Wednesday, October 16, 2013

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 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/15/1247657/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-New-export-rules-treats-weapons-like-widgets-Defense-industry-smiles?
Rhetorical disarmament (2+ / 0-)
Your point is clearly anti-weapons industry.
That's not my objection.
Attacking this legislative maneuver of theirs that treats weaponry the same as widgets, is not anything I would at all criticize.
That's not my objection.
My objection is that people who want to end the unthinking acceptance of this bloated industry and this otherwise huge military establishment in peacetime as normal and necessary, should probably not accept that industry's and that establishment's euphemistic and exculpatory abuse of language that fosters that acceptance.
They changed the name from the frank and honest "War Department" to "Defense Department" at exactly the time in our history when the effective purpose of that institution switched from defense to permanent offense and domination of the rest of the world.
They made that name change for a reason.  Where before our practice had been to disarm down to a corporal's guard between wars, we chose instead after WWII to maintain a force structure of a size that only makes sense as a means to achieve world domination.  But that is both a dishonorable and a foolish enterprise, so the pretense had to be maintained that this outsized military establishment, far in excess of anything we could conceivably need for our actual defense, was in fact necessary for "defense".  "Defense" of course had to grow into something unrecognizable to meet the needs of this establishment to defend itself from being thrown on the ash heap of history where it belongs.
We need to refuse to go along with the name change for exactly the same reason.  Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities*.  Please don't acquiesce in the absurdity of calling this atrocity a "defense" industry.
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