Ryan declares that it “is a complete cop-out” to refer to the war system as a form of “madness,” adding that “[t]he reality is that perfectly rational individuals can adhere to bad theory and bad ideology and act accordingly.” It is not just “bad theory and bad ideology” that generates war, but the kind of divisive thinking that sets groups of people against one another (“us” versus “them”), thus allowing the politically ambitious to mobilize our “dark side” forces into mass-minded battalions to slaughter state-defined “enemies” by the tens of thousands. Ryan makes a good point when he suggests that … Continue reading Clearing the Fog of War