From a blog entry titled "Growing Up:"
The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. ...
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
2 comments:
I surmise Brendan is saying something like, "Even the war mongers are admitting this war is being fought for the wrong reasons."
But of course there are far more examples of the war mongerers saying otherwise... drowning this particular war-mongererer's words in a sea of belligerism.
Still, as scientists we cannot pick and choose the data to present like this. We must admit this General's utterances appear simply to be an aberration among the mongerererers.
Adding 'er' each time I write monger is clearly the cosmic comlement to our ever dwindling telomeres.
I wasn't trying to claim that the military mindset has completely changed, nor did I mean to suggest that the old general or the current petty officer are representative of a majority of this group. I merely liked the line, and hoped that it might make some others think. Perhaps we as a species, or at least, we as a nation, can evolve out of our tendency to shoot first and think later.
I agree that there are still plenty of gung-ho people in green (and blue), and there probably always will be. But in reading journals and autobiographies of people who have seen actual combat, I think the loss of gung-ho-ness is way too common to be called an aberration.
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