MUST SEE VIDEO: Interview w/ Tom Woods
("We Who Dared to Say No to War - American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now" )
 http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=18615 "Jeffrey Tucker interviews Tom Woods on the topic of Tom''s anthology (edited with Murray Polner), 'We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now.' Recorded in Auburn, Alabama, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, 21 July 2010. Early excerpts from interview: "... In the 1990's i was all for invading Iraq because that's what my overlords said we needed to do. ...When you stop and think ...what's actually going on here... when a politician simply utters the the word 'war', declares a war ... you utter that word and suddenly activities, that in normal conditions would be considered crimes, become a matter of public policy. How does that happen?! By what kind of magic ... how can this occur, how can this be right? "(in the early 90s) i had to rethink my whole way of thinking; I felt like i'd been had. ... Somehow you just utter the word 'war' and people's rational faculties fall out. ... A politician says 'war' and now arbitrarily the rights of a whole country's worth of people just disappear; they have no rights anymore; if they get killed it's an 'unfortunate mistake.' The policy makers will still have their cocktail parties." [Although we've killed millions of Iraqis] "there's NO response from the American public. ... If there'd been an earthquake in a neighboring country people would have concerts and whatever. But there's nothing; like these people are garbage because our government tells us that. Q: What about America's civic religion that it's because of the war that we're free? "Yea, this is just, this cannot be dislodged from people's heads, and it is utterly irrational. ..." "... The propaganda has been the same for all these wars. How many times can your intelligence be insulted?"  "We Who Dared to Say No to War uncovers some of the forgotten but compelling body of work from the American antiwar tradition—speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, political cartoons, and more—from people throughout our history who have opposed war. Beginning with the War of 1812, these selections cover every major American war up to the present and come from both the left and the right, from religious and secular viewpoints. There are many surprises, including a forgotten letter from a Christian theologian urging Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt Christians from the draft and a speech by Abraham Lincoln opposing the 1848 Mexican War. Among others, Daniel Webster, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Eugene Debs, Robert Taft, Paul Craig Roberts, Patrick Buchanan, and Country Joe and the Fish make an appearance. This first-ever anthology of American antiwar writing offers the full range of the subject’s richness and variety."“Nothing short of inspirational. It left me in tears.” -Angela Keaton, Development Director, Antiwar.com |
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