"War is madness...a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction."

[sharon sanders]

Pope says world's many conflicts amount to piecemeal World War Three
Sat Sep 13, 2014 10:17am GMT


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"War is madness," he said in his homily before the massive, sloping granite memorial, made of 22 steps on the side of hill with three crosses at the top.

"Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction," he said.

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http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5N0RE04M20140913

 

[Emily]

Re: "War is madness...a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction."

http://fortune.com/2014/09/13/defense-industry-winner-against-isis/

The war on ISIS already has a winner: The defense industry

by Tory Newmyer
@FortuneMagazine

September 13, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
Makers of munitions and unmanned aircraft top the list of private-sector beneficiaries.

It’s far too soon to tell how the American escalation in the sprawling, complex mess unfolding in Iraq and Syria will play out. But this much is clear: As our military machine hums into a higher gear, it will produce some winners in the defense industry.

New fights mean new stuff, after all. And following the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan—and the belt-tightening at the Pentagon imposed by steep budget cuts—military suppliers are lining up to meet a suddenly restored need for their wares...
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“The drone builders are going to have a field day,” says Dov Zakheim, who served as Pentagon Comptroller during the George W. Bush administration....

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“The most obvious cases are what I would call the boots, beans, and bullets trade,” says Ronald Epstein, a Bank of America analyst, pointing to “the guys with shorter backlogs.” ..

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It is the munitions makers, however, who stand to reap the biggest windfall, especially in the short term...

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“Let’s paint a picture of the world right now,” Epstein says. “You’ve got the Europeans worried about what the Russians are doing in their backyard; we’ve got our hands full right now in Iraq; you’ve got the Israelis with their hands full in their region; and then you have the Chinese and Japanese in the South China Sea. As an investor, with this much regional conflict in the world, at least from a sentiment point of view, that can’t be bad.”

http://fas.org/man/smedley.htm

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: "War is madness...a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction."

While the US government upps the response to ebola and MRSA, let's not forget the Preventable Public Health Tragedy - War.

US involvement in the Vietnam War started with a limited US advisory mission. And look how that turned out.