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Retired U.S. General #Michael_Hayden, in the most #grotesque of terms, expressed the desire for #violence which underlies so much of the military establishment’s push for war in the Middle East and beyond.
“The reliance on air power has all the attraction of casual sex: It seems to offer gratification, but with very little commitment. We need to be wary of a strategy that puts emphasis on air power and air power alone.”
Hayden’s use of casual sex as a metaphor for bombing campaigns, and his use of sex as a metaphor for war in general, reveals two things:
– The deeply profound way in which those engaged in the war industry derive pleasure, or gratification, from legally killing, and
– The deeply troubling way in which those in power, particularly men, view sex as an instrument of power and violence, rather than intimacy.