Ann Jones

Overview

Ann Jones born Eau Claire, WI September 3, 1937. American antiwar journalist and author. Opponent of violence against women; published Kabul in Winter, 2007; War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War, 2010.

Quotations

“The story of success in Afghanistan was always more fairy tale than fact—one scam used to sell another. . . a threefold failure: no peace, no democracy, and no reconstruction.” (Aug. 27, 2006, Tomgram)

“Nobody wants war, except profiteers and arrogant rules—almost exclusively men, often short—who imagine themselves heroic. We’re taught that war is inevitable, eternally embodied in our human nature. But the fact is that war is a human invention, and a fairly recent one at that…We live within the walls of the most aggressive nation in the world—the only one that practices preemptive war and coerces others to join its dubious coalitions against fabricated enemies. The only one that has made armaments and warfare the engine of its economy. Once a world leader, the United States now poses a danger to the whole planet.” (Veterans for Peace, Spring 2016, p. 2; photo nationinstitute.org)