Is there a single editorial anywhere in the mainstream news media that questions the moral authority ( earned where, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ? ) of this country to have monopoly rights on nuclear weapons ?
Perhaps halting the spread of nuclear weapons should begin at home ?
" Crackpot realism " was the phrase American sociologist C. Wright Mills used to describe the military mentality. The top generals-in or out of the White House - whisper in Trump's ear : " Nuclear war is NOT unthinkable and NOT unwinnable ".
Of course, THEY are not less stupid than the German and French generals who directed the " Horror of Verdun " during the Great War of 1914. And the American generals today are no more making the world safe for democracy than those forgotten generals back then.
A mass peace movement visible in the streets of the United States can stop this " crackpot realism " war before it begins.
[ Jul 27, 2006 - With Bush and Rice and the policy-makers and intellectual courtiers surrounding them, crackpot realism is the prevailing mode. “Crackpot realism” was the concept defined by the great Texan sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1958 (the year Dwight Eisenhower sent the Marines into Lebanon to bolster local US ...]
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