , organize for Peace .....
maybe we could begin to have a voice again.
We should carry the meme , Houston : City of Peace ....in every breath we take.
 
What do you think ?
b
 
 
 


--- On Wed, 9/22/10, ChasMauch at aol.com <ChasMauch at aol.com> wrote:


From: ChasMauch at aol.com <ChasMauch at aol.com>
Subject: [codepinkhouston] Miliraty Keynesianism and why we have unnecessary criminal wars
To: board at hpjc.net
Cc: Discuss at paa-tx.org, codepinkhouston at lists.riseup.net, notinourname at yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 7:19 PM




The U.S. has been practicing military Keynesianism since Wiorld War I and we will never clean up our multiple problems until we deal with this basic one. The false rationale is that maintaining a big military is a good way to provide jobs and keep the economy going without the classic problem of capitalism - finding markets for its surplus production, since the military does not produce anything useful that must be sold. George Bush even admitted this to the president of Argentina.  
Oliver Stone’s new documentary South of the Border, which interviews several left-wing leaders of Latin American countries, has unearthed a startling new allegation from Argentina’s former president Néstor Kirchner. During his interview with Stone, Kirchner said he once discussed global economic problems with former President George W. Bush. The former Argentine president says that when he suggested a new Marshall Plan, referring to the WW II-era European reconstruction plan, Bush “got angry” and suggested that “the Marshall Plan is a crazy idea of the Democrats.” Instead, Kirchner says, Bush suggested that “the best way to revitalize the economy is war”: 

KIRCHNER: I said that a solution for the problems right now, I told Bush, is a Marshall Plan. And he got angry. He said the Marshall Plan is a crazy idea of the Democrats. He said the best way to revitalize the economy is war. And that the United States has grown stronger with war.
STONE: War, he said that?
KIRCHNER: He said that. Those were his exact words. 
STONE: Is he suggesting that South America go to war?
KIRCHNER: Well, he was talking about the United States: ‘The Democrats had been wrong. All of the economic growth of the United States has been encouraged by wars.’ He said it very clearly. 
See the clip from the movie at this link: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/28/argentine-prime-bush-war/
For a discussion of the military Kenensianism we have today and its obvious explanation of our bloated military budgets, the military-industrial complex, various unnecessary criminal wars, and many of our other "unexplainable" problems go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Keynesianism. I think this is the basic mindset we need to be working to expose and overcome.
Charlie
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