WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #87, AUGUST 17, 2022
NONVIOLENCE, PACIFISM
Francesco Da Vinci. I Refuse to Kill.
In September 2022, World BEYOND War will
hold a weekly discussion each of four weeks of I Refuse to Kill: My
Path to Nonviolent Action in the ’60s with the author Francesco Da
Vinci as part of a small group WBW [zoom] book club limited to a group of 18
participants. Francesco will send each participant a signed hardback. We'll let
you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the
Zoom details to access the discussions.
Chris Hedges: Soldiers Speak Out
Against America's Misguided Wars By Chris
Hedges, The Real News. Popular Resistance.org (8-7-22).
In Their New Book, Veterans Andrew Bacevich And
Danny Sjursen Describe How The Realities Of War Expose The Lies Told By
Generals And Politicians About American Goodness And Virtue.
We are not a good and virtuous nation. God does
not bless us above other nations. Victory is not assured. War is not noble and
uplifting. The clash between the reality of combat and the Disneyfied version
of combat consumed by the public, one that propels many young men and women
into war, creates not only dissonance and moral injury, but an existential
crisis—one that combat veterans, at least those who are self-reflective, must
cope with for the rest of their lives.
Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army colonel who
fought in Vietnam, and Danny Sjursen, a retired Army major who did tours in
Iraq and Afghanistan, have just published Paths of Dissent:
Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars. Bacevich
and Sjursen, West Point graduates like many writers in the book, come out of
the military culture. They began as true believers, embracing the myths of
American goodness and virtue, and the military honor code pounded into them as
young cadets at the military academy. The reality of combat, as it has for
generations, exposed the lies told by the generals and politicians. -more-
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