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Talisman sabre military exercises, war and the environment : Comments
By Sue Wareham, published 10/7/2009Armies damage the environment even when they aren't at war.
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Isn't it nice to have centuries of boys-own conditioning about the glories of war and the nobility of the military to fall back on, rather than actually attempt to change a mindset or two about whether all these hideously expensive and destructive paranoia games are really needed?
I guess we have to have somewhere to try out all those lovely shiny toys our military buyers were seduced into purchasing at the latest arms fair with the multi-billion dollar budgets entrusted to them from the public purse. And I suppose we have to do something to justify their gun-metal shopaholism.
And I suppose that if there weren't any bad guys beyond the horizon wanting to annihilate us with their weapons of mass destruction, we'd just have to invent them.
Oh, wait a minute ... we already have.