Comments on: Thomas Woods

By: Claus-Erik Hamle

Claus-Erik Hamle — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:32:08 +0000

Please go to http://www.plrc.org and read his books, especially First Strike! The Pentagon´s Strategy for Nuclear War. Bloody fools in the Pentagon as Brigadier Harbottle stated – because they are so stupid that they don´t believe in Nuclear Winter !

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:52:20 +0000

You might check out: We Have Just Begun to Not Fight: An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in Civilian Public Service During World War II, edited by Heather Frazer and John O’Sullivan. You can get it cheap on ABE.com. The conservatives at the turn of the century opposed war because it was not moral and because it was not fiscally sound. I actually admire those conservatives. I don’t admire the isolationists, such as comprised the America First movement before WWII, they were largely sympathizers with Hitler. The home grown American leftists and spiritual C.O.’s , such as: Norman Thomas, Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood and all of the Wobblies, Kenneth Patchen, David Dillenger, Rufus Jones, Robinson Jeffers, William Lloyd Garrison and others are certainly worth investigating. I like Smedley Butler’s “War Is A Racket” a great deal. WWII is still held up to justify all wars. It was mass murder. The Jehovah’s Witnesses stood up to the powerful and went to prison for their beliefs, though they were really persecuted for their religion. Many Quakers fought in the war as they had in other wars, excepting “a courageous few.” The principled Right and Left ought to unite, I really admire Bruce Fein’s comments on the importance of impeaching Bush, et al.

Good interview.

By: Tim T

Tim T — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:36:48 +0000

Haven’t seen the book yet. Hope they included Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker. One of the best anti-WWII books I have come across.

By: swan

swan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:16:38 +0000

Excellent interview of Thomas Woods, and we are should read WE WHO DARED TO SAY NO TO WAR… for the side of history we have not been told in the public schools. But Scott Horton did here engage in some fearmongering of Arabs and Muslims by elaborating toward the end that they are known to be likely to hold grudges, and take revenge toward those who have terribly wronged them. However, this is no more true of them than it is of Anglo-Saxons, Jews, Celts, and other ethnicities.

By: Steve in Los Angeles

Steve in Los Angeles — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:59:05 +0000

SELF-CORRECTION!!! I goofed on the Amazon book link and the book title. I was looking at another of Woods' books The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to American History (2004) in which apparently he bashes left-wing writers and scholars as biased. My mistake. Perhaps Woods has changed his position on left-wing writers and scholars in this new book We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now. I'll check it out.

By: Steve in Los Angeles

Steve in Los Angeles — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:51:54 +0000

Thomas Woods says early in his interview saying that "unless you're a fascist or a commie, you're in the book". Yet checking out the book's Amazon page, I find these blurbs. I'll check out the book for myself, but the following blurbs don't seem to jibe with Woods' representation of his book. I wonder why. From the Inside Flap [of the book itself presumably]: Everything well, almost everything you know about American history is wrong because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academic historians who treat their biases as fact. But fear not: Professor Thomas Woods refutes the popular myths in The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Professor Woods reveals facts that you won't be or never were taught in school, tells you about the "Books You're Not Supposed to Read," and takes you on a fast-paced politically incorrect tour of American history that will give you all the information you need to battle and confound left-wing professors, neighbors, and friends.... Amazon.com Review: Claiming that most textbooks and popular history books were written by biased left-wing writers and scholars, historian Thomas Woods offers this guide as an alternative to "the stale and predictable platitudes of mainstream texts"....

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Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:10:26 +0000

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By: the legendary Bill

the legendary Bill — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:11:20 +0000

Most of the folks who voted for McCain would have voted for him even if ( or especially if we’re talking about the Jeff Katz type ) we had shown them a DVD of Bush, McCain and Lieberman gang-raping a 14-year old Iraqi girl ( or boy ) and those same people would still believe in the invasion of Iraq…

By: hardtruth

hardtruth — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:24:52 +0000

The best arguments to use when engaging the prowar indoctrinated one-on-one are not arguments at all but questions. Ideally simple unambiguous yes or no questions, Do you think (God thinks) Iraqui lives are less precious than American lives? Do American soldiers in Iraq have the right to kill Iraquis if they feel “threatened” by them? If so do Iraquis have the right to kill American soldiers if /they/ feel threatened, and if not whats the diefference?

Asking people to elaborate on or justify their answers tends to explitly expose the bigotted, racist axioms underlying them.

By: stats

stats — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:59:29 +0000

Mr. Jankowski,

What the hell are you trying to say? Grey area in the war with Iraq? Really? Of course if you are an agent of Israel, sure there’s some grey area. But for most Americans things are pretty clear. It’s clear as glass that we’ve got no business in Iraq.