Comments on: It’s About the War http://www.personism.com/2007/09/02/its-about-the-war/ You just go on your nerve. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:19:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: michael http://www.personism.com/2007/09/02/its-about-the-war/#comment-21773 michael Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:04:32 +0000 http://www.personism.com/2007/09/02/its-about-the-war/#comment-21773 For me, purple hearts is a connection to the reality of what is happening right now. A war I see only on TV seems like just another movie, and like you said, I feel like I still live in that world untouched by violence. Seeing people coming home and living their lives in the aftermath makes this more real to me. For me, purple hearts is a connection to the reality of what is happening right now. A war I see only on TV seems like just another movie, and like you said, I feel like I still live in that world untouched by violence. Seeing people coming home and living their lives in the aftermath makes this more real to me.

]]> By: Richard Friedman http://www.personism.com/2007/09/02/its-about-the-war/#comment-21554 Richard Friedman Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:40:30 +0000 http://www.personism.com/2007/09/02/its-about-the-war/#comment-21554 To understand where we are now, and how we got there, I highly recommend THE ROAD TO 9/11: WEALTH, EMPIRE, AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA, by Peter Dale Scott. http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780520237735 This is a courageous book that asks what happened to the great American ideals that this country was founded on, and shows how they have been undermined by closed, secret "cabals" that act as a government within the government, defying the fundamentals of democracy. The book is heavily researched and documented, with a hundred or so pages of notes. The seeds for 9/11 and its aftermath in Iraq were sown back in the 50's. And where we may be headed next is even more frightening. Peter Dale Scott is an important writer digging up the hidden stories we never hear about. It's a good and devastating dose of reality. To understand where we are now, and how we got there, I highly recommend THE ROAD TO 9/11: WEALTH, EMPIRE, AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA, by Peter Dale Scott. http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780520237735

This is a courageous book that asks what happened to the great American ideals that this country was founded on, and shows how they have been undermined by closed, secret “cabals” that act as a government within the government, defying the fundamentals of democracy. The book is heavily researched and documented, with a hundred or so pages of notes.

The seeds for 9/11 and its aftermath in Iraq were sown back in the 50’s. And where we may be headed next is even more frightening. Peter Dale Scott is an important writer digging up the hidden stories we never hear about. It’s a good and devastating dose of reality.

]]> By: Joe http://www.personism.com/2007/09/02/its-about-the-war/#comment-21526 Joe Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:00:44 +0000 http://www.personism.com/2007/09/02/its-about-the-war/#comment-21526 One morning in the summer of 2001, I picked up the Times from the front steps and looked over the front page and remarked to my wife that we were living in wonderful times -- no major wars, no major catastrophes -- the daily headlines were notable for being about relatively trivial things. It was a new era, a rosy future. And then, maybe two or three weeks later, the planes hit the twin towers. One morning in the summer of 2001, I picked up the Times from the front steps and looked over the front page and remarked to my wife that we were living in wonderful times — no major wars, no major catastrophes — the daily headlines were notable for being about relatively trivial things. It was a new era, a rosy future. And then, maybe two or three weeks later, the planes hit the twin towers.

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