(August 16, 2011 at 4:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: All military campaigns are ultimately morally indefensible Judas. There's nothing honorable or morally upright in pulling the trigger on another Joe, ever. Sure you could have a good cause, but the other soldier is just a soldier.Yes, war sucks. Everyone would agree that doesn't have a $take in the declaration of war. However, humans aren't exactly passive creatures in the first place. If we didn't war on the global stage, we'd be left to war on forums, in neighborhoods, etc... As we do now and as the headlines show each and every day.
What's disingenuous, I believe, about American's condemning war as if they're repeating that old hook in the 60's tune; 'war! what is it good for? Absolutely nothing say it again....' , is not only is that not true, but they say that while living in a country they inhabit as a citizen because war and victory made it possible to be the United States of America.
Certainly, for every war lost there are victims and there are victors enjoying the spoils. That's just the way it is. However, to imagine that America is the sole aggressor in the world, an imperialist State that seeks to rule everything as did former powers in history, is naive. If we didn't have a strong military industrial complex, where would we be?
When we read how many people in this forum alone, both citizens and foreigners, who hate America just in print, imagine how real life aggressors would react if we became a weaker power and were able to be overcome?
Where would those whining hate mongers be then? Dead, enslaved, overcome, rabid ass kissing subjects of the victor nation. Those gun cowards who despise the mere sight of a firearm, would be the first to die at the end of one. And amazingly enough, only to them of course, it wouldn't be some punk, some gangster thug piece of trash, some redneck, some Republican nut bag, some gun nut American at the trigger. It would be that invading force who prayed, begged, lived for the day, the weak who hate the country they occupy and enjoy as free citizens while spitting on the country they occupy and enjoy as free citizens every chance they get, would finally succeed in weakening her to the point that her guard was down, because they didn't want to pay to keep it safe. They didn't want to support the allied forces who would and do join in the concerted effort of national security.
I know a lot of service men and women who hate going to war. They are to this day affected by what they've seen in Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam and Korea too. "Saving Private Ryan", for many of us was just a movie. For many of them, that opening scene where the troops are trying to take the beach, is too real. It's a bitter reminder of blood and sand and loss and fracture.
And yet, every single one I talk to, even those who go on the biker memorial ride to D.C. every Veterans day each year agree, if they had to do it over again they would. Because sometimes, it's necessary to get bloody in order to stay free.
War, what is it good for?
Look around at your home, at your bank account, in your garage, in your pocket, in your wallet, in your purse, in the mirror, at the flag that waves red white and blue and not the flying colors of some other nation that could include Iraq, Afghanistan or even Great Britain or France or Mexico.
Look at the first black person you see tomorrow. War, what is it good for?
Absolutely nothing?
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