The Times (London) Friday, March 26, 1999 Two cheers for Colonel Tony Benn Nato was set up to fight a war in Europe. The Red Army invades, Nato fights back; Turks fight for Norway, French fight for Greece. What an extraordinary irony it is that Nato should not, in the event, have had to fight any war in Europe, but then chose, after the Cold War,
This article by A.N. Wilson is highly significant, not only for his case against the Balkan intervention but also for his overall perspective on the costs of war. The Independent (UK) April 25, 1999 Was the Second World War worth 56 million lives? We had grown used to having a prime minister who was ignorant, but now a much more worrying thought
*Presentation prepared for the Mises Institute’s conference, “Austrian Economics and the Financial Markets,” Toronto, Canada, September 16-17, 1999. In 1978 Michael Jensen and William Meckling, writing in the Financial Analysts Journal , offered an extraordinarily gloomy prediction for the future of capitalism: “The most spectacular period of
True Patriotism (A speech delivered at the Men’s Club of the Prospect Street Congregational Church in Cambridge, Mass., June 7, 1898) There are moments in every man’s life, in the life of every nation, when, under the excitement of passion, the simple truths which in common times are the foundation upon which the right order and conduct of life
This letter appeared in the Wall Street Journal , April 9, 1999: Editor: It is bizarre to think that the bloc we were recently allied with is now our enemy, and that yesterday’s enemy bloc is our friend. Just over 50 years ago, George Orwell’s prescient masterpiece “1984” was published, and here we are witnesses to the dystopia of the world he
London Times March 24, 1999 The real catastrophe Why Kosovo? Why, of all the current civil wars and humanitarian horrors, is it Kosovo that now summons British troops to the colours? Or put it another way, why does a bloodstained shroud only have to wave over a Balkan village for otherwise intelligent people to take leave of their senses?
The Times (of London) April 9, 1999 Nato’s leaders are treading the path that led to insanity in Vietnam Another middle way has not worked. The Great Bombing Pretence is collapsing in Kosovo, as it was bound to collapse. Foreign policy is revealed not as focus-grouped, glamorous kid-machismo but as something that kills people. Nato’s bombing
Canada at War Following the lead of the U.S., Canada is participating in a massive military assault against a sovereign nation in central Europe. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a small country of approximately 12 million. Its crime is that it is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity against an armed secessionist movement. Every
Note: This speech was delivered at the Austrian Scholars Conference, Auburn, Alabama, April 16-17, 1999. Mises on War and Peace in Human Action The essence of Mises’s chapter in Human Action entitled “ The Economics of War “ is in these words: “What has transformed the limited war between royal armies into total war, the clash between peoples,
There was a time when the public wrongly trusted in the government. The glory of the present political moment is that this is no longer true. It’s all to the good that this lack of trust has hamstrung the advocates of statism, but it has also upset some whose livelihoods hinge on an ever-growing Leviathan. In the column below, Meg Greenfield
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