"War is Peace"
The phrase " War is Peace" which used as propaganda to support the Big Brother's war with Eurasia in the story, 1984 means that without us going to war with another country you wouldn't live in peace where you live right now. If we didn't go to war with them, they would attack where you live and make your life not so peaceful anymore. So in other words, the phrase means that we are holding them back by going to war against them so that you could live in peace. Obviously, people want to live the same peaceful lives they go through everyday instead of living in a war zone while being in constant fear thus causes people to support the goverment, their war, and hate the enemy. Everything that Big Brother wants the people to do.
In the real world of today, this phrase of "War is Peace" can be compared to one of the arguments made by the Bush Administration and Bush supports to why we are at war with many Middle Eastern countries which contain many radical Muslim terrorist organizations. They say if we don't attack them now, will do even more attacks on American soil. In other words they are saying that we will live in terror if we don't attack them now.
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