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Now say I'm a progressive and 
the things that motivate me 

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would be a sense of justice 
fairness and equality among 

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people, why should I be 
anti-war? 

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So, if you're a progressive 
along the lines that you that 

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you laid out, you also should be
anti-war. 

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Well, why? 
Well on the one hand is we've 

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been discussing throughout our 
time together, War, tends to 

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line the pockets of the 
politically well-connected. 

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And those are typically not the 
marginalized people who are the 

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typical people that people hold 
up. 

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Oh you know, the social justice 
advocates for the The 

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marginalized they typically are 
pushed by the wayside during 

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war. 
If not outright harmed, they're 

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the ones that will tend to get 
pulled into the messy parts of 

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War. 
Sending them abroad for those 

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who are abroad, who are being 
intervened upon typically the 

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most vulnerable and marginalized
incurred. 

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The largest costs of 
intervention because they are 

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the least able to protect 
themselves and circumvent the 

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nefarious effects of foreign 
intervention. 

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And so what else happens As you 
get increases in corporate 

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welfare, in corporate privilege,
domestically, because of the 

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military industrial 
Congressional complex, that 

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strengthens the very things that
progressives tends to dislike 

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about political capitalism. 
And so, if you ask progressives,

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will what concerns you about 
capitalism? 

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There's several things. 
They might raise. 

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But one of them is political 
what we you? 

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And I would call political 
capitalism or crony capitalism 

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Warfare. 
Is pique, pique, political 

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capitalism is Piqued State 
capitalism. 

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There's no better way to 
undermine the dynamism of 

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markets then through through 
Warfare. 

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And so, to the extent that 
people are concerned with those 

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things, they should be concerned
with that. 

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And of course, as we've been 
discussing war undermines and 

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erodes our most fundamental 
values including values of 

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justice. 
And so to the extent you are 

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concerned with issues of justice
and equality and human dignity. 

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Its fundamental core. 
Warfare is a Surefire way to 

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undermine those things. 
And so it should be avoided at 

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not necessarily all costs 
because there will be violence 

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in the world. 
But at a significant cost and 

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certainly at a cost that people 
tend to neglect because we 

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always set up as well. 
It's Costless, this is your 

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Santa Claus Point, there's no 
cost. 

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Well then, let's go to war. 
War seem great when there's no 

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cost, but the costs are 
significant. 

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And once you start thinking 
about them, you realize that the

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bar, Has to be extremely high, 
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the first place. 
The book is in search of 

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monsters to destroy the Folly of
American Empire and the paths to

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peace.