A book for Senator Kirk
Illinois Senator Mark Kirk was not on my Christmas list but if he was I would have given him the new book "CATASTROPHE 1914: EUROPE GOES TO WAR" by English historian and journalist Max Hastings.
In nearly 600 pages, Senator Kirk, if he truly opened his eyes and his soul, would find himself on every page. "CATASTROPHE" chronicles the European leaders and military men w...hose arrogance, narrow-mindedness, sheer stupidity, and above all, love of war, propelled Europe and the rest of mankind into the first cataclysmic war of the 20th century. Four years and sixteen million dead later, Europe lay in ruins, the last three great European dynasties were swept away, and the seeds were sown for the next world war that dwarfed the first.
Reading this saga reminds me that Kirk was one of the virulent American and British war mongers who, like their WWI counterparts, used a terrorist event to launch senseless criminal war. Having now lost two such wars in the Middle East against Afghanistan and Iraq, Kirk is now the face of a new drive by the war party to take out their latest bête noir Iran. Kirk, who has received millions in campaign cash from the war party and the Israel Lobby, is nothing if not loyal to their demand that Iran be destabilized by increased economic sanctions and, if necessary, war, to remove them as a hegemon in the Middle East. Kirk, horrified by the diplomatic breakthrough of the Obama administration which threatens to thaw the 35 year standoff with Iran and defuse the hyped nuclear crisis, is leading the charge to derail it with his legislation to increase Iranian sanctions.
If Kirk would read this long tome on the folly of war it might accomplish two things: keep him busy reading so he won't have time to foment new war, and hopefully serve as his epiphany so that a hundred years from today our grandchildren won't be reading "CATASTROPHE 2014: AMERICA GOES TO WAR".
In nearly 600 pages, Senator Kirk, if he truly opened his eyes and his soul, would find himself on every page. "CATASTROPHE" chronicles the European leaders and military men w...hose arrogance, narrow-mindedness, sheer stupidity, and above all, love of war, propelled Europe and the rest of mankind into the first cataclysmic war of the 20th century. Four years and sixteen million dead later, Europe lay in ruins, the last three great European dynasties were swept away, and the seeds were sown for the next world war that dwarfed the first.
Reading this saga reminds me that Kirk was one of the virulent American and British war mongers who, like their WWI counterparts, used a terrorist event to launch senseless criminal war. Having now lost two such wars in the Middle East against Afghanistan and Iraq, Kirk is now the face of a new drive by the war party to take out their latest bête noir Iran. Kirk, who has received millions in campaign cash from the war party and the Israel Lobby, is nothing if not loyal to their demand that Iran be destabilized by increased economic sanctions and, if necessary, war, to remove them as a hegemon in the Middle East. Kirk, horrified by the diplomatic breakthrough of the Obama administration which threatens to thaw the 35 year standoff with Iran and defuse the hyped nuclear crisis, is leading the charge to derail it with his legislation to increase Iranian sanctions.
If Kirk would read this long tome on the folly of war it might accomplish two things: keep him busy reading so he won't have time to foment new war, and hopefully serve as his epiphany so that a hundred years from today our grandchildren won't be reading "CATASTROPHE 2014: AMERICA GOES TO WAR".
posted by Walt Zlotow at 2:08 PM
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