tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813702045456690661.post7021498519901691437..comments2023-06-28T05:16:54.842-04:00Comments on anthropologies: The Forever War Is Always HungryRyan Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18008425994341539639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813702045456690661.post-73457168046957337602013-12-10T10:53:47.074-05:002013-12-10T10:53:47.074-05:00 The United States has always been a nation to ... The United States has always been a nation to look at during times of crisis, but in recent years, news of secret drone strikes, censoring, hidden surveillance, and black budgets have certainly taken center stage. As other nations see how we are able to violate the sovereignty of a nation with unmanned drones, they too will attempt this, as we have already seen China do. The article states that decades will reap the whirlwind and that is all that was running through my head while reading this. <br /> One of the main points that put things into perspective entirely is that, in regards to this permanent war concept, the war on terror we fight today is “a permanent war between the sovereignty and everyone else.” Looking at ever y sovereign nation around the world, almost everyone will have the mentality that it’s them against the world, and that is why conflict will perpetuate endlessly, as the article dubs it, a hungry war.<br /> In our world today, violence is absolutely everywhere, in our streets of the United States to the Middle-East. This violence will not simply dissipate over a generation, but the point is that everyone wants it gone. The article adds another angle to the equation, by saying that the greater evil is kept at bay by the lesser evil, in an endless state of war, a powerful statement that has more truth to it then we think. These lesser evils can include occupation, taxation, checkpoints, or regular violence. Nobody can approve of drone strikes, but how many would have struck against Adolf Hitler first if they had known he was capable of a tenth of what he’d done?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07998943273518699141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813702045456690661.post-41356834707394724062013-09-21T18:28:02.974-04:002013-09-21T18:28:02.974-04:00Superb analysis. The fact that so many of us are n...Superb analysis. The fact that so many of us are not vigorously debating alternatives to the state shows how deeply we are shaped and cowed by its threat of violenceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com