my new sig file...

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
~ George Orwell

yeah. and how does that quote go about those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it... i can't help but think the terrible state of our educational system is making us more violent, manipulatable, and jingoistic.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor, with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
~ General Douglas MacArthur

lots more here
http://vagabox.com/BTB%2001.html