Matthew Hoh On Veterans/Armistice Day
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In todays interview we discuss the lessons of Armistice Day, life as a veteran, the US change to Veterans day, militarised US/UK culture, war cheerleaders misuse of WW2, how Syria/Jolani illustrates the fraud of the war on terror and more.
Bio - Matthew has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-8. - Center for International Policy | Matthew Hoh
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“On the morning of May 7 , House and Grey drove out to Kew . ' We spoke of the probability of an ocean liner being sunk , ' recorded House , ' and I told him if this were done , a flame of indignation would sweep across America , which would in itself probably carry us into the war . ' An hour later , House was with King George in Buckingham Palace . ' We fell to talking , strangely enough , ' the Colonel wrote that night , ' of the probability of Germany sinking a trans Atlantic liner . . . . He said , " Suppose they should sink the Lusitania with American passengers on board . . . . ' 999 That evening House dined at the American Embassy . A despatch came in , stating that at two in the afternoon a Ger man submarine had torpedoed and sunk the Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland . Many lives had been lost.” The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour ... Front Cover Edward Mandell House Houghton Mifflin, 1926 Page 432
"The first British counter-move, made on my responsibility in 1915, was to arm British merchantmen to the greatest possible extent with guns of sufficient power to deter the U-boat from surface attack.... As the U-boats were forced by the progressive arming of the British Mercantile Marine to rely increasingly on under-water attacks, they encountered a new set of dangers. The submerged U-boat with its defective vision ran the greatest risk of mistaking neutral for British vessels and of drowning neutral crews, and thus of embroiling Germany with other great Powers." Winston Churchill The World Crisis Page 725
“NOTICE! TRAVELERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or of any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travelers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.” IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY
Washington, D.C., April 22,1915
“They have had their chance to convince the nation and failed; Parliament has backed the Prime Minister. Britain, America and its allies have taken a stance against evil, we are at war and there is no place for mealy-mouthed appeasement. You either support the troops or you do not. The increasingly childish protests have become an unnecessary burden for the emergency services who have far more pressing matters to deal with. To continue to argue against the attacks on Iraq is effectively to support the Saddam regime and its mass slaughter of innocent civilians, the use of rape and torture by the state to keep dissidents in line and the threat a madman with access to weapons of mass destruction poses to the free world” How the appeasers give hope to Saddam 29th March 2003 The Northern Echo
“It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed. Otherwise we shall come into control of an utterly ruined land. We shall not, for instance, be able to get housing materials out of Germany for our own needs because some temporary provision would have to be made for the Germans themselves. The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing. I am of the opinion that military objectives must henceforward be more strictly studied in our own interests rather than that of the enemy. The Foreign Secretary has spoken to me on this subject, and I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive” International Churchill Society Education – Bombing Germany: Again - - Dresden: The World War Two bombing 75 years on By Toby Luckhurst BBC News 13 February 2020
“He did acknowledge it, in fact, in Errol Morris's amazing documentary "The Fog of War," but the admission there had to do with World War II and the civilian conventional bombing of Tokyo, of which he was an architect. The key reflection…
LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?” Robert McNamara The Guardian Michael Tomasky Mon 6 Jul 2009
“We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy,” Hegseth said. “We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.” Hegseth pushes to remake the military in his preferred image By Haley Britzky, Zachary Cohen
“Reform UK stands behind the military actions of the USA overnight. Iran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons, the future of Israel depends on it.” Nigel Farage June 22nd 2025