Silent Army wrote:
Your knowledge is limited to what the media feeds you. You have a right to speak of war policies because I have been there! Easy to monday morning qaurterback anything from your La-z-Boy recliner after watching the evening news!
Excellent, Silent Army. "I was there." So what you're saying is that you know what is happening and who is pulling the strings of the occupation because you were standing 3'' in front of a bull elephant, and because you're so close to the elephant, of course it seems like a dire threat. To anyone who's in its territory. And you want the rest of us to believe that the U.S. government's efforts will have any effect whatsoever in preventing a determined elephant from traversing 6,000 miles of air/ocean, and killing a couple thousand civilians.
I guess we're all a bunch of chuckleheads, for "believing what the media tells us." I don't know that the media is usually to blame. Just the people who control and abuse it. The media told us that Santa Anna unwarrantedly attacked U.S. troops in Tejas. The media told us that Lincoln and the Army of the Lord was marchin' down to
free the slaves, alleluia, and not going to war to secure taxes from those who dared believe in the Constitution of 1792. To force a "Union" made at gunpoint.
The media told us that the Spanish were continuing to commit atrocities in Cuba, and that those dastardly spanish blew up the U.S. Battleship Maine. (Remember the Maine!) The media told us that the baby-butchering, maiden-ravishing bloody-handed Huns were ravaging Belgium.
The media told us that Communists burned down the Reichstag.
The media told us that the U.S. was taken completely off guard on December 7th, 1941. The media failed to mention that the Dutch and Americans had broken the Japanese code. The media failed to mention that since 1933, every final exam in the Imperial Naval Academy had the question, "How would you execute a suprise attack on Pearl Harbor?" I have in my possession a letter written by a paratrooper's father, dated December 8th, stating, "We knew it was only a matter of time," then going on to state all the reasons they knew the attack was coming. (Empires don't like competition from other Empires.) The media told us that slaughering scores of thousands of Japanese women and children was "necessary." The media fails to note that MacArthur, Nimitz and Halsey all said it was a crock: that Japan was totally militarily defeated, and air and ocean superiority had been attained. Isn't war supposed to be a macrocosm of the principle of self-defense? Neutralize the threat, period? No... war is about
glory for those who love it. (And for those who profit by it.)
The media told us that American warships were attacked by torpedo boats at the Tonkin Gulf.
The media told us that "Nasirah," an alleged nurse at a hospital and Kuwait City hospital, testified before the Senate, weeping, while describing how those horrible Iraqis had tossed dozens of babies out of their incubators onto the cold floor. They failed to mention (except for NBC) that "Nasirah" was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S., and that she never worked at the hospital, was not near Kuwait when the Iraqis invaded, and that the entire event never happened to begin with. And now, the U.S. was "forced" to go to war with a country that was
just about to use nuclear weapons against its neighbors and the U.S. The media relayed (from Bush) that... "The smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud," but that occupying a country the size of Tejas, filled with even 15% of a population that hates the foreign intruders' guts, is going to prevent terrorists from coming over here. Yes. That's how you get people to not commit terrorism. Kill everyone who could be a terrorist.
You say you support torture, which, according to George Washington in the Revolutionary War, would have rightfully gotten you court-martialled and executed. Do you think morality and human nature has somehow changed, sir? Would you be all right with American soldiers being tortured, because, "Hell, it's war?" Torture is the attempt to coerce the God-given free will of another human being. Even GOD refuses to coerce the free will with which he has endowed us. Who do you think
you are, sir?
The blackwater element in our area was considered dangerous to themselves and others but they are there for money because you can't find a man raised to believe in God or country these days so you must wave the almighty dollar to bring in the leftovers! Who will you blame for the fact that your kids don't have a country to fight for?
Spare us the bravado. You didn't fight for the freedoms of Americans. Your being in Iraq did not make America any safer. The U.S. government can't even control who wanders across the Canadian and Mexican borders, yet you think that occupying a country that
already isn't the number 1 fan of the the U.S. government is going to keep Americans safe? You, sir, are living in a nationalistic, testosterone-fueled dreamworld. I love my country. That means I love my neighbors and the land on which they live. I have zero respect for the foreign policies of the Federal government. If that makes me a "traitor" and "limp-wristed pinko," so be it. In addition to being a liberal pinko, I am 100% pro life from conception to a natural death. I also believe that being a mother is the most important job on the face of the earth, bar none. And that no man should ask another man for permission to defend his own life, or those of his family, with the best means in existence, including owning fully-auto M240G's, M1A1 Abrams, and RPG's. I believe that the War of Northern Aggression was not fought to free the slaves, but to make sure ALL men labored for the same Master. I believe that if you have a right to any of my money, you should come take it by violence yourself, and not be a coward and vote for someone to take it by proxy. I used to be a strict constructionist, too, before I realized that no tiger can be kept in a parchment and ink cage.
Terrorism happens. Terrorism happens because people hold ideals above the innocent lives of other people. You can fight terrorists in one of two ways: kill everyone who could possibly ever be a terrorist (and good luck with that one.) Or you can alter the circumstances behind why they hate other people. If you think that terrorists hate the U.S. government because its citizens are "Free," you're insane. Period. If this were the case, they would have attacked Canada, the Netherlands and Switzerland LONG before they ever touched the United States.
Yes. Terrorists are out there. So are flies that bite. You can spend your life wringing your hands about flies, and try to hunt every one down until you are exhausted and have no money left, or you can live your life and swat the flies whenever they manifest themselves. Terrorized? Not me. Terror is the reaction of those who have forgotten God, and try to make this life on earth their heaven. Again, if you've forgotten God, good luck with trying to make earth peaceful at the point of a gun. It's like trying to grab a fistful of water. It will perennially escape you.
