Violence Makes Violence More Likely
Posted by
Kevin
Sometimes, science just confirms commonsense:
People who have been traumatized by exposure to war crimes have a tendency to choose violent means and reject nonviolent means to achieve peace, says a joint Tulane University/University of California-Berkeley study in the August 1 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association.
The neo-con foreign policy is essentially one of bullying. They believe that if we just abuse, humiliate, kill and otherwise push around enough people then everyone will be too afraid to mess with us. A moment’s thought should be enough to prove that notion silly, but now we have some actual science to fall back on.
From the “Durrrrr!” files, I guess . . . . .
Comment 8/9/2007