Now say I'm a progressive and the things that motivate me
would be a sense of justice fairness and equality among
people, why should I be anti-war?
So, if you're a progressive along the lines that you that
you laid out, you also should be anti-war.
Well, why? Well on the one hand is we've
been discussing throughout our time together, War, tends to
line the pockets of the politically well-connected.
And those are typically not the marginalized people who are the
typical people that people hold up.
Oh you know, the social justice advocates for the The
marginalized they typically are pushed by the wayside during
war. If not outright harmed, they're
the ones that will tend to get pulled into the messy parts of
War. Sending them abroad for those
who are abroad, who are being intervened upon typically the
most vulnerable and marginalized incurred.
The largest costs of intervention because they are
the least able to protect themselves and circumvent the
nefarious effects of foreign intervention.
And so what else happens As you get increases in corporate
welfare, in corporate privilege, domestically, because of the
military industrial Congressional complex, that
strengthens the very things that progressives tends to dislike
about political capitalism. And so, if you ask progressives,
will what concerns you about capitalism?
There's several things. They might raise.
But one of them is political what we you?
And I would call political capitalism or crony capitalism
Warfare. Is pique, pique, political
capitalism is Piqued State capitalism.
There's no better way to undermine the dynamism of
markets then through through Warfare.
And so, to the extent that people are concerned with those
things, they should be concerned with that.
And of course, as we've been discussing war undermines and
erodes our most fundamental values including values of
justice. And so to the extent you are
concerned with issues of justice and equality and human dignity.
Its fundamental core. Warfare is a Surefire way to
undermine those things. And so it should be avoided at
not necessarily all costs because there will be violence
in the world. But at a significant cost and
certainly at a cost that people tend to neglect because we
always set up as well. It's Costless, this is your
Santa Claus Point, there's no cost.
Well then, let's go to war. War seem great when there's no
cost, but the costs are significant.
And once you start thinking about them, you realize that the
bar, Has to be extremely high, 22 to engage in intervention in
the first place. The book is in search of
monsters to destroy the Folly of American Empire and the paths to
peace.