Thursday, March 26, 2026

Patriotic Purge: The Real Cost of War - Jeffries

 From Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump, the only president who resisted the pressure to go to war was John F. Kennedy.

Full texr:
https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/patriotic-purge-the-real-cost-of?publication_id=344941&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email 

One would think Americans would be tired of war by now, but I suppose it’s appropriate that we should be at war, as usual, on the 250th anniversary of our independence. After all, we’ve been at war for about 90% of our existence. That’s what we do. Waste money and prematurely end the lives of those who have barely started living. Ignore the home front, and the welfare of the citizens. Harry Patch, last surviving soldier of WWI, defined it as well as anyone ever has, when he said, “War is organized murder and nothing else.”