Men Who Kick Down Doors: Tyrants at Home and Abroad

Ann Jones posts about Men Who Kick Down Doors: Tyrants at Home and Abroad.

Jones connects the dots between domestic violence and war-mongering:

It was John Stuart Mill, writing in the nineteenth century, who connected the dots between “domestic” and international violence. But he didn’t use our absurdly gender-neutral, pale gray term “domestic violence.” He called it “wife torture” or “atrocity,” and he recognized that torture and atrocity are much the same, no matter where they take place -- whether today in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wardak Province, Afghanistan, or a bedroom or basement in Ohio. Arguing in 1869 against the subjection of women, Mill wrote that the Englishman’s habit of household tyranny and “wife torture” established the pattern and practice for his foreign policy. The tyrant at home becomes the tyrant at war. Home is the training ground for the big games played overseas.

The violence engender by the system is all-pervasise. You cannot eliminate the violence within the domestic sphere without eliminating the violence inherent in the system. The only way to eliminate inherent violence is to replace the system.