WAR ON TERROR IS ORWELL'S NEVER ENDING WAR
What started as a war of liberation in Iraq has now become the front for an Orwellian never ending war on terror which is slowly draining the heart, resources and spirit of America: Allen L Roland
The Cheney/Bush War on Terror is a never ending war and no one understood the long war better than George Orwell.
With a 1.5 billion dollar embassy being built in Iraq along with four super bases ~ the Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld cabal have a vested interest in not only staying in Iraq but keeping the war on terror active and alive in everyone's minds.
The object of this war, as Orwell describes, is to keep a society or ' Our Way of Life ' intact ~ The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.
Here's a primer on Orwell's thinking ~ courtesy of the Progressive Review.
Allen L Roland
GEORGE ORWELL ON THE LONG WAR
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/17/
GEORGE ORWELL, 1984 - In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory or defeat. In the past, also, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality. . . Physical facts could not be ignored. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an airplane they had to make four.
Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions. Moreover, to be efficient it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what had happened in the past.
Newspapers and history books were, of course, always colored and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practiced today would have been impossible. War was a sure safeguard of sanity, and so far as the ruling classes were concerned it was probably the most important of all safeguards. While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible.
But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded. As we have seen, researches that could be called scientific are still carried out for the purposes of war, but they are essentially a kind of daydreaming, and their failure to show results is not important. Efficiency, even military efficiency, is no longer needed. Nothing is efficient in Oceania except the Thought Police. . .
War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist.
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