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May 31, 2006

Laura Ingraham - Andy Rooney on the Purpose of War

by Ferdinand T Cat

Today during the second hour of the Laura Ingraham show, Laura talked about Andy Rooney's Memorial Day tribute on 60 Minutes. This was actually a repeat of a 2005 speech that was a retread of an article he wrote in 2004.

Rooney makes one particularly egregious statement.

The goal of war is to cause death to other people.

This is like saying the goal of baking a cake is to mix flour, milk, and eggs. A goal is an end, not a means. There is only one goal of war, and that is to establish ownership of land. It is unfortunate that violent force is how land ownership is determined in this world, but to pretend that there's something mysterious or inexplicable about it is as realistic as expecting people to stop stealing if you got rid of the police.

If requiring people to learn how to play bagpipes prevented them from flying planes into buildings or blowing up shopping malls, then Rooney would be justified in calling war an idiotic way to solve problems, because playing bagpipes is a lot less expensive than shooting people. But in actual fact, the only backup plan anybody has proposed is to move all the Jews to Europe.

Personally, I think that the citizens of the state of Israel are not going to go along with that unless you have a lot of soldiers with machine guns enforcing the point.

The thing is, there is a word that describes the use of an army to enforce the ownership of land: it's called war.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat


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This is like saying the goal of baking a cake is to mix flour, milk, and eggs. A goal is an end, not a means. There is only one goal of war, and that is to establish ownership of land. It is unfortunate that violent force is how and "..ownership is determined in this world, but to pretend that there's something mysterious or inexplicable about it is as realistic as expecting people to stop stealing if you got rid of the police."
well put!!!.:)


Posted by: Angel Author Profile Page at June 1, 2006 12:30 AM

I guess I never look at it that way. It is an interesting point of view.


Posted by: Tanning Lotion at August 20, 2007 7:10 PM

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