The US Civil War, which cost the lives of more than 600,000 soldiers, was not fought to free the Black slaves in the South but to collect taxes, it is asserted by some. The reality is Black people in America did not acquire significant democratic rights until a hundred years after the war and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jnr.
World War I, which cost 40 million military and civilian lives, was fought over territorial ambitions and the hunger for power over others by European nations including Austria-Hungary, Germany, France, England and Russia. World War II cost an estimated 75 million lives.Another bloodbath was the Vietnam war under then-US President Lyndon Johnson and his Harvard-educated top advisers. The cost of the Vietnamese war was 2 million civilian and 1.1. million military deaths, with the Americans losing around 58,000 soldiers. Canada lost the best of its youth with 67,000 dead in World War I and another 42,000 gone in World War II.The ongoing Syrian civil war has left 400,000 people dead and created 6 million refugees.
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Entering its 10th year, Syrian civil war remains the 21st century’s deadliest conflict so far
Entering its 10th year, Syrian civil war remains the 21st century’s deadliest conflict so far
Since the United States was founded in 1776, it has been at war constantly, including George W. Bush’s devastating wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. It must also be stated that the media in all wars engages in massive deception of the public, glorifying war and encouraging citizens to give up their lives for reasons conjured up by lying, immoral politicians and the corporate entities who stand to benefit from wars.
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We should never forget that German industry totally supported Adolph Hitler and his collaborators from 1933 to 1945, and how US president Dwight Eisenhower in his 1961 departure speech had warned the American people of the “military-industrial complex”.
Morris Givner, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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