1181 True News 4: War Lies
Which US war do these lies apply to? All of them.
Oct. 21, 2008 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| True News, Episode 4, from Freedomain Radio. | |
| War Lies. | |
| Rudyard Kipling. | |
| If any ask why we died, tell them because our fathers lied. | |
| Anthem for Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen. | |
| What passing bells for these who die as cattle? | |
| Only the monstrous anger of the guns. | |
| Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle can patter out their hasty horizons. | |
| No mockeries now for them. | |
| No prayers nor bells. | |
| Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, the shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells, and bugles calling for them from sad shires. | |
| What candles may be held to speed them all? | |
| Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. | |
| The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall, Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds. | |
| War Lies We hate war and strove for peace. | |
| The President has kept us out of war and must remain in office to continue keeping us out of war. | |
| The U.S. government has been patient and explored all diplomatic possibilities, but the enemy leader has dragged his feet and made accommodation impossible. | |
| Our virtue provokes evil. | |
| They hate us for our freedoms and our goodness. | |
| We have to kill them because they are evil. | |
| They want to kill us because we are moral. | |
| Our religion versus their superstition. | |
| Our religion creates virtue. | |
| Their religion breeds evil. | |
| When my god tells me to go and kill them, that is an expression of faith, piety, and moral resolve. | |
| When their god tells them to come and kill us, that is fundamentalist terrorism. | |
| No history. | |
| We have not been militarily involved in the region before. | |
| We have never killed any of them, or violently interfered in their society. | |
| Their hatred comes out of nowhere, because they are evil. | |
| We never viewed them as good or useful before. | |
| The Risks of Diplomacy If we continue to strive for peace, our civilization will end. | |
| The smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud. | |
| Military Fantasies Due to our superior virtue, resolve, and military might, the war will be quick and cheap. | |
| We will be welcomed as liberators. | |
| The price of war is far less than the risks of peace. | |
| We are victims. | |
| America has been surprised by an unprovoked attack. | |
| Pacifists. Those who oppose the war are cowards, oppose the troops, hate the nation, sympathize with the enemy, are evil, corrupt, unpatriotic, etc. | |
| Inaction equals doom. | |
| A madman intends to enslave the entire world. | |
| Time to teach a lesson. | |
| The President did everything possible to avoid war, and we are fighting now because an evil dictator doubted our strength, our resolve, and our devotion to freedom. | |
| Evil is coming for you. | |
| If we don't fight now in a foreign land, someday we'll have to fight in American cities. | |
| We aim for virtue. | |
| We are going to liberate foreign people from their tyrannical rulers. | |
| This war will end war. | |
| Out of the war will emerge a new world order where further war will be impossible. | |
| Wilson's 14 points. | |
| The Treaty of Versailles. | |
| The League of Nations. | |
| United Nations. Spreading democracy. | |
| We will bring democracy to countries that don't now have it. | |
| Unimaginable evil. | |
| The enemy isn't just a country whose interests conflict with ours. | |
| It is a nation run by inhuman butchers. | |
| The enemy commits unspeakable atrocities. | |
| During the war, questioning the war is condemning the troops. | |
| The time for debate is past. | |
| We must all pull together now. | |
| You do not change horses in midstream. | |
| Too much information will harm morale. | |
| Only cynics focus on war profits. | |
| Focusing on your loss of liberties is selfish. | |
| Think of what the troops are sacrificing. | |
| After the war, due to the evil of the enemy, the cost and sacrifice was far greater than first anticipated. | |
| It is now counterproductive to review past, quote, mistakes. | |
| We all need to get on with our lives. | |
| Questioning the war is spitting in the face of the wounded. | |
| Our goals were not achieved, but things change. | |
| Hindsight is easy. | |
| The fog of war is thick. | |
| We did not achieve peace, but new institutions will. | |
| War is the health of the state. |
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