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On Bumper-Stickers
As part of a Memorial Day effor to understand the current war … I was out surfing war blogs yesterday and I ended up at this amazon entry for The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced By War. The interesting thing was that after reading a long review (the first one, by William Brennan) I hit this paragraph: Bacevich clearly links our present predicaments both at home and abroad to the ever greater need for natural resources, especially oil from the Persian Gulf. He demolishes all of the reasons for our bellicosity based on ideals and links it directly to our insatiable appetite for oil and economic expansion. Naturally, like thousands of writers before him, he points out the need for a national energy policy based on more effective use of resources and alternative means of production. I guess that’s one of those things I don’t really want to believe. I want to think that the “no blood for oil” folks are around the bend, and that this war is not simple resource greed … but then you come up with a historian of American militarism who agrees you have to look at it again. Interesting the no "No blood for oil" stickers showed up in the survey at all.
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