Killing in US Wars

OMNI NEWSLETTER ON KILLING January 9, 2011
For a Culture of Peace, Compiled by Dick Bennett

Cross-references: U.S. wars (google each one and killing), air war, genocide, myths used to justify killing, media and wars; pacifism, nonviolence

“I hate war, as only a soldier who has lived it can, as only one who has seen its brutality, the futility, the stupidity.” 1946. General Eisenhower, 1946. Google I Hate War for related stories, songs, and more.


Contents
I. Trained to Kill
II. Opposed to Killing
III. Misc. Books on Killing in War
IV. War Against Animals


BOOKS BY DAVE GROSSMAN

1. Books and Chapters by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman
A list of major works including Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill, On Killing, and more.
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7. Summary of Grossman and DeGaetano's Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill
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8. Thoughts After Reading Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman's Book “On ...
May 12, 2009 ... This quote comes from Lt Col Dave Grossman's book, On Killing, which I picked up after reading the though provoking review at the TKRI blog. ...
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Grossman, Dave, Lt. Col. (ret.) and Gloria De Gaetano. Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence.



MARINE TRAINING CONTEMPT FOR LIFE AND TO KILL
“To Kill or Not to Kill” by Tyler Boudreau, The Progressive (Feb. 2009), 30-32. “To master one’s reluctance to take life, one must stop revering life so much, particularly that of an enemy. This unseemly dimension of war…was almost universally taken for granted within the Marine Corps.” Boudreau is the author of Packing inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine.


STOP THE KILLING (see nonviolence, pacifism, anti-war, United Nations)

EQUAL PROTECTION: STOP ALL KILLING, NEW BOOK

Love God, love your neighbor—probably all religions include this injunction. But affirming love cannot be complete, socially and politically speaking, without its prohibiting complement: do not kill, ahimsa.

But abhorrence of killing has never become effective in stopping wars, mass slaughters, genocides partly because those who abhor killing do not apply the principle to all aspects of life. They choose one or another killing to oppose, and allow others. They are essentially hypocritical. Many crY out against abortion while accepting capital punishment, wars, and starvation. Many denounce wars while expressing indifference to the unborn or mentally disabled. Perhaps all thought from a hierarchical ethic that necessitated such selectivity. What was needed was an inclusive ethic of reverence for life.

A book has been written to advance the idea: Consistently Opposing Killing by Rachel MacNair and Stephen Zunes (Praeger/Greenwood, 2008). This work explains a view dubbed the Consistent Life Ethic, which holds that because all life deserves reverence—born and unborn, disabled, the poverty-stricken, war combatants, animals-- all social support for actions that destroy life should be withdrawn. Supporters of this view include figures from the Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malread Corrigon Maguire to actor Martin Sheen and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff. The call is for opposition to all forms of war, genocide, abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia and other forms of killing to be consistent. It is at once an ethical, religious and political ideology that for the first time, by showing how types of seemingly disparate killing are all linked, makes “pro-life” coherent.

Let us begin a discussion of this book and the ideas of the Consistent Life Ethic, especially by examining it critically to ensure the validity of its arguments. Then let us examine whether perhaps commitment to not killing—a-himsa--will result in an enlarged commitment to love.


MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS ON KILLING IN WARS: Richard Norman, David Gordon, Jeff McMahan, Joanna Bourke, William Blum
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1. Killing in War - David Gordon - Mises Daily
Jun 18, 2009 ... The contention of this book is that common sense beliefs about the morality of killing in war are deeply mistaken. The prevailing view is ...
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2. Potomac Books - Beyond the Killing Fields: War Writings
What you have in this book is a tremendous, bone-chilling piece of eyewitness war correspondence. What makes it truly extraordinary, however—what makes it a ...
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3. Killing in War, by Jeff McMahan. — Mind
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Jul 1, 2010 ... Jeff McMahan's outstanding and readable book Killing in War is a case in point. His moral account of war is revisionist; his underlying ...
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4. Oxford University Press: Killing in War: Jeff McMahan
Killing in War represents a tremendous achievement from one of today's leading moral philosophers. Never before has a book so swiftly challenged my own ...
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5. Ethics, killing, and war - Google Books Result
Richard J. Norman - 1995 - Philosophy - 256 pages
A combination of lucid exposition and original argument makes this the ideal introduction both to the particular debate about the ethics of killing and war, and ...
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1. An intimate history of killing: face-to-face killing in ... - Google Books Result
Joanna Bourke - 2000 - History - 544 pages
A examination of war in the twentieth century looks at the men who fought and how they changed from ordinary citizens into efficient and enthusiastic killers, ...
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1. When Did the Killing of Civilians in War Become Illegal?
Mar 24, 2003 ... In Chapter IV of Book III of On the Law of War and Peace, under the heading "On the Right of Killing Enemies in a Public War and on Other ...
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2. Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Read the full details in: Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. by William Blum. "Far and away the best book on the topic." ...killinghope.org/ - [This book and Blum’s Rogue State discuss the over 40 interventions and invasions that have killed directly or indirectly millions of people.]

US WARS AGAINST ANIMALS
STOP KILLING ANIMALS: STOP KILLING ANIMALS

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