Just think about it for a second.
Do you really hate the people in Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Vietnam or ANYWHERE else so much that you would like to bomb the living daylight out of them?
To kill innocent civilians so they can enjoy our blessed democracy?
Do you think they need to be killed to save your FREEDOM?
Then WHY do you "support our troops"?
Why do you "thank them for their service"?
Why do you send your sons and your daughters into foreign lands to die?
Because you have been manipulated by the people who profit from wars,
who feed off the misery and suffering they are causing.
You have been duped into being a "Good American", a patriot.
And again and again we are being told whom to fear, whom to hate, whom to kill.
Qui Bono?
There are many steps that lead up unto this point of understanding and self-actualization because in maturity there is no "skipping ahead to the front of the line" though some of us may get ahead a few more spaces than others. I can remember a time when there was nothing wrong with wanting to "Be all that you can be" but everything comes with a price and just because you don't pay right away does not mean someone else doesn't later. In this Money-Driven "Dog-Eat-Dog" society that we have the luxury of calling ourselves patrons of in one form or another, The Machine occupies us to assist with massive induction of distracted individuals on a scale like we have never seen before but the question is... "What is the endgame and why do we need to be distracted so well that under any other circumstances Man would not care to invent such garbage"? I think you nailed it right on the head with the title. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you! Good to know that our community seems to grow. We don't need wars. Normal people want to live in peace side by side and thrive, no matter what religion or skin color. We don't need a government who manipulates us into killing each other for THEIR profits...
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id recommend to all troop supporters to do some read on german civil society before and during ww2. parallels are scary. from sport stadiums with messages to brave soldiers, to ‚‚dad returns from war to surprise daughter" stuff.
just germans never had something like ‚‚homeless veterans".
guess thats US patent.
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You are so right. Well, there are the SAME people behind all this, using the SAME strategies, they always work to mobilize the masses. And you are also right about the veterans. That is another very sad story. Shameful. Followed!
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"We shou’d not, in imitation of some nations which have been celebrated for a false kind of patriotism, wish to aggrandize our own Republic at the expence of the freedom & happiness of the rest of mankind. The prospect that the Americans will not act upon so narrow a scale affords the most comfortable reflections to a benevolent mind." - George Washington, April 30, 1789.
I sure am glad he can't see us now. As you say, we've been duped.
I think Americans, by and large, are very ignorant and very complacent. Also, and I don't like to throw the term "racism" around lightly, but sometimes I can't help but wonder if the reason we don't care what happens to these people is because they don't look like us. So many deaths in our foreign wars are, as you say, civilians - women and children. That's not brave, that's not heroic. That's wicked. A real man would rather die fighting on his own ground than let a mother and her baby die on theirs.
Either way, it's not going to change anytime soon. Too much money involved. James Madison once wrote a great essay called "Universal Peace" basically describing why such a thing could never be. In it, he said there would always be wars as long as,
"war is to be declared by those who are to spend the public money, not by those who are to pay it; by those who are to direct the public forces, not by those who are to support them; by those whose power is to be raised, not by those whose chains may be riveted"
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Wow, thank you for your profound answer. Isn't it interesting that Washington and Madison made it very clear a long time ago, and still, people still fall for this asinine propaganda every time?
One of my favorite quotes is from Carl Sandburg „Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come“.
That would be nice...
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Interesting? Or shameful? Either way, we're definitely still falling for it.
Also a great quote, but it'll never happen. 'Cause even if nobody shows up.... there's always the draft! They've got all the bases covered.
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Oh and p.s. since I am both a grammar Nazi and an ex-Latin nerd (the worse possible combination), I believe the correct term is, "cui" bono :)
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LOL. You are correct...it's been about 40 years ago that I had Latin in school. Not getting smarter in my old days :)
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Absolutely right sir. War doen't determine which side is right but only focus on who is left and if we human can't end war then war will end us. The sole meaning of life that we got while we were borned is to serve humanity and spread love and kindness everywhere. Peace is our gift to each other. Nobody can bring that peace but only you can if you wanted to bring
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Very well said 🙂
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