{"id":63735,"date":"2022-10-08T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63735"},"modified":"2022-10-08T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T13:00:23","slug":"chris-hedges-the-greatest-evil-is-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63735","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges: \u2018The Greatest Evil is War\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chris Hedges: \u2018The Greatest Evil is War\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Tomas was crippled for a war that should never have been fought. He was crippled for the lies of politicians. He was crippled for war profiteers. He was crippled for the careers of generals.\u00a0<\/b>
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Excerpts from the author\u2019s new book,\u00a0<\/em>The Greatest Evil is War.<\/p>\n

I<\/strong>\u00a0flew to Kansas City [in 2013] to see Tomas Young. Tomas was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He was receiving hospice care at his home. I knew him by reputation and the movie documentary\u00a0Body of War<\/a><\/em>. He was one of the first veterans to publicly oppose the war in Iraq. He fought as long and as hard as he could against the war that crippled him, until his physical deterioration caught up with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been toying with the idea of suicide for a long time because I had become helpless,\u201d he told me in his small house on the Kansas City outskirts where he intended to die. \u201cI couldn\u2019t dress myself. People have to help me with the most rudimentary of things. I decided I did not want to go through life like that anymore. The pain, the frustration.\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He stopped abruptly and called his wife. \u201cClaudia, can I get some water?\u201d She opened a bottle of water, took a swig so it would not spill when he sipped, and handed it to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt at the end of my rope,\u201d the 33-year-old Army veteran went on. \u201cI made the decision to go on hospice care, to stop feeding and fade away. This way, instead of committing the conventional suicide and I am out of the picture, people have a way to stop by or call and say their goodbyes. I felt this was a fairer way to treat people than to just go out with a note…<\/p>\n

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Chris Hedges: \u2018The Greatest Evil is War\u2019 Tomas was crippled for a war that should never have been fought. He was crippled for the lies of politicians. He was crippled for war profiteers. He was crippled for the careers of generals.\u00a0 Excerpts from the author\u2019s new book,\u00a0The Greatest Evil is War. I\u00a0flew to Kansas City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9035,6963,862],"class_list":["post-63735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-chris-hedges","tag-consortium-news","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63736,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63735\/revisions\/63736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}