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The Race to Destruction
Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky
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against the use of military force.” Such figures do not register the full toll
by any means: the millions of war invalids and orphans (the “most
disadvantaged” orphans are estimated at 700,000), the destruction of
the land, the psychic injuries of one of the major catastrophes of the
modern era. 98 All of this proceeds as we “defend ourselves from the
Soviet threat,” just as the horrors of Hungary and Afghanistan are part of
the Soviet “defense against the American threat.”
Other consequences of the system include the enormous waste of
scarce human and material resources and the constant threat of nuclear
war, points too obvious to take the space to dwell on here.