Just What We Need: Another War
December 14, 2012
With six thousand American soldiers dead and a projected cost of over $3 trillion, two wars are bad enough. But now the U.S. is sending missiles and 400 troops to Turkey “as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attack.” What was it that George Washington said about entangling alliances?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

