#war mentality

Tomgram: William Astore, “Hi, I’m Uncle Sam and I’m a War-oholic”

War, in short, is the great simplifier — and it may even work when you’re fighting existential military threats (as in World War II).  But it doesn’t work when you define every problem as an existential one and then make war on complex societal problems (crime, poverty, drugs) or ideas and religious beliefs (radical Islam).

Posted by William Astore  TomDispatch.com  June 28, 2015 Introduction…