the other side of the war

I stumbled across this article and was moved by a comment that was left:

"Such butchery as we saw in WW2 (and WW1, and since) was NOT common place in previous centuries. The scale of slaughter in the 20th century dwarfed ALL conflicts of ALL previous ages in recorded history. It is only the massive growth of central government, debt financing, fiat currency, and obscene taxation that allows governments to amass the resources and mobilize the manpower to wage such wars of slaughter. There is no historical precedent, and even the bloodiest wars of prior ages paled in comparison because no governments could reorganize society and had the technological and financial reach and organization to organize slaughter on such a scale, especially the slaughter of civilians, who were the main targets of military activity judging casualty rolls. Historically wars were between governments, and often common people had nothing against each other and could travel freely. Prior to WW1, average tax rates were under 5% despite large militaries and works."

It's just another confirmation that we must downsize our current government. If we fail to uphold our checks and balances, Bush will become the next Hitler, as he is so close to it already!

~ steph