tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52700042011-04-21T13:49:19.823-07:00Extolling the virtues of violence in a world that keeps banging on about peace.presentmomenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00408956745819058703noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5270004.post-1117650987080171262005-06-01T11:16:00.000-07:002005-06-01T11:36:27.086-07:00

War is good for artYes, you heard it here first - war is good for art. Actually, you didn't hear it here first, it's the claim of music critic Norman Lebrecht, who points out that Britain had a very fine creative renaissance during the Second World War. This is surely yet more evidence that war is a Good Thing, especially if you are of an artistic bent. As a theory it holds a lot of water. In

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Terry Jones: OK, George, make with the friendly bombs To prevent terrorism by dropping bombs on Iraq is such an obvious idea that I can't think why no one has thought of it before. It's so simple. If only the UK had done something similar in Northern Ireland, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in today.

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Some Books You Probably Shouldn't Read I've noticed a number of writers have this thing about war, like it was bad or something. So here's a growing list to help you avoid thinking about that possibility. War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, by Gore Vidal

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The media is full of articles you shouldn't read. Here's one of them... 'The happiness people feel at Saddam's destruction can easily distract you from what our world will be like should the principle of unilateral military humanitarianism be adopted by India, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, China - and the US. It is a world of perpetual - or annihilating - war, not perpetual peace.' And what's wrong

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Hello and welcome to Only War Can Save Us Now, the web site that extolls the virtues of violence in a world that keeps banging on about peace. How did it start? Well I read about this idea that a guy called Walter Wink had. He called it The Myth of Redemptive Violence. He said that the dominant religion of America and much of the world wasn't Christianity, or Judaism, or Islam, it was the belief

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