printIt is the habit on the Memorial Day weekend to thank uniformed men for their sacrifice. Sorry! None of this meaningless jabbering. I thank all the Ramos’s and Compeans of this nation, who stand on this country’s soil and defend their countrymen from the detritus of mankind.
My sympathies go out to Americans who fight phantoms in far-flung destinations. I’m sorry they’ve been snookered into living, dying and killing for a lie. But I will not honor that lie, or those who give their lives for it, and take the lives of others in America’s many recreational wars. I mourn for them, as I have from day one, but I can’t honor them.
I am sorry for those who’ve enlisted thinking they’d fight for their countrymen and were subjected to one backdoor draft after another in the cause of illegal, unjust wars. My heart hurts for you, but I won’t worship at Moloch’s feet to make you feel better.
I honor those sad, sad draftees to Vietnam and to WW II. The first valiant batch had no option; the same goes for the last, which fought a just war. I grew up in Israel, so I honor those men who stopped Arab armies from overrunning our homes. In 1973, we came especially close to annihilation.
UPDATED I: THE SIX-DAY WAR: Another just war. I was one of the many small kids you see in a bunker in the footage here. From that shelter, to the sounds of artillery on the Jordanian border (back then every Israeli resided on some hostile border) we listened to the infamous (lying) Cairo Broadcast, a snippet from which you can read below.
“The existence of Israel has continued too long. We welcome the Israeli aggression. We welcome the battle we have long awaited. The peak hour has come. The battle has come in which we shall destroy Israel.”
UPDATE II: DYING FOR NOTHING. “Eight US soldiers killed in Afghan blasts,” via Jihad Watch. US General David Petraeus, more appropriately once dubbed General Betrayus,” has offered assurances that recent casualties are “because of the ‘progress’ made in ‘important areas’ since last year.”
Evidence to contradict his theory (mounting body count) is brought as evidence for his theory (we’re “winning”). How can the good general lose a debate?
Here’s what Betrayus will never say: Afghans (who’re mostly Muslim) have more of an affinity for the Taliban than for the Wilsonians who’re attempting to westernize them. This is why it is not uncommon to hear of an Afghan policeman opening fire on his American “colleagues” during a joint operation. Just the other day, on April 27 to be precise, as Times Of India tells it, “nine Americans—eight troops and a contractor—were killed by an Afghan officer who opened fire at a Kabul military training centre.”
On this Memorial Day, I ask all who have some time to do so to start watching “FALL OF EAGLES” – a British production from some years ago about the Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Romanovs – in a multi-DVD set. Also, visit YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
I believe it to be the nature of politicians to “fool us again and again and again…”. Remember Rome was a Republic and had the highest of ideals for its time. It failed. So, where do we go now when we have not lasted a quarter of the time it did???
Have a thoughtful MEMORIAL DAY…
I work with young people in the military every day. Quite often I will ask them why they enlisted. Most of the time it is “for the education benefits”. Very few tell me they enlisted to serve their country.
Ilana, I’m a Russian/German Jew on my dad’s side & a Scotch/Scotch-Irish BAMF on my mom’s side. Just give me a nice, solid chockepoint & a sufficient quantity of lean meat & hard liquor & I will defend it.
Thank You so much for having the courage and intelligence to post this!! I am SICK & TIRED of the stupid and BLIND PATRIOTISM that is overruning in the USA. I have been a US citizen since Day ONE and am really irritated at the incredible level of ignorance and stupidity of the typical American. The endless and totally unjustified wars are just sickening and MUST STOP. I personally do not celebrate Memorial Day because to a large drgree it has become more and more of a “fraud”. I can’t stand the fact that people just keep buying into these “endless wars” without questioning them. WHY??
American inner cities are riddled with decay, crime, and utter ignornace in its “schools” – our finances are tottering with bankruptcy – and our Southern border is an apparent mess … and so we fight in Afghanistan. The bipartisan “mainstream media” tells us of “progress” in Year 10 (we are “training” the Afghans who apparently are extremely slow learners when fighting with the US/NATO and extremely fast learners fighting against us!) …. and the Obamas, Bushes, McCains, Romneys, Palins, Clintons, Bidens, and Pawlentys bark on how the $300,000 / year Blackwater contractors in Afghanistan are fighting for our “freedom” (which is somehow endangered by some bucktoothed Pushtuns 12,000 miles away) ….
It is all rather surreal.
The particular incident you described in update II touched close to home of one of my co-workers. She lost her cousin to that particular incident/murder. It was sad to read the obituary. Career military who had been recently married. Fortunately no children were left behind. She was 35 years old. When is the empire madness going to end?
Myron, your statement is 100% correct. I am from Detroit (yes, in the city!), grew-up there, over the years I have lived in 7 – 10 different U.S. cities spread across the entire U.S. and have been to numerous others for business… DETROIT is the poster child for your initial comment. Visit http://www.detnews.com
My opinion is unless one is a multi-billionaire who will invest there and has access to a dedicated crew of entrepreneurs who will reside there, Detroit and similar cities only have a fine sliver of a chance to survive and prosper.
ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS TO REVERSE THIS DAMNABLE SITUATION WITHIN 10 YEARS?
I love the America I grew up with a product of the baby boomer generation. I remember with pride Israel winning the 6 day war. There is so much to do to make this country aright once more and so much against it. I am a school teacher in Harlem for 23 years [bravo] now, and love my kids and learned the art of humor and glad to have made a facebook friend of you. [Ditto] I’m not a liberal, because the word is a misnomer not for liberty but the sustenance of boated ineffective bureaucracies that suck the blood of the entrepreneur and the spirit of freedom that made this nation so great. I like that you share the ideas of the libertarian. I think many of our wars have started on noble ground but get corrupted by vested interests. I have turned to humor as a way to weather the storm and vicissitudes of life. Shalom
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Hello All,
Here is another reason the U.S. needs to address things here and let the Mideast make their corrections themselves:
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/05/gay-activist-herb-sosa-south-beach-a-war-zone-demands-end-to-urban-weekend-with-video.html
So, will the KING OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY ORGANIZER open his eyes and see what is happening here!?!?
I’m sorry Mercer to contradict but I must. You can cuss the politicians all you want to and I’ll probably join you. You can cuss the politically minded brass hats and I’ll probably join you. But the grunt in the field or the sailor at sea has no choice about where and with whom he fights. He”s putting it on the line and I honor him for it. He can drink from my canteen anytime.
Many American citizens have joined the military for patriotic reasons; many joined for the specific reason of a sincere patriotic response to the 9-11 terrorist attacks; unfortunately, despite the sincerity of their patriotism, they have been misled by the false belief that 9-11 was an Al-Qaida action, when in fact 9-11 was a “False-flag” conspiracy orchestrated and conducted by the United States government, for United States totalitarian geo-political reasons, and the lying myth of Al-Qaida, perpetuated by the Government and the Establishment news media. And yet it is a mystery: the destruction of the Twin Towers was prophesied in the Book of Revelation, chapter 11. The 9-11 demolition of the World Trade Center buildings was an “Inside Job”, which is also the title of one of the many books written about the 9-11 Government conspiracy. Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland in 1939, after a very small “False-flag” attack, in which a small number of German soldiers had pretended to be Polish soldiers, attacking Germany. Hitler’s Germany and World War Two was also prophesied in the Book of Revelation, which is Jewish book, written by a Jewish-Christian, almost two thousand years ago, but since then almost completely ignored by Jews; similar to Old Testament Jewish sometimes rejection of prophecy. People who do not know history, are condemned to repeat the past history; and who do we have to blame, except ourselves and our lying Government and the lying news media and the lying education system. People who do not know the truth of Biblical prophecy, probably do not believe in Judgement Day.