War is the health of the state
Modern warfare is an abomination against God, natural law, humanity, and basic decency. As Murray Rothbard repeatedly and aptly noted
“The great Randolph Bourne realized that “war is the health of the State.”[13] It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. Society becomes a herd, seeking to kill its alleged enemies, rooting out and suppressing all dissent from the official war effort, happily betraying truth for the supposed public interest. Society becomes an armed camp, with the values and the morale – as Albert Jay Nock once phrased it – of an “army on the march.”
Before viewing the Bill Moyers video with an investigative journalist, I should first point out the obvious. I believe many American men were put in a horrific situation during the Vietnam War – -often against their will via compulsive state sanctioned slavery we call “the military draft”, and the vast majority of these men served with honor to themselves and the innocent people around them.
However, many people in our society continue to believe that war crimes and atrocities were very rare at worst, and more often fictionalized by the anti-war left. This investigative journalist and the government’s own investigations prove otherwise. The title of his book “Kill Anything That Moves” is shown as a semi-frequent but unwritten belief and operating policy for many US military leaders of that time.
Nick Turse Describes the Real Vietnam War
Journalist Nick Turse describes his personal mission to compile a complete and compelling account of the Vietnam War’s horror as experienced by all sides, including innocent civilians who were sucked into its violent vortex.
Turse, who devoted 12 years to tracking down the true story of Vietnam, unlocked secret troves of documents, interviewed officials and veterans — including many accused of war atrocities — and traveled throughout the Vietnamese countryside talking with eyewitnesses to create his book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
“American culture has never fully come to grips with Vietnam,” Turse tells Bill, referring to “hidden and forbidden histories that just haven’t been fully engaged.”