Very sad, fighting for a nation that taxes it people to death and makes countless laws to imprison those same people. Besides do we have proof that this soldier even had a legitimate Commander and Chief?
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I cannot speak for Lew Rockwell, but he might agree with me that our soldiers have no business being in foreign nations in the first place.
He might agree with me that their parents should have raised them to be something more than cannon fader for the blood sucking parasites who rule Washington DC whom order impressionable young people to loot and subjugate the people of the world to benefit their empire at the wave of a flag and the blare of a bugle.
He might agree with me that the media and their advertisers care only for the visual of the battle, not the consequences that follow because people want to see bombs going off, but not the resulting bodies after the dust clears. That it is hard to report on something when the Bush Administration has blocked the embedded media from reporting upon the casualties of war or honoring their memory, except as faceless dead heroes.
He might agree with me that after almost eight years of war with no end in sight and the battle expanding to yet another nation in the region that a “no win scenario” is actually what Bush wanted. That the Military Industrial Complex has found their funding mechanism after the cold war, and while not as lucrative and profitable as preparing for the USSR bogeyman, still makes a nice bit of loot on the bodies of the young.
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Every day in Iraq and Afghanistan people loose their wives, children, parents and loved ones. These don’t make the news much either. I hear it’s too dangerous to attend funerals and weddings in these places.
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Sorry kid. You took the king’s shilling off of one of his drums, and gave up your rights, to join the kill or be killed club.
I lost a few buddies in Korea and we were all niave. We were told, and we honestly thought, that we were serving our country.(See “War Is a Racket,” by Smedley Butler, USMC.)
My sympathies on the loss of your nephew, but please consider the US:Enemy Kill Ratio. It has been about 14 dead enemies to one dead American from Korea through Vietnam. May be his death has saved 14 or 15 ‘enemies.’
I’ve long since found that our understanding was not true, it was wrong. I helped load “Special Weapons” on board CVA31 in July of 1956, while tied up at the Alameda Naval Air Station pier, and while loading all other sea stores including jet fuel and conventional munitions.
It was then that I realized that the Navy department didn’t give a care for the ship, her crew, the guest squadrons aboard, and the living things near the bay of San Francisco. That afternoon I was down in Personnel applying for an early release to return to school. I was released on 27 July 1956 and I sweated out the warming of the war in Indochina until I was honorably discharged in 1960.
I volunteered for the Navy to avoid the Army’s draft. But when a ship or a land unit is attacked, the philosophical discussion is over, and it’s kill or be killed. It has been ever thus, especially for compelled foot soldiers.
Very sad, fighting for a nation that taxes it people to death and makes countless laws to imprison those same people. Besides do we have proof that this soldier even had a legitimate Commander and Chief?
I cannot speak for Lew Rockwell, but he might agree with me that our soldiers have no business being in foreign nations in the first place.
He might agree with me that their parents should have raised them to be something more than cannon fader for the blood sucking parasites who rule Washington DC whom order impressionable young people to loot and subjugate the people of the world to benefit their empire at the wave of a flag and the blare of a bugle.
He might agree with me that the media and their advertisers care only for the visual of the battle, not the consequences that follow because people want to see bombs going off, but not the resulting bodies after the dust clears. That it is hard to report on something when the Bush Administration has blocked the embedded media from reporting upon the casualties of war or honoring their memory, except as faceless dead heroes.
He might agree with me that after almost eight years of war with no end in sight and the battle expanding to yet another nation in the region that a “no win scenario” is actually what Bush wanted. That the Military Industrial Complex has found their funding mechanism after the cold war, and while not as lucrative and profitable as preparing for the USSR bogeyman, still makes a nice bit of loot on the bodies of the young.
Every day in Iraq and Afghanistan people loose their wives, children, parents and loved ones. These don’t make the news much either. I hear it’s too dangerous to attend funerals and weddings in these places.
Sorry kid. You took the king’s shilling off of one of his drums, and gave up your rights, to join the kill or be killed club.
I lost a few buddies in Korea and we were all niave. We were told, and we honestly thought, that we were serving our country.(See “War Is a Racket,” by Smedley Butler, USMC.)
My sympathies on the loss of your nephew, but please consider the US:Enemy Kill Ratio. It has been about 14 dead enemies to one dead American from Korea through Vietnam. May be his death has saved 14 or 15 ‘enemies.’
I’ve long since found that our understanding was not true, it was wrong. I helped load “Special Weapons” on board CVA31 in July of 1956, while tied up at the Alameda Naval Air Station pier, and while loading all other sea stores including jet fuel and conventional munitions.
It was then that I realized that the Navy department didn’t give a care for the ship, her crew, the guest squadrons aboard, and the living things near the bay of San Francisco. That afternoon I was down in Personnel applying for an early release to return to school. I was released on 27 July 1956 and I sweated out the warming of the war in Indochina until I was honorably discharged in 1960.
I volunteered for the Navy to avoid the Army’s draft. But when a ship or a land unit is attacked, the philosophical discussion is over, and it’s kill or be killed. It has been ever thus, especially for compelled foot soldiers.