Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
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Drawing on wide meadow work and research from around the world, Goldhagen explores the anatomy of genocide—explaining why genocides start, are sustained, and end; why societies support them, why they take place so frequently and how the international community should and can successfully stop them.
As a fantastic book should, Worse than War seeks to change the way we reflect and to offer new possibilities for a better world. It tells us how we might at last start to eradicate this greatest scourge of humankind.
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Well if you yearn for a holier-than-thou tongue pouring from a real hater of mankind, you have establish your book. Mankind is wretched, the leader assures us, in loving gruesome detail. Why it’s a marvel we took time off from committing genocide long enough to log onto Amazon for a few minutes. Of course, violence has been declining over the last few thousand years and especially over the last few centuries by every objective measure, but the implications of that are never discussed, one suspects because it detracts from the orgy of misanthropy and especially the agenda of persons who profit from this kind of material. A careful reading of this book as well as the leader’s last book “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” gives you some thought where the leader is coming from. Gosh, if only mankind had some tiny group of energetic people to help guide us to a more moral form of being … why such a people could even wrap themselves in the cape of moral superiority and use that as a guise to gain immense power and privilege. But I digress. If you relish the thought of sitting through forced sensitivity training classes and enforced multiculturalism (itself a form of cultural genocide?) then you have establish your ice cream. The US is evil, Islam is evil, Europeans are evil, Asians are evil … I could go on. One odd note, there doesn’t seem to be much about Israel and it’s controversial actions with it’s neighbors … hmmmm … oversight? Too many additional ethnic conflicts to take in I suppose. Modern day Israel and it’s very ancient version get only passing attention. Well unless they were victims of course. We learn that it is Jews that are the most frequent victims of expulsion for example – not sure how the Palestinians would feel about that. Well, I’m sure that will be the next book. The book is deeply manipulative, full of hatred for nearly all of mankind (perhaps a tiny sliver excluded?) and proposed to make guilt that can be cashed in on.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
One cannot read this book lacking being astounded and dismayed by how widespread and common is human cruelty and evil. Yet the emphasis of the leader is precisely against generalizing the Evil away, and finding fault with anyone and everyone. The emphasis of the leader is on placing responsibility on persons who commit the deeds of Evil. It is too in showing how individual choice have been again and again crucial to the whole process of initiating and carrying out Genocide.
Goldhagen writes about five mechanisms of what he calls ‘Eliminationism’ the effort of one people or state to rid itself of the ‘additional’ it finds undesirable. One mechanism is through Transformation of the ‘additional’ into something else.’Transformation is the destruction of a group’s essential and defining political, social , or cultural identities in order to neuter its members alleged noxious qualities. ‘Repression entails keeping the despised , deprecated or feared people within territorial reach and sinking , with violent domination their ability to inflict real or imagined harm upon others.’ A third is Expulsion removing unwanted people from one’s territory. A fourth is Prevention of Reproduction. A fifth, is Extermination. ‘Radical as it is,killing regularly logically follows beliefs deeming others to be a fantastic, even mortal threat. It promises not a piecemeal, not only a probable but a ‘Final Solution’ to the problem. The most notorious ‘final solution’ giving his infamous euphemism worldwide currency , was the Germans mass- murder of the Jews.’
Goldhagen gives an account of a wide variety of efforts of Elimination of one people by another. He dispels the myth that is only Modern Equipment which made large- scale Genocide possible. He shows how critical a role individual leaders have in the whole genocide process. He shows too how involvement and responsibility is not ordinarily the work of a select few but of fantastic parts of the society. He provides chilling examples of human cruelty, relating to the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, the Tutsi- Hutu conflict in Rwanda,Burundi the Khmer Rouge murders of their own people in Cambodia, the Chinese murders in Tibet, the Japanese actions before and during the Second War throughout Southeast Asia, the Kim Sung Park murders of his own people in North Korea, the Indonesian murders in East Timor,and of the Communists in the country, the Pakistani murders of Bengalis, Saddam Hussein’s murders in Iraq, the Sudanese Islamist murders in Darfur.
Goldhagen searches to ruin myths which enable individuals and communities to escape their own responsibility for mass- murder. He provides a detailed look at the problem which raises again painful and hard questions about the right moral character of humanity, and its capacity for and trend to do fantastic evil. He shows how the perpetrators were not as some have contended ‘coerced’ to do their evil work. Persons who did this work ordinarily did it with fantastic enthusiasm, and sadistic cruelty. It was not enough for them to murder, in most cases they had to humiliate and torture also.
Goldhagen dispels additional ‘myths’ which would somehow make excuses for the perpetrators or make their deeds necessary and inevitable. He shows how it is human choice over and over again which is involved in these deeds of evil.
Some of the examples he brings are so horrifying they led this reader to wince and turn away.
In the concluding section of the book Goldhagen talks about what can be done to prevent future Genocides. He surveys the major countries and political groupings of the world and concludes that the greatest danger facing Mankind today is from what he calls, ‘Political Islam’. He points out that what others call Radical Islam, or Islamic Fundamentalism openly calls for ‘elimination’ of its enemies. It demonizes any challenger to it, and gives religious sanction to murder and elimination of others. Goldhagen writes that the Eliminationist program of Political Islam is one which aims at total destruction of the West. He talks about what Islamists proudly proclaim is their fantastic might, their inclination for Death over Life.
Goldhagen goes on to prescribe a number of measures which need be taken by governments if future Genocide is to be averted. One of these is the formation of a world- body based on Democracies which will provide an alternative to the United Nations which has been really ineffective in acting against Genocide.
This book is a must read for persons who would know our world, the disasters it has known, the dangers it is facing.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book discredits itself as it omits discussion of the Israeli warcrimes against the Palestinians. Indeed, this problem is inherent to Zionists, they justify their own warcrimes and genocide against Arabs by citing German actions against Jews, as though two wrongs make a right…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
WORSE THAN WAR is the third lucid work by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, whose three books have worked to demystify genocide.
What I mean by this is that prior to reading HITLER’S WILLING EXECUTIONERS, no book I read about the Holocaust had the guts to define genocide in the simple but stark terms that it merits and deserves. I have read books by psychoanalysts about the Holocaust that make excuses for genocide–it was so compartmentalized they didn’t know, or it was “Groupthink” or some additional nonsense.
Goldhagen gets to the heart of these issues, and I know why some readers may be place off by his stridence, but, heck, if Genocide isn’t worth getting upset about, what is?
WORSE THAN WAR is a natural and appreciated extension of his prior two works. He explores the mindset that conceives of, actualizes, justifies and completes genocide. He also explores how genocides are stopped (regularly too late, obviously), and what we have to dread in the future.
I make no bones about it: I am a Goldhagen supporter and I frankly don’t know the animosity he has faced for stating the obvious.
My only complaint about WORSE THAN WAR is that I was slightly disappointing by the crucially vital Chapter 10: Prologue to The Future, where I was hoping to find more thorough discussion of potential hotspots that face future genocide. It is all devoted to a discussion of “Political Islam.” I was hoping for more discussion of the continent of Africa.
But it is hard to write a comprehensive book about so enormous and vast a theme, so I am cutting him a break on this.
This is an urgently vital work, and it is so refreshing to have an leader cut through the hyperbole and bogus (and wistful, hopeful) psychoanalysis that would endeavor to exonerate people who murder others because of race, color, religion, and cut to the chase: Despise. Blind despise. Irrational despise. Cultivated despise.
This is a fantastic leader and he has produced now three very vital works.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Let’s hope that everyone at the United Nations and in reliable parties in governments around the world read this book. More needs to be done to stop mass killing, and Goldhagen says just how. Goldhagen comes down pretty hard on the UN for not preventing genocidal deaths, and it deserves the rap. On the additional hand, there is a ray of hope: the International Criminal Tribunal for Rawanda, which is part of the UN has indicted perpetrators of genocide. Goldhagen argues that large bounties should be placed on the heads of these sorts of folks. I don’t know why I’ve seen some people on the internet laugh at this thought. It’s effective. There is in a place a successful gift program to hunt down perpetrators of Genocide. This past month, Ildephonse Nizeyimana, considered the #2 man in Rwandan genocide was captured. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, place a warrant for his arrest. The United States offered a $5million gift for him under the Rewards For Justice program. Interpol arrested him in Uganda, and the Ugandan Government is claiming the gift. Earlier in the year Gregoire Ndahimana was arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.S. also place a gift on his head. The United States through the Rewards for Justice program has a gift on 13 individuals it says are reliable for Genocide in Rwanda. Here’s an official U.S. press relief: [...]
I reflect Goldhagen’s book is right on in his description of the genocidal mindset. He argues passionately that more needs to be done. We must do more.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5