Memorial Day
I regret the necessity of armed services. Terrible waste of our money and the lives and well-being of millions of young people. Yes, we have to maintain a deterrent to aggression, but I don't have to like it. On Memorial Day we appreciate our military machine. Thing is, I think that if we must have all this stuff the sole purpose for which is to kill those who did or might harm us, I think we should go all the way with it. Reagan's Star Wars Defense thing...great idea then and more so now. We should make it literally impossible for anyone to attack us. Then we could send home all but a few deeply nerdy-techie soldiers/sailors/air force/marines. All of those present-day military and sincere young folks deserve jobs with an assured future. If I had a son of military age, I'd rather shoot him in the knee cap than have him go overseas in order to shoot a few terrorists. At least with a bum knee, he'd probably live out his life span. He wouldn't be one of the nearly 5,000 who have died so far in this war with radical Muslims. If only we could make the military unnecessary kind of like abortion should be ; ugly but increasingly rare. I get angry when I hear a young person brightly tell family/friends that he's going into the army because that will finance his education. 1) He will not get an education. 2) The army is just there to kill people, and along the way to that goal, many in the army are killed. It's all about killing and dying. There is no military education mandate.
Honestly, if I were the president, and if I thought it necessary to attack another country in order to prevent the destruction of America, I'd nuke the assholes and save the lives of our young folks in the military. If people in another country are so horrible that they have to be killed, then the best thing would be to kill as many as possible as fast as possible and not have any Americans die. I don't understand the concept of a fair fight. There's no point in fighting carefully and kindly and compassionately. That's absurd. If I ever have to either physically attack anyone or get killed, the person I attack is not going to know what hit them. In the Bible there's the story of Jael who seduced the general of the opposing army. Then as he slept, she hammered a nail into his head. Exactly. No fair fight there. He had no warning and she did get the job done with no loss of life on her side.
Basically I abhor the idea of war. It seems vile, wretched and pointless, a long, dragged out back and forth exchange of killings/maimings. Every year when Memorial Day rolls around, we should thank our military...until the day when we can turn them all into civilians. And God speed the day!
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Honestly, if I were the president, and if I thought it necessary to attack another country in order to prevent the destruction of America, I'd nuke the assholes and save the lives of our young folks in the military. If people in another country are so horrible that they have to be killed, then the best thing would be to kill as many as possible as fast as possible and not have any Americans die. I don't understand the concept of a fair fight. There's no point in fighting carefully and kindly and compassionately. That's absurd. If I ever have to either physically attack anyone or get killed, the person I attack is not going to know what hit them. In the Bible there's the story of Jael who seduced the general of the opposing army. Then as he slept, she hammered a nail into his head. Exactly. No fair fight there. He had no warning and she did get the job done with no loss of life on her side.
Basically I abhor the idea of war. It seems vile, wretched and pointless, a long, dragged out back and forth exchange of killings/maimings. Every year when Memorial Day rolls around, we should thank our military...until the day when we can turn them all into civilians. And God speed the day!
memorial+day war iraq military
1 Comments:
I agree with what you're saying. I can totally see the advantage of a military experience for a young person, if there is no war going on and no threat of dying any more than in a similar civilian job. I think there are probably lots of people whose lives have been made better, possibly even saved, by being in the military. If only there were a way to have that experience without being killed or (possibly just as damaging but psychologically this time) having to kill other people.
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