Bill Kristol Calls For Americans to be ‘Awakened and Rallied’ to War

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Bill Kristol is not shy about his fetish for war. His latest piece at the neoconservative Weekly Standard borders on self-parody in the way that it openly longs for a return to a time when Americans were eager to send the U.S. military off on unnecessary, imperialistic adventures.

Kristol is frustrated by the “war-weariness” of the nation. He laments the reluctance on the part of the Republican Party to “challenge” “the idol of war-weariness.”  

“A war-weary public can be awakened and rallied,” Kristol cheers. “Indeed, events are right now doing the awakening. All that’s needed is the rallying. And the turnaround can be fast.”

People like Kristol are so blinded by ideology that they breach the etiquette which calls on elite commentators to camouflage their enthusiasm for war with superficial appeals to peace. He loves death and destruction and wars of choice and he doesn’t care who knows it! He is way out of the closet. That he can explicitly call for Americans to be “awakened and rallied” for new wars and not be embarrassed by the Hitler-esque tone of such despicable cravings is an indication of how lacking in self-awareness he is. His foreign policy beliefs are the kind that are not susceptible to reasoning or disconfirming evidence. His worship for the warfare state is religious in its persuasion.

Kristol condemns using war-weariness “as an excuse to avoid maintaining our defenses or shouldering our responsibilities.” In other words, the fact that Kristol’s preferred policies were implemented throughout the Bush administration and it led to war crimes, hundreds of thousands killed, trillions of dollars wasted, region-wide instability in the Middle East, and clear geo-political losses for the United States shouldn’t deter us from continuing to spend more than the rest of the world combined on our military or from “shouldering our responsibilities” of ruling the world through force and war.

To Kristol, war-weariness is a kind of ailment that Americans need to be cured of. He calls for war-weary Americans to be rallied to some unspecified military crusade just around the corner. Iran, Russia, China…anything will do, I suppose.

I’m reminded of what Noam Chomsky wrote in his book Media Control about this ailment, or “malady” of being averse to extreme violence and war.

“The Reaganite intellectual Norman Podhoretz defined it as ‘the sickly inhibitions against the use of military force,’” Chomsky writes. “There were these sickly inhibitions against violence on the part of a large part of the public. People just didn’t understand why we should go around torturing people and killing people and carpet bombing them.”

“It’s very dangerous for a population to be overcome by these sickly inhibitions, as Goebbels understood, because then there’s a limit on foreign adventures,” he explains. “It’s necessary, as the Washington Post put it rather proudly during the [first] Gulf War hysteria, to instill in people a respect for ‘martial value.’ That’s important. If you want to have a violent society that uses force around the world to achieve the ends of its own domestic elite, it’s necessary to have a proper appreciation of the martial values and none of these sickly inhibitions about using violence.”

That’s the real threat of our resistance to extreme violence. Anything that puts a limit on foreign adventures is like kryptonite to Kristol and his ilk.

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6 thoughts on “Bill Kristol Calls For Americans to be ‘Awakened and Rallied’ to War

  1. “Bloody Bill” Kristol. “I’ve never met a war I didn’t like.” I’d love to see that son of a bitch running for cover in a SHTF scenario. “Pull up that RPG!”

  2. Isn’t Kristol another Zionist turd like McCain?

    “Kristol condemns using war-weariness “as an excuse to avoid maintaining our defenses or shouldering our responsibilities.””

    If he is so adamant about people going to war for no reason, then he and McCain can be the first to put on parachutes and be thrown out of the plane when they get to Ukrainian airspace.

    NO MORE WARS!!!

    1. Yes NC, Bill is one of those squishy turds that lurks around the Fox News desk on Sundays and looks for openings to spew his bile about how we aren’t waving enough flags and symbols to show how patriotic, or should I say, idiotic we have been to buy into this bullsh!t! Why couldn’t Bloody Bill have been a banker. We could all look forward to the splat of a big dog turd falling from 50 stories!

  3. Yes folks this is the typical psychotic zioturd that wants to send your kids. Not his. Off to fight wars that will only benefit that shitty little country called israhell. We all know their bitchass US supplied pussies that are called the idf only fight rock throwers and unarmed civilians and innocent children. These SOBs need to be strung up. Forget the trial. We know who they are and we know they are guilty. Judgement Cometh.

  4. Let’s see if we can rally this yellow belly Jew and send him to war.
    Let’s hear about his distinguished war record and all the campaigns he’s participated in.
    This Jew wants young Gentile Americans to fight a war to make some worthless Israelis the rulers of the Middle East.

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